APRIL 2008
Jain gives keynote talk at World Wide Web Conference 2008
Ramesh
JainBren Professor Ramesh Jain will be giving a keynote talk entitled "Events in Web Science" at the Web Science Workshop to be held at the WWW2008 conference in Beijing, China. WWW2008 is the 17th annual World Wide Web Conference, organized in part by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (father of the WWW).
The Web Science workshop has invited researchers to present and explain their prediction of the future of the Web, to discuss how this evolution can be observed and influenced, and to reflect on why the Web has evolved to its current state.
Jain will also participate on a panel, “The Future of Online Social Interactions: What to Expect in 2020,” on Wednesday, April 23.
More on WWW2008 and the Web Sciences work shop are available at their respective web sites.
MARCH 2008
Jain's article on EventWeb featured in IEEE Computer Magazine
Ramesh
JainBren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences Ramesh Jain had his article EventWeb: Developing a Human-Centered Computing System featured in the February 2008 issue of IEEE Computer Magazine.
The article focuses on EventWeb, a human-centered computing system that will give users a compelling experience by combining quality content, carefully planned data organization and access mechanisms, and powerful presentation approaches.
The full text of the article (PDF, 1.6 MB) is available for download .
Jain is an active researcher in multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems and is also involved with Seraja, an event-based computing and EventWeb web site.
Additional information about Jain and his work can be found on his web site.
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IEEE Computer is a resource that practitioners, researchers, and managers can rely on to provide timely information about current research developments, trends, best practices, and changes in the profession.
Smyth receives Google Research Award for Statistical Text Mining
Padhraic
SmythProfessor of computer science Padhraic Smyth has received a gift of $60,000 Google Research Award to support research on statistical text mining of very large document collections using parallel computing.
Statistical text mining is valuable in that it can discover underlying topics and trends that are otherwise hidden in very large data sets, like PubMed, a public digital library
containing approximately 16 million research papers published in the biomedical literature.Using existing algorithms would take several months of computer time to analyze the 16 million documents on a single computer - but the Smyth group has recently developed new techniques using multiple distributed processors that reduce the time for this analysis to about 1 day.
The Google Research Award will enable Professor Smyth and his research group to explore and develop newer and faster text mining algorithms, with potential applications in Web search, digital libraries, new types of browsers for
medical text data, and so on.Other researchers involved in this work include Professor Max Welling and Dave Newman (Computer Science), Professor Mark Steyvers (Cognitive Sciences), and Computer Science Ph.D. students Arthur Asuncion, Chaitanya Chemudugunta, and America Holloway.
FEBRUARY 2008
Jarecki receives NSF CAREER Award
Stanislaw
JareckiStanislaw Jarecki, assistant professor of computer science, has been awarded a $450,000 NSF CAREER research award entitled "Secure Multi-Party Protocols, from Feasibility to Practice".
The goal of the proposed research is to design cryptographic algorithms for a variety of secure multi-party tasks, including private authentication schemes, aggregate signatures, group key agreement schemes, and threshold and proactive cryptosystems.
Such algorithms have applications to secure networking, enabling reliable and privacy-protecting operation of systems ranging from fault-tolerant services to group-wide trust in ad-hoc mobile networks and peer-to-peer groups.
Tsudik to give invited talk at ASIACCS '08
Gene
TsudikGene Tsudik, professor of computer science and Managing Director of the Secure Computing and Networking Center, will be giving an invited talk entitled "Confronting a Mobile Adversary in Unattended Sensor Networks" at ASIACCS in Tokyo, Japan next month.
ASIACCS is the ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer and Communications Security, and was created by the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC) in 2005.
Tsudik's research interests are mainly in computer/network security, privacy and applied cryptography. His recent work focuses on privacy in Internet services, RFID systems and mobile ad hoc networks, as well as security in sensor networks and storage systems.
His research also covers secure group communication, in particular, group key agreement, group signatures and group access control. He also is interested in database security and public key cryptography.
