The Taub Faculty of Computer Science News and Announcements

The Computer Science celebrated the graduation of 39 Magister students in a ceremony which was held on Wednesday, June 19 2013, at the Taub Auditorium. Dean Prof. Eli Biham, Vice Dean for Graduate Studies, Prof. Yuval Ishai and  Ranit Gotsman - on behalf of the students - spoke in the presence of many guests and family members, and the flautist Moran Noiman (a student of the Technion Civil and Environmental Engineering) performed musical pieces. Congratulations ...

The 2013 Segel-Sudent End of Year Party will be held on Wednesday, June 26, 2013, between 12:30-14:30, at the CS Taub Lobby. Free beer, volleyball game with CS Team (on the lawn) plenty of fun are guaranteed. You are all invited.

Our mythological faculty student representatives do it again – big time! An end-of-year event that rivals – who would have thought – the magnificent event of yesteryear. Meticulous planning and perfect implementation by the students, and we – the regular faculty employees (secretaries, technicians, faculty members, graduate students, and other inhabitants of our beloved building) – were only left with the fun task of pouring the beer (in between sips of our own), handing out ...

The Department of Computer Science is proud to congratulate our students Dor Arad, Noa Korner and Mira Shalah, recipients of the 2013 Anita Borg scholarships, among 39 scholars from Europe, The Middle East and North Africa. All finalists will receive 7,000 Euro and will be invited to visit Google’s Engineering Centre in Zurich for a networking retreat. Google established the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship in 2003 to encourage undergraduate and graduate women completing degrees in ...

The Excellent CS Students Program (SAMBA) Followships Award and 2013 winter semester Dean Excellence awarding (to 144 excellent students) ceremony was held on Sunday, June 23, 2013, at the Taub Computer Science Building and was attended by many guests, family members of the awardees and representatives of the families and companies that donated the fwlloships. Prof. Eli Biham, CS Dean, and Prof. Shaul Markovitch, vice Dean for undergraduate studies, congratulated the excellent students on their ...

Concluding the 2013 8th Programming Workshop of the prestigious ACM/ICPC Programming Contest, 40 Technion CS students joined 15 Google engineers to challenge a series of coding riddles at Google's Tel-Aviv Campus. The event was part of the yearly the competitive programming course at the Technion, directed by Ms. Noa Korner and Prof. Gill Barequet, which aims to encourage students to develop their coding and teamworking skills in a enjoyable environment.

Computer Architecture Day by TCE on Future Directions in Computer Architecture will be held on Friday, June 28 2013 in EE Meyer Building, Room 1003 between 9:00-15:00. Leading researchers in Computer Architecture share their vision, outlook and views with students, faculty and industry representatives. This is A rare opportunity to hear from the best in the field. More details

Technion June 2013 How to build a house for the Computer Science Faculty in a leading academic institution? And how to get finance to maintain it? In the Rhymed Scrolls Series "The Ivory and Mockery Tower" Prof. Irad Yavneh [together with Prof. Alfred M. Bruckstein, both from Technion CS] reveals the real drama that goes on between the walls of that lofty building at the heart of the Mt. Carmel campus. ,בְּ"חֵקֶר הַיָּמִים" מוֹכְרִים דָּגִים ...

The CS Department congratulates Prof; Uzzi Ornan on his 90th Birthday and wishes him many happy returns. A culture and singing celebration on the occasion will be held on Friday, June 7th 2013 at 20:30 in the auditorium of Carmel-Zevulun High School in Yagur (next to the entrance to "Stop Market" - lots of parking space). The evening - conducted by Dan Almagor - will mark Ornan's way of life which is interlaced in the ...

Technion Ph.D. Graduation Ceremony, started at dusk, was held on Monday evening, May 27 2013. The ceremony was held at the Technion amphitheatre. Prof. Peretz Lavi, Technion President excited the audience with his warmhearted speech, and senior Technion faculty members spoke in the presence of many guests and family members. The ceremony was accompanied by the Technion musical ensemble. In a very festive and exciting atmosphere 176 Technion graduates received their Ph.D. diplomas, among them ...

