News

(6/25/10) Prof. Prasad Jayanti was recently named the James Frank Family Professor.
(5/25/10) CS major Katelin Bailey won 1st place in the Sigma Xi Christopher Reed competition at the Wetterhahn Science Poster Symposium.
(5/7/10) Prof. David Kotz and Prof. Denise Anthony are part of a new research endeavor funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) focused on security and privacy in healthcare. The 12-institution consortium, led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one of four projects funded by HHS as part of a $60 million initiative called Strategic Healthcare Information Technology Advanced Research Projects (SHARP). Dartmouth will participate in the SHARPS group focused on security. Read more here.
(5/7/10) The Daily Beast Recognizes Dartmouth as a Top Producer of Tech Talent. Read more here.
(4/27/10) Prof. Hany Farid was awarded a 2010 Excellence in Science and Technology from the University at Albany. Read more here.
(3/24/10) Prof. Lorenzo Torresani wins an NSF CAREER award.
(01/26/10 - update) Prof. Sean Smith and his group will be playing a major role in an initiative to secure the power grid. Read more here and here .
(12/21/09) Prof. Hany Farid helps in halting the spread of child pornography. Read more here.
(11/09/09) Prof. Tom Cormen has been designated an ACM Distinguished Educator. Read more here.
(11/08/09) Prof. Hany Farid finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked. Read more here.
(11/08/09) Prof. Tanzeem Choudhury has been named a TEDIndia Fellow for 2009. Read more here.
(08/05/09) Dartmouth has received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation for research to develop secure and trustworthy computing systems for healthcare settings. Read more here.
(07/10/09) Prof. Amit Chakrabarti was selected as the 2009 recipient of the Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement.
(06/10/09) We are pleased to announce the winners of the 41st Annual John G. Kemeny Computing Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Computing.
(05/28/09) Prof. Lorenzo Torresani has received an Outstanding Faculty Reviewer Award from the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009.
(07/10/09) Prof. Amit Chakrabarti was selected as the 2009 recipient of the Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement.
(05/26/09) The competition for the 41st Annual John G. Kemeny Computing Prize for Dartmouth undergraduates is now open. The Kemeny prize awards innovative uses of computing and is open to all majors. All entries must be submitted by Noon Monday June 3, 2009. Good luck!
(05/26/09) Our last Colloquium of the year features our very own Kimo Johnson from MIT and Adobe Advanced Technology Labs. His talk is titled Improving faked images: a year out of grad school, I've turned to the dark side. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Moore B03 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(05/18/09) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Rosalind Picard of The MIT Media Lab. She will be speaking on Emotional Intelligence Technology and Autism. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Moore B03 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM. This talk is jointly sponsored with Digital Humanities at Dartmouth.
(05/13/09) Prof. David Kotz has been appointed as the new Associate Dean for the Sciences. He will begin his four-year term on August 1, 2009.
(05/11/09) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Katherine Isbister of Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Her talk is titled Touchy Feely Games: Broadening Designers' Social and Emotional Palette. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Moore B03 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM. This talk is jointly sponsored with Digital Humanities at Dartmouth.
(05/05/09) PhD candidate Sara "Scout" Sinclair has been awarded a 2009 Google Anita Borg Scholarship. Scout is a member of the Dartmouth PKI/Trust Lab under the direction of Prof. Sean Smith. The lab focuses on developing use of Public Key Infrastructure in Academic computing.
(05/04/09) This week's Colloquium features Prof. George Cybenko of Thayer School of Engineering. His talk is titled Learning Behaviors: The next big (computational) thing? The colloquium is on Wednesday in Moore B03 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(04/27/09) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Luis von Ahn of Carnegie Mellon University. He will be speaking on Human Computation. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Moore B03 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM. This talk is jointly sponsored with Digital Humanities at Dartmouth.
(04/20/09) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Tom Mitchell, Chair of the Machine Learning Department of Carnegie Mellon. He will be speaking on Brains, Meaning and Corpus Statistics on Thursday in Moore B03 at 4:30 PM following Weekly Tea at 4 PM. This talk is jointly sponsored with the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth. Please note the special date for this colloquium.
(04/09/09) Ashish Kapoor of Microsoft Research is visiting us tomorrow. He will be speaking on Complementary Computing for Visual Tasks: Meshing Computer Vision with Human Visual Processing tomorrow, April 10, in Moore 302 at 10:30 AM.
(04/06/09) This week's Colloquium features Prof. David J. Fleet of University of Toronto. He will be speaking on Model-Based Human Pose Tracking. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Moore B03 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(04/03/09) Prof. Afra Zomorodian has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
(04/02/09) Tomorrow is the department's Open House for newly admitted graduate students. The schedule includes a special colloquium at 3:30 PM in Moore B03, Friday Beers and Pizza at 5 PM, and Bowling at 6:30 PM.
(04/02/09) Prof. Tanzeem Choudhury was featured in an interview at the National Science Foundation on the occasion of National Women's History Month.
(03/30/09) Our first Colloquium this quarter features Prof. Jim Kurose of University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He will be speaking on Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere: Challenges in End-to-End Sensor Networking. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Moore B03 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.

