The Taub Faculty of Computer Science News and Announcements

The CS team, sponsored by Google, won a Bronze Medal (came in 12 out of 44) in the ACM ICPC (SWERC) 2012 programming contest held on November 18, 2012 in Valencia, Spain. The team members are CS students Olivier Hofman, Idan Elad, Mike Harris and Noa Korner (coach) and Prof. Gill Barequet (faculty advisor) who were selected by the faculty in the June 2012 Google-CS Programming Contest. Congratulations to the winners. 2009 and CS contest ...

Google proposes the Anita Borg Memorial 2013 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, 2013. Each scholar selected will receive a EUR 7,000 scholarship. All recipients and finalists will be invited to visit Google’s Engineering Centre in Zurich for a networking retreat. In light of past experience, the CS faculty strongly recommends excelling students ...

CISCO will hold an interviewing event at the CS Department on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 between 12:30-14:30, in Taub 701. CS students with at least one year of study to go and Networking and Java (a plus) background are invited to attend. Please send your cv in adavnce to: kkeisari at cisco.com. More details.

INTEL representatives will meet students on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 between 12:00-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

Forbes Israel, November 13, 2012When 4 Israeli institutes come in between the best 30 worldwide, prestige soars high, and still the Technion is at the top. Full Article

Congratulation to CS Faculty member Prof. Erez Petrank who has been given the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education. This Technion prestigious prize is awarded for a substantial and unique contribution to the advancement of academic education of undergraduate students.

The CS Department congratulates Ph.D. Student Dan Raviv on his receiving the Technion Management Prize for Outstanding Adjunct Teachers. This prize has been awarded so far to only 4 Adjunct Teachers at the Technion. The CS Department wishes Dan the best of luck in his upcoming postdoctoral program at MIT. More details about Dan Raviv's accomplishments and contributing activities at the CS and Technion in the Hebrew page.

CS Faculty member and former Ph.D. student Keren Censor-Hillel, won the 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Award of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. Keren is the first winner of this prestigious new award and she received for her 2010 thesis "Probabilistic Methods in Distributed Computing”, supervised by her Ph.D. advisor Prof. Hagit Attiya. Congratulations to Keren and Hagit!

QUALCOMM representatives will meet students on Wednesday, October 24, 2012 between 12:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

TCE Guest Lecture by Prof. José F. Martínez (Cornell University) Tuesday, October 30 2012, 13:30, EE Meyer Build., Room 861 SELF-OPTIMIZING MICROPROCESSORS: A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH As each technology generation brings additional transistors, the computer industry hopes to convert these into performance growth by stamping out a greater number of cores on a die. On the one hand, in many environments, that seems like a lot of hope. On the other hand, architecture researchers have ...

In a colorful event the Technion and the Faculty of Computer Science celebrated the 2012 Researchers Night. In the event took part 9 faculties from the Technion and 14 hi-tech companies, as well as groups of students from several high schools. The event is a science annual festival and is held under the initiative and sponsorship of the Ministry on Science and the European Union. This year the event was held on the occasion of ...

On Monday, Sepember 24 2012, at 16:00-22:00 the Computer Science Department at the Technion will hold the 2012 Researchers Night event, where the Technion will open its gates to the public and offer meetings with researchers, laboratory presentations, lectures, workshops, activities, live demonstrations, and other activities in a variety of computing areas. This year's Researchers Night event will focus on "100 years for Turing and Computer Science in Israel". The event will include presentations of ...

The Computer Science Department congratulates its Technion Excellent Teachers in Spring Semester 2012. Technion Excellent Teacher: Prof. Ran El-Yaniv Citation for Excellence in Teaching: Dr. Gadi Aleksandrowicz Dr. Leonid Raskin Mr. Dan Raviv Dr. Tamer Salman Mr. Omer Strulovich Congratulations to our excellent teachers!

