Month: October 2014

Bionformatics Researchers Develop Personalized Cancer Vaccines

Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Associate Professor Ion Mandoiu is a co-principal investigator with Dr. Pramod Srivastava, director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at UConn Health, on a study leading to the development of a new approach to treating cancer by harnessing the power of the patient’s own immune system. The […]

Colloquium with B. Gracy – VP of Pitney Bowes

  CSE Colloquium with Bernie Gracy-VP of Pitney Bowes  Join us on Thursday, November 6th from 4-5pm in ITE 336 for a seminar with Bernie Gracy, Pitney Bowes Vice President of Strategy and Digital Commerce Solutions. He will be visiting CSE from 3-6pm.  Bernie is a UCONN CSE alumnus. He will give a talk spanning […]

Satyan Devadoss: Origami Folding and Evolutionary Trees

Origami Folding and Evolutionary Trees Satyan Devadoss 11am Saturday, Nov 1, 2014  Laurel Hall 101 In the past 25 years, origami has seen a tremendous explosion, in the arts, the sciences, and in technology.  The mathematical theory of origami, in many ways, is at its infancy.  There is a simple relationship between origami folds and […]

UConn Hosts Computational Geometry Workshop

The 24th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry will be held at UConn on Oct 31 – Nov 1, 2014. CSE Faculty Don Sheehy and Tom Peters are on the program committee with Sheehy chairing the committee. The event will bring researcher in computational geometry and related fields from all over the world. Following the tradition […]

CSE Colloquium: Jon Bentley

Selecting Data for Experiments: Past, Present and Future Jon Bentley October 31, 2014 at 11am at the Dodd Research Center Auditorium (Storrs Campus)  This talk describes three different kinds of data that algorithm designers use to test their implementations.  Selecting input data for past problems typically involves scholarship to assemble existing data and ingenuity to […]

Cybersecurity, Education & Diversity Challenge Week

  CYBERSEED EVENT EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS! – Post event article here. October 20-21, 2014 The Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation (CSI) is sponsoring the first-ever CyberSEED: Cybersecurity, Education & Diversity Challenge Week. Keynote addresses and sessions from academic, government, and industry leaders Awareness presentations on cybercrime, malware, and evolving threats Networking and recruiting opportunities […]

Special ECE/CSE Seminar: Subbarao Kambhampati

Challenges of Human-in-the-Loop Planning & Decision Support  Subbarao Kambhampati Arizona State University October 21, 11am, ITEB 336   Abstract: Endowing  an automated agent with  the ability to “plan” — i.e., convert its high-level goals into an executable course of action — has been a long-standing quest in Artificial Intelligence.  For much of the history of […]