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  • CIS Professor Hank Childs awarded UO Early Career Research Excellence Award for 2015

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    The CIS Department congratulates Assistant Professor Hank Childs for receiving the University of Oregon's Early Career Research Excellence Award, which is the highest university award for early career faculty. Prof. Childs was one of only two recipients across campus. Award selection was based on scholarship and research. Prof. Childs is a highly active researcher, authoring over 70 papers on scientific visualization, on high performance computing, and at the intersection of the two. Since joining UO in March of 2013, his research group, CDUX has grown to support seven Ph.D. students and two undergraduate students. CDUX has attracted funding from the Department of Energy, the ...»
  • CIS 2015 Departmental Commencement Checklist

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    Monday, June 15, 2015 University Ceremony Matthew Knight Arena 9:00am – 11:00am CIS Department Ceremony Deschutes Lawn Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm Tickets are not required for these events. Friends and family are welcome to attend and celebrate your success! If you are graduating at the end of Summer 2015 or Fall 2015, you are invited to walk in the 2015 Commencement Ceremonies.Your name will appear in next year's commencement booklet in Spring 2016. Students - Complete the CIS Departmental Ceremony RSVP by Friday June 5, 2015. CIS Commencement Checklist: Apply to graduate for Spring term on Duckweb by April 26 Update your permanent mailing address and diploma address in Duckweb to ...»
  • CIS graduate student among nation's elite collegiate runners

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    In running, said Will Geoghegan, you don’t always realize just how much you’re improving. “It’s really funny,” Geoghegan said in a phone interview from Eugene, Oregon. “I remember when I was a freshman in high school thinking that running under 10 (minutes) in the 2-mile seemed impossible. “I don’t know if I ever envisioned where I am now. I just tried to get better every year and hoped eventually to be in a good place.” These days, Geoghegan is in a very good place. The 2010 Brunswick High graduate is heading into this weekend’s NCAA Division I men’s and women’s indoor track and field championships as one of the top distance runners for the University of Oregon, ...»
  • CIS Competition Celebrates Diversity of Chili and Raises Money for Food for Lane County

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    CIS Competition Celebrates Diversity of Chili and Raises Money for Food for Lane County The 2nd Annual Chili Cook-off Competition was held on Friday, February 27, 2015 to raise money for Food For Lane County (FFLC) as part of the Governor’s State Employee’s Food Drive. FFLC is a division of the Oregon Food Bank Network that strives to alleviate hunger by creating access to food in the Lane County area. Chili is a spicy stew containing chili peppers that originated in the American Southwest. Regional variations include tomatoes , meat, and sometimes beans. This year the competition featured six unique chili entries, with titles such as: Dr. Pepper Chili Ain’t No Beans Texas ...»
  • CIS Department Head Featured in UO CASCADE Magazine

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    The Winter 2015 edition of UO CASCADE Magazine featured a profile article on the CIS Department Head, Joe Sventek. Here is a sample of the article: Computing For the Rest of Us Creating Networks for "Folks Who Aren't Geeks" The Internet was still a research project when Joe Sventek (pictured) realized that moving electrons through circuit boards might be more interesting than splitting atoms. Although the revelation came halfway through a doctoral program in nuclear physics, Sventek decided to reboot his academic plan and embrace what was then the new field of computer science. He never looked back. Now, after more than 30 years of investigating how to make computer networks faster and ...»
  • CIS Associate Professor Rejaie Featured in UO CASCADE Magazine

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    The Winter 2015 edition of UO CASCADE Magazine featured an article on Associate Professor Reza Rejaie's research on mapping internet connections around the world. Here is a sample of the article: Averting Internet Disaster Mapping "Carrier Hotels" to Predict Descriptions and Potential Fixes A classic art deco building in Manhattan—60 Hudson Street—is now a modern hub for Internet communication. The former Western Union building (pictured), which spans an entire block in midtown Manhattan, was built in the 1920s as a headquarters for a breakthrough 20th-century technology: the telegraph. Today, it houses banks of computers that carry Internet traffic for more than 60 telecom ...»
  • CIS Student Nominated for National Prestigious Scholarship

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    Computer science major David Widder is one of four outstanding students nominated by the University of Oregon for the national prestigious Goldwater scholarship. The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was created in 1986 to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in mathematics, natural sciences, or engineering, and to foster excellence in those fields. As many as 300 recipients are selected from about 1200 nominations by universities and colleges across the country. In his scholarship application David wrote about how his work with Professors Stephen Fickas and McKay Sohlberg (College of Education) motivated him to research the possibility of an ...»
  • Intel Supports UO Computer Class Through $100,000 Donation

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    You are an agent for the office of strategic national alien planning. Your task is to complete projects focusing on code incription, computer optimization and pin collecting. Failure means obliteration of your grade because this is an assignment for one of the University of Oregon’s most innovative classes. This is an actual assignment in CIS 410/510 Parallel Computing, an experimental course that premiered last spring was brought into existence through technology company Intel, via a $100,000 donation to the University of Oregon’s Computer Information Science department (CIS)... Continue reading this article here: ...»
  • CIS Undergraduate Teaches, Inspires Teens to Pursue Software Engineering

