NEWS
July 2012
Zvonimir Rakamaric receives Prestigious Award
Zvonimir Rakamaric received the prestigious Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) award. His research proposal was among the 10 awarded proposals that were chosen from more than 100 submissions from around the world. more
June 10, 2012
Miriah Meyer selected as Faculty Fellow
Miriah has been selected as one of seven Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows for 2012. The award recognizes innovative, promising new faculty members from research institutions around the world for their advancements in computing research. more
June 7, 2012
Students Learn Computer Graphics at Summer Camp
30 high school student participate in the Entertainment Arts and Engineering (EAE) Summer Camp. more
April 19, 2012
New USTAR Building Dedicated
The James L. Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building-A USTAR Innovation Center marks the beginning of a new era of interdisciplinary translational research at the University of Utah. more
March 12, 2012
Utah's Tech Jobs Get a Lift
Last year, Utah created jobs at a faster pace than any other state in the country... NPR Story
s years Organick Lecture Series moreMarch 10, 2012
David E. Shaw to present Organick Lecture Series
David E. Shaw, chief scientist at D. E. Shaw Research will present the talks at this years Organick Lecture Series more
March 1, 2012
EU's EAE Program Ranked 3rd in Nation
The University of Utah's Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program is ranked 3rd in the nation by the Princeton Review. SL Tribune
January 10 , 2012
Ed Catmull to be UofU Commencement Speaker
School of Computing alum Ed Catmull (PhD '74), will deliver the 2012 University of Utah general commencement address on May 4th. more
December 29, 2011
Catmull Film added to National Film Registry
The 1972 experimental film "A Computer Animated Hand" by Utah alum, Ed Catmull has been added to the National Film Registry. more
December 7, 2011
Chuck Hansen Elected IEEE Fellow
Chuck Hansen has been elected an IEEE Fellow in recognition of his extraordinary accomplishments in the development of visualization tools. more
December 6, 2011
John Regehr Receives 2011 Google Research Award
Congratulations John! more
November 30, 2011
SoC Undergrad Received an Honorable Mention as a 2012 CRA Outstanding UG Researcher
Grant Ayers recently was awarded an honorable mention as a 2012 CRA UG Researcher. more
November 3, 2011
U Student Scores Sci-Fi Win at Film
When third-year film student Luke Hartvigsen set out to make a sci-fi thriller he was not interested in giving viewers an answer to life's questions, but only in making them think about such things as reality vs. virtuality and the thin line that technology draws between the two. more
November 3, 2011
Super Computing 2012 Hosted in Salt Lake City
November 3, 2011
Extreme Data Management Center in the News
November 3, 2011
SoC Undergrad Wins $10K in Programming Contest
September 26, 2011
UofU Create New Video Game to Help Kids with Cancer
Even super heroes need a chance to get better, especially if they've been fighting their arch-nemesis and a robotic crab that just won't go away. At least, that's the premise behind a video game developed at the University of Utah to help children with cancer during their treatment.more , SL Tribune
July 29, 2011
Best Paper Award at 2nd MultiClust Workshop
Congratulations to Jeff Phillips, Parasaran Raman and Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Jeff Phillips, Parasaran Raman and Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Discovering, Summarizing and Using Multiple Clusterings (held in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2011) "Generating A Diverse Set Of High-Quality Clusterings"
July 1, 2011
School of Computing Welcomes Five New Faculty Members
Feifei Li, Assistant Professor
Before joing Utah Dr. Li was an assistant professor at the Computer Science Department, Florida State University, from August 2007 to July 2011. Before that, he obtained his B.S. in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2002 and PhD in computer science from Boston University in 2007. His research focuses on large scale data management, such as query processing, indexing, and query optimization in databases. He also works on probabilistic data, text/string processing, semantic web/graph data (e.g., RDF), data processing using MapReduce, as well as security and privacy issues in data management. Some of his research projects collaborate with Microsoft Research, IBM Research, and AT&T Labs. His research has been actively supported by NSF, HP Labs, FSU, and the Florida Department of Revenue. He has won an NSF career award in 2011, the best presenter award in IBM T.J. Watson research center's summer Intern lecture series in 2006, and the IEEE ICDE best paper award in 2004.