The 3rd Annual International TCE ( (Technion Computer Engineering Center) Conference on Machine Learning & Big Data will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 28-29, 2013 in Churchill Auditorium, Electrical Engineering Meyer Building at the Technion. This year the conference will focus on machine learning and big data, including topics such as learning from huge datasets, streaming and handling massive amounts of data, finding structure, information mining and more. Registration opens on March 1, ...

Qualcomm Co-founder, Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs, was the Technion guest and on Sunday, May 20 he visited the CS Department, accompanied by his wife and a Qualcomm senior delegation. The guests met Prof. Eli Biham - CS Dean, and CS researchers, and at the Geometric Image Processing Laboratory (GIP) were presented to 3D cutting edge developments. On his visit to the Technion, Dr. Jacobs, received the "Technion Medal" - the greatest recognition by the Institute ...

ELBIT will hold an interviewing event at the CS Department on Monday, May 13, 2013 between 10:00-14:00, in Taub 337 (3rd floor). CS students are invited to attend and to hear about openings in systems developing for Elbitt's Haifa site. Please bring your cv and grades chart as well as registerr in adavnce at: yaniv.ariel at elbitsystems.com.More details in the attached poster.

Congratulations to Prof. Michael Elad to Dr. Yossi Shtok and to Dr. Michael Zibulevsky who will receive the 2012-13 "Hershel Rich" Technion Innovation Award, for their research work on "Fast and High-Quality CT Reconstruction with Low Radiation" and will be awarded at a festive ceremony on the approaching 2013 Koretorion events.

The Technion Computer Science Department will hold an Open Day for graduate studies in Winter Semester 2013-14, on Monday, May 6, 2013-14. Gathering and welcome event will start at 10:30, in Room 337, on the 3rd Floor of the CS Taub Building for Computer Science. Lectures by faculty and graduate students will be given between 11:30-13:00 and will be followed by open meetings over lunch with CS faculty and graduates. More details.

The Committee appointed by the Council of higher education for the evaluation of the Software Engineering and Information Systems Engineering tracks visited the Faculty on May 1 and 2. The Committee consisted of 7 senior professors in these areas from academia in Israel and abroad: Prof. David Parnas (Emeritus) – Department of Engineering, McMaster University, Canada - Committee chair Prof. Carl Landwehr - Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, USA Prof. Jochen Ludewig - ...

Professor László Lovász from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary will be a distinguished guest of the CS Department and will give a series of talks as follows: Lecture 1: Large Networks, Graph Limits, And Why Are They Useful Tuesday, April 30, 14:30-15:30, Taub Building 337 The lecture is for CS Faculty and students as well as general audience, If you have a very large network (which may be deterministic or the result of some ...

RAFAEL's leading engineers will meet you on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 between 12:00-14:00, at the lobby of Taub Building for Computer Science and will present you their challenging technological work. CS graduates and advanced studies students are welcome to attednd. Please bring along your CV and grades record.

The Computer Science Department congratulates its Technion Excellent Teachers in Winter Semester 2012-13. Technion Excellent Teacher: Prof. Michael Elad Dr. Roee Engelberg Citation for Excellence in Teaching: Prof. Amir Shpilka Dr. Tamer Salman Dr. Amir Tomer

Prof. Bernard Chazelle) Princeton University), who was designated as the Distinguished Pollak Lecturer, visited the Computer Science faculty April 2013 and gave a fascinating lecture series on "The Amazing Dynamics of Influence Systems" and "Why Natural Algorithms are the Language of the Living World". Prof. Chazelle is one of the most well known computer science theoreticians. He has published over 120 papers in top journals in many areas. His early work mostly focused on computational ...

