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Department Awards
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On May 17, 2008, Professor Judea
Pearl received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
degree from Chapman University, and also served as the
keynote speaker at Chapman's undergraduate commencement
ceremony. |
Vinton Cerf, alumnus of the Computer
Science Department, has been awarded the 2008 Japan Prize,
along with colleague Robert Kahn, for "creation of
network architecture and communication protocol for the
Internet." The Japan Prize is awarded by the Science
and Technology Foundation of Japan and recognizes scientists
whose original and outstanding achievements in science
and technology have advanced the frontiers of knowledge
and been of great
service to mankind. Cerf and Kahn created the TCP/IP protocol
used in today's Internet that allows computers on different
networks to communicate with each other. |
Professor Judea
Pearl will
bepresented in April with the 2008 Benjamin Franklin
Medal in Computer & Cognitive Science by the Franklin
Institute, one of the oldest premier centers of science
education and development in the country. Judea is being
honored for creating the first general algorithms for
computing and reasoning with uncertain evidence, allowing
computers to uncover associations and causal connections
hidden within millions of observations. (The
Franklin Institute) |
Majid
Sarrafzadeh and co-authors
of "The
SmartCane System: An Assistive Device for Geriatrics" received
a best-paper award from the 3rd International Conference
on Body Area Networks (BodyNets 2008), Tempe AZ, March
2008. This was a joint submission by EE, CS, VA Hospital
and School of Medicine. Authors: W.H. Wu, L.K. Au, B. Jordan,
T. Stathopoulos, M.A. Batalin, W.J. Kaiser, A. Vahdatpour,
M. Sarrafzadeh, M. Fang and J. Chodosh. |
A joint CS/EE paper authored
by Frank Chang, Jason Cong, Adam Kaplan, Mishali Naik,
Glenn Reinman, Eran Socher, and Rocco Tam has received
the best paper award from the 14th International Symposium
on High Performance
Computer Architecture (HPCA) held February 16-20, 2008.
This year's symposium received 161 papers, accepted 31,
and gave only one best paper award.
This paper, "CMP Network-on-Chip
Overlaid With Multi-Band RF-Interconnect," explores
the use of multi-band RF interconnect with signal propagation
at the speed of light to provide shortcuts in a many-core
network-on-chip (NOC)
mesh topology. |
Professor Amit
Sahai's paper "Predicate Encryption Supporting
Disjunctions, Polynomial Equations, and Inner Products" (co-authored
with Brent Waters and Jonathan Katz) has been selected
as one of the top four papers at Eurocrypt 2008. It
will be included in a special issue of the Journal
of Cryptology dedicated to the best papers from this
conference (to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, April 13-17).
Eurocrypt is one of the two top conferences in cryptology,
and accepts papers related to cryptography, cryptanalysis,
and computer security (the acceptance ratio for papers
submitted to Eurocrypt 20%). |
In recognition
of his achievements, 3rd-year graduate student Vipul
Goyal has been awarded the highly prestigious Microsoft
Graduate Fellowship. In addition to the financial support
offered by the fellowship, Vipul will have the opportunity
to participate in a 12-week paid research internship
for each of the next two years. The fellowship award
ceremony will be held at Microsoft Research on March
3, 2008. |
Alumnus
and adjunct faculty member Leon
Alkalai was recently
named a member of the International Academy of Astronautics.
Founded in 1960 by Theodore von Karman, the Academy's
goals include fostering the development of astronautics
for peaceful purposes, encouraging cooperation in the
advancement of aerospace science, and recognizing individuals
who have distinguished themselves in a related branch
of science or technology. Dr. Alkalai has been with NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 18 years and is the manager
of JPL's Robotic Lunar Exploration Office. |
Professor Demetri
Terzopoulos has
been inducted as a 2007 ACM Fellow for "contributions to computer
graphics and vision." This
year the Association for Computing Machinery is recognizing
38 individuals from academia, industry, and research
labs for their innovations in a range of computing disciplines
that affect theory and practice, education and entertainment,
industry and commerce. Inductees are honored for expanding
the impact of technology and advancing the quality of
life for people everywhere. |
Professor
Tony Chan (joint appointments in Computer Science, Mathematics,
and Bioengineering) has been elected to AAAS Fellow (American
Association for the Advancement of Science). The AAAS recognizes
individuals for their contributions to science and technology.