JANUARY 2008
Franz receives $50,000 gift from Google
Michael
FranzComputer science professor Michael Franz has been awarded an unrestricted gift of $50,000 from Google.
"I am very grateful to Google for this donation," said Franz. "This money will help to make our research at UCI even more
competitive."Professor Franz is an expert on virtual machines and mobile-code security. In his 11 years at UCI, he has graduated 11 Ph.D. students and been awarded more than $7 Million in competitive Federal research funding as Principal Investigator.
For more information about Franz and his research, visit his web site.
Majumder chair of recent ACM VRST conference
Aditi
MajumderAssistant professor of computer science, Aditi Majumder recently hosted the Association for Computing Machinery's Virtual Reality Software and Technology (ACM VRST) in Newport Beach, CA. Co-chairs included Larry Hodges from UNC Charlotte and Daniel Cohen-Or from Tel Aviv University.
In its 14th year, VRST is an annual conference devoted to the technical aspects of virtual reality. The recent conference yielded the highest attendance in the posters and panels track in the last ten years.
Majumder's research addresses how to produce a seamless image on a large-scale tiled display - an important problem to both the scientific and entertainment fields.
Majumder has developed a suite of mathematical models, methods and software to correct the geometric, chromatic and luminescent variations that arise when tiling multiple projection displays.
Franz to be keynote speaker at Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop
Michael
FranzComputer science professor Michael Franz and professor Richard Kemmerer of UC Santa Barbara have been invited as keynote speakers to the Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research (CSIIR) Workshop that will be held in May at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
CSIIR brings together key researchers and decision makers from the national intelligence community, academia, and industrial research labs with a focus on cyber infrastructure protection.
Franz is the Principal Investigator on several competitive grants totaling almost $5M. His current research focuses on security and efficiency aspects of mobile code.
For more information about Franz and his research, visit his web site.
Majumder receives $70,000 to study tractability of seas projectors and cameras
Aditi
MajumderAssistant professor of computer science, Aditi Majumder has received $70,000 in seed funding from NSF to analyze the tractability of using a sea of projectors and cameras for providing all-pervasive displays that can render pixels anywhere and everywhere, both as information carriers and interaction agents.
The project aims to identify the aspects of the problem, if any, that are theoretically intractable as against those that are limited by current technology, under various conditions of known and unknown display and device (projectors and cameras) parameters.
Majumder's research addresses how to produce a seamless image on a large-scale tiled display - an important problem to both the scientific and entertainment fields.
Majumder has developed a suite of mathematical models, methods and software to correct the geometric, chromatic and luminescent variations that arise when tiling multiple projection displays.
Newman utilizes supercomputer to research text mining
David
NewmanResearch scientist David Newman has been awarded 325,000 hours on the supercomputer at San Diego Supercomputing Center to research text mining of huge text collections.
Collections such as the National Library of Medicine's PubMed, Wikipedia and New York Times contain millions of publications and/or articles.
The supercomputer resources will aid Newman to find ways to go beyond simple word searches to better help users retrieve information from these collections.
Topic models on this scale are computationally intensive to train and require huge amounts of memory, thus they can only be computed using terascale resources. The allocation at the Center will allow the research group to tackle important text data sets that are well-beyond current capabilities.
Newman's research is highlighted in a recent Orange County Register article.
Majumder publishes book on practical multi-projector display design
Aditi
MajumderAditi Majumder, assistant professor of computer science has recently published a book "Practical Multi-Projector Display Design". Publisher A.K. Peters released the book at Siggraph 2007.
This is the first book that provides all of the tools and techniques needed to create your own large-area-multi-projector display that is both affordable and flexible.
It covers the current projection technologies, techniques for achieving geometric alignment and color seamlessness, and image rendering using PC clusters. It also gives the details of an advanced distributed multi-camera-based calibration system.
Majumder's research addresses how to produce a seamless image on a large-scale tiled display - an important problem to both the scientific and entertainment fields.
Majumder has developed a suite of mathematical models, methods and software to correct the geometric, chromatic and luminescent variations that arise when tiling multiple projection displays.