Miriah Meyer, Assistant Professor
Miriah is an assistant professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah working within the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. Her research focuses on the synergistic relationship of visualization and interaction for enabling scientific discovery from large, multidimensional data. Recently she has focused on working with genomics and molecular biology data. She obtained her bachelors degree in astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University, and earned a PhD in computer science from the University of Utah. Prior to joining the faculty at Utah Miriah was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University and a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Miriah is a receipiant of a 2009 and 2010 NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellow award. She was also awarded a 2006 AAAS Mass Media Fellowship that landed her a stint as a science writer for the Chicago Tribune. Miriah is on the organizing committee for the inaugural IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization.
Jeff Phillips, Assistant Professor
Jeff Phillips has a BS in Computer Science and BA in Math from Rice University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University where he was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Jeff is a recipient of a 2009 and 2010 NSF/CRA Computing Innovations Postdoctoral Fellow award. His interests span the areas of algorithms, data mining, machine learning, databases, and computational statistics, specifically those areas relevant to processing and understanding uncertainty in large scientific data sets.
Zvonimir Rakamaric, Assistant Professor (joining January 2012)
Zvonimir Rakamaric was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in Silicon Valley, where he is also working closely with researchers from the Robust Software Engineering Group at NASA Ames Research Center. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the Department
of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, where his supervisor was Alan Hu. Zvonimir grew up and did his undergrad in Croatia.
The main focus of Zvonimir's research is developing practical methods, techniques, and tools for improving reliability and correctness of complex systems. Currently, his emphasis is on highly automatic and scalable analysis techniques for software, in particular for concurrent software. He is interested in any technique that supports those goals, such as extended static checking, automated theorem proving, model checking, and runtime verification.
Jur van den Berg, Assistant Professor
Dr. Jur van den Berg obtained his MSc in Computer Science at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in 2003. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science at Utrecht University, the Netherlands in 2007 with his thesis titled "Path Planning in Dynamic Environments". After that, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2007-2009, 2010-2011), and at the University of California, Berkeley (2009-2010). Since the summer of 2011, Jur is assistant professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. Jur's research interests lie in algorithmic robotics, with a particular focus on robot collision avoidance, planning, and control in application domains such as medical robotics, crowd simulation, virtual environments and computer games, autonomous transportation, and personal robotics.
May 4, 2011
EAE DAY 2011 featured in the news
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April 3, 2011
Weibin Sun selected 2011 NVIDIA Graduate Fellow
Congratulations to Weibin Sun selected as a 2011 NVIDIA Graduate Fellow. Weibin, a second-year PhD student in the Flux Research Group, was selected for this highly-competitive award for his work on "Augmenting Operating Systems With The GPU."
March 16, 2011
New Undergraduate Student Lounge Dedicated
The School of Computing is please to announce the completion of a new undergraduate student lounge in the Merrill Engineering Building. The new 1200 square foot space will give undergrad students a place to study, relax and interact with one another. The dedication ceremonies were held on March 16th, when students, faculty and staff packed the halls of the Merrill building to participate in the celebration. The new space was made possible with a generous donation from CS alum John LaLonde. John received his B.S. in computer science from the U in 1989. He is currently the CTO of Abstrax Inc. a software development located in Tempe, Arizona.
"I felt I received the best education money could buy when I was at the U. At that time no one else provided the blend of rigorous theory and practical application. It allowed me to hit the ground at a full sprint. I believed it was my moral obligation to give back to an institution that treated me so well. Hopefully this lounge will create an environment that will allow students to weave a strong social fabric and network that can be a springboard to help each other create new industries and paradigms that will change the world. I would only ask that they then remember the institution that served them so well." - John LaLonde (BS '89)
February 18, 2011
Tom Fletcher Receives NSF Career Award
Tom Fletcher recently received a 5 year, $400,000 NSF CAREER award. This award will be used to develop nonlinear statistical models and classification procedures for time-varying shape and investigate their application to biomedical image analysis problems. Tom will work with collaborators at the Brain Institute to apply these methods to further our understanding of developmental disorders such as Autism and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. Tom is part of the SCI Institute and a USTAR faculty member.
