ICS junior and avid motorcycle rider, Ty Uehara, won first prize ($2000) at the Shidler College of Business’ Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE) Breakthrough Innovation Challenge. Inspired by a friend’s near-fatal accident, Ty designed a motorcycle helmet that detects an accident, automatically calls 911, sends location information, and allows the rider to speak to […]
Congratulations to Professor Nodari Sitchinava on a Best Paper award from the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA). Peyman Afshani, Rolf Fagerberg, David Hammer, Riko Jacob, Irina Kostitsyna, Ulrich Meyer, Manuel Penschuck and Nodari Sitchinava. “Fragile Complexity of Comparison-Based Algorithms”, 27th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), pages 2:1-2:19, 2019.
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Peter Sadowski on winning the 2019 Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) Prominent Paper Award! The award “recognizes outstanding papers published not more than seven years ago in AIJ that are exceptional in their significance and impact.” The award will be presented at the 2019 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence meeting in Macau […]
ICS Professor Philip Johnson has received the 2019 Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching. This award is a tribute to faculty members who exhibit an extraordinary level of subject level mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness, and creativity and personal values that benefit students. Johnson has initiated a higher performance learning environment he calls […]
The Library and Information Science Program is excited to announce the appointment of Cheri Ebisu as Program Coordinator. Cheri was previously a reference assistant at Hamilton Library. Welcome, Cheri!
The ICS Department is excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Mahdi Belcaid as a new Assistant Professor starting in January, 2019. Dr. Belcaid was previously Associate Director, Bioinformatics Core Assistant Researcher, at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. He is now Executive Director of the new Hawaii Data Science […]
The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) annual meeting will be in Hawaii in 2020! As one of ACM’s largest conferences, CHI 2020 is expected to bring 3000 attendees to the Aloha State. The kickoff meeting was held at Hilton Hawaiian Village and included a visit to the Hawaii […]
Dr. Susanne Still organized and hosted a symposium on the Physics of Adaptive Computation, sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium. International attendees spoke on topics including: Thermodynamic constraints of of communication and interaction in coupled system Thermodynamic cost of information processing How to make a computer out of junk DNA Quantum agents who reason in […]
Congratulations to our newest Assistant Professor, Mahdi Belcaid, for his first-author publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences!
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