In This Issue:
- Tar Heel Reader approaches 10 million books read
- UNC CS earns two awards at ISMAR 2016
- Reiter wins NSA's 4th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition
- Department of Homeland Security announces plan to commercialize ZeroPoint
- HackNC 2016 attracts hundreds of student coders to UNC
- Frahm training internet to recognize images
- Morales earns $2,500 Royster Award
- Amert profiled by CRA Bulletin
- 2016-2017 Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
- Department News
Tar Heel Reader approaches 10 million books read
An online program that helps students with disabilities learn to read independently, Tar Heel Reader is nearing the impressive milestone less than a decade after its launch.
UNC CS earns two awards at ISMAR 2016
Akash Bapat, Enrique Dunn, and Jan-Michael Frahm were awarded Best Paper, while Ramesh Raskar, Greg Welch, Henry Fuchs, and Deepak Bandyopadhyay earned Long-Lasting Impact awards.
Reiter wins NSA's 4th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition
Professor Michael K. Reiter was recognized by the National Security Agency for the paper Nomad: Mitigating Arbitrary Cloud Side Channels via Provider-Assisted Migration, which he co-authored with Soo-Jin Moon and Vyas Sekar of Carnegie Mellon.
Department of Homeland Security announces plan to commercialize ZeroPoint
The security tool developed by alumnus Kevin Snow (Ph.D. '14) and Professor Fabian Monrose will become a commercial product as part of the Transition to Practice Program.
HackNC 2016 attracts hundreds of student coders to UNC
HackNC 2016, the fourth edition of UNC's undergraduate hackathon, was a success. The winning hack was a molecular modeling project and teaching tool involving the Leap Motion controller.
Frahm training internet to recognize images
Associate Professor Jan-Michael Frahm, head of the 3D Computer Vision Group at UNC, was profiled by The Daily Tar Heel.
Morales earns $2,500 Royster Award
Graduate student Nicolas Morales received a 2016 Royster Student Scholarship Award from the North Carolina Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America.
Amert profiled by CRA Bulletin
Graduate student Tany Amert was featured in the Computing Research Association's Profiles in Computing series.
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
We invite you to attend these upcoming TCSDLS lectures. Each TCSDLS lecture is either hosted or broadcast live in 011 Sitterson Hall.
Michael Ernst
University of Washington
Natural Language is a Programming Language
23 January 2017
Broadcast live from NCSU in 011 Sitterson Hall (SN011)
4:00 p.m.
Jon Kleinberg
Cornell University
Human Decisions and Machine Predictions
20 February 2017
Broadcast live from Duke in 011 Sitterson Hall (SN011)
4:00 p.m.
Christos Papadimitriou
University of California, Berkeley
The Algorithm as a Scientific World View
6 March 2017
Broadcast live from Duke in 011 Sitterson Hall (SN011)
4:00 p.m.
Susan Athey
Stanford University
Machine Learning for Policy Evaluation: Prediction,
Causal Inference, and Personalization
20 March 2017
Broadcast live from Duke in 011 Sitterson Hall (SN011)
4:00 p.m.
Yuanyuan Zhou
University of California, San Diego
Title TBA
27 March 2017
Hosted in 011 Sitterson Hall (SN011)
4:00 p.m.
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title TBA
3 April 2017
Broadcast live from NC State in 011 Sitterson Hall (SN011)
4:00 p.m.
Please visit cs.unc.edu/tcsdls for abstracts, lecturer biographies, location information, and more.
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There, you will find news and updates from your fellow alumni, job listings specifically targeting UNC CS alumni, upcoming alumni events in Chapel Hill or around the country, and other ways to stay connected.
