The Taub Faculty of Computer Science News and Announcements

Check Point Software Technologies will hold a special evet at CS on Wednesday December 28 2011. The event will include a lecture at 12:45 in Taub class no. 3 (Foor 1) by: Tomer Teller (Check Point Security Evangelist at Check Point) on: Cyber Warefare – ...

You are invited to apply to Intel Prizes - a unique program for excellence promotion in the academics. Undergraduate Excellent students are welcome to meet Intel representative who give you more details on the program on Monday, December 19, 10:00-11:00 in the lobby of CS ...

MELLANOX representatives will meet students on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 between 10:00-15:00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

The Technion Computer Science Alumni Reunion (Kenes Bogrim) 1996-1998 will be held on Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 19:00, at the CS Taub Building, Technion. The program will include alumni gathering, talks by Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie, CS Dean Prof. Eli Biham and  Dr. Yossi ...

Microsoft invites you to a "Campus Day" on Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 10:00-15:00 at the CS Taub Building Lobby. The event will include: - A Demo Fest on cloud computing, online advertising, interactive entertainment and data protection. - A lecture (between 12:45-13:45, Taub Auditorium 2) ...

SanDisk will hold an event on Wednesday, November 30 2011, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. A short presentation will be given at 12:30 in Taub class 3. Participants can win Disk on Keys and Sansa clips. You are also invited to select ...

RAFAEL representatives will meet students on Wednesday, November 23 2011, between 12:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. It is recommended that you bring along your resumes and grades record.

ELBIT representatives will meet students on Monday, November 21, 2011, between 11:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. It is recommended that you bring along your resumes and grades record.

Intel representatives will hold an event at the CS Taub Building on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 between 12:30-14:30. The event will include a demo on Computer Vision and Cloud Computing and lots of fun and sweets. First and second degree (2nd semester and on) students ...

The Technion Computer Science Department will hold an Open Day for graduate studies in Spring Semester 2012, on Sunday, December 11, 2011. Gathering and welcome event will start at 10:30, in Room 337, on the 3rd Floor of the CS Taub Building for Computer Science. ...

Congratulation to CS Faculty and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies Prof. Irad Yavneh who has been given the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education. This prestigious prize is awarded for a substantial and unique contribution to the advancement of academic education of undergraduate students.

Google proposes the Anita Borg Memorial 2012 Scholarship - Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for excellent female students enrolled in a Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D. programme in 2012/2013. The application deadline is February 1, 2012. Each scholar selected will receive a EUR 7,000 scholarship. ...

Google is hiring Associate Product Managers for its Haifa and Tel Aviv offices. Potential candidates for this role are welcome to take part in a Product Design Workshop which willl be held at the Technion CS Department on Thursday, November 10, 2011. More details in ...

A celebration in the honor of Prof. Azaria Paz on his 80th Birthday will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 14.30 in Taub 337. Program: 14:00 - Light refreshments 14:30 - Greetings, Tales of the faculty, etc. 15:20 - Intermission 15:30 - Dr. ...

The Faculty of Computer Science invites you to a series of lectures to be presented by Prof. J.A. Sethian from University of California, Berkeley, according to the following program: Lecture 1:Advances in Advancing Interfaces: Efficient Algorithms for Inkjet Plotters, Coating Rollers, Semiconductors, Retinopathy Diagnosis, and ...

Avner Bar and Yaron Recher, CS graduate and undergraduate students, are members of Technion team who participated with 32 European delegations in Entrepreneurship Contest held in Poland: "Intel Challenge", and won the first prize - $20,000 - to be dedicated to their project presented in ...

CS congratulates Prof. Hagit Attiya on receiving the prestigious 2011 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing, together with Amotz Bar-Noy and Danny Dolev, for their paper "Sharing Memory Robustly in Message-Passing Systemswhich" which appeared in the Journal of the ACM 1995. This fundamental paper ...

Dr. Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Google Inc. visited the faculty last week hosted by Prof. Ron Pinter. Manber gave a special lecture on his research: Past, Present and Some Possible Futures, and met with faculty members, Prof. Shaul Markovitch, Prof. Eli Biham CS Dean and ...

The Computer Science Department congratulates its Technion Excellent Teachers in Spring Semester 2011. The prizes are awarded by Technion PR Department: Prof. Chaim Gotsman Dr. Erez Hadad Mr. Dan Raviv and Tamer Salman

The Academic Ranking of World Universities for 2011 graded the Technion in the field of computer science in the 15th place in the world for the second time in a row. The ranking, performed by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ...

2011 Best Project Contest is announced. Please read hereby details: מתוך הכרה בערכם של פרוייקטים ועבודה עצמאית כחלק מתהליך ההכשרה של בוגר מדעי המחשב, מכריזה הפקולטה, בשיתוף עם חברת אמדוקס, על תחרות נושאת פרסים לפרוייקטים מצטיינים. פרוייקט ייחשב מצטיין אם הוא חדשני (ברעיון טכני, בפיתוח ...

