Prof. Joan Feigenbaum
has been named a finalist for the
2012 Women of
Innovation Awards sponsored by the Connecticut
Technology Council. Prof. Feigenbaum will be recognized
at a gala dinner on March 1st.
Read
article.
Julie Dorsey has
been appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of
ACM
Transactions on Graphics, with her term beginning
January 1, 2012.
Postdoctoral fellow
Georgios
Zervas, together with collaborators at BU and
Harvard, recently discovered and resolved a threat to personal-data
security on Yelp. See the
full
story.
The
ACM Regional Collegiate Programming Contest
of the Greater New York Region (ACMGNYR), perhaps
the most prestigious annual contest in our area, took place
Sunday October 30th 2011. Yale’s freshmen team came
in 1st in the freshman/sophomore category and came in 10th
place overall.
Michael Hopkins ’15, Cyril
Zhang ’15, and Xiao Shi ’15 each received
$100 for the accomplishment. Yale’s other teams obtained
7th and 27th places out of 51 teams competing.
Details.
A Yale start up called
Hadapt, co-founded
by computer science professors
Daniel
Abadi and
Avi
Silberschatz, along with current CEO
Justin
Borgman SOM ’12 and
Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski
GRD ’15, has secured funds to expand.
See
full story.
Dan Spielman's
work is featured in an article in the October 2011 issue
of
Notices
of the American Mathematical Society http://www.ams.org/notices/201109/rtx110901288p.pdf.
President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment
of Computer Science chair to
Holly
Rushmeier. She replaces
Avi
Silberschatz, who served as chair for two terms.
The appointment is effective July 1st.
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