On Thursday, August 9 2012 the CS Library held a ceremony in memory of Mrs. Menuha Stikovsky, CS First Chief Librarian (1969-1977) and one of the library founders. Among the participants were family and friends and Mrs. Stikovsky's daughters, who initiated commemoration of their mother by donating an upgrade to a sitting area in the library, including a multimedia screen in favor of the library users. CS Dean, Prof. Eli Biham and Prof. Eliezer Kantorowitz, ...

The Academic Ranking of World Universities for 2012 graded the Technion in the field of computer science in the 18th 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, is based on several excellency factors such as number of faculty and alumni winning Turing award, number of highly cited researchers, number of published papers, and percentage of papers published ...

Ynet, August 15, 2012Israel won distinguished rank in computer science: The Technion is 18 worldwide. Full Article Haaretz

2012 USENIX Federated Conferences Week June 12-15, 2012 The resources behind cloud computing services will soon be sold in increments of seconds, according to researchers from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Full Article Interview in CACM ACM Technews IDG News Calcalist

The Excellent CS Students Program (SAMBA) Followships Award Ceremony was held on Monday, July 2, 2012, at the Taub Computer Science Building and was attended by many guests, family members of the awardees and representatives of the fellowships granting families and foundation companies. Prof. Eli Biham, CS Dean and Prof. Amir Shpilka, SAMBA Program supervisor, congratulated the excellent students on their achievements and the donating families and company representatives - Mr. Israel Abramovich, Mrs. Nurit ...

On June 28, 2012, the Computer Science Department celebrated the graduation of 220 students. Dean, Prof. Eli Biham, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Prof. Irad Yavneh, in the presence of many guests and family members. Ron Kerbs represented the graduates and gave a fascinating speech. Musical pieces were performed by the pianist Yoav Porat and the saxophonist Gal Maor. This year, 29 graduated cum laude and received the Dean Excellency Designation and 8 graduated summa ...

The 1st TCE Summer Course on Computer Security will be held on September 2-6, 2012, at CS Taub Building, Auditorium 2. Lectures will be given in Hebrew. Attendees should hold a basic background in Security or Cryptography, in the form of industrial experience on relevant topics and/or via academic courses. Attendance is free but requires preregistration.

With the utmost disdain for the laws of Thermodynamics, our agile student union representatives poured three buckets of crushed ice, two kilograms of salt, and a pail and a half of water, into a large wading pool stocked with lukewarm bottles of Goldstar and – Whoosh! – before we could so much as utter interpolatory integration, scores of well-chilled beer bottles were lined up in front of us. This never would have worked in the ...

CS Ph.D. Ron Begleiter (advised by Dr. Nir Ailon and Prof. Ran El-Yaniv) won the best student paper award at COLT 2012 conference. The prize is based on both the content of the presented paper: "Active Learning of Custering with Side Information Using $\eps$-Smooth Relative Regret Approximations" (co-authored with Nir Ailon and Esther Ezra) and Ron's presentation at the conference. Congratulations to Ron!

The traditional CS programming contest was held for the seventh time in a row on Friday, June 22 2012. In the winning team were Idan Elad, Mike Harris, and Olivier Hofman. Fifty six students - split into 19 teams - attended the contest and set an all time record number of participants. The teams were asked to solve as many as possible out of ten programming problems in various fields in Mathematics and Computer Science. ...

CS undergraduate students, Alex Portnov and Dror Baum, won the 3rd place in the "Israeli Mobile Challenge" 2012 and were awarded in a ceremony held in Ben Gurion University on June 18th. The prize was given for their project "Indoor Map Screening" performed in Technion CS Laboratory of Computer Communication and Networking, in cooperation with Qualcomm. This project enables users to generate indoor navigation maps in seconds, and allows quick and efficient route finding using ...