Tony was one of five newly elected Fellows from the field
of mathematics. |
Professor
Song-Chun Zhu (joint
appointments in the Computer Science and Statistics departments)
received a Marr Prize honorable mention for his paper "Deformable Template as Active
Basis." The paper (with co-authors Ying Nian Wu,
Zhangzhang Si, and Chuck Fleming) was presented at the
2007 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
(ICCV), and was selected as one of the top four papers
at this conference. |
Graduate
students Christopher Frost and Mike Mammarella's paper
(advisor Professor Eddie Kohler) presented an award-winning
paper at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems
Principles (SOSP), 15-17 Oct 07. Conference attendees
voted "Generalized
File System Dependencies," (with
co-authors E. Kohler, A. de los Reyes, S.
Hovsepian, A. Matsuoka. and L. Zhang) one of the three
top conference papers. |
Professor
Amit Sahai has
been awarded the 2007 Okawa Research Award for "Cryptographic
Techniques for Encrypted Data." Ten
awards were made this year: two each to researchers at
UCLA, UCB, Stanford and USC, and one each to researchers
at CalTech and Carnegie Mellon. |
Professor
Judea Pearl was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree
from the University of Toronto at a convocation ceremony
that took place on 21 June 2007 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The degree was offered in recognition of Professor Pearl's
groundbreaking contributions to the field of computer science,
as well as his efforts, in the face of personal tragedy,
to promote cross-cultural dialogue and reconciliation.
Professor Pearl delivered a commencement
address to the graduating class of 2007. A transcript of the commencement
address can be found here.
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Professor
Jason Cong is the recipient of a 2007 IBM Faculty Award.
These awards are highly competitive, and are made in recognition
of an individual's achievements and the quality of his or
her research programs. |
Professor
Deborah
Estrin has been selected to receive the Anita Borg
Institute's "Women of Vision" award for "Innovation." The
award ceremony will take place on May 3, 2007, with an expected
800 people in attendance. The mission of the Anita Borg Institute
is to increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology
and to increase the positive impact of technology on the
world's women. Each year, the "Women of Vision" award
honors three women who have made significant contributions
to technology in one of three categories: innovation,
leadership and social impact. One winner is selected
for each category. The innovation category recognizes
women who have contributed significantly to technology
innovation. |
On 20
February 2007, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced this
year's recipients of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship.
Professor Eddie
Kohler was one of five recipients from the UCLA campus.
The fellowships, awarded for a two-year period, are intended
to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members
in specified fields of science. They are designed to identify
those who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental
contributions to new knowledge. |
Professor
Alan
Kay has received an Honoris Causa Degree in Informatica
from the University of Pisa, Italy. He will be honored
in a 15 June 2007 ceremony for his contributions to the
development of the personal computer and object-oriented
programming. |
Professor
Adnan Darwiche and graduate student Knot Pipatsrisawat
report that their satisfiability solver, Rsat, has won
the gold medal (first place) in the 2007 international
SAT competition (industrial benchmark category). The SAT
competition takes place every two years, and this was UCLA's
very first participation. Additionally, the Rsat solver
won two additional medals in specialized categories: a
gold medal for the UNSAT category and a silver medal for
the SAT category. |
The following students received the Computer Science Department's
"Outstanding Student" award for 2006-2007:
Zhiru
Zhang -- Ph.D. (advisor Jason Cong)
Hyduke Noshadi -- M.S. (advisor Majid Sarrafzadeh)
Yi Hu -- B.S. (Computer Science)
Andre Encarnacao -- B.S. (Computer Sci & Engineering) |
Professor
Deborah
Estrin has been selected as a 2007 Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780,
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' elected members
are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business
and public affairs. This year's 227 honorees include a
former vice president of the U.S., a former Supreme Court
justice, the mayor of N.Y., winners of Nobel and Pulitzer
prizes, etc. |
Professor
Adnan Darwiche has
been elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement
of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for "significant
contributions to the development and application of both
probabilistic and logical methods in automated reasoning." He
is one of seven newly elected AAAI Fellows who will be
honored at a banquet held on 24 July 2007 in Vancouver
BC. |
Professor
Boris
Kogan and graduate student Ray Huffacker received
a 2nd place Poster of Excellence award for their poster, "Effects
of Early Afterdepolarizations on Reentry in Cardiac Tissue:
A Simulation Study." The award was presented at
the Gordon Research Conference on Tissue-Level Arrhythmia
Mechanisms (held 8-23 March 07 in Ventura Beach, CA). |
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Alumnus Jun Li is
a 2007 recipient of the esteemed CAREER award from the
National Science Foundation for his work entitled "A Behavior-Based Framework for
Detecting Internet Worms." Li, now an assistant
professor at the University of Oregon, is a former member
of the LASR Lab (advisor Peter Reiher) here in the Computer
Science Department |
Jens
Groth,
a postdoctoral scholar with the Computer Science Department,
has received a 2007 "Chancellor's Award for Postdoctoral
Research." Groth received this award based on his
work with Rafail Ostrovsky and Amit Sahai in the area
of new non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs. The Chancellor's
Award was established in 1998 to acknowledge, each year,
the remarkable contributions and integral role of postdoctoral
scholars in the research
mission of the university. |
Professor
Leonard Kleinrock has been honored with an Honorary Doctorate
of Humane Letters from the University of Judaism in Los Angeles.
