April 2008
Best Paper Award at the SIAM Data Mining 2008 Conference
Hanghang Tong (CMU), Spiros Papadimitriou (IBM; CMU Alumni), Philip Yu (IBM) and Christos Faloutsos (CMU) have received the best paper award for their paper titled "Proximity Tracking on Time-Evolving Bipartite Graphs" at the 2008 SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Data Mining Conference, one of the top data mining conferences. The work focuses on social networks, and specifically on measuring the proximity of nodes, as the networks change over time. With careful design, the proposed methods achieve up to 2 orders of magnitude faster computation over straightforward competitors. Congratulations, Hanghang, Spiros and Christos!
April 2008
Carlos Guestrin among Office of Naval Research 2008 Young Investigators Awardees
The Young Investigator Program (YIP) aims to attract to naval research those outstanding new faculty members at institutions of higher education. As part of the program, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) grants monetary support to award recipients for research and encourages their promising teaching and research careers. This year's YIP recipients showed exceptional talent in the following naval priority research areas: Command Control Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. Congratulations to Carlos Guestrin on receiving an award to research "Novel Computational Paradigm for Integration of Uncertain Information in Adversarial Activity Recognition."
January 2008
Evan Hoke a Finalist for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award
Congratulations to Evan Hoke who was nominated as a finalist for the Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2008. The CRA award is extremely competitive and prestigious, with fierce competition from the top undergraduates of all the schools in the nation.
Evan has worked on the InteMon and SPIRIT projects. His advisor is Christos Faloutsos.
