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tse

July 19, 2016

David Tse named recipient of the 2017 IEEE Shannon Award.

Prof. David Tse has been named recipient of the 2017 IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award. This award is the highest honor in the field of information theory and was instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a…

girls

July 19, 2016

CS Division singled out for successes in increasing numbers of women students

The L&S Computer Science Division is featured in a Tech Crunch article titled “How generation Z females could be the answer to tech’s gender diversity problem.”  The article discusses challenges in closing the gender gap and new initiatives designed to attract and retain girls to science and technology fields.  The CS…

microsoft-spreadsheet

July 19, 2016

Sumit Gulwani finds solutions to bridge the Digital Divide

Alumni Sumit Gulwani (CS Ph.D. 2005) is at the centre of an effort to bring the power of computer code to those who are unable to write it themselves.   Sumit’s research is featured in a Financial Times article which describes how his team at Microsoft developed Flash Fill for Excel…

tking

July 13, 2016

Tsu-Jae King Liu joins Intel’s Board of Directors

Intel has announced Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu to be added to their board of directors, marking the second woman to be on their governing body. Prof. King Liu will join lawyer and former ambassador Charlene Barshefsky as the only two women on Intel’s board. “She brings a wealth of…

fang-yu

July 12, 2016

Women in Business: Q&A with Fang Yu

EECS Alumna Fang Yu (Ph.D. CS 2006), co-founder of DataVisor and expert in “big-data for security,” joins with Yinglian Xie to answer questions posed by Laura Dunn of the Huffington Post.  “It’s important to remember that true innovation is a process, as long as you continue to learn…

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June 27, 2016

Kannan Ramchandran receives 2017 IEEE Kobayashi Computers & Communications Award

Prof. Kannan Ramchandran has been selected to receive the 2017 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications. Prof. Ramchandran is recognized for his pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of distributed source and storage coding. He pioneered…

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June 27, 2016

Claire Tomlin receives 2017 IEEE Transportation Technologies Award

Prof. Claire Tomlin has been selected to receive the 2017 IEEE Transportation Technologies Award, which recognizes advances in technologies applied in transportation systems. Prof. Tomlin is being recognized for contributions to air transportation systems, focusing on collision avoidance protocol design and avionics safety verification. She pioneered methods for computing…

CS Professor Stuart Russell

June 21, 2016

Stuart Russell would like intelligent machines to share our values

Prof. Stuart Russell is featured in an article on the Tech Republic’s online forum titled “We can’t prevent AI changing the world but we can stop robots cooking cats”. With the prospect that computers and robots will become as smart as humans and eventually surpass human intelligence, Prof.