The Curious Engineer

Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

2000–2011

297 posts

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2011 76

December 2011

  1. Seasonal stalactites: The sharp end of icicle science
  2. Students Shift to Computer Science
  3. FCC names Henning Schulzrinne Chief Technology Officer
  4. IEEE TPAMI Spotlights CCLS’s “Machine Learning for the New York City Power Grid”
  5. Research.gov highlight: Hirschberg and Rambow’s WordsEye helps K-12 students
  6. Actual Wisdom: Stephen Edwards
  7. Software that Listens for Lies
  8. Junfeng Yang’s Peregrine Improves Software Reliability and Security

November 2011

  1. Can you trust your printer?
  2. Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack, researchers say
  3. OfficeHop: Stephen Edwards’ Personal Arcade
  4. After Katrina, New Orleans’ Entrepreneurial Boom
  5. Ed Coffman wins Harold Larnder Prize
  6. Better multithreading offered by Columbia U researchers

October 2011

  1. Company uses gaming to teach the world to code
  2. Brilliant Ten: Computational Contortionist

September 2011

  1. Wordseye Is An Artistic Software Designed To Depict Language
  2. Eitan Grinspun selected as Brilliant 10
  3. Avec Wordseye, Bob Coyne entend épuiser les ressources du langage
  4. Clear Lake native is electrifying the nation with her dance technology
  5. What Is That? Let Your Smartphone Have a Look

August 2011

  1. Cliff Stein’s CLRS celebrates 500,000 copies
  2. The global appeal of ‘sticky’ live blogs
  3. The physics behind animation
  4. Information Builders Appoints Gregory Dorman as General Manager of iWay Software Division
  5. Quasirandom Ramblings

July 2011

  1. Peter Belhumeur receives 2011 Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award, for LeafSnap
  2. Crypto shocker: ‘Perfect cipher’ dates back to telegraphs
  3. Steven Bellovin Makes a Cryptologic History Discovery (New York Times)
  4. Codebook Shows an Encryption Form Dates Back to Telegraphs

June 2011

  1. How I Learned to Stop Worrying by Loving the Smartphone
  2. What’s that tree? Try Smithsonian’s new app to see
  3. Facebook will learn your face unless you tell it to stop
  4. Vishal Misra elected ACM SIGMetrics Vice Chair
  5. iPhone app Leafsnap identifies trees with picture of leaf
  6. Leafsnap App: Identify Trees With An iPhone Or iPad
  7. Scientists Unveil New Mobile App To Identify Trees
  8. What’s That Tree? New Leaf-ID App Can Tell You
  9. Janet Lustgarten, CEO at KX Systems, on shampoo apps, databases and founding her own company

May 2011

  1. The Smartphone as Tour Guide for Central Park
  2. Ziff Davis Expands Executive Team; Appoints Joey Fortuna as Chief Technology Officer
  3. USA Today Features Feiner’s Research
  4. Augmented reality has potential to reshape our lives
  5. App identifiziert Baumarten
  6. LeafSnap iPhone app identifies trees by their leaves
  7. Comment 1 inShare384 For The High-Tech Naturalist: LeafSnap Identifies Leaves Using Your iPhone’s Camera
  8. LeafSnap iPhone app lets you ID trees with camera
  9. What’s That Tree? There’s An App for That!
  10. A Tree Expert in Your Back Pocket
  11. The mobile phone app that can identify a tree by its leaf
  12. Studio 360’s David Leavitt (WNYC) discusses code books with Prof. Steve Bellovin.
  13. Leafsnap combines biometrics and botany for electronic field guide
  14. Gratis-App Leafsnap identifiziert Bäume
  15. Leafsnap is a New App to Identify Trees
  16. iPhone Herkent Boom
  17. Advanced threats: Assume the worst

