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Radio interview on the opening of the solar-powered Parasol micro-datacenter. - May 2, 2012

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Farach-Colton Wins Teaching Award

The Computer Science Graduate Student Society (CSGSS) of the Rutgers CS department selected the winner for this year's top teacher. Monica Babes, CSGSS President, announced last week that the graduate students chose Prof. Martin Farach-Colton for the 2011-2012 CSGSS Award for Excellence in Teaching. - May 15, 2012
Department Award Winners

For the 2011-2012 CS department undergraduate awards, the undergraduate awards committee chose two students who have distinguished themselves among their peers. Paul Meskers, a graduating senior, received the Novielli award and Vaibhav Verma, a junior and officer of the undergradate CS student organization, the Magidson award. Each award comes with a $1000 check. - May 14, 2012
CS Students Receive End of Year Honors

Sameen Jalal, President of the USACS undergraduate CS organization, was recently inducted into Rutgers' most prestigious honor society, Cap and Skull. To quote their website, selection is based on "demonstrations of leadership, academic standing, and character." In addition, five CS majors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa: Mikey Chen, Jarek Sedlacek, Vaibhav Verma, Xinchao Shen, and Wenzong Zhao. - May 6, 2012
Parasol Opening

The first green computing testbed, Parasol, opened yesterday at Rutgers. The solar powered micro-datacenter will play a key role in departmental research efforts to make computing more efficient and environmental friendly. - May 1, 2012
hackRU 2012

Rutgers CS undergraduate organization, USACS, ran its second annual hackRU hackathon last week. Many impressive apps were built by the student participants. The top prizes went to: "Get Mad Hipster Points Yo", a collaborative smart-phone-based video game (Devon Peticolas and Abe Stanway), "Stereo Lasers", a custom-built laser light show generator (Kaitlin Poskaitis and Josh Matthews) and "FriendTrend", a tool that makes it easier to find relevant and exciting news on twitter (Bilal Quadri and Saad Malik). Prizes were also awarded in several other categories. - April 30, 2012
Marivate Wins Google UNCF Scholarship

Google and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) jointly administer a scholarship to support students working in tech-related fields. Rutgers CS graduate student Vukosi Marivate was named one of this year's winners. - April 29, 2012
Computational Artist Visits Department

Ira Greenberg, Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University (SMU), is the Director of the Center of Creative Computation. He will be telling the story of how he uses code to paint. - April 23, 2012
Rutgers Student on Winning HackNY Hackathon Team

RU CS student Kaushal Parikh teamed up with Princeton students Xin Yang Yak, Eugene Lee, and Alexander Zhao to create cLoudSpeaker, a system for music synchronization across multiple computers. The sytem was the winner of the Spring 2012 HackNY Hackathon. As a winning team, they will get to present their project to tech enthusiasts and investors at NY Tech Day on April 19th. - April 2, 2012
CS Non-Major Education

The department's efforts in educating non-majors about CS was recognized in a New York Times article this week. - March 31, 2012
On Prof. Kenneth Kaplan

Kenneth Kaplan, who served as CS department chair 1991-1997, passed away over the weekend. In addition to serving as department chair, Ken was also Associate Chair for many years and had a profound influence both on the educational offerings of the department and on the careers of many of the current Rutgers CS faculty and alumni. - March 28, 2012

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Qualifying Exam (Tam Vu): DMap: A Shared Hosting Scheme for Dynamic Identifier to Locator Mappings in the Global Internet - Thursday, May 17, 2012
Summer Session Begins - Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Department Colloquium Slot - Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Faculty Meeting slot - Thursday, May 31, 2012

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Qualifying Exam: DMap: A Shared Hosting Scheme for Dynamic Identifier to Locator Mappings in the Global Internet - Tam Vu, Rutgers University (05-17-2012 11:00 AM)

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Ensuring System Integrity Using Limited Local Memory - Yuki Kinebuchi, Shakeel Butt, Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode, Tatsuo Nakajima - December 9, 2011
Pervasive Computing for the 99% - Bernhard Firner, Robert S. Moore, Richard Howard, Richard P. Martin, Yanyong Zhang - November 23, 2011
Video based Activity Recognition in a Trauma Center - Ishani Chakraborty, Ahmed Elgammal - September 15, 2011

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