Rory McGuire spoke recently at the School of Engineering Convocation. Rory received his Master of Science in Computer Science, with distinction. His research interests include computational medicine, focusing on radiological image processing, as well as networking and data security. Rory will work for Apple after graduation.
This marks the second time in a row that a convocation speaker was from the Computer Science department: Aaron Clauset spoke in Fall 2006.
Related links: Rory McGuire
Dr. Joe Kniss has been hired as an assistant professor. Dr. Kniss received his PhD and Masters of Science from the University of Utah, and a Bachelors of Science from Idaho State University. Dr. Kniss conducts research in computer graphics areas such as scientific visualization, medical imaging, parallel and stream computing, as well as sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. He recently co-authored a book, Realtime Volume Graphics, which covers foundational and advanced methods for volume rendering.
Welcome, Joe!
Related links: Joe Kniss's home page
Professor Jared Saia received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research on "Foundations for Attack-Resistant Collaborative Peer-to-Peer Systems." This research aims to create algorithms to enable a group of hundreds of millions of people — a group the size of the entire population of the U.S. — to accomplish a collaborative task even if up to a one-third fraction of the group members are completely untrustworthy.
This research uses powerful new mathematical techniques such as extractor and expander graphs and the probabilistic method. It has the somewhat surprising property that it can guarantee security without the need for private communication, and can guarantee correctness without the need for a trusted third party. Applications of this research include: collaborative spam detection, collaborative worm and virus detection, data warehousing, running auctions, collaborative filtering, web search, mechanism enforcement, and running elections.
Related links: Jared Saia's home page; National Science Foundation (NSF)
The second colloquia in the ongoing series of the faculty candidate colloquia took place on Thursday, February 1st from 11am to 12:15 in ECE 118. (Joel Kniss discussing "Multivariate Volume Visualization" was the first). It featured Jed Crandall discussing "Tools and techniques for understanding and defending real systems." See the colloquia page for more information.
Related links: Jed Crandall; Colloquia page
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