http://www.ics.uci.edu/ Up-to-the-second news, information and events for the University of California, Irvine's Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. 27 Sep 2011 07:00:00 PDT en-us Copyright 2009 Regents of the University of California 27 Sep 2011 07:00:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index#jarecki_tsudik_iarpa_grant http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index#jarecki_tsudik_iarpa_grant Stanislaw Jarecki and Gene Tsudik have been awarded a $750,000 three-year grant as part of a subcontract from IBM Research, by the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). The research project is titled "ESPADA: Efficient Security and Privacy Assurance for Database Access." The goal of ESPADA is to efficiently and securely support a wide range of database queries between mutually mistrustful parties, while minimizing the amount of information learned by either party. 27 Sep 2011 07:00:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index#utts_receives_niss_distinguished_service_award http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index#utts_receives_niss_distinguished_service_award Statistics professor Jessica Utts received a 2011 Distinguished Service Award from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences in recognition of her multiple terms on the NISS board of trustees and the executive committee, and for serving as chair of the awards committee. The NISS Distinguished Service Awards were established in 2005 to recognize individuals who have given extraordinary service that significantly advances NISS and its mission. Utts joined the NISS board in 1997, served as vice chair from 2008-11, and is now one of its longest-serving members. 21 Sep 2011 08:00:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index#2011_summer_smyth_kdd_program_chair http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index#2011_summer_smyth_kdd_program_chair Computer science professor Padhraic Smyth is the program chair for the 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, currently underway in San Diego, Calif. Considered the premier annual international research conference on data mining, the event this year drew a record-setting 1,000+ attendees. 22 Aug 2011 10:00:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/articles/view_article?id=193 http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/articles/view_article?id=193 For aspiring computer engineer Anthony Hizon, spending the summer in a biological chemistry lab at UC Irvine's School of Medicine was quite an eye-opener. "Talking to the Ph.D. students in the lab gave me new ideas about my future," says Hizon, one of seven participants in the newly launched UCI Biomedical Informatics Training Undergraduate Summer Research Program for community college students. "I've learned that bioinformatics is a viable career option for me, and I'm now thinking about going to graduate school." 22 Aug 2011 09:00:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index#2011_summer_tsudik_ieee_spotlight_paper http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index#2011_summer_tsudik_ieee_spotlight_paper Computer Science professor Gene Tsudik and Network Systems alumnus Karim El Defrawy, Ph.D. '10 co-authored "ALARM: Anonymous Location-Aided Routing in Suspicious MANETs," which has been selected as the Spotlight Paper for the September 2011 issue of IEEE Transactions of Mobile Computing. For a limited time it will be available to the public for free on the journal home page. The paper addresses mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) scenarios in hostile or suspicious settings by designing and analyzing a privacy-preserving and secure link-state based routing protocol (ALARM). The work, according to Tsudik and El Defrawy, represents the first comprehensive study of security, privacy and performance tradeoffs in link-state MANET routing. 12 Aug 2011 12:00:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index#2011_summer_kobsa_journal_anniversary http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index#2011_summer_kobsa_journal_anniversary User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research, founded by Informatics professor Alfred Kobsa and published by Springer Verlag, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. UMUAI is ranked No. 20 among 445 computer science journals based on its ISI/Thompson impact factor, and No. 3 by Microsoft Academic Search among 26 human-computer interaction journals. 12 Aug 2011 11:00:00 PDT