The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Associate Professor Anthony Hornof $500,000 to advance science through a project entitled "A Computational Theory of Perceptual Integration in Multimodal Multitasking". The project investigates how people integrate auditory and visual information to perform multiple tasks in parallel, such as when emergency personnel interleave navigation and communication tasks with the life-critical task of driving. The theory will advance scientific theory and also provide a practical theoretical framework that can be applied immediately to the design of safer and more reliable systems for in-car navigation, emergency vehicle dispatching, and ...»

Professors Andrzej Proskurowski, Art Farley, Stuart Faulk, and Virginia Lo lead a delegation of 20 computer science students from the Pacific Northwest to Beijing for the first Pacific Rim Summer School in Global Distributed Software Development, July 2010. This intensive two-week program brought together an equal number of students from the Pacific Northwest and from Asia to learn about global software development in a cross-cultural classroom setting. Hosted on the campus of Peking University, the Summer School emerged from ideas developed in workshops conducted in 2008-09, as part of the University of Oregon's project CPATHi18n: Internationalization of Computer Science Education - the ...»

Monday, June 14, 2010 marked the Computer & Information Science Department's commencement ceremony. The ceremony featured a message to the graduating class from alumnus David Novick, AT&T Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso. The ceremony also included recognitions, awards and scholarships, as well as presentation of diplomas. Reception immediately followed, with music provided by the Don Latarski Trio. For more information regarding the University of Oregon's main commencement ceremony, please see the Office of the Dean of Students Commencement Schedule. Congratulations to all those graduating and our best wishes to a great ...»

CIS Summer Session Classes Offer Flexibility for UO Students For students working on University degree requirements, CIS Summer Session offers classes both practical and fun: Classes in the Science group: CIS 111 Web Programming/JavaScript, CIS 122 Algorithms & Programs/Python, and CIS 170 Science of Programming (a hands-on intro to computational thinking). Classes that satisfy the B.S. math/computing requirement: CIS 111 Web Programming, and CIS 122 Programming and Algorithms. Complete the first year of the CIT Minor in just 8 weeks: CIS 110 Digital Information Processing (weeks 1-4), CIS 111 Web Programming (weeks 5-8), and CIT 281 Web 2.0 Business Systems (weeks 5-8). Fast-Track to ...»

A UO Distinguished Lecture Series Presentation In honor of the 40th Anniversary of the Department of Computer and Information Science Computer Science: Past, Present, & Future Dr. Ed Lazowska Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Dr. Ed Lazowska, holder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, gave the keynote lecture for the University of Oregon Department of Computer Science 40th anniversary celebration. In his talk about the past, present, and future of computing, Dr. Lazowska talked of why "it is very difficult to imagine a field with greater opportunity to change the world." As ...»

Dr. Steve Seitz's presented "Reconstructing the World from Photos on the Internet" on Thursday, April 8, 2010 on the University of Oregon campus. Dr. Seitz's research combines topics from computer vision, computer graphics, and photography. His work on Photo Tourism (joint with Noah Snavely and Rick Szeliski) formed the basis of Microsoft's Photosynth technology, which analyzes collections of images for similarities, and then displays them in a constructed 3D space. His current research focuses on capturing the structure, appearance, and behavior of the real world from digital imagery, using 3D modeling and visualization with large online photo collections. Professor Seitz was twice ...»

The Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Oregon celebrated its 40th Anniversary this year. Special events in honor of our birthday over the weekend of May 1, 2010 were held, including: a Distinguished Lecture about the future of computing by Dr. Ed Lazowska, who is Bill and Melinda Gates Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, on Friday evening, April 30; tours of campus on Saturday morning, May 1; an open house with lab tours in the CIS Department Saturday afternoon, where current research was presented by current faculty and students; and a grand dinner party Saturday evening, May 1, 2010. Hope to see everyone in Eugene for the 50th! ...»

Professor Reza Rejaie has received a grant for $350,000 from the National Science Foundation to characterize the structure of Online Social Networks (OSNs) and investigate the underlying social causes that determines the structure. Funded by the NSF Division of Information & Intelligent Systems, the project is a joint effort of the UO CIS and Sociology Departments, the Mathematics Department at Duke University and AT&T Labs Research. Over the last few years, OSNs such as MySpace and Facebook have attracted hundreds of millions of users and have been responsible for a new wave of popular applications over the Internet. In this multi-disciplinary research project, Prof. Rejaie and CIS ...»

Teams from the Computer & Information Sciences Department have been working with Geography Asst. Professor Amy Lobben to develop tools to help the visually impaired navigate their way through maps and the real world. For more, see Technology for the Blind at the Oregon Daily Emerald web site. ...»

This academic year the Computer and Information Science Department of the University of Oregon celebrated its 40th Anniversary. The University of Oregon was the first university in the Pacific Northwest to establish a computer science program. In fact, we were among the first dozen computer science departments in the country. For additional information and to join the Facebook group, see UO Department of Computer and Information Science - 40th Anniversary. ...»

Sexism isn't rampant in computer science, says Kiki Davis, but it's there - simmering beneath the surface, an undercurrent that bubbles up with small, insensitive comments and unfair assumptions. For more, see Rewriting Computer Science's Gender Code at the College of Arts & Sciences web site. ...»

Daniel Lowd's research covers a range of topics in statistical machine learning, including statistical relational representations, unifying learning and inference, and adversarial machine learning applications (e.g., spam filtering). In 2009, he coauthored book on Markov logic with Pedro Domingos, published by Morgan & Claypool. He is also the recipient of graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research. Daniel received his B.S. from Harvey Mudd College in 2003 and M.S. from the University of Washington in 2005. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington. This winter, Daniel will teach a new course called "Probabilistic ...»

UO CIS and UO Information Services hosted the ACM Pacific Region Programming Contest at the University of Oregon in Eugene on November 7, 2009. It was one of five sites where teams from the region competed to solve as many programming problems as they could during the five hour contest. UO teams competed in the Northwest Regionals against teams from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, northern California and western Nevada. Top teams from each region are invited to the international finals which will be held in China in February 2010. In 2001, the UO teams competed against almost 70 other teams at Eastern Washington University in Spokane. One team placed 10th and ...»