Winter 2009

(03/04/09) Prof. Tanzeem Choudhury has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
(03/02/09) This week's Colloquium features Frank Bentley, Senior Research Engineer at the Motorola Applied Research and Technology Center. He will be speaking on Ambient Mobile Micro-coordination: Putting Presence and People in the Loop. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Silsby 028 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(02/23/09) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Laura Toma of Bowdoin College. She will be speaking on I/O-Efficient Indexes for Fat Triangulations and Low-Density Planar Subdivisions. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Silsby 028 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(02/18/08) Prof. Fabio Pellacini has received a Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
(02/18/09) Due to weather, Prof. Tom Mitchell's talk is canceled this week and is postponed until April 23.
(02/16/09) This week we have two Colloquia: Note: This talk has been canceled.
(02/09/09) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Dieter Fox of University of Washington. He will be speaking on Toward High-level Reasoning for Autonomous Systems. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Silsby 028 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(02/02/09) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Deepak Ganesan of University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He will be speaking on Towards a Storage-centric Sensor Network Architecture. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Silsby 028 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(01/26/09) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Aurel Lazar of Columbia University. He will be speaking on Invariant Representations of Visual Streams in the Spike Domain. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Silsby 028 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(01/19/09) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Michael Casey, director of the Graduate Program in Digital Musics. He will be speaking on The Problem with Music: Modeling Distance Distributions of Large Music Collections The colloquium is on Wednesday in Silsby 028 at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM. Please note the change in location for this week.
(01/14/09) The department has implemented the College's first paperless office. Initiated by department administrator Joseph Elsener, a digital document management system will replace paper-based recording and filing. Read more.
(01/12/09) Our first Colloquium this quarter features Prof. James Haxby from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. He will be speaking on Characterizing local neural representation as a multidimensional similarity space The colloquium is on Wednesdays in Moore Filene Auditorium at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(01/08/09) Lorenzo Torresani has joined our department as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and computer animation.
(01/07/09) Prof. Hany Farid, Associate Chair of the department, has been appointed the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science.

