News

• Jure Leskovec in the news!
  30 Aug, 2008
  SCS PhD candidate Jure Leskovec, and his MSR colleagues, studied the largest social network in published literature, the Microsoft Instant Messenger network, and found 6.6 degrees of separation, among other fascinating results. The work is mentioned in major news venues, including Washington Post, MSNBC, BBC news, Guardian, Spiegel.
  The work showed that, even in a huge network of millions of people, we still have the ``six degrees of separation' phenomenon, that Milgram observed decades ago, in a social network of about 100 people.
  
  Congratulations, Jure!
• Jimeng Sun wins runner-up for SIGKDD best dissertation award
  1 Jul, 2008
  Dr. Jimeng Sun (Ph.D. CMU-CSD 2007) attracted the runner-up award for the best SIGKDD dissertation. Jimeng's dissertation is on tensor and stream mining, proposing novel and efficient methods to handle streams of numerical data, as well as streams of graphs.
  He applied his methods on chlorine monitoring in the drinking water (joint project with Prof. Jeanne VanBriesen of CIT/CMU), on monitoring the self-star data center of PDL/CMU (with Prof. Greg Ganger and his group), and also on monitoring computer traffic (with Prof. Hui Zhang, SCS/CMU)
  Jimeng will receive a plaque and will be recognized during the award ceremonies at the upcoming ACM SIGKDD Conference in August 24-27. Furthermore, he will present his work during the conference. The ACM SIGKDD conference is the most selective and prestigious data mining conference.
  Warmest congratulations, Jimeng!
• Polo Chau attracts publicity
  23 Jun, 2008
  Polo Chau attracts publicity in popular media. WJS-online, CNN-Money, Pittsburgh Tribute-Review and others, mention Polo and the prestigious fellowship he received from Symantec. Congratulations, Polo!
• Hanghang Tong, Spiros Papadimitriou, Christos Faloutsos and colleagues win the SDM08 Best Paper Award
  1 May, 2008
  Hanghang Tong (CMU), Spiros Papadimitriou (CMU alumni), Christos Faloutsos (CMU) and colleagues win BEST PAPER AWARD at the SIAM Data Mining conference, 2008. The paper was authored by Hanghang Tong (CMU), Spiros Papadimitriou (IBM and CMU Alumni), Philip Yu (IBM) and Christos Faloutsos (CMU) with title Proximity Tracking on Time-Evolving Bipartite Graphs. SIAM-DM is one of the top data mining conferences. The work focuses on social networks, and specifically on measuring the proximity of nodes, as the networks change over time. With careful design, the proposed methods achieve up to 2 orders of magnitude faster computation over straightforward competitors. Congratulations, Hanghang, Spiros and Christos!
• Mary McGlohon wins a Yahoo Key Technical Challenge grant!
  10 Feb, 2008
  The Key Technical Challenges Program is a new Yahoo! program that provides a limited number of exceptional PhD students with $5,000 each of unrestricted funds for the support of their research activities". The award also includes an exclusive invitation to a Yahoo! organized workshop that will focus on novel disciplines and important technical challenges for the Internet research community.
• Polo Chau wins Symantec Research Labs Fellowship
  6 Feb, 2008
  Polo Chau wins a Symantec Research Labs Fellowship, for 2008-2009. The fellowship covers tuition, stipend, a laptop preloaded with Symantec software, and an invitation to spend a summer internship at the Symantec Research Labs. This dovetails perfectly with the fraud detection work that Polo did last year and attracted media attention. Congratulations, Polo! For more info on the fellowship: http://www.symantec.com/about/careers/working/graduatefellowshippgms.jsp
• Evan is a CRA Outstanding Undergraduate award finalist
  29 Nov, 2007
  Evan Hoke is a finalist for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate award (2008). Evan has worked on the InteMon and SPIRIT projects. The CRA award is extremely competitive and prestigious, with fierce competition from the top undergraduates of all the schools in the nation. Congratulations, Evan!