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EECS 183 is designed to teach undeclared students and non-CS majors the fundamentals of algorithmic thinking and programming.

A 17-year-old Ypsilanti high school student who is visually impaired worked with a software engineering class to develop technology that could make life easier for the blind.

Prof. Chen succeeds Prof. Marios Papaefthymiou, who is departing Michigan to serve as Dean of the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.

Prof. Austin is a recognized leader in the area of computer architecture research.

His inventive approaches have led to new technologies that reduce the energy consumption of microprocessors while maintaining acceptable performance.

Prof. Flinn has been an active researcher in the field of mobile computing for a number of years.

Mywater-Flint is an app built to help with the Flint water crises funded by Google and developed by Michigan Engineers.

Prof. Bertacco is a highly noted researcher in the area of computer architecture and is Director of the department’s Computer Engineering (CE) Lab.

Chang’s research interest is in complexity theory of distributed computing.

Michigan Engineering professor Kevin Fu spoke in front of congress on Nov. 16, 2016.

Dr. Howes’ doctoral research focused on Internet directory services, and he co-invented LDAP, the Internet directory protocol, while a graduate student at U-M.

Benovich Gilby, an entrepreneur with 10 successful high-tech startups to her credit, was nominated by students and local entrepreneurs whom she has coached, mentored, advised and taught.

The Victors will be advancing to the ACM-ICPC World Finals in Rapid City, South Dakota, which will take place May 20 – 25, 2017.

Prof. Madhyastha’s recent research has focused on enabling latency-sensitive web services to optimize user experience.

Prof. Deng and his collaborators received the award for their work on ImageNet.

Professor Wellman brings expertise on algorithmic trading and other computational techniques that are transforming financial markets and the financial system.

She recently helped develop a modular load tester platform for data centers, which is designed to help measure and mitigate tail latency.

Finie, which can be referred to as the “Siri” of personal banking, is an artificial intelligence platform for banks that helps customers talk to their bank accounts in a natural and conversational way.

Centralizing available data in the intelligent systems community through a COmputer Vision Exchange for Data, Annotations and Tools, called COVE.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an algorithm that can analyze and measure the amount that one candidate linguistically matches their opponent and have found that matching your opponent in a debate leads to higher polling numbers.

This performance is an outcome coming from his interdisciplinary research work, Live Writing, which transforms asynchronous written communication into a real-time experience in the context of programming, writing and performing arts.

Robotic technologies for air, sea and roads, for factories, hospitals and homes will have tailored lab space in Michigan Engineering’s robotics laboratory.

This project aims to improve goal-directed dexterous robotic manipulation in cluttered and unstructured environments.

The scholarship will provide need-based support to undergraduate students pursuing a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

The event took place August 28th to September 2nd on North Campus, and included programming labs, CS lab tours, field trips to local tech companies, and social events to get the participants acclimated to U-M and computer science.

Four EECS students part of the Michigan Men’s Rowing team that won their 9th consecutive national championship

The USENIX Test of Time Awards recognizes papers presented at its respective conference from at least 10 years ago that have had a lasting impact on their fields.

Still, it’s not guaranteed, as seen in Amazon’s same-day delivery service. Algorithm designers may not even realize a problem has crept in.

Prof. Radev was elected a Fellow for “contributions to natural language processing and computational linguistics.”

A Q&A with the Michigan Engineering alumni who founded Twilio, a “unicorn” in the tech industry.

DROWN allows attackers to break encryption used to protect HTTPS websites and read or steal sensitive communications.

Clinc has built Lucida, its state-of- the-art, open-source intelligent assistant and machine learning platform that allows developers and the open-source community to easily create and deploy personalized voice and vision-based intelligent assistants.

Vulcan, the intelligent robotic wheelchair, aims to help the elderly and those with disabilities effortlessly move around their environment.

In order to bring HTTPS to everyone, Prof. Halderman joined forces in 2012 with colleagues at Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to found Let’s Encrypt, a non-profit certificate authority with the mission of making the switch to HTTPS vastly easier.

The IOL has been held annually since 2003, and each year teams from around the world compete to solve the world’s toughest puzzles in language and linguistics.

The Big Data Summer Bootcamp is a six-week interdisciplinary training and research program at the University of Michigan.

Cogitai was formed with the aim of developing AI technology that empowers machines to learn from interaction with the real world.

The University hosted the 2016 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, which allowed attendees to hear about the latest in robotics through talks, presentations, workshops, and tutorials.

The first engineering student to graduate with a degree in data science was Ryan Schrader.

The SIGMOD Test of Time Award recognizes the best paper from the SIGMOD proceedings 10 years prior.

The annual SIGKDD doctoral dissertation award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.

One of the paper describes and demonstrates a malicious hardware backdoor. The other demonstrated security failings in a commercial smart home platform.

High tail latency has been identified as one of the key challenges facing modern data center design.

A frequent call market may help prevent ‘flash crashes.’

Klotski seeks to improve users’ perceptions of how quickly a page loads by maximizing the amount of important content on the page that is fetched and displayed within the user’s attention span.

Michael Wellman, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, has been appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the College of Engineering, effective July 1, 2016.

This innovative software guides users through the process of collecting a set of images of a calibration target.

Prof. Emily Mower Provost is collaborating to develop new technologies that provide individuals with insight into how the disease changes over time.

MiBytes was created to provide high school students with a hands-on introduction to computer science.

Prof. Chowdhury bridges the gap between application-level performance and network-level optimizations through the coflow abstraction.

The two papers from Michigan introduced the Sirius personal digital assistant and the MBus bus for modular microcomputing systems.

Hsin-Hao’s thesis provides efficient algorithms for fundamental graph problems that arise in networks.

