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Faculty Recognition
- VLDB 2007 Best Paper Awards
- Prof. Jim Whitehead selected as one of four Distinguished Paper Award winners
- UCSC professors receive Best Paper Award at the IFIP Networking 2007 Conference
- UCSC Awarded Sun's Center of Excellence plaque for OpenSPARC
- Computer scientist Phokion Kolaitis elected to Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- Phillip Berman appointed to Baskin Endowed Chair in Biomolecular Engineering
Research News
- UC Santa Cruz awarded $7.2 million grant for stem cell research center
- UCSC computer scientists develop solutions for long-term storage of digital data
- UC Santa Cruz engineering students win national robotics competition
- New program color-codes text in Wikipedia entries to indicate trustworthiness
- Silicon chip beams light through a liquid-core waveguide to detect one particle at a time
- UCSC engineer Claire Gu honored by International Society for Optical Engineering
Academic News
- Phillip Berman appointed to Baskin Endowed Chair in Biomolecular Engineering
- Microsoft gift boosts computer science program at UCSC
- New course teaches UCSC students about disability
- UCSC recognized for high percentage of engineering master's degrees awarded to women
- AIDS vaccine expert Phillip Berman to head UCSC Biomolecular Engineering Department
- UCSC creates new major in computer game design
ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) Best Newcomer Award
Friday, April 4, 2008
Computer Science Assistant Professor Alkis Polyzotis and his student, Karl Schnaitter have been recognized with the Best Newcomer Award given by the ACM PODS 2008 Conference for their paper "Evaluating Rank Joins with Optimal Cost". PODS is the premiere conference on the theoretical aspects of database systems, and the award is given to the best submission whose authors have not published in previous PODS conferences. For more information on the award, click here: http://www.sigmod.org/pods/awards.html