He will speak at the University's commencement exercise on
May 20, 2007. |
Professor
Lixia Zhang has
been elected as an ACM 2006 Fellow. The ACM officially
honored Professor Zhang in January 2007 "for
contributions to protocol designs for packet switched
networks." |
Professor Emeritus
Gerald
Estrin has received the 2006 Lifetime Contribution
Award from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Professor Estrin was recognized for
his long commitment to the School (recruited in 1956) and
to the fields of engineering and computer science. During
his many years of academic leadership, Professor Estrin
nurtured generations of researchers, engineers and academics. |
Assistant Professor
John Cho has
received the 2006 Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching
Award. This award
honors junior faculty who demonstrate a commitment to high
teaching standards. This award recognized Professor
Cho for introducing up-to-date topics to assist students
in bridging their understanding from theory to real-world
applications, for introducing a new graduate class on
Web information systems, and for developing an undergraduate
course addressing Internet applications. |
Professor Joe
DiStefano has been elected a Senior Fellow (2005)
by the board of directors of the Biomedical Engineering
Society. Inductions took place at the Society's Fall
2006 annual meeting. Recipients of this honor are
selected based upon their record of exceptional achievement
and accomplishment in a specific field of interest within
biomedical engineering. |
Professor
Adnan Darwiche’s paper, "A
Knowledge Compilation Map," has received the annual
IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper Prize for 2006. This prize
is awarded to an outstanding paper published in the Journal
of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) within the past
five calendar years and presented formally at a IJCAI conference. The
award citation reads: ". . . for an outstanding
contribution to the foundations of knowledge representation
with long-term significance in the field, but also with
high potential for practical applications within different
areas of artificial intelligence and beyond." (A.
Darwiche and P. Marquis (2002), "A Knowledge Compilation
Map," Vol 17, pp. 229-264.) |
Professor Leonard
Kleinrock's 1974 paper, "Research
Areas in Computer Communication," republished in the
25th anniversary issue of Computer Communication Review (January
1995), has been selected to receive one of the 2006 "Test
of Time" awards from ACM SIGCOMM. This
award was created to recognize papers roughly a decade
old that are deemed notable and worthy of a second look
today. SIGCOMM also felt that it was important to recognize
older papers that were republished in that 25th anniversary
issue of CCR. |
Professors Richard
Korf and Judea
Pearl have received AAAI
Classic Paper Awards (Honorable Mention) for "Real-Time
Heuristic Search: First Results” (Korf) and "The
Logic of Representing Dependencies by Directed Graphs" (Pearl
and T. Verma). This award honors authors of papers deemed
most influential, chosen from specific conference years.
