December 20, 2021
CS Profs. Alistair Sinclair and Shafi Goldwasser have won inaugural Test of Time awards at the 2021 Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT). Sinclair won the 20 Year award for his paper, “A polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the…
December 20, 2021
CS alumna and Prof. Shafi Goldwasser (Ph.D. ’84, advisor: Manuel Blum) has won the 2021 Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) Test of Time Award. This award “recognizes papers published in past Annual IEEE Symposia on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) for their substantial, lasting, broad, and currently relevant impact. Papers…
December 9, 2021
EECS Prof. Stuart Russell is slated to direct the future Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, which aims to make ethics and social equity more central to scientific decision-making, and which will try to ensure that the public has a greater say in future scientific advances. The new…
December 8, 2021
EECS Assistant Prof. Sophia Shao has won the inaugural Workshop on Modeling & Simulation of Systems and Applications (ModSim) 2021 Dr. Sudhakar Yalamanchili (Sudha) Award. This award recognizes “researchers who showcase the most outstanding contribution to the field of computer modeling and simulation” during the annual ModSim Workshop, which primarily…
December 8, 2021
2003 Distinguished CS Alumnus Madhu Sudan (Ph.D. ’92, advisor: Umesh Vazirani) has won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Hamming Medal. This award recognizes “exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology.” Sudan was cited “for fundamental contributions to probabilistically checkable proofs and list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes.” …
December 8, 2021
2008 Distinguished CS Alumna Deborah Estrin (B.S. EECS ’80) has won the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) John von Neumann Medal. The award recognizes “outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology.” Estrin, whose research interests include technologies for caregiving, immersive health, small data, participatory sensing and public interest technology, was cited for “her leadership in mobile…
December 7, 2021
EECS Prof. Murat Arcak and his graduate student He Yin have won the second Systems & Control Letters (SCL) Brockett-Willems Outstanding Paper Award. Their paper, “Reachability analysis using dissipation inequalities for uncertain nonlinear systems,” published in SCL Volume 142, on August 2020, was deemed the best of 295 papers submitted…
November 30, 2021
EECS Prof. Emeritus Lotfi Zadeh (1921 – 2017) is being honored with a Google Doodle feature today. In 1964, Zadeh conceived a new mathematical concept called fuzzy logic which offered an alternative to rigid yes-no logic in an effort to mimic how people see the world. He proposed using imprecise…
November 26, 2021
CS Prof. Michael Jordan has co-written an article in Wired titled “The Turing Test Is Bad for Business” in which he argues that now that “computers are able to learn from data and…interact, infer, and intervene in real-world problems, side by side with humans,” humans should not try to compete with…
November 23, 2021
EECS Prof. Emeritus and alumnus Pravin Varaiya (Ph.D. 1966, advisor: Lotfi Zadeh), who is currently a Professor in the Graduate School, has won the 2022 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal. This major IEEE Corporate Award recognizes “exceptional achievement in systems engineering and systems science.” Varaiya, who is known for his contributions…