Cisco Systems has awarded Professor Patrick Eugster, Dr. Kirill Kogan, and graduate students, Chamikara Jayalath and Julian Stephen, a gift in support of the "A Fog Architecture" project. Eugster says, "This work seamlessly generalizes our previous efforts on Atmosphere, an approach to apply cloud computing technologies to setups where data is distributed across several datacenters."
Purdue University once again has the fastest campus supercomputer in the nation, Conte. The supercomputer is named for Samuel D. Conte (1917 - 2002), the founder and original head of Purdue University's Department of Computer Science.
Insights magazine features coverage of faculty, students, and alumni news from the Department of Computer Science in its Spring 2013 edition, including freshman CS major Alec Gorge, alumnus Michael Stoppelman of Yelp, and Distinguished Professor Mikhail Atallah.
Two Computer Science undergraduates (sophomore Kurt Kroeger and senior Tyler Reid) are part of a Purdue student supercomputing team traveling to Leipzig, Germany for the student competition at the ISC supercomputing conference.
Professor of Computer Science Eugene Spafford has been named a 2013 member of the EPIC Advisory Board. EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center) is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. and its advisory board is a distinguished group of experts in law, technology, and public policy.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Statistics Jennifer Neville has been honored for Outstanding Achievement by a Young Alum by her alma mater, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Neville received a B.S., an M.S., and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the UMass Amherst in 2000, 2004, and 2006, respectively.
Fadi Meawad, a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science, was selected to receive the Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants (CETA) Excellence in Teaching Award.
The Department of Computer Science and the College of Science recognized the 2013 Computer Science Distinguished Alumnus on Friday, April 12. Alumnus Lawrence Landweber (M.S. '66, Ph.D. '67) was joined by faculty, staff, and students for an awards presentation and reception in celebration of his great achievements.
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Computer Science Daisuke Kihara and Associate Professor of Statistics and Computer Science Olga Vitek are two of four Purdue University College of Science faculty named University Faculty Scholars for 2013.
CS majors Sudeep Gottipatti (freshman) and Austin Loudin (sophomore) were among those selected to have a project funded by a new grant program for student entrepreneurs at Purdue. They won for Basket, a mobile app and Web-based platform for same-day delivery of thousands of items.
Associate Professor of Computer Science Antony Hosking is the recipient of a research award from Qualcomm, Inc. for his project Memory Management for Dalvik on Mobile Device Platforms.
Two Purdue Computer Science faculty members are the recipients of a research grant from IBM. Associate Professor Ninghui Li and Assistant Professor Yuan (Alan) Qi received this grant for their project Analytics for Insider Threat Detection and Prevention.
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Computer Science Daisuke Kihara is the recipient of a research grant from the National Science Foundation for his project ABI Innovation: Protein Functional Sites Identification Using Sequence Variation.