The 2006 award was given to the most influential papers
from the 1987 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Seattle, Washington. |
Professor Judea
Pearl (jointly with American University's
Akbar Ahmed) has been awarded the inaugural Purpose
Prize by Civic Ventures, a San Francisco think tank
that sponsors this prize as a reward to American individuals
or teams who have worked to solve society's problems. This
prize acknowledges people, not only for their work, but
also for using their midlife experience in creative and
innovative ways. Professors Pearl and Ahmed were
honored in 2006 for their work in promoting Muslim-Jewish
understanding and encouraging peace between Israelis and
Palestinians. |
Professor Adnan
Darwiche and his Automated Reasoning Group participated
in two international reasoning competitions during the
summer of 2006. These competitions were
organized by the Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UCLA
was the only team to solve all problem instances) and the
Conference on Theory & Applications of Satisfiability
Testing (UCLA took second place). |
Professor Alan
C. Kay has received an
Honorary Doctorate from Georga Tech (2006). This was
awarded in recognition of his work as the “father of the personal
computer.” He is the first computationalist to
be awarded an honorary degree from Georgia Tech. |
Professor
Demetri Terzopoulos has been elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada (2006). This is analogous to an induction
into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Established
nearly 125 years ago, the Royal Society of Canada is modeled
after the Royal Society of London. It is dedicated to the
promotion of exceptional learning, research and
accomplishments in the arts, humanities and sciences. Fellowship
in the Society is the highest academic accolade available
to scientists and scholars in Canada. |
Professors
Jason Cong and Rafail
Ostrovsky, and Jens
Palsberg have each
received the IBM Faculty Award for 2006. The award is highly competitive and
recognizes individuals for the quality of their work and its importance to
industry. |
Professor
Judea Pearl and
student Ilya Shpitser are joint recipients of the 2006
Best Student Paper Award for their paper, “Identification
of Conditional Interventional Distributions." This
award was presented by the Association of Uncertainty
in Artificial Intelligence for an outstanding technical
contribution made by a student. |
Professor Richard
Muntz has received the
ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award for 2006. This
award is being presented at the SIGMETRICS/ Performance
2006 conference held 26 to 30 June 2006 in Saint-Malo,
France. The award is given each year to an individual
who has made long-lasting and highly influential contributions
to the theory or practice of computer/communication system
performance evaluation. |
Assistant
professor Eddie
Kohler has received the New Faculty Fellowship
Award for 2006 from Microsoft Research. The New Faculty Fellowship
program at Microsoft identifies, recognizes, and supports
exceptional new faculty members who are engaged in innovative
computing research. The objective is to stimulate and support
the creative work of these promising researchers who have
the potential for making a profound impact on state-of-the-art technology
in their research discipline. |
Assistant
professors Eddie
Kohler, Rupak
Majumdar, and Todd
Millstein have been recognized with NSF CAREER Awards for 2006. This
is NSF's most prestigious award in support of the early career-development
activities of faculty who effectively integrate research and
education into their work. |
Academy
Award to Professor Terzopoulos. New faculty member, Professor Demetri
Terzopoulos,
received a 2005 Scientific and Technical Achievement
Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The award was presented to Professor Terzopoulos and
his former colleague John Platt on February 18, 2006, ".
. . for their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated
techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion
pictures."
(The
Academy's press release)
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Professor
Deborah Estrin has received the first ACM-W Athena Lecturer
Award. SIGMOBILE selected Deborah for nomination from a list
of 14 top women in the field of computer science. Each year
the ACM honors one preeminent woman computer scientist as
the Athena Lecturer, and invites the honoree to give a one-hour
talk at an ACM conference. Professor Estrin's talk will be
given at MobiCom 2006. |
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UCLA
computer science alumnus Vinton Cerf receives Presidential
Medal of Freedom. In a White House ceremony
on November 9, 2005, Internet pioneers Vinton Cerf (Ph.D.
1972) and Robert Kahn (Ph.D. Princeton 1964) were awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s
highest civil award. The award cited their design of
the software code used to transmit data over the Internet,
and noted that they have been at the forefront of the digital
revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication,
and entertainment. Dr. Cerf is currently a vice president
and “chief Internet evangelist” for Google,
and Dr. Kahn is founder and president of the Corporation
for National Research Initiatives. |
Professor
Leonard Kleinrock, along with Dr. Robert
Kahn and Dr.
