The Taub Faculty of Computer Science News and Announcements

The recruitment day by Rafael will take place on Monday, December 31, 2007, 10:00-14:00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building.

On December 23rd, 2007, Technion’s Computer Science Faculty held its second Alumni Reunion, dedicated to alumni who graduated during 1990-1995. 300 alumni attended the meeting in the Taub building, where they heard updates from the Technion Vice President and the CS Dean. They also heard a technological presentation from PhD candidate Mark Silberstein on the Superlink Project and a fascinating talk on Israel’s next startup industry by entrepreneur Shai Agassi, himself a CS faculty alumnus. ...

The recruitment day by Elbit will take place on Wednesday, December 26, 2007, 11:00-14:00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building.

The computer science department congratulates the winners of the Faculty Excellence Fellowship: Gadi Aleksandrowicz Sivan Bercovici Omer Barkol Ilan Gronau Ofir Weber Keren Censor Sharon (Buchbinder) Shoham and the winners of the Science Ministry Fellowship: Michal Holtzman Gazit Gala Yadgar Tamer Salman

The recruitment day by IBM will take place on Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 10:00-16:00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building.

The recruitment day by Zoran will take place on Wednesday, Novemeber 28, 2007, 11:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building.

Dr. Yaron Kanza has joined the CS department. His main area of research is database theory. Dr. Kanza received his PhD in 2004 from the Hebrew University. After his studies he did a Postdoc at the University of Toronto.

On Tuesday, 13/11/07, at 16:00, the R&D forum of TheMarker, one of the leading business magazines in Israel, will host Prof. Oded Shmueli for answering questions submitted by the forum members. For details look here .

The Computer Science Department will hold an open meeting for graduate studies on Wednesday, November 14, 2007. Please see more details are in: CS Grads Open Meeting 2007.

The attached document contains information about courses that are taught by adjuncts and are therefore not affected by the strike.

הצגת קורסים מתקדמים לסמסטר חורף תשס"ח בפקולטה למדעי המחשב יום א' , 21.10.07, בשעה 15.30, בטאוב 9 בתוכנית: פרופ' גרשון אלבר, בשעה 15:30 ירצה על קורס מס' 236716, מודלים גיאומטריים במערכות פרופ' רוני קימל , בשעה 15:40 ירצה על קורס מס' 236602, גיאומטריה נומרית של תמונות פרופ' אברם סידי, בשעה 15:50 ירצה על קורס מס' 236339, החשת התכנסות של תהליכים איטרטיבים דר' אלי בן-ששון, בשעה 16:00 ירצה על קורס מס' 236603, הוכחות הוליגרפיות ומרצים עצלים ...

On September 25th, 2007, the IEEE ISRAEL LIFE MEMBER GROUP and the compote science department organized an event to honor professor Abraham Lempel, IEEE Life Fellow, for being awarded the 2007 IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL “For pioneering work in data compression especially the Lempel-Ziv Algorithm”. After the greetings, Prof. Lempel gave a talk about the history of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm.

KeeLoq is a cipher used in several car anti-theft mechanisms distributed by Microchip Technology Inc. It may protect your car if you own a Chrysler, Daewoo, Fiat, General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Volvo, Volkswagen, or Jaguar. The cipher is included in the remote control device that opens and locks your car and that activates the anti-theft mechanism. Each device has a unique key that takes 18 billion billion values. With 100 computers, it would take several ...

Certificate and prizes to the winners of the Computer Science Department undergraduate project contest were given in a short ceremony, attended by the winners, their instructors, the prize committe and the CS dean. Most of the meeting was dedicated to a discussion on the role of the projects as part of the undergraduate studies. The winners are: Raja Giryes and Daniel Vainsencher - GMDS based 3D face recognition Uri Ferri and Yinon Cohen - Software ...

The computer science department congratulates Saher Esmeir -- Technion Excellent Teacher for Winter Semester 2006-07 and Prof. Irad Yavneh and Assoc./Prof. Reuven Bar-Yehuda -- Excellent CS Teachers in Winter Semester 2006-07

The recruitment day by Zoran will take place on Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 11:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. A technical lecture on: "Process Selection in Deep Sub-Micron Technologies" will take place at 13:00 in Auditorium 2.

The recruitment day by Intel will take place on Wednesday, July 18, 2007, 10:30-16:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building.