CS Faculty, Prof. Gershon Elber Received The "John Gregory Memorial Award" for 2011. The award is granted in "Appreciation for Outstanding Contributions in Geometric Modeling". Prof. Elber is a member in the CGGC research group. Congratulations to Gershon.

The Excellent CS Students Program (SAMBA) Followships Award Ceremony was held on Monday, July 4, 2011, at the Taub Computer Science Building and was attended by an unprecedented multitude of guests, family members of the awardees and representatives of the fellowships granting families and foundation ...

On June 23, 2011, the Computer Science Department celebrated the graduation of 200 students. Dean, Prof. Eli Biham, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Prof. Irad Yavneh, and graduates representative Shai Solovtkin spoke in the presence of many guests and family members. A graduate student Ran ...

Excellent CS Students Program (SAMBA) Followships Award Ceremony will be held on Sunday, July 4, 2011, at 16:30, in Auditorium 1, Taub Computer Science Building. The fellowships are granted by the families Abramovitch and Perez and: Check Point Technologies Assaf Lavi Foundation Elbit Systems Yosefa ...

The traditional programming contest of the Faculty of Computer Science was held for the sixth time on Monday, Judne 20 2011. The winning team included Noa Korner, Omer Tabach, and Tomer Vromen. The seven teams, which attended the contest, were asked to solve as many ...

The CS Department held its Third Research Day on Tuesday, June 21 2011. An all-time record number of posters (31) were exhibited by excellent M.Sc. and Ph.D. students before multitude of guests from the Technion and the industry. The festive and joyful event lasted more ...

The Computer Science Department congratulates the winners of the Excellent TA awards for Winter Semester 2010/11: Persistent Excellent TA: Gadi Aleksandrowicz - for the 4rh time Jonathan Yaniv - for the 2nd time Limor Leibovich and David Yanay Persistent Faculty Excellent TA: David Ben David ...

The CS Department is proud to announce that Ph.D. student Gadi Aleksandrowicz is a winner of the prestigious Muriel and David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching, in Spring 2010 and Winter 2010/11. The prize, awarded this year for the first time to four continuously ...

Crunch a pretzel, pour the beer, Celebrating END-OF-YEAR! Roll the drum, pluck and strum, Feel the music bend your ear! Shovel ice, spin the dice, Slide the pieces on the slate, Win or lose – it’s all the same – Play the game, it’s not ...

The 2011 Segel-Sudent End of Year Party will be held on Wednesday, June 22, 2011, between 12:30-14:30, at the CS Taub Lobby. Lots of fun and free beer are guaranteed. You are all invited.

Software Engineering Student invite you to attend the CS Annual Software Engineering presentation which will be held by the project teams as follows: Thursday, June 23, 10:30, Taub 337: My Next Game- There are so many games out there. What shall I play now? Thursday, ...

The Technion Computer Engineering Center (TCE) was inaugurated in The 1st Technion Computer Engineering (TCE) Conference (June 1-5, 2011). Prominent lectures in the fields of Computer Engineering, Systems and Imaging Sciences, from industry (EMC, IBM, HP, Intel, KLA, Microsoft, nVidia) and leading universities (Stanford, Princeton, ...

CS Ph.D. student Amir Adler has been chosen to receive the 2011 Google Europe Fellowship in Multimedia. Of all nominees for the award who were extremely impressive, Amir stood out as an innovative researcher and a fine scholar. Congratulations to Amir.

The Computer Science celebrated the graduation of 29 Magister students in a ceremony which was held on Thursday, June 2 2011, at the Taub Auditorium. Dean Prof. Eli Biham, Vice Dean for Graduate Studies, Prof. Danny Raz, graduating Magister Student Leibovich, Limor spoke in the ...

CS Ph.D student Kira Radinsky has received the Yahoo! 2011 Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Program Award from Yahoo! Labs. Kira won the prize for her research on "Data Mining, And Algorithms for Information Retrieval and Search" and is one of an outstanding group of 217 ...

The Department of Computer Science is proud to congratulate our students – 2011 Anita Borg Scholarship Finalists: Sivan Albagli-Kim, Sarai Duek, Noa Elgrabli, Natalia Silberstein, and Noga Zewi All finalists will be invited to visit Google’s Engineering Centre in Zurich for a networking retreat. Google ...

The CS Department is happy to announce that Orbitz has joined the Technion CS Industrial Affiliation Program. Orbitz' R&D interests focus on Learning.

The CS Department congratulates Prof. Hagit Attiya on receiving The Michael Bruno Memorial Award for 2011. The Michael Bruno Memorial Awards are granted each year to a number (this year 4) of Israeli scholars and scientists of truly exceptional promise, whose achievements to date provide ...

The 2011 Workshop in Cryptology will be held on Thursday, June 16 2011, between 9:00-16:10, in Auditorium 1, CS Taub Building, Technion. You are all invited. More details and program

On Tuesday, June 21 2011, between 15:00-17:30, the Computer Science Department will hold its third Research Day for graduate studies in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. During the event, our graduate students will present their researches using posters and presentations. In addition to ...

The Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at the Technion are establishing a joint center for Computer Engineering. An inaugural conference, The 1st Technion Computer Engineering (TCE) Conference (June 1-5, 2011) will mark the opening of the center. The conference will host invited distinguished speakers ...

Google will hold a "Google Day" event at the Technion CS Dept. on Wednesday, May 4th, from 12:00-14:30 in the lobby of Taub Building. The event will include a talk with Google's engineers, a demo of their projects and a panel discussion with employees. More ...

Intel invites CS students to take part in a Projects management Workshop which will be held in two sessions: on Thursdays, May 5 and 12, 2011 between 15:00-18:00, at the Technion CS Taub Building. The workshop is open to all CS students and participation is ...

Cisco will award prizes for outstanding students who are studying in the fields of communication, networks and Internet. Awards of NIS 8,000 each will be granted to graduate students and awards of NIS 4,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students. The objective of those awards is ...

MELLANOX representatives will meet students on Monday, April 11, 2011 between 10:30-15:00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

RAFAEL representatives will meet students on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, between 12:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

Henry Taub, a great Technion benefactor and Distinguished Chairman of the International Board of Governors, passed away on Thursday, March 31, 2011. Henry Taub supported the Faculty of Computer Science from its inception until his last days. He twice undertook to establish a building for ...

The CS Department is happy to announce that Philips Medical has joined the Technion CS Industrial Affiliation Program. Philips Medical provides medical and health care technologies and innovative procedures.

Intel invites CS students to participate in developing computer game "Slinga" tournament. An acquaintances meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 13:00 in room no. 3 of the Technion CS Taub Building. It is recommended to get initial instrucitions and updates beforehand.

The Technion Computer Science Department will hold an Open Day for graduate studies in Fall Semester 2011, on Sunday April 3, 2011. Gathering and welcome event will start at 10:30, in Room 337, on the 3rd Floor of the CS Taub Building for Computer Science. ...

ELBIT representatives will meet students on Monday, March 7, 2011, between 12:00-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. It is recommended that you bring along your resumes and grades record.

Google is launching 2011 "Google Summer of Code", a program dedicated to introducing students from universities around the world to open source software development. The program offers student developers stipends of 5,000 USD to help them write code for various open source projects with the ...

SSDL Yearly Project iinvites CS faculty members, staff and students to the software engineering annual presentation in the SSDL (Systems and Software Development Laboratory), on Thursday, March 3, 10:30-12:00, Room 236.

Undergraduate and graduate CS students are invited to join a new and exclusive project course. More details are in the Hebrew page and in the attached document.

The 2011 open day of the Technion was held on Thursday, February 24. A great number of visitors attended the CS Taub welcome event and packed the lectures halls and labs presentations. Prof. Irad Yavneh, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies, gave a general overview of ...

A new link in the CS web site (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/iap/employment.html) offers job opportunities in the Hi-tech Industry, for students and graduates. The list of jobs, which updates every week, is specially designed for Computer Science students and graduates and advertises exclusive information. Most of the jobs ...

The Technion Open Day for prospective students will be held on Thursday, February 24, 2011 between 10:00-16:00 and will start in Beit Hastudent, where the CS booth will invite visitors to a welcome event in the lobby of The Taub Building for Computer Science during ...

The Computer Science Department congratulates the winners of the Excellent TA awards for Spring Semester 2010. Persistent Excellent TA: Yaniv Carmeli - for the 5th time Gadi Aleksandrowicz - for the 3rd time Ilia Nudelman - for the 2nd time Jonathan Yaniv - for the ...

The CS Department is happy to announce that Marvell has joined the Technion CS Industrial Affiliation Program. Marvell is a producer of storage, communications and consumer semiconductor products.

Google proposes the Anita Borg Memorial 2011 Scholarship - Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for excellent female students enrolled in a Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D. programme in 2011/2012. The application deadline is February 18, 2011. Each scholar selected will receive a EUR 7,000 scholarship. ...

The winners of the 2010 Amdocs Best Project Contest received the prize in a ceremony which also awarded the CS team, sponsored by Amdocs, who won a Gold Medal (2nd place) in the ACM ICPC (SWERC) 2010 programming contest in Madrid. The event was held ...

The CS Department is happy to announce that Allot Communications and Final have joined the Technion CS Industrial Affiliation Program. Allot Communications is a provider of intelligent IP service optimization solutions for fixed and mobile broadband operators and large enterprises. Final develops algorithm which predicts ...

On Monday, January 10 2011 the Technion held a special conference which goal was to expose high school female students to the world of hi-tech and to women in leading roles in computer science. The conference was organized together with Israel CS Teachers National Center ...

Google is hiring Associate Product Managers for its Haifa and Tel Aviv offices. Potential candidates for this role are welcome to take part in a Product Design Workshop which willl be held at the Technion CS Department on Sunday, January 16, 2011, for students in ...