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. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:30:00 PDT en-us Copyright 2009 Regents of the University of California Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:30:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#computational_vision http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#computational_vision On October 30, 2009, the Computational Vision group at UC Irvine hosted the second annual Southern California Computer Vision Meetup, a day of talks and discussion on the latest results in computer vision. Topics of discussion ranged from surveillance and automotive safety, to differentiating white blood cells by qualitatively analyzing a single image. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:30:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#majumder_sajadi_ieee_visualization http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#majumder_sajadi_ieee_visualization A paper entitled, "Markerless View-Independent Registration of Multiple Distorted Projectors on Extruded Surfaces Using an Uncalibrated Camera" by Computer Science professor Aditi Majumder and graduate student Behzad Sajadi has won the runner up in the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Visualization 2009 conference held in Atlantic City this month. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:30:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#kobsa_acm http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#kobsa_acm Informatics Professor Alfred Kobsa has been appointed Associate Editor of the new "ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems" (TIIS). The journal will publish research articles concerning the design, realization, and/or evaluation of interactive systems that exhibit some form of "intelligent" behavior. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:30:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#fowlkes_ramanan_desai_marr_prize http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#fowlkes_ramanan_desai_marr_prize A paper entitled "Discriminative models for multi-class object layout" by PhD student Chaitanya Desai and Assistant Professors Deva Ramanan and Charless Fowlkes received the Marr Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) held the first week of October in Kyoto, Japan. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:30:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#dourish_russia http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#dourish_russia Paul Dourish, Professor of Informatics, has received a $500,000 National Foundation Grant for his research entitle "From Local Ties to Transnational Connections: The Role of Computer-mediated Communication in Relational Maintenance." The research is in collaboration with Irina Shklovski, an assistant professor at the IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark, and formerly a post-doc at the Bren School. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:38:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#eppstein_bestpaper http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#eppstein_bestpaper A paper by computer science professor David Eppstein and former ICS student Kevin A. Wortman, "Optimal Embedding into Star Metrics," has received the best paper award from the 11th Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS), held this August in Banff, Canada. Their research concerns algorithms for choosing the location of a central facility such as an airline hub in order to minimize the increase in distance caused by traveling through the hub instead of taking a direct route. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:33:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/articles/view_article?id=146 http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/articles/view_article?id=146 For those more excited by algorithms than touchdowns, following the Netflix Prize has been like the Super Bowl. And the winning method could have implications well beyond Netflix recommendations; any business that uses people's preferences to sell products could learn from the exercise. Under the rules of the contest, the winning entry will be published at the University of California, Irvine's Machine Learning Repository, and Netflix will be able to use BellKor's work without paying royalties. The team is free to license it to other companies, too. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:33:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/articles/view_article?id=147 http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/articles/view_article?id=147 The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, recently set up a center focused on the study of online computer games. The Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds is set to study the social and technological aspects of online games. Some 20 UC Irvine faculty members from computer science, arts, humanities, social science and education will work at the center, the school said. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:33:00 PDT http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#sconce_fellows http://www.ics.uci.edu/community/news/notes/index.php#sconce_fellows Secure Computing and Networking Center (SCONCE) Ph.D. candidates Ersin Uzun and Yang Wang have been awarded the UCI Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2009. They are among only 25 recipients campus-wide. This fellowship frees students from non-research related employment, allowing them focus on completion of their dissertations. Uzun's research focuses on usable security and Wang's research revolves around balancing privacy and personalization. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:33:00 PDT