NYU Computer Science News

Russell Power is one of the 12 recipients of the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowships for 2012. Congratulations to Russell and to Jinyang Li, his advisor!

Prof. Alan Siegel, together with Profs. Stanley Ocken and Ethan Aken of CUNY spoke to the Pelham Math Committee about the need for a strong K-12 math curriculum and about the inadequacies of the current "Investigations" curriculum. Read More: Link

Two alumni of the Computer Science Department are featured in the article "NewYork tech: 12 people to watch in 2012" in the New York Daily News. Rebecca Zhou (CS minor) organized the "Raise Cache" event last November to raise funds for HackNY. Alex Iskold (MSCS) is the founder of GetGlue, a social network based on entertainment. Read More: Link

The Academy for Software Engineering, a new New York City public high school, will be opening this fall. Prof. Evan Korth will be Chair of the Advisory Board for the school. The school was inspired by Stuyvesant High School's successful program led by Computer science Teacher Mike Zamansky who is an alumnus of the Computer Science department (BA, MSc). Professors Adam Meyers and Deena Engel also serve on the Advisory Board.Read More: Link

MuseAmi, a music software engine created by a team including Yann LeCun, was presented at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Read More in an articel in the Philadelphia inquirer: Link

A story on CNN Money about the growing popularity of the CS major and the job opportunities it offers features interviews with Prof. Evan Korth and NYU CS major Tal Safran. Link.

Chris Harrison, who got his BA and MS from the NYU Computer Science department, and is now a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon, is on the Forbes magazine list of top 30 scientists under 30. Article in Forbes.

Evan Korth is featured in a Wall Street Journal article on the increasing popularity of Computer Science for undergraduate students. Link

Deena Engel's class "Literary Archives and Web Development" has been cited in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education as an exemplar of the kind of training in technical skills that current humanities graduate students should get. Read More.

The first International Hackathon for the Social Good in the Arab World was held October 28-30 at NYU Abu Dhabi. The event brought together 50 student participants, from colleges in the Middle East and the US, and more than 20 experts acting as speakers, mentors, and judges, for three-days of intensive programming. NYU-NY undergraduates Max Stoller and Tengchao Zhou, teaming with Monir Abu Hilal from PSUT (Jordan) won second prize for their application "OpenMena", a web-based resource designed to provide government data in an accessible format for computer programmers. Read More

The Human Proteome Folding Project, led by Richard Bonneau, has used the World Community Grid to solve problems of predicting protein function. The project has run on 1.5 million CPUs worldwide, totalling to date 500,000 CPU years. See a short video. Or read the paper.

RaiseCache, a night-long event with party and fashion show, was held on Nov. 17. It was organized as a fundraiser for hackNY by Rebecca Zhou, who graduated NYU in 2011 with a major in Economics and a minor in Computer Science. Read More. And see videos, including a message from Mayor Bloomberg.

The 4th HackNY hackathon, organized by Prof. Evan Korth of NYU and Chris Wiggins of Columbia, met October 1-2 at NYU, attracting more than 300 registrants from 40 schools in the US and Canada. Congratulations to NYU students David Coss and Michael Bartnett, who won first prize for their project MidiPHON! Read More.

Chris Bregler is working on using motion capture technology to identify potential security threats, such as people carrying hidden bombs, via patterns of movement. Story in Scientific American

The New York Post calls Prof. Nathan Hull's iPhone programming course "today's hottest course". Read More.