Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy to receive HP Innovation Award

Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy, EECS Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was among Professors selected from around the world to receive an award as part of the second annual HP Labs Innovation Research Program.

The Program is designed to create opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes for conducting breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Given the significant contributions achieved in last year's program, which includes 61 published papers and 13 invention disclosures, HP extended a second year of funding to 31 professors in 2009.

Awardees will work with HP Labs' researchers on fundamental research areas like intelligent infrastructure, immersive interaction and cloud computing, which includes social computing.

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National cyber security: Cornell's Fred Schneider will testify before Congress

Cornell University Computer Science Professor Fred Schneider, a noted expert on cyber security, will testify at the Hearing on Cyber Security Research and Development on Wednesday, June 10, organized by the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives.


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