CSE @ 50
The 50th Anniversary Reunion and Symposium, held May 7-9, 2008, was a great success! Alumni enjoyed reconnecting with the department, meeting old friends, and hearing interesting talks by their colleagues. Watch the videos, and enjoy the photos of the symposium.

Researchers develop next-generation antivirus system

650.jpg Prof. Farnam Jahanian, PhD candidate Jon Oberheide and postdoctoral fellow Evan Cooke developed a new approach to antivirus software, called CloudAV, that moves the software off individual computers while greatly improving its effectiveness against malicious software (malware).   [Read More...]

 
2008 NSF CAREER Awards go to Seth Pettie and Martin Strauss

649.jpg Prof. Pettie received a CAREER award for his research project, "Advanced Data Structures for Shortest Paths, Routing, and Self-Adjusting Computation." [Read more...] Prof. Strauss received a CAREER award for his research project, "Next-Generation Algorithmics for Sparse Recovery." [Read more...]

 
Atul Prakash and Grad Students Discover Banking Website Flaws

645.jpg Prof. Atul Prakash and graduate students Laura Falk and Kevin Borders discover design flaws in banking web sites that make their customers vulnerable to monetary or identity theft. Banks and similar institutions need to make changes to protect their customers.   [Read More...]

 
Student team takes first place in Trading Agent Competition

643.jpg Trading Agent Competition (TAC) team captures first place at the international TAC Supply Chain tournament in a competition of 13 teams from seven different countries. [Read more...]

 
Prof. Chen's Research in Virtual Environments Earns Best Paper Award

638.jpg Prof. Pete Chen and co-authors Dr. Jim Chow and Tal Garfinkel (Stanford) received a Best Paper Award for their paper, "Decoupling Dynamic Program Analysis from Execution in Virtual Environments," at the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. The research decouples analyses from normal execution by logging nondeterministic virtual-machine inputs and replaying them on a separate analysis platform. Powerful, heavyweight analyses can then be run in parallel with performance-sensitive production or development workloads. This approach provides many of the benefits of normal inline analysis with minimal impact on latency.

 
Microchip sets low-power record with extreme sleep mode

635.jpg A low-power microchip called the Phoenix Processor, developed by Profs. David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, along with doctoral students Scott Hanson and Mingoo Seok, uses significantly less power than comparable chips now on the market. It is intended for use in cutting-edge sensor-based devices such as medical implants, environment monitors and surveillance equipment. [Read more...] [Technology Review article]