The recruitment day by Qualcomm will take place on Monday, July 23, 2007, 12:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building.

The recruitment day by Sun Microsystems will take place on Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 12:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building.

The Computer Science Department would like to announce and congratulate the winners of the CS Research Day. The following posters were awarded first place, and will receive a prize of NIS 2,000 each: 10 - Dan Raviv - On Symmetries of Non-rigid Shapes 16 - Benny Appelbaum - Cryptography in Constant Parallel Time 25 - Saher Esmeir - Anytime Learning of Cost-sensitive Trees The following posters were awarded second place, and will receive a prize ...

On Thursday, June 21st, 2007, hundreds of students attended the Technion graduation ceremony. After the general ceremony, the Computer Science department invited its new graduates to its own ceremony, where the Dean, Prof. Oded Shmueli, congratulated the new graduates.

The computer science department would like to congratulate the winners of the Excellent TA awards for winter semester 2006/07: Omer Barkol, Yaniv Carmeli, Guy Flysher, Anya Levin, Li-Tal Mashiach, Rotem Oshman, Dan Raviv, Gabriel Scalosub and Ido Tal. Gabriel Scalosub won the prize for the 2nd time, and Omer Barkol and Yaniv Carmeli won the prize for the 4th time!

The Computer Science Department would like to congratulate the winners of the Project Contest 2007: Raja Giryes - GMDS based 3D face recognition Daniel Vainsencher - GMDS based 3D face recognition Uri Ferri - Software Frame Simulator Yinon Cohen - Software Frame Simulator Inon Peled - Fast algorithm using local queries for reconstructing phylogenetic trees

Hundreds of visitors from the Technion and from the industry came on June 19th, 2007, to learn about the research being conducted in the Computer Science Department. 29 Ph.D. and M.Sc. students presented their ongoing thesis research on posters. The students presented their posters, explained their research to the visitors, and participated in lively discussions. The event was organized and supported by the Industrial Affiliation Program, who used this opportunity to expose the department research ...

The Cisco recruitment day will take place on Wednesay, June 13, 2007, 12:30-15:00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building,.

On Tuesday, 19/6/2007, 16:00-19:00, the computer science department will hold its semi-anual research day in the lobby of the Taub building. During the event, our graduate students will present their research in posters, and will discuss it with the audience. In addition to faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, the event will host senior managers from the hi-tech industry, including from the companies Amdocs, CISCO, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, SAP and many others. The event ...

On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 a ceremony marking the establishment of the Hewlett Packard Chair in Computer Engineering was held in the Faculty. Prof. Moshe Sidi, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, served as Master of Ceremonies. Prof. Yitzhak Apeloig, President of the Technion, Mr. Shane Robison, HP Executive Vice President of Strategy and Technology. Prof. Abraham Lempel, HP Senior Fellow and Lab Director for HP Labs Israel, Prof. Oded Shmueli, CS Dean and Prof. ...

The Computer Science department held a memorial event for Prof. Shimon Even on the 31st of May, 2007. The event included tributes by Prof. Alon Itai, and by Dr. Guy Even. Prof. Adi Shamir gave a talk titled "Cryptography: A Personal Perspective". The Shimon Even's prize for Ph.D. student was given to Arie Matsliah , who gave a talk about his work. Shimon Even was born in Israel on June 15th, 1935. He died ...

The recruitment day will take place on Monday, May 28, 2007, 12:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building.

The Computer Science Department is proud to announce the winners of of the excellence fellowships for this semester: Doctor: Niv Buchbinder Saher Esmeir Iddo Hanniel Gabriel Kliot Oleg Rokhlenko Magister Amir Nahir Leonid Raskin Royi Ronen

The recruitment day will take place on Sunday, May 13, 2007, 16:30-19:00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building,. A technical lecture will take place at 16:30 in Auditorium 2.

The recruitment day will take place on Monday, May 21, 2007, 12:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building.

The Faculty of Computer Science congratulates Prof. Irad Yavneh on winning the Muriel and David Jacknow Award and Dr. Michael Elad on winning the Salomon Simon Mani Award for Ecellence in Teaching

Computer Science Department is proud to announce the winners of the Intel Prize and Jacobs-Qualcomm Scholarship: Intel: Eshcar Hilel Anya Levin Jacobs Qualcom: Omer Barkol Rami Cohen[Full version]