April 2011

  1. Dan Rubenstein and co-authors win 2011 IEEE Communications Society Award for Outstanding Paper on New Communication Topics
  2. What’s That Central Park Leaf? There’s an App for That
  3. Do It Yourself, or With the Help of Tinkerers Everywhere
  4. Shree Nayar elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  5. Mihalis Yannakakis elected to National Academy of Engineering
  6. The New World of Augmented Reality

March 2011

  1. Kids Take Their Best Shot (and Learn about Electronics in the Process)
  2. Simha Sethumadhavan receives NSF CAREER Award
  3. Security experts, DHS, lawmakers react to RSA hack
  4. Julia Hirshberg receives James L Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award
  5. Augmented Reality in Action – maintenance and repair

February 2011

  1. Final rumours and lies from the RSA show
  2. RSA: Security industry flooded with snake-oil
  3. Pelican shows slim phone-camera prototype
  4. Face Time: How Video Calls Are Changing Our Daily Life

January 2011

  1. Nice-Guy Bloggers Needn’t Finish Last
  2. Scientific American features research of Shree Nayar and a PhD student, Oliver Cossairt
  3. About Face: NPR interviews Peter Belhumeur on Face Recognition
  4. Draw the Curtains: Gigapixel Cameras Create Highly Revealing Snapshots
  5. Brownstein’s Mortgage Metaphysics Drives 50% Gain in Top Global Hedge Fund

2010 45

December 2010

  1. Cyber-sabotage and espionage top 2011 security fears
  2. Perfecting Animation, via Science
  3. What’s Just Around the Bend? Soon, a Camera May Show You
  4. Science and Creativity: Plant IDs
  5. About Face

November 2010

  1. Luis Gravano Awarded NSF Grant for Detection and Presentation of Event Content in Social Media

October 2010

  1. Fit for a Princess: the Physics of Rapunzel’s Gown
  2. Pentagon’s Insider Threat Push Offers Lessons For Enterprises
  3. The Worm and the Wiretap

September 2010

  1. Feds seeking new rules for Internet wiretaps
  2. U.S. seeks to expand Internet wiretapping
  3. See, We Told You It Was a Dangerous Precedent
  4. FBI Drive for Encryption Backdoors is Deja Vu for Security Experts
  5. After Twitter Hack, NY Times Debates Social Network Security
  6. The T-Shirt That Scared a State
  7. Hacks Into Hackers
  8. Columbia, Medill Training New Breed of Programmer-Journalists
  9. Computer Science Professor Helps Animate Hollywood

August 2010

  1. The Big Idea
  2. Salman Abdul Baset and Prof. Henning Schulzrinne win best paper ward at IPTCOMM 2010
  3. Columbia’s New Dual Degree Program Aims to ‘Redefine Journalism As We Know it’
  4. Opting to Go Abroad

July 2010

  1. Dell revamps hardware testing in wake of malware issue
  2. Drop the Chalk: Changing the Way Teachers Teach
  3. Connecting Windows Applications to Cloud Storage
  4. Board looking for new business administrator
  5. Invisible Ink to Pixels
  6. IEEE adds CIO, CFO

June 2010

  1. Dan Perry appointed Associated Press chief of bureau for Jerusalem
  2. Russian Spies Hid Secret Codes in Online Photos
  3. Data mining your digital footprints

May 2010

  1. Some Grads Pick Entrepreneurship Over Wall Street Paydays
  2. Innovators Episode 6: Augmenting Reality
  3. Attack detectors on CPUs expose backdoors
  4. On Becoming Fearless and Making an Impact Through Technical Innovation
  5. ‘Tamper evident’ CPU warns of malicious backdoors

April 2010

  1. Columbia University Licenses Strand Simulation Technology to Adobe Systems
  2. Will Columbia-Trained, Code-Savvy Journalists Bridge the Media/Tech Divide?
  3. 2010 Young Investigators Announced

March 2010

  1. Fending Off Cyberattacks
  2. Security Superstars 2010: Visionaries
  3. Prof. Kathy McKeown wins the Anita Borg Women of Vision award