This device could not only be useful in the ICU or field hospital setting, but also during long military patient transport, and especially in situations in which limited personnel and resources are available.

New security ramifications exist when laptops and smartphones configured for enterprise systems are used outside the enterprise in the realm of the wider web.

Not all online traffic is the same; should we treat it the same anyway?

Prof. Markov is a frequent contributor to Quora, where his contributions cover subjects ranging from computer science to geopolitical affairs.

Text Mining brings together a broad range of contemporary qualitative and quantitative methods to provide strategic and practical guidance on analyzing large text collections.

New software developed by CSE engineers and inspired, in part, by a Batman movie, could give any smartphone the capacity to sense force or pressure on its screen or body.

The award is to support his research in reinforcement learning.

TechTwilight provides companies and student groups with the opportunity to celebrate and share their innovations in a festive environment of discovery.

Prof. Wellman’s research applies principles of computation and economics to engineer rational decision-making strategies and analyze complex systems of interacting agents.

EECS 183 is the introductory CS class for LSA students, and it has been designed to broaden participation in the discipline.

CSE students and faculty will collaborate as a part of a larger team to help respond to the crisis.

New vulnerabilities form when hardware like electronic locks, thermostats, ovens, sprinklers, lights and motion sensors are networked and set up to be controlled remotely.

Through his courses, students are able to learn the fundamentals of programming and software systems, while also seeing the social impact of computer science.

The convention hosted more than 100 major companies, and offered students career workshops on interviewing, networking, and general industry know-how.

The all-day event consisted of hands-on activities, a panel discussion, and lab tours to show students the different aspects of CS.

Mann is the research administrator for the AI and IS Labs.

Her research interests include text mining, natural language processing, and bioinformatics.

Darden teaches both large sections of EECS 281 and a more specialized EECS 398 course. He also serves as a faculty advisor for CS students.

The paper explores how automated speech recognition and crowd-sourced human correction and generation of transcripts can be traded off to improve accuracy and latency.

Fitness trackers are being made available to encourage movement and awareness.

GridWatch can detect power outages by monitoring changes to its own power state, locally verifying these outages using a variety of sensors that reduce the likelihood of false power outage reports, and corroborating actual reports with other phones through data aggregation in the cloud.

Vidal is currently the GSI for EECS 381: Object Oriented and Advanced Programming.

Faculty members Edwin Olson and Ryan Eustice are joining TRI as area leads.

Genevieve will continue her research in the MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute joint program, pursuing a PhD in computer science with a focus in oceanography.

Ryan works with Prof. Edwin Olson in the APRIL Lab, where his research is in the area of multi-agent search algorithms for both known and unexplored environments.

Students highlighted a number of projects from CSE in the U-M booth at the show.

CS is the largest undergraduate program in engineering and the second largest major at Michigan.

Healthcare security company Virta Laboratories, Inc. has received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

Yu-Wei is a third year PhD student whose research focuses on computer vision and machine learning.

Prof. Wiens will continue to use machine learning techniques to study the disease.

Students, parents, and faculty gathered to celebrate the achievements of EECS students who earned a special award for academic achievement, research, service, or entrepreneurial activities.

The team used machine learning to extract information from NBA sports data for automatically recognizing common defense strategies to ball screens.

His research addresses the problem of diminishing reliability in future computer systems.

He has built software systems for information extraction, database integration, and feature engineering and applied these to problems in the social sciences.

His work impacts computer vision, audio recognition, robotics, text modeling, and healthcare.

Prof. H.V. Jagadish sheds light on current issues regarding data privacy and technology.

The M3 is a fully autonomous computing system that acts as a smart sensing system.

The group will hold a once-a-year hackathon for local high school students in addition to other events.

MHacks: Refactor, v7 of the nationally-renowned U-M hackathon, drew many more women, underrepresented students and first-timers.

Prof. Valeria Bertacco, Technical Program Chair for the 2017 conference, chose Michigan as the meeting location.

The project aims to create a new software stack for analytics over geo-distributed datasets.

This semester the creators are focusing less on numbers and more on the experience.

The award recognizes unwavering commitment to the betterment of women, and clear record of success and significant achievement in research and scholarship, distinguished leadership, and mentoring women.

Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and healthcare.

Dr. David Chesney and others hosted a hackathon that focused on projects for the greater good.

Karl’s career goals are to obtain a Ph.D. in Mathematics, to conduct research in number theory and algebraic geometry, and to teach at the university level.

Prof. Mozafari is passionate about building large-scale data-intensive systems that are more scalable, more robust, and more predictable.

The EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards are presented annually to faculty members for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service.

Programs will be developed under the grant to foster inclusiveness and to provide support.

The award will enable Prof. Mars to understand how future cloud and mobile systems should be designed to support increasing demand from users of intelligent assistants.

Let’s Encrypt allows anyone to request a free website security certificate without needing an invitation.

The recipients are Prof. Valeria Bertacco and Dr. Mary Lou Dorf.

Dr. Peter Lee (BS MS PhD CCS ’82, ’82, ’87) and Susan Lee have made a $25,000 discretionary gift

The project aims to develop a cognitive system that functions as an academic advisor for undergraduate computer science and engineering majors at the university.

The professorship is awarded to junior faculty members in recognition of outstanding contributions to teaching and research.

He is recognized for raising awareness regarding medical device cybersecurity issues by speaking out about critical concerns.

The software enables users to ask questions about the hosts and networks that compose the Internet and get an immediate reply.

The School helps to prepare undergraduate students in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for successful careers in computer science research.

The solution Ford and U-M are working on involves high-resolution 3D maps. U-M researchers have developed these maps and Ford’s test vehicles are equipped with them.

The students developed the games over the course of a six-week time period using a variety of game engines.