NYU Computer Science News

Yuichiro Takeuchi and Professor Ken Perlin won a Best Paper prize at the SIGCHI 2012 for "ClayVision : The (Elastic) Image of the City". Congratulations! Link

Nektarios Paisios's research on applying computer technology for the blind is featured in an article in Atlantic Magazine. Link

Erica Wolfe has been awarded an NYU President's Service Award for her work as President of both the Graduate Student Government and the Masters Association for Computer Science.

Tamar Schlick, Professor of Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Science has been named a Fellow of SIAM (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics).  She is being conferred the fellowship for contributions to integration, optimization, and modeling techniques for the study of biomolecular structure and function. Dr. Schlick's research team develops innovative molecular modling, bioinformatics, and mathematical methods to study problems in DNA repair and fidelity mechanisms, chromatin folding, and RNA structure and function. Link

Chris Bregler's Motion Capture Lab has been working with Alan Gilbert, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, in applying motion capture technique to the gestures and motions of an orchestral conductor. Link.

The NYUAD Regional Collaborative Workshop on Women in Computing in the Arab World, organized by Sana' Odeh, took place on March 4-5. Forty Prominent international and regional women (CS professors, IT professionals and entrepreneurs) from 13 countries from the Arab World, the US and Canada. This unprecedented regional workshop explored the opportunities as well as the diverse challenges facing women in computing in the Arab World. Link

Over 300 students participated in the Spring 2012 Hackathon, held at NYU on March 24-25, and organized by Evan Korth of NYU and Chris Wiggins of Columbia.

Congratulations to the winning teams, Link. Read More, Link.

A research team led by Prof. Bud Mishra of NYU and Profs. Jason Reed and Jim Gimzewski of UCLA has developed a method to use nanoparticles to turn DNA molecule into a form of molecular braille that can be read in the scale of nanometers, using high-speed Atomic Force Microscopy. Link.

Brian Lehrer of CUNY TV interviews Prof. Evan Korth of New York University and Prof. Chris Wiggins of Columbia University about HackNY.

Video Link (Starts at the 20:00 mark) 

Russell Power is one of the 12 recipients of the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowships for 2012. Congratulations to Russell and to Jinyang Li, his advisor!

Prof. Alan Siegel, together with Profs. Stanley Ocken and Ethan Aken of CUNY spoke to the Pelham Math Committee about the need for a strong K-12 math curriculum and about the inadequacies of the current "Investigations" curriculum. Read More: Link

Two alumni of the Computer Science Department are featured in the article "NewYork tech: 12 people to watch in 2012" in the New York Daily News. Rebecca Zhou (CS minor) organized the "Raise Cache" event last November to raise funds for HackNY. Alex Iskold (MSCS) is the founder of GetGlue, a social network based on entertainment. Read More: Link

The Academy for Software Engineering, a new New York City public high school, will be opening this fall. Prof. Evan Korth will be Chair of the Advisory Board for the school. The school was inspired by Stuyvesant High School's successful program led by Computer science Teacher Mike Zamansky who is an alumnus of the Computer Science department (BA, MSc). Professors Adam Meyers and Deena Engel also serve on the Advisory Board.Read More: Link

MuseAmi, a music software engine created by a team including Yann LeCun, was presented at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Read More in an articel in the Philadelphia inquirer: Link

A story on CNN Money about the growing popularity of the CS major and the job opportunities it offers features interviews with Prof. Evan Korth and NYU CS major Tal Safran. Link.