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    Fourth-year undergraduate Chase Kelly-Reif spent his summer break at the University of Washington teaching teens some of the basics of software engineering. Over a 10-week period, Chase worked with iD Tech, one of the largest nationally-based computer camps, to take students from writing their very first hello world programs all the way to working with GUIs and object-oriented programming. Chase taught three different courses: Java Programming, C++ Programming, and Java Coding and Minecraft Modding. Each course lasted one week and had up to eight students enrolled. He used a number of different teaching techniques such as interactive tutorials, coding challenges, one-on-one help, and pair ...»
  • CIS Students Participate in the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

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    Several graduate and undergraduate CIS students attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which took place in October in Phoenix, AZ. A record 8,000 participants attended this annual gathering of women in computer science and information technology. The students' travel costs were covered through a generous grant from Women in Science and Technology Fund of the College of Arts and Sciences awarded to Prof. Norris in 2013. Here is what some of the students had to say about their experiences: "I was a little afraid that the conference was going to scare me away from computer science (as I was already feeling behind and overwhelmed after my first week of class) but it ...»
  • Professor Lowd Awarded NSF EAGER Grant to Fund Research in Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings

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    Assistant Professor Daniel Lowd was recently awarded an NSF EAGER grant, which will fund preliminary research on using machine learning in adversarial settings, such as spam filtering and malware detection. The goal is to better understand how attackers can evade machine learning systems and make these systems more robust to such attacks. For example, spammers add and remove words from their email messages in order to bypass spam filters, and web spammers try to deceive search engines by creating "link farms" to make a web site seem more important. These attacks can drastically reduce the performance of traditional machine learning systems, which are built on the assumption that future ...»
  • Professor Lowd Co-organized Workshops and presented at the ICML'14 in Beijing, China

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    Assistant Professor Daniel Lowd co-organized two workshops at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'14), which was held in Beijing in June, 2014. The first was on "Learning, Security, and Privacy", which explored the interaction between machine learning and computer security and privacy. The second workshop was on "Learning Tractable Probabilistic Models", which focused on probabilistic models where exact inference can be done efficiently. Each workshop featured presentations of work in progress, recently published research, and invited talks from leading researchers. At the workshops, Dr. Lowd also presented work on behalf of his student collaborators, Ali Torkamani ...»
  • Dr. Michel A. Kinsy Joins the CIS Department

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    Dr. Michel A. Kinsy joined the Computer and Information Science Department in August, 2014. Michel received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013. His doctoral work is one of the first to develop algorithms and computer hardware techniques to emulate and control large-scale power systems at the microsecond resolution. Part of this work is currently being further developed and commercialized through an MIT spin-off. From 2013 to 2014, Dr. Kinsy was Technical Staff at the Lincoln Laboratory working on advanced computer architecture concepts: Photonically optimized microprocessors, high-performance computer ...»
  • Professor Anthony Hornof Invited to Editorial Board for Leading ACM Journal

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    Associate Professor Anthony Hornof was recently invited to the editorial board of the leading ACM journal on human-computer interaction, entitled ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. The mission statement of this organization is "...to be the premier archival journal in the multidisciplinary field of human-computer interaction. Since its first issue in March 1994, it has presented work of the highest scientific quality that contributes to the practice in the present and future. The primary emphasis is on results of broad application, but the journal considers original work focused on specific domains, on special requirements, on ethical issues — the full range of design, ...»
  • UO Students Among Finalists for Entrepreneur of 2014

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    "Three UO students are among five finalists in the Entrepreneur of 2014 competition put on by Entrepreneur magazine." "The three are the brains behind Fourth Wall, a business concept that uses a software application to match actors to auditions. The idea was drawn up by computer science and math student Sahil Diwan with help from business major Anthony Rondinella and computer science student Cody Hatfield." "Fourth Wall is a finalist in the collegiate division of the contest. Other finalists are from Arizona State University, George Mason University, St. Johns University and the University of Pennsylvania..." To read the rest of the article, please visit Around the O, the online news ...»
  • Welcome Back Social and Information Session for Computer Science and MACS Majors

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    Come join fellow returning CIS and MACS majors for Fall 2014! Thursday, Oct 2 @ 3:00pm, Deschutes 220 3:00 - 4:00pm: Welcome Back and Information Session 4:00 - 4:30pm: Snacks and Conversation 4:30 - 5:00pm: "How to Fix a Flat Tire" Bicycle Tire Clinic with Professor Michal Young (lawn outside Deschutes Hall) All CIS and MACS majors are welcome! ...»
  • Ph.D. Student Wins Best Paper Award at CHI 2014 and Then Heads to Summer Internship at IBM TJ Watson

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    Sixth-Year Ph.D. Student Yunfeng Zhang received a Best Paper Award at CHI 2014, the leading conference on human-computer interaction research, for his paper entitled “Understanding multitasking through strategy exploration and individualized cognitive modeling.” Yunfeng was first author on the paper, which he wrote with his Ph.D. advisor, Anthony Hornof. The paper is groundbreaking in many ways, including that it is the first time that a computer cluster (in this case the UO ACISS cluster) has been used to explore the cognitive task strategies that people use in a complex human-computer interaction task. The research shows how optimal multitasking performance results from ...»