January 2010

  1. China Expanding Censorship to Text Messages
  2. Can Google Beat China?
  3. BigShot: Snap-together camera introduces kids to tech, and to their world

2009 29

December 2009

  1. In Memoriam: Theodore R. Bashkow
  2. Learning with Bigshots
  3. Ashutosh Dutta wins best-paper award at IMSAA 2009
  4. Postdoc Sean White named 2009 Tech Award Laureate

November 2009

  1. Student granted Intel Fellowship for graphics
  2. Sequans Silicon to Power New WiMAX CPE & Devices
  3. Prof. Nayar’s Little Camera Is a Big Idea for Children Around the World
  4. Future Of 911 Being Worked On At Texas A&M
  5. Prof. Jebara Delivers Keynote Speech at the 21st ICTAI Conference

October 2009

  1. Prof. Shree Nayar receives Carnegie Mellon University’s 2009 Alumni Achievement Award
  2. Scan of Internet Uncovers Thousands of Vulnerable Embedded Devices
  3. Prof. Stolfo to Chair National Cyber Defense Financial Industry Workshop

September 2009

  1. Prof. Ross is Awarded NSF Grant for Research on Avoiding Contention on Multicore Machines

June 2009

  1. Cold Spring Harbor Lab eyes Sudoku in DNA research
  2. Matchmaking Sessions Connect Entrepreneurs and Investors
  3. Prof. Keromytis to give keynote at International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS)
  4. David Elson recognized for outstanding teaching with Presidential Award

May 2009

  1. Digital Field Guides Eliminate the Guesswork
  2. New Weta unit will wed research, vfx
  3. Future iPhone app may identify trees from photos

April 2009

  1. Joseph Traub elected SIAM Fellow
  2. Ignorance not bliss when it comes to using the Internet, experts say
  3. Michele Merler wins Yahoo Key Scientific Challenges Award
  4. Rubenstein and Colleagues in Electrical Engineering win Vodafone Competition

March 2009

  1. Prof. Keromytis to speak at Critical Infrastructure Protection Conference
  2. Prof. Keromytis gives keynote address at 2nd European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec)

February 2009

  1. Mapping a New, Mobile Internet
  2. The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives

January 2009

  1. Feds plot massive Internet routing security upgrade

2008 98

December 2008

  1. Prof. Jebara introduces research at SEAS Annual Fund Sponsors Lecture
  2. Prof. Ramamoorthi wins 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
  3. Talking with Pactolus’ Ken Osowski
  4. Busted! A crisis in cryptography
  5. Lebenslang Telefon für 999 Dollar
  6. Asynchronous EDA tools available for free download
  7. Four innovative mapmakers re-inventing the very idea of maps
  8. Phone viruses
  9. Sahar Hasan and Ian Vo selected for 2009 Honorable Mention by CRA
  10. Adam Aviv honored with Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Award
  11. Claire Lackner and Catherine Lennon honored by Computing Research Association
  12. Three students recognized as Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduates
  13. A Partial Wireless Security Glossary
  14. Talking with Ken Osowski, Vice President, Marketing & Product Management, Pactolus

November 2008

  1. Highlights of a Cathedral’s Rehabilitation
  2. Augmented Reality: Hyperlinking to the Real World
  3. Making malware unprofitable: economics key to slowing hackers down
  4. The 50 Most Influential People in VoIP
  5. Don’t Blame TCP/IP
  6. The Code Warriors
  7. Whiz Kids From New Jersey and Massachusetts Honored for Computer Science and Biology Research in Nation’s Premier High School Science Competition
  8. Hair-pullers suffer in secret
  9. Ballot Roulette
  10. Voting Early: Sounds Good, But Its Not the Answer
  11. Why VoIP is the next target for spammers
  12. SPam over Internet Telephony threat grows

