Computer Science

Innovative Web App Puts Students on the Fast Track to Graduation

May 7, 2013

Unique Senior Design sequence impacts society through technology, marking the apex of Stevens educational excellence Study Plan Organizer Team with Dr. Klappholz A senior design team at Stevens Institute of Technology has developed an easy to use, stress-free web app that empowers university students to make the most of their educational opportunities by streamlining and automating much of the process whereby they plan a multi-year schedule of courses to take in order to graduate on time. College students around the world must meet detailed degree requirements to get their desired degree. They and their advisors typically develop a “study plan” that [Read more...]

Jingrui He Joins Computer Science Department

January 14, 2013

Jingrui He has joined the Computer Science Department as an Assistant Professor. She received her PhD from Machine Learning Department in Carnegie Mellon University in 2010, and was a Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center between 2010 and 2012. Her broad research interest is to understand and analyze ‘big data’ using statistical machine learning and data mining techniques. In particular, she proposed rare category analysis to address the rarity challenge (with a book published by Springer), and heterogeneous machine learning to address the heterogeneity challenge (with a book to be published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers). Her work has been applied to a variety of applications including [Read more...]

Georgios Portokalidis joins Computer Science Department

January 14, 2013

Georgios Portokalidis has joined the Computer Science Department as an Assistant Professor. He obtained his doctorate degree from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2010, and worked a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University between 2010 and 2012. His research interests are mainly around the area of systems security, but extend to network monitoring, operating systems, and virtualization technologies. His work focuses on improving the security of existing software on commodity systems by employing traps (like honeypots) and using virtualization to retrofit software with protection mechanisms. More recently, he has been involved with improving software reliability and availability, mobile device security, and privacy issues in the Cloud. [Read more...]

Samantha Kleinberg's book Causality, Probability, and Time published by Cambridge University Press

November 16, 2012

Computer Science professor Samantha Kleinberg's first book Causality, Probability, and Time has just been published by Cambridge University Press. Causality is a key part of many fields and facets of life, from finding the relationship between diet and disease to discovering the reason for a particular stock market crash. Despite centuries of work in philosophy and decades of computational research, automated inference and explanation remain an open problem. In particular, the timing and complexity of relationships have been largely ignored even though this information is critically important for prediction, explanation, and intervention. However, given the growing availability of large observational datasets, [Read more...]

Stevens Researcher Wins NSF Grant to Ensure the Security of Growing Mobile App Market

October 4, 2012

Mobile applications are quickly becoming the new Web, assuming many of the tasks that a few short years ago could only be carried out on a desktop or laptop computer. They give people the ability to view a restaurant menu, plan a trip, play a game and even conduct banking transactions from their mobile phones and tablets. According to a comScore survey of US mobile subscribers, people now use apps more than Web browsers on their mobile devices. Unfortunately, apps are the most common way through which smartphones and the data stored on them are compromised. As people increasingly download these [Read more...]

NSF Funds Unique Motion Capture Robotics Lab

September 27, 2012

Motion capture technology has revolutionized filmmaking and video games, animating fantastic characters with realistic movements. In 2010, the Microsoft Kinect, a peripheral for the Xbox 360, began capturing the movements of players, allowing them to control video game characters with their bodies. The 2009 movie Avatar used large-volume motion capture and advanced methods of capturing facial expressions to allow director James Cameron to create one of the most simultaneously imaginative and immersive fantasy worlds ever filmed. These motion capture systems sample the movements of a person many times per second, and then send the data to a computer for processing [Read more...]

Samantha Kleinberg joins CS Department

August 27, 2012

Samantha Kleinberg has joined the Computer Science Department as an Assistant Professor. She received her PhD in Computer Science from New York University in 2010 and was a Computing Innovation Fellow at Columbia University in the Department of Biomedical informatics from 2010-2012. Her research centers on developing methods for analyzing large-scale, complex, time-series data. In particular, her work develops methods for finding causes and automatically generating explanations for events, which facilitate decision-making using massive datasets. She is particularly interested in applications to biomedical datasets from electronic health records and intensive care units. Her book Causality, Probability, and Time will be [Read more...]

Sven Dietrich elected Vice Chair of the Technical Activities Committee of the IEEE

August 13, 2012

Dr. Sven Dietrich, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology, has been elected Vice Chair for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Activities Committee. As Internet technology continues to dominate business and culture, Dr. Dietrich is at the front lines of protecting computers and networks from cyberattacks such as botnets and denial of service attacks. Dr. Sven Dietrich Cybersecurity is becoming more critical to our future, in the office and at home. The White House declared cybersecurity a matter of national public safety and a priority for the current administration in its Cyberspace Policy Review in 2009. “With cybercrime [Read more...]

A Cybersecurity Paradigm Shift: Post-Quantum Cryptography

June 27, 2012

PhD Candidates working with Dr. Nicolosi Cybersecurity has transformed into an everyday reality for all users of Internet-connected devices. Joining wireless networks, shopping or paying bills online, logging into password-protected Web accounts, and toting always-connected mobile devices presents a constant security challenge. Cisco estimates that 1 trillion unique devices will be connected to the Internet by the year 2013, amplifying issues of information security and reliability. Cisco estimates that 1 trillion unique devices will be connected to the Internet by the year 2013, amplifying issues of information security and reliability. Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology are planning for an even bigger challenge [Read more...]

Mozilla Ignite: Designing the Internet of the Future

June 20, 2012

Mozilla and the National Science Foundation are calling for innovative applications that will define the unlimited internet of the future. The open innovation challenge, which has been dubbed Ignite, will disburse a total of $500,000 over the course of the program to fund and support the best next-generation apps. The challenge begins with a “Brainstorming Round” where anyone can submit and discuss ideas until August 23rd, 2012. The most promising ideas will receive funding and support to become a reality, with $15,000 to be awarded in the first round. Later rounds will focus specifically on application design and development, and all are welcome to participate. Mozilla Ignite [Read more...]