Prof. Alexandru Iosup from Delft University of Technology, will give a TCE talk series on Computer Architecture at the Technion CS Taub Building, rooms 601 and 337, as follows: Lecture 1: Tuesday, May 7, 10:00 (Taub 601) Lecture 2: Thursday, May 9, 10:00 (Taub 337) Lecture 3: Monday, May 27, 10:00 (Taub 337) Lecture 4: Thursday, June 6, 10:00 (Taub 337) Abstract: This series of talks focuses on the research and education conducted by the ...

MELLANOX representatives will meet you on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 between 12:00-14:30, at the lobby of Taub Building for Computer Science and will offer you openings in software and hardware. CS graduates and students are welcome to attednd.

CISCO representatives will meet you on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 between 11:30-14:30, at the lobby of Taub Building for Computer Science. CS graduates and students at their last year of studies are welcome to attednd.

The Faculty of Computer Science invites you to Israel Pollak Distinguished Lecture Series to be presented by Prof.Bernard Chazelle from Princeton University, according to the following program: Lecture 1: The Amazing Dynamics of Influence Systems Monday, April 22, 2013, 14:30 Room 337, Computer Science Taub Building Imagine a group of interacting agents (eg, people, computers, birds, bacteria) subject to the attracting influence of the agents with which they communicate. Assume further that each agent is ...

INTEL representatives will meet you on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 between 12:00-14:30, at the lobby of Taub Building for Computer Science and will offer you the newest and most challenging software openings which will enable you to obtain your first practical experience while keeping your excelling studies.

Henry Taub Distinguished Visitor Prof. Yale Patt from The University of Texas at Austin, will give a TCE talk series on Computer Architecture at the Technion EE Meyer Building room 165 as follows: Lecture 1: Thursday, June 13, 14:30 (4 hours) Lecture 2: Friday, June 14, 09:00 (3 hours) Lecture 3: Thursday, June 20, 14:30 (4 hours) Lecture 4: Friday, June 21, 14:30 (4 hours) Abstract: Using computers to solve problems requires starting with a ...

The CS Department held its fourth Research Day on Tuesday, March 19 2013. A substantial number of posters (29) were exhibited by excellent M.Sc. and Ph.D. students before multitude of guests from the Technion and the industry. Prof. Peretz Lavie, the Technion President, was a guest of honor and showed great interest in each and every poster. This year, the event expanded its participation boundaries and included a group of CS undergraduates - 2012 Amdocs ...

The fourth CS Research Day for graduate studies will be held Today, Tuesday, March 19, 2013, between 15:00-17:30, at the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Research Day events are golden opportunity for our graduate students to expose their researches using posters and presentations to CS faculty and all degrees students, Technion distinguished representatives and to high-ranking delegates from the hi-tech leading industry companies such as Dell, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Rafael, Sandisk, Yahoo! and ...

The first TCE (Technion Computer Engineering Center) Systems-day Workshop will be held on Thursday, March 21, 2013 and will discuss cutting-edge research and technology topics revolving around hardware and system-software. Participation in the TCE Systems Day is free but requires preregistration.  More details and program, and information on TCE

A speicail guest lecture by Inbar Raz, Security Architect at Check Point Software Technologies, on the Fascinating World of Reverse Engineering will be held on Tueesday, March 19, 2013, at 12:30, in Auditorium 2, CS Taub Building. Reverse engineering is the art of discovering the secrets of how things work. Be it a computer program, a mobile device or a washing machine, all devices have secrets that can be used for anything from improving or ...

The winners of the 2012 CS Dean Excellence Award, Programming Project Contest winners and Amdocs best project winners were awarded in a ceremony held in the faculty on Thursday, March 10, 2013. In the presence of guests and family members of Dean Excellent students and young leading programmers the ceremony commenced with CS Dean, Prof. Eli Biham and Amdocs representative, Mr. Miki Sabah awarding the winners of the 2012 Amdocs Best Project Contest: - Lior ...