Fall 2008

(12/03/08) Dartmouth College has approved the department's new restructured Masters Program. The new two-track program is designed to allow PhD candidates in other departments to pursue a concurrent Masters degree in computer science and encourage Dartmouth undergraduates to remain at Dartmouth for an MS degree. The revised ORC text details the requirements for the degree.
(12/01/08) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Prasad Tetali from the Georgia Tech. He will be speaking on Correlation Decay and Deterministic Approximation Algorithms. The colloquium is on Wednesdays in Moore Filene Auditorium at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(12/01/08) Prof. Afra Zomorodian has received a Junior Faculty Fellowship from Dartmouth.
(11/17/08) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Martha Pollack from the University of Michigan. She will be speaking on Intelligent Assistive Technology: The Present and the Future. The colloquium is on Wednesdays in Moore Filene Auditorium at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(11/13/08) Prof. David Kotz has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, IEEE's most prestigious honor, with the following citation:
  for contributions to parallel and distributed systems and wireless networks
IEEE is a leading professional association for the advancement of technology. The IEEE name was originally an acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., but its focus now has expanded into many related fields, such as computer science.
(11/10/08) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Jason Hartline from Northwestern University. He will be speaking on Economics in Internet Design. The colloquium is on Wednesdays in Moore Filene Auditorium at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(11/03/08) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Robert Ghrist from the University of Pennsylvania. He will be speaking on an Euler Calculus for Sensor Networks. The colloquium is on Wednesdays in Moore Filene Auditorium at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(10/27/08) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Josh Bongard from the University of Vermont. He will be speaking on Investigations at the Interface of Morphology, Evolution and Cognition. The colloquium is on Wednesdays in Moore Filene Auditorium at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(10/20/08) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Daniel A. Spielman from Yale University. He will be speaking on Graph approximation and local clustering, with applications to the solution of diagonally-dominant systems of linear equations. The colloquium is on Wednesdays in Moore Filene Auditorium at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(10/16/08) Prof. Hany Farid, Associate Chair of the department, has been appointed Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth.
(10/13/08) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Piotr Indyk from MIT. He will be speaking on Sparse Recovery Using Sparse Random Matrices . The colloquium is on Wednesdays in Moore Filene Auditorium at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(10/06/08) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Tamal Dey from The Ohio State University. He will be speaking on Delaunay Mesh Generation for Piecewise Smooth Domains. The colloquium is on Wednesdays in Moore Filene Auditorium at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea at 4 PM.
(10/03/08) Ph.D. students Ranganath Kondapally and Wei Pan were given this year's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Ranganath was the TA for Discrete Mathematics (COSC 19) and Algorithms (COSC 25) last winter and spring, respectively. Wei was the TA for Software Design and Implementation (COSC 23) both terms. The award includes a cash prize of $400 per person. Congratulations to both!
(09/29/08) This week's Colloquium features Prof. Stephen G. Kobourov from AT&T Research Labs. He will be speaking on Simultaneous Graph Embeddings. The colloquium is on Wednesday in Moore Filene Auditorium at 4:30 PM following the Weekly Tea.
(09/19/08) The department's annual Computer Science Research Symposium is Saturday, September 27, from 9 AM to 5 PM in Rockefeller Center Room 003. CSRS is an exhibition of the research being conducted in our department and is open to all.

Summer 2008

(08/19/08) Prof. Tanzeem Choudhury has been named a 2008 Young Innovator Under 35 by Technology Review magazine. She is recognized for her research in developing computational techniques for understanding human activities and interactions.
(08/15/08) Prof. Hany Farid, Associate Chair of the department, is profiled on PBS's NOVA scienceNOW on digital image forgery. The program's website includes the broadcast segment, a profile on Prof. Farid, his answers to viewers's questions as well as an image forgery quiz.
(08/11/08) Starting this month, Prof. Peter Winkler will be featuring his puzzles in Puzzled, the new puzzle column in the Communications of the ACM. Each column will present two puzzles with known solutions and one open problem. The inaugural column in the current issue focuses on Delightful Graph Theory.
(08/05/08) Ph.D. candidate Igor Paprotny, Prof. Chris Levey of Thayer School of Engineering and Prof. Bruce Donald of Duke University have created the first untethered multi-microrobotic system. The microrobots have dimensions in microns (micrometers) and are independently controlled to assemble structures. Igor is defending his dissertation this Thursday. Watch the microrobots waltz to the Blue Danube!
(07/12/08) A group of students in the department's two term course, Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS), are designing an online system for reporting and returning lost pets for the Upper Valley Humane Society. Read more.