The 2012 Workshop in Cryptology will be held on Wednesday, July 4 2012, between 9:00-16:10, in Auditorium 1, CS Taub Building, Technion. This year Cryptoday is held on the occation of Alan Mathison Turing's 100th anniversary and Technion cornerstone laying 100th anniversary. You are all invited. More details and program

Excellent CS Students Program (SAMBA) Followships Award Ceremony will be held on Monday, July 2, 2012, at 16:30, in Auditorium 2, Taub Computer Science Building. The fellowships are granted by the Abramovitch family and: Check Point Technologies Assaf Lavi Foundation Elbit Systems Yosefa Abramovitch Foundation Mellanox Technologies Guy Shvat Foundation The Israel Technion Society (ITS) More details about the SAMBA program.

The Computer Science Department congratulates the winners of the Excellent TA awards for Winter Semester 2011/12: Persistent Excellent TA: Jonathan Yaniv - Persistent Excellent TA for the 4th time! Jonathan is also the winner of Muriel and David Jacknow Prize for 2011 Spring Semester and 2012 Winter Semester. The prize is given for consisting excelling in teaching and for contribution to advancing academic education of undergraduate students. Excellent TA: Yael Meller - for the 2nd ...

The Computer Science celebrated the graduation of 28 Magister students in a ceremony which was held on Wednesday, June 13 2012, at the Taub Auditorium. Dean Prof. Eli Biham, Acting Vice Dean for Graduate Studies, Prof. Gill Barequet, graduating Magister Student Jonathan Yaniv spoke in the presence of many guests and family members, Prof. Shaul Markovitch, gave a lecture on "When will computers understand people" and two undergraduate students performed beautiful musical duets. Congratulations to ...

The Computer Science Department congratulates its Technion Excellent Teachers in Winter Semester 2012. Technion Excellent Teacher: Dr. Roee Engelberg Dr. Gadi Aleksandrowicz Citation for Excellence in Teaching: Dr. Shirley Halevy-Ginzburg Dr. Tal Cohen Congratulations to the excellent teachers!

CS Ph.D. student Jonathan Yaniv received the Muriel and David Jacknow Prize for 2011 Spring Semester and 2012 Winter Semester. The prize is given for consisting excelling in teaching and for contribution to advancing academic education of undergraduate students. Congratulations to Jonathan!

Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was the Technion guest on Friday and visited the Computer Science Department. Technion President, Prof. Peretz Lavie, Vice President Prof. Boaz Golani and 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, Prof. Dan Shectman, presented to Mr. Netanyahu the Technion and its graduates latest achievements from various aspects. The visit was filmed and will be broadcast on a the American network PBS.

Dr Nir Ailon, with co-author Bernard Chazelle, will receive the 2012 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize for their paper "The Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform and Approximate Nearest Neighbors" which appeared in the SIAM Journal on Computing (SICOMP). The prize is given for outstanding papers published in SIAM journals during the three years prior to the year of the award. Dr. Ailon and his co-author, together with two other excellent papers, will receive the prize in July at ...

NBC New York, May 21, 2012Google will put aside 22,000 square feet of office space for the new CornellNYC Tech program, starting this July. Full Article

The Technion Computer Engineering Center (TCE) and the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments at the Technion are would like to invite you to the 2nd Annual International TCE Conference on June 6-7, 2012, which will focus this year on Networking, Cloud and Beyond. Topics will include Cloud, Mobility, Network Economics, Social Networks and Wireless Networking. The conference will feature distinguished speakers from leading companies and universities world-wide, such as Cisco, IBM, Mellanox and RAD, ...

Professor Micheal Elad has been elevated to IEEE Fellow and is part of the 2012 class of IEEE Fellows. The IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. Professor Elad was cited for his for contributions to sparsity and redundancy in image processing. The total number of IEEE fellows selected in any one year ...

The 2012 Segel-Sudent End of Year Party will be held on Wednesday, June 27, 2012, between 12:30-14:30, at the CS Taub Lobby. Lots of fun and free beer are guaranteed. You are all invited.