October 2008

  1. Computing, 2016: What Won’t Be Possible?
  2. Where is Robert Morris now?
  3. E-voting still vulnerable to fraud
  4. Microsoft Posts Touchless SDK on Codeplex
  5. Talk to me, e-mail: Messages that can be heard
  6. Web Phones Complicate 9-1-1 Technology Needs
  7. Information AND network protection: Finding the right mix
  8. Academic dishonesty and the Internet

September 2008

  1. Prof. Julia Hirschberg named Fellow of International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
  2. Does antivirus have a future?
  3. Ubisense Aids Researchers With New Location-Aware Applications
  4. New alliance to tackle defense networks
  5. Please Explain: Microchips
  6. ITU Plan to Stop DoS Attacks Could End Net Anonymity Too
  7. Who Needs Hackers?
  8. VMware Announces 300+ Academic Institutions Are Participating in Its Worldwide Academic Program

August 2008

  1. Point, Click … Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates
  2. How close is World War 3.0?
  3. Mimicking real users: Prof. Hirschberg funded to investigate entrainment in spoken dialogue systems
  4. Prof. Dana Pe’er opens new computational biology lab
  5. Charles Shen receives best student paper award
  6. Scientists Open Columbia’s New Computational Biology Lab
  7. Talented Interns Take Microsoft Researchy by Storm

July 2008

  1. IETF kümmert sich um den P2P-Datenverkehr
  2. IPhone Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over, Security Firm Says
  3. My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors
  4. Meet the Eye Cam – Processed reflections from the cornea can make hindsight a reality
  5. Five cities test high-tech 911 system

June 2008

  1. Prof. Angelos Keromytis appointed to CERTH scientific advisory board
  2. Hello, HAL
  3. The Sound and the Furious
  4. Predicting Where You’ll Go and What You’ll Like
  5. NSF funds Prof. Carloni to study photonic interconnection networks
  6. “Sputnik Innovator Awards 2005” an Moby und Henning Schulzrinne
  7. Designers pitch ‘wild and crazy’ ideas at DAC
  8. La cathedrale Saint-Etienne en 3D
  9. Can Anything Replace My Old Reliable Friend?

May 2008

  1. Demo Shows Trial 911 System for Nomadic VoIP
  2. Prof. Schulzrinne appointed to Internet2 advisory council
  3. Lou Dobbs Tonight
  4. The A-Z of Programming Languages: AWK
  5. Universities’ Technology Will Track Locations of 911 Callers Using Internet Phones
  6. Consortium Demos Its Solution For Emergency 911 Failures
  7. Prof. Ken Ross honored for distinguished teaching
  8. Stumbling Into a Spy Scandal
  9. Tracking Patterns in Database of Millions of Calls
  10. Henning Schulzrinne testimony on Resolution 712
  11. HAL 9000-Style Machines, Kubrick’s Fantasy, Outwit Traders
  12. Hackers learn to threaten computer hardware

April 2008

  1. Big Apple Weighs In On Net Neutrality
  2. Verio to shut off controversial Web site
  3. Internet2 file sharing (i2hub)
  4. Top 10 Reasons Why NSA Wiretapping is Bad For America
  5. Pictures Posing Questions

March 2008

  1. VoIP VIPs: How Some of VoIP’s Biggest Advocates Are Using the Technology They Tout
  2. The Giant Who Walks Amongst Us
  3. Internet panel to consider defenses against new attacks
  4. Measures sought against VoIP spam
  5. TR10: Augmented Reality
  6. E-mails did in Boeing Chief Erotic Officer

February 2008

  1. How are we able to shop online securely?
  2. Prof. Nayar elected to the National Academy of Engineering
  3. Computer Identity Theft
  4. Cable cutter nutters chase underwater conspiracies
  5. Hifn Advances Open Source Cryptography
  6. Domestic spying program could aid terrorists, experts say