Spring 2008

(06/09/08) Nick Christman `08, a senior majoring in computer science and mathematics, was a valedictorian this year and spoke at Commencement. Nick completed a high honors thesis under the direction of Prof. Prasad Jayanti, the department Chair. He also maintained a 4.0 GPA, started in all 18 soccer games this season, and won an NCAA postgraduate scholarship. Listen to Nick's Valedictory Address.
(06/09/08) We are pleased to announce the winners of the 40th Annual John G. Kemeny Computing Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Computing.
(05/28/08) The Department's Technical Reports are now available via an RSS Feed, thanks to Prof. David Kotz.
(05/19/08) The competition for the 40th Annual John G. Kemeny Computing Prize for Dartmouth undergraduates is now open. The Kemeny prize awards innovative uses of computing and is open to all majors. All entries must be submitted by Noon Monday June 2, 2008. Good luck!
(05/12/08) Prof. Sean Smith's project on the good samaritans' impact on wikipedia was chosen as one of the 25 leading-edge IT research projects by Networkworld magazine.
(04/28/08) Prof. Lorie Loeb, System Administrator Tim Tregubov, and CS majors Amanda Lobel `09, Evan Tice `09, Gemma Ross `08, along with undergraduates from across the campus have initiated project Green Lite Dartmouth, which aims to educate students on energy usage through real-time feedback on displays in the McLaughlin Cluster residence halls. Read more.
(04/11/08) Nick Christman `08, a senior majoring in computer science and mathematics, has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. While maintaining a 4.00 GPA, Nick started in all 18 soccer games during this season. Read More.
(04/07/08) Prof. David Kotz has been selected as a Fullbright Scholar to India. He will spend the 2008-2009 academic year at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore with a research focus on the measurement and modeling of wireless networks. To facilitate this collaboration, Dartmouth has awarded Prof. Kotz a Senior Faculty Grant.
(03/30/08) Tanzeem Choudhury is joining our department as an Assistant Professor starting on April 1, 2008. Her research focus is on machine learning and machine sensing of human and group behavior.

Winter 2008

(03/11/08) Prof. Andrew Campbell's course on Software Design and Implementation (COSC 23) culimnated in final team projects, programming embedded linux robots, shown on the left. The final Demo or Die! Day included a remote-controlled robot tressure hunt, as well as a final race. See more pictures.
(02/20/08) Prof. Peter Winkler co-organized the Mechanical Puzzles Day at Dartmouth. Katelin Bailey `10, a computer science major, and Profs. Scot Drysdale and Afra Zomorodian were among the many attendees, playing with puzzles such as Oscar's Maze on the left. Read more.
(01/30/08) Prof. Fabio Pellacini has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Read more.
(01/07/08) Prof. Sean Smith and John Marchesini, an alumnus of our Ph.D. program, have published a new book on the craft of system security. Read more.
(01/01/08) The January issue of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society includes the article Barcodes: The persistent topology of data, which surveys the work of Prof. Afra Zomorodian and collaborators in computational topology. Read more.
(12/21/07) Prof. Hany Farid, Associate Chair of the department, was interviewed on MSNBC's The Today Show. See the interview.

Fall 2007

(10/19/07) Prof. Sean Smith, in collaboration with Tim Williamson `05 and Prof. Denise Anthony from the Dartmouth Sociology Department, has shown in a study that anonymous contributers to Wikipedia are as reliable as registered contributers. Read more.
(10/02/07) Prof. Lorie Loeb and Rachel Forman `09 merged Merce Cunningham's choreography with digital animation through the use of motion-capture technology. Read more.
(10/02/07) Prof. Hany Farid, Associate Chair of the department, is featured in the New York Times. "Don't ever send me a photograph of yourself. I'll do the most terrible things to it." Read more.
BlitzMail (09/28/07) Computing Services plans to roll out a new version of BlitzMail for Mac computers, an update that will feature encrypted messaging for the first time, developed by computer science doctoral candidate Chris Masone `02. Read more.
 
CSRS '07 (09/18/07) The 2007 Dartmouth Computer Science research symposium will feature talks and posters by graduate students and faculty from the department, and will be held on September 22. Read more.
(09/11/07) A team of Dartmouth students, advised by Prof. Lorie Loeb, has won Google's Campus 3D Contest by building a virtual Dartmouth. Read more.
(06/25/07) Prof. Chris Bailey-Kellogg was awarded the Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement for innovative studies in computational biology and qualitative reasoning. Read more.
(06/25/07) Prof. Lorie Loeb was awarded the Dean of Faculty Teaching Award for Visiting and Adjunct Faculty. Read more.
Kemeny Prize (06/15/07) The John G. Kemeny Computing Prize for innovative computing projects by Dartmouth undergraduates has been awarded for 2007. Read more.

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