The 2012 Spring semester CS Dean Execellence, the 2012 Google Programming Contest winners and the Amdocs Best Project Contest Winners award ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 10, 2013, 16:30 at the CS Taub Audiroium 1. Following are the winning projects of the 2012 Amdocs Best Project Contest: - Lior Shpigelman, Shiran Maor, Chen Carniel (supervised by Prof. Roy Friedman and the Computer Systems Laboratory - CSL): "Security Camera Application For Android Devices" - ...

This year Cyberday Workshop joins in as a young brother to Cryptoday (Workshop on Cryptology) and both will be held annually. The 2013 Cyberday will be held on Thursday, March 14, 2013, in Auditorium 1, CS Taub Building, Technion. The workshop is organized by Prof. Eli Biham, Dr. Sara Bitan and the Technion Computer Engineering Center (TCE). Participation in the workshop is free but requires preregistration. More details and program, as well as: tce at ...

nrgMaariv March 5, 2013 Technion [LCCN, Computer Science Department] students invented a software which wil enable you to find your way using the smartphone, to locate a shop at the mall, an office at an office building and the boarding gate at the airport. Full Article People and Computers

Hayadan February 8, 2013 The curriculum of Kira Radinsky, a Ph.D. student at the [Technion] Computer Science Department, is impressing even if we ignore the fact that she is only 25 years old - the future is ahead of her and is the object of her research. Full Article

The Computer Science Department congratulates the winners of the Excellent TA awards for 2012 Spring Semester: Excellent TA: Jonathan Yaniv - for the 5th time Persistent Excellent TA: Mor Weiss - for the 2nd time Shahar Timnat - for the 2nd time Excellent TA: Alon Brifman Guy Grebla Dana Drachsler Congratulations to all the winners!

The TCE Workshop on From Idea to Value will be on Thursday, February 21, 2013, 9:30-17:00, in Taub Building for Computer Science, Room 337 (3rd floor). Participating in the workshop is free but requires registration. Full program and registration and information about TCE.

CS announces the 2013 8th Programming Workshop of the prestigious ACM Programming Contest. This year the workshop will collaborate with Google R&D Center and will include a class in the Google offices, where Google engineers will conduct a dynamic workshop. The course will conclude with a contest between the participating students, and the best team will win Google Tablets and represents the faculty on the International ACM-ICPC contest to be held at the end of ...

On Sunday, February 17, 2013 we were visited by Professor Kevin Ryan, former Vice President of the University of Limerick in Ireland, and Mr. Breifne O'Reilly, Ireland's Ambassador to Israel, accompanied by Mr. Alon Shtaierman, who is to begin studying in the department next Spring Semester. The visitors met with the Faculty Dean and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies, visited the Geometric Image Processing lab where they received an exposition and demonstrations, by lab engineer ...

NBCNEWS February 2013 New software under development aims to stop history from repeating itself by using old news and related data to warn of pending trouble in time to take corrective action. The system could, for example, help international aid agencies assess the likelihood of a cholera outbreak in time to treat a population with a limited-duration cholera vaccine, explained Kira Radinsky, a researcher at [Department of Computer Science] Technion-Israel Institute. Full Article BBC CNN ...

The Technion Open Day for prospective students will be held on Thursday, January 31, 2013 between 10:30-14:15 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 which lectures will be given by faculty members and students between 9:30-13:30 in Auditorium 1, CS Taub Building, as follows: 09:30 - Prof. Eli Biham, CS Dean Prof. Irad Yavneh, ...

INTEL representatives will meet you on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 between 12:00-14:30, at the lobby of Taub Building for Computer Science and will offer you the newest and most challenging software openings which will enable you to obtain your first practical experience while keeping your excelling studies.

The New York Times December 31, 2012 A new study by Imperva, a data security firm in Redwood City, Calif., and students from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is the latest confirmation of this. Amichai Shulman [Technion CS graduate], Imperva’s chief technology officer, and a group of researchers [Michael Bespalov, Technion CS graduate, and Yogev Shamay, Technion CS undergraduate student] collected and analyzed 82 new computer viruses and put them up against more than 40 ...