Prof. Uli Kremer talks about his work
in programming languages making smart phones and undersea
gliders easier to use. (From Rutgers University Faculty
Research Spotlight.) - August 21, 2010
The Rutgers Computer Science Department has
announced that a faculty search is underway, focusing on
theoretical and applied cryptography. More details are
available at www.cs.rutgers.edu/employment. Applications should be received
by November 15, 2010, for full consideration. - November 15, 2010
Prof. Raychaudhuri of Winlab and the CS
graduate faculty is leading a research team that just received a
$7.5M grant from the NSF. Their project is called
"MobilityFirst" and it reimagines the Internet to optimize
it for primarily communication between mobile devices.
Among the team members are Prof. Marco Gruteser (Winlan/ECE
and CS graduate faculty), Prof. Wade Trappe (Winlab/ECE and
CS graduate faculty), and Prof. Rich Martin (CS). - August 30, 2010
Prof. Ricardo Bianchini, Prof. Thu Nguyen, and
Kien Le of Rutgers CS received the best paper award at the
1st International Green Computing Conference last week along with some
collaborators from Princeton. Their paper,
"Capping the Brown Energy Consumption of Internet Services
at Low Cost", provides an optimization approach that
allows groups of data centers to reduce their dependence on
"brown" (carbon-generated) energy, keeping costs low while
respecting service-level agreements. - August 22, 2010
Covering a Las Vegas conference on hacking, KYW
Newsradio in Philadelphia called Rutgers for a little
perspective. Prof. Michael Littman provided some context
and stressed the importance of protecting yourself and your
company from Social Engineering. - August 3, 2010
Rutgers Center for Information Assurance is
co-hosting a conference---Secure Knowledge Management
Workshop (SKM 2010)---that will be held at Rutgers
this October. Prof. Thu Nguyen is one of the organizers and
the program committee includes Profs. Marco Gruteser, Wade
Trappe, and Yanyong Zhang from WINLAB and Rutgers CS
graduate faculty. - August 1, 2010