January 2008

  1. Columbia Engineering Student Envisions a New Way for Businesses and Clients to Connect
  2. YOUCOP – YOUJEST
  3. Web site has a hometown approach
  4. The Future of Big Brother
  5. Who Invented the Firewall?
  6. What’s Next: Location, Location, Location

2007 7

November 2007

  1. Prof. Schulzrinne selected as IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer
  2. Prof. Misra receives IBM faculty award
  3. Profs. Yemini and Schulzrinne honored by Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications and Distributed Information Systems (CATT)

October 2007

  1. Prof. Dana Pe’er receives NIH Innovator Award

July 2007

  1. Prof. Ramamoorthi receives SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award

June 2007

  1. Narc network mgmt software comes to OS X Server

April 2007

  1. Hila Becker noted as finalist in 2007 Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Winners

2006 11

December 2006

  1. Prof. Carloni wins NSF CAREER award to study communication-based design methodology for distributed embedded systems
  2. Me Translate Pretty One Day

November 2006

  1. CHAMCO AUTO Shareholders Elect William Pollack as Chairman
  2. Steven Bellovin to Receive NIST/NSA Security Award

October 2006

  1. ABA Honors Paul Lee of Goodwin Procter with Spirit of Excellence Award
  2. Authors: Fan writer’s own fantasy comes true

September 2006

  1. The New Barbarians

May 2006

  1. Prof. Carloni awarded NSF grant to study communication networks for multi-core systems-on-chip
  2. Prof. Ross awarded grant to study database systems software on modern processors
  3. PhD alumni Regina Barzilay wins Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship

April 2006

  1. Columbia’s Computer Graphics dominates SIGGRAPH conference

2005 18

December 2005

  1. Shaya Potter and Prof. Nieh win Best Paper award at LISA 2005

November 2005

  1. Prof. Schulzrinne named IEEE Fellow

October 2005

  1. Ph.D. Student Matei Ciocarlie Wins $5,000 in 3D Vision Contest
  2. Columbia Robotics Lab receives Grant to Develop Insertable Cameras for Minimally Invasive Surgery
  3. Department recruiting in computational biology and software systems
  4. Columbia, or Things You Can’t Plan For
  5. NIH funds National Center for Multi-Scale Study of Cellular Networks at Columbia University

September 2005

  1. Prof. Mishra and Rubenstein elected to IFIP working group
  2. Prof. Schulzrinne to participate in NSF wireless network project
  3. Prof. Hirschberg elected president of International Speech Communication Association
  4. Regina Barzilay (PhD 02) recognized as top young technology inventor
  5. Prof. Traub named chair of Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB)

July 2005

  1. Henning Schulzrinne of Columbia University

May 2005

  1. The Kid’s Got It

March 2005

  1. Yoav Freund wins ACM Paris Kanellakis award

February 2005

  1. California researchers collaborate with Perlegen Sciences on map of human genetic variation across populations
  2. Augmented Reality: Another (Virtual) Brick in the Wall

January 2005

  1. Columbia Robotics Laboratory Wins Phase I of 3D Vision Contest

2004 10

November 2004

  1. Sender Authentication Hits Roadblocks
  2. (Not So) Simple Simon

August 2004

  1. Anruf aus dem Internet

July 2004

  1. Fleeting Experience, Mirrored in Your Eyes

April 2004

  1. “The Porous Internet and How To Defend It”

March 2004

  1. Spam-busters
  2. Bogdan Caprita selected as Finalist for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award

January 2004

  1. Henning Schulzrinne to participate in 4-year NSF grant to construct next-generation wireless testbed at Rutgers University
  2. New CS web site premieres
  3. Prof. Jason Nieh wins Xigma Xi Young Investigator Award for 2004

2003 2

December 2003

  1. Henning Schulzrinne receives the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology from NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg

September 2003

  1. In Memoriam: Andrew P. Kosoresow

2000 1

December 2000

  1. Heming Cui, CS PhD’14 (advisor: Junfeng Yang), receives Croucher Innovation Award

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