Lawrence Roberts, has been awarded the 2005 Computer
and Communications Prize from the Foundation for C&C
Promotion. The prize will be awarded at a ceremony held
on December 12, 2005, in Tokyo. The accompanying citation
will read as follows: "For contributions to establishing
the foundation of today's Internet technology through the
concept of packet switching, which underlies the backbone
of modern telecommunications networks, through the invention
of the related TCP/IP communications protocols, and through
the design and development of ARPANET and other early computer
networks that were part of the initial Internet." (more) |
Professor Gerald
Estrin has received
the Israeli Software Industry Pioneer Award,
presented by the Israeli High-Tech Industry “in recognition
of the entrepreneurship, leadership, hard work and outstanding
achievements put forth in creating the first computer in
Israel.” This award also recognizes Professor Estrin
for his integral role in the establishment of the Israeli
high-tech industry and the strengthening of Israel’s
economy, security, and scientific capabilities. Fall
2005. |
Richard
Korf. 2005: Receives the Lockheed Martin Excellence
in Teaching award. |
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David
Smallberg. 2005: Voted Professor of the Year by the Engineering Society
of the University of California. |
Jason
Cong. 2005: Receives Distinguished Lecturer Award from
IEEE Circuit and Systems Society (2001-2005). |
Congratulations
to Professor Lixia
Zhang for election to IEEE Fellow
this year. Her citation reads "for
contributions to the architecture and signaling protocols
in packet switched networks." |
Stefano
Soatto. 2005: Receives Keck foundation endowment to establish interdisciplinary
Laboratory for Vision and Image Science. |
Leonard
Kleinrock. October 2005: Receives Honorary Laurea
Doctorate in
Ingegneria Telematica from Turin Polytechnic "for
contributions to queuing
theory and creation of the ARPANET." |
Computer Science PhD student Claudio
Enrico Palazzi,
Dr. Giovanni Pau, and Professor Mario
Gerla have recently
won the Best Full Paper Award at the 3rd ACM International
Conference in Computer Game Design and Technology. The
paper is coauthored with Dr. Stefano Ferretti and Professor
Marco Roccetti from University of Bologna (Italy) and is
titled “FILA, a Holistic Approach to Massive Online
Gaming: Algorithm Comparison and Performance Analysis”. The
paper reflects the active collaboration that exists between
the UCLA and Bologna research groups. Claudio Palazzi
is currently enrolled in a joint UCLA and University
of Bologna PhD Program.
Read the award-winning
paper. |
Professor Junghoo "John" Cho has been selected to receive IBM Faculty Award for year
2005. This award is a highly competitive and recognizes
the quality and the importance of the recipient's research
to the general technology industry.
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UCLA CSD student winners in the UC Data Mining Contest:
The results
of the 2005 UC Data Mining contest have recently
been posted.
A group from the UCLA Computer Science Department
ShowMeTheMoney --
Yong Kwon, Kung-Hua Chang, Laurie O'Connor, Teresa Breyer won three awards:
The top score for the Classification problem -- $500
prize
The top score from UCLA for the Classification problem -- $100 prize
The top score from UCLA for the Time Series problem -- $100 prize The group's result for the Time Series problem was also
3rd best overall.
Congratulations for this outstanding performance
to Yong, Kung-Hua,
Laurie, and Teresa.
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UCLA Grad Student Wins 2005 AAAI General Game-Playing Competition
At AAAI the first "general
game-playing" competition
was held. Students had to write programs that would
play any single-player, two-player, or multi-player game.
During the competition, programs received a game in a game-description
language, had a few minutes to "think" about
the game, and then had to start playing against other
programs, all without any human intervention or input.
One of our graduate students, Jim Clune, won the entire
competition, which consisted of different games in different
rounds, and took home the prize of $10,000. |
J.
Cong, H. Huang, and X. Yuan, received the 2005 Best
Paper Award of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation
of Electronic Systems (TODAES) entitled "Technology
Mapping and Architecture Evaluation for k/m-Macrocell-based
FPGAs,";
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
(TODAES), Vol. 10, pp. 3 - 23, January 2005. TODAES
selects one paper each year for the best paper award, and
this award was presented at the openning session at the
opening session of the 2005 Design Automation Conference
(DAC'2005) on June 14, 2005.
The paper presents a novel FPGA architecture based on k/m-macrocells,
with in-depth quantitative architecture design and evaluation
against widely used LUT-based FPGAs. It also
presents efficient mapping algorithms for such architectures. |
Beichuan
Zhang,
Dan Pei, Daniel Massey and Lixia
Zhang won the Best Paper
Award in The 25th International Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2005, by the paper titled "Timer
Interaction in Route Flap Damping."
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Rajive
Bagrodia. May 2005: Receives DARPA special commendation
for "outstanding achievement in the development
of network modeling and simulation technology." |
The paper by
T.Chan, J.