November 18, 2010
The University of Utah's Entertainment Arts & Engineering program cordially invite
you to attend an Open House celebrating the opening of our new Master Games Studio
Please visit us on
- Wednesday, December 1st
- 4:00 - 7:00PM
- Film and Media Arts Building
- 370 South 1530 East
- (directly south of the library)
Come see the new space, meet our students, and enjoy some light refreshments
www.mgs.eae.utah.edu
801.585.6491
12.22.2010 : UofU Student - "Tech Student of the Month" more
12.20.2010 : "Getting a Degree in Gaming" - SL Tribune more
12.17.2010 : U of Utah: No. 1 for Startups more
Matt Might vs. Cyber Criminals more
A Conversation with Ed Catmull more
11.17.2010 : Mary Hall named ACM Distinguished Scientist more
11.2010 : Chris Johnson awarded Visualization Career Award more
10.27.2010 : "Getting the Big Picture Quickly" more
NSF funds Computer Systems Research Center at the New Mexico Consortium in Los Alamos more
August 23, 2010
Professor Mary Hall Awarded $1.25M in DARPA Grant
TItle-Echelon: Extreme scale Compute Hierarchies with Efficient Locality Optimized Nodes
Grant summary: We propose to develop fundamental new technologies that will enable the construction of agile ubiquitous high-performance computing (UHPC) systems by 2018. These technologies will enable construction of systems that achieve energy efficiency of 20pJ/FLOP, are easy to program, and are resilient in the face of both component failures and malicious attacks. The project will consist of a Phase I for the first two years, which will produce a design concept backed by research studies. A Phase II activity over the next two years will produce a system simulator and prototype software stack. University of Utah's role in this project will be to contribute to the programming model design and compiler technology for the new architecture.
SoC Student in the News for Hot Selling iPhone App more
7.22.2010 : "Data Mining Made Faster" more
Twitter Moves to Utah more
July 12, 2010
University of Utah Selected for Annual HP Labs Innovation Research Program
Salt Lake City, Utah, July 12, 2010 - Rajeev Balasubramonian from School of Computing at the University of Utah has been selected to participate in the prestigious HP Labs Innovation Research Program. The program is designed to provide colleges, universities and research institutes around the world with opportunities to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Professor Balasubramonian, will collaborate with HP Labs on a research initiative focused on Meeting Datacenter Demands with Novel DRAM Architectures.
Professor Balasubramonian joined the School of Computing in 2003. He has been working on computer architecture research topics, with a primary focus on performance and power optimizations for multi-core systems. His recent foray into memory system research began with a collaboration with colleague, Professor Al Davis, and several students of the Utah Arch research group. The team delved into the primary reasons behind energy inefficiencies in modern DRAM systems, especially within large-scale datacenters. The team grew to include Utah alumnus Dr. Naveen Muralimanohar of HP Labs and Dr. Norm Jouppi, Director of the Exascale Computing Lab at HP. The group concluded that order of magnitude improvements to the memory system are possible with an overhaul of the memory architecture. Initial ideas in this direction have been articulated in a recent paper at the prestigious ISCA conference.
The award from HP's Innovation Research Program will help Utah researchers explore the many design issues required to validate their ideas. The team is considering ways to activate the minimum memory circuitry required to access data and effect data transfer with photonic communication. Says Prof. Balasubramonian, "The collaboration with HP is vital to ground our research in industrial constraints. It greatly improves our chances of impacting the designs of DRAM memory vendors in the next 10 years."
HP reviewed more than 375 proposals from 202 universities across 36 countries. The University of Utah is one of only 52 universities in the world to receive a 2010 Innovation Research award. The HP Labs Innovation Research Program is designed to encourage open collaboration between HP and the academic community on mutually beneficial, high-impact research. This year's proposals were solicited on a range of topics within the eight broad research themes at HP Labs - analytics, cloud, content transformation, digital commercial print, immersive interaction, information management, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability.
"Our goal with the HP Labs Innovation Research Program is to inspire the brightest minds from around the world to conduct high-impact scientific research, addressing the most important challenges and opportunities facing society in the next decade," said Prith Banerjee, senior vice president of research at HP and director of HP Labs.
Chris Johnson Awarded the 2010 Rosenblatt Award more
MACHINIMA in the SL Tribune more
New Executive Graduate Program in Video Game Development more
Huy Vo Awarded NVIDIA Fellowship for Second Year Running more