Cong, and K. Sze entitled "Multilevel
Generalized Force-directed Method for Circuit Placement" received
the Best Paper Award at the 2005 International Symposium
on Physical Design (ISPD'2005), held during April 4-6, 2005
in San Francisco, CA. ISPD is sponsored by ACM/SIGDA
and with technical cosponsorship from IEEE Circuits and Systems
Society, and is the premier forum for exchanging research
results and ideas on VLSI physical design automation . Each
year, ISPD selects a single paper for the best
paper award. The technical program of ISPD'2005
is available at www.ispd.cc.
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Lixia
Zhang. March 2005: Elected to the Internet Architecture
Board. |
The
best paper award from the IEEE ICDE conference went to:
Panagiotis
G. Ipeirotis, Alexandros
Ntoulas, Junghoo
Cho, Luis Gravano "Modeling and Managing Content
Changes in Text Databases." In Proceedings of the
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE),
March 2005.
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ACM,
the Association for Computing Machinery, has named
Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn the winners of the
2004 A.M. Turing Award, considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing," for
pioneering work on the design and implementation of the
Internet's basic communications protocols. (more) |
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Computer
science professor Leonard
Kleinrock will
receive an honorary Laureate degree from the University
of Bologna in Italy, the oldest university in the Western
world. Kleinrock
will become a Doctor of Internet Science at the graduation
ceremonies on Tuesday, May 24, 2005. ( more) |
Alok
Nandan, PhD student and Shirshanka
Das, PhD student
received the Best Paper Award in 2nd Conference on Wireless
On Demand Networks and Services
on Jan 19-21, 2005 held at St. Moritz, Switzerland for
the paper co-authored by Dr. Mario
Gerla: " Cooperative
Downloading in Vehicular Ad Hoc Wireless Networks" .
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Professor
Wesley Chu has
been selected as a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society
2003 Technical Achievement Award "For
contributions to Intelligent Information Systems".
This award is presented to individuals whose professional
work has been outstanding and innovative in the fields
of computer and information science and engineering within
the past fifteen years.
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At the
IEEE 15th International Conference on Application-Specific
Systems, Architectures, and Processors (ASAP 2004) the
best paper award is presented to Milos
D. Ercegovac and Jean-Michel Muller for their paper
entitled "Complex
Square Root with Operand Prescaling".
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IFIP
WG 10.4 honors Al
Avizienis at the 18th World Computer Congress, Toulouse,
France, August 22-27, 2004. (more)
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Alan
C. Kay,
an adjunct professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry
Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been
awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology.
The Kyoto Prize is an international award given by the
Inamori Foundation to people who have contributed significantly
to the scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment
of mankind. Now in its 20th year, the Kyoto Prize is
considered one of the world's leading awards for lifetime
achievement. Kay was chosen for "creating the concept
of personal computing and contributing to its realization." |
Professor
Glenn Reinman
received the 2004 Northrop Grumman Award for teaching effort
and excellence. |
Professor
Joe
DiStefano received the 2004 Lockheed Martin Award for
teaching affort and excellence.
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A
team of four UCLA CS students beat teams from about 300
other schools to win the 2004 Microsoft Imagine Cup Software
Design Invitational. In addition to winning the $8,000 prize,
they advance to the International competition to be held
in Sao Paulo July 4-6.
(more) |
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Congratulations
to Professor Judea
Pearl on being selected as a recipient, along with David
Haussler, of the 2003 ACM-AAAi Allen Newell Award.
"For contributions to artificial intelligence and its
applications, building a firm mathematical and theoretical
foundation through ground-breaking work in heuristic
search, reasoning under uncertainty, constraint processing, non-monotonic reasoning,
and causal modeling." |
Professor
Deborah
Estrin has been elected Fellow of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Professor
Estrin was honored for her innovations in scalable network
protocols and sensor network research. She was recently
named to Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10" list
of top researchers. |
Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, MS '70, PhD '72, received the Alumnus
of the Year Award, UCLA Engineering, November 2003.
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Dr. Jeremy
Elson, PhD '03, received Edward K. Rice Award - Outstanding
Doctoral Student, UCLA Engineering, November 2003.
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Professor Milos
Ercegovac has been elected to the Serbian Academy of
Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, October 2003, as foreign member.
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Professor
Joe
DiStefano received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching
Award and the Harvey Eby Award for the Art of Teaching for
2003. |
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Professor Leonard
Kleinrock has been elected to the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. |
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