ABCNews, May 15, 2012Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta named a new education minister on Wednesday after his two previous appointments were forced to quit over allegations of plagiarism and incompetence. Full Article Romania-Insidere Haaretz

BROADCOM representatives will meet students on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 between 12:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

Channel 2, May 10, 2012The Romanian media is fussing in the last few days over severe accusations against the Minister of Education, who is suspected to have not written his Ph.D. thesis but copied it word by word from an Israeli professor from the Technion. The minister announced that he would resign if the Israeli professor files a complaint - but the original paper's writer, Prof. Eli Biham, tends to forgive the plagiary. Full Interview ...

2012 Amdocs Best Project Contest is announced. Please read details in the Hebrew page. Note that submission date has been postponed to November 8, 2012.

CISCO representatives will meet students on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 between 10:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record or send in advance to madacost at cisco.com

The winners of the 2011 CS Dean Execellence Award and 2011 Programming Contest were awarded in a ceremony held in the faculty on April 22, 2012, and which hosted guests and family members of 150 Dean Excellent students and young leading programmers who won the traditional programming contest of the Faculty of Computer Science held for the sixth time in June 2011. The winning team included Noa Korner, Omer Tabach, and Tomer Vromen. The seven ...

Eretz Acheret, April 22, 2012; Kol Israel, April 23, 2012 Prof. Eli Biham spoke in Reshet Bet of Kol Israel about his article on the biometric law in Eretz Acheret Magazine. Full Interview Full Article

The Department of Computer Science is proud to congratulate our students – 2012 Anita Borg Scholarship winners: M.Sc. student Irena Grabovitch-Zuyev and Anat Etzion (Lapidim Excellence Program student). All finalists and winners 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 computer science and related fields to excel in computing and technology ...

Calcalist, April 19, 2012IACR is the International Association for Cryptologic Research. Recently Prof. Biham also received the RSA Conference Award 2012. Full Article

MELLANOX representatives will meet students on Monday, April 30, 2012 between 12:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record. If you like to join in a raffle and win Nintendo WII you are invited to solve the Mellanox riddle. More details in the attached poster.

Fifteen years ago they graduated Technion CS and on April 4th they returned for the CS 1996-1998 Alumni Reunion. The alumni reunited on a gala event held in the new CS Taub Building. This alumni reunion was the 4th in the CS history and it hosted 250 graduates, faculty and Technion seniors. A festive dinner was served accompanied by musical entertainment by a Jazz trio. Tamir Levi, CS Ph.D. graduate from 1998 - and a ...

Check Point Software Technologies will hold a special evet at CS on Monday, April 23, 2012. The event will include a lecture at 16:30 in Taub 6 (Ground Foor) by Erez Berkner (Check Point Virtualization Security Director) on Cloud Technology More details in the attached poster.

CS Ph.D. graduate Ofir Weber will receive the 2012 Eurographics Best Ph.D. Thesis Award for his doctoral research, done under the supervision of Prof. Chaim Gotsman and the CS CGGC. Congratulations to Ofir!

The Computer Science Department is proud to announce the naming of the dean, professor Eli Biham, as IACR fellow. IACR is the International Association for Cryptologic Research. The IACR Fellows Program recognizes outstanding IACR members for technical and professional contributions to the worldwide cryptologic community. Prof. Biham was named an IACR fellow "for fundamental contributions to cryptanalysis, including the co-invention of differential cryptanalysis." Congratulations to our Dean!

The New York Times,February 16, 2012 Two Cornell University administrators and a professor [Prof. Craig (Chaim) Gotsman from the Department of Computer Science] from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, who helped design Cornell’s winning proposal for a new applied sciences graduate school in New York City, will become that school’s leaders, the two universities said on Thursday. Full Article

TheMarkerApril 16, 2012"The most rewarding studies, in terms of wages, are in computer science and engineering at the Technion: "The more the institution studeis are perceived as difficult, the more its graduates are perceived as talented by employers". Full Article

Calcalist, February 12, 2011New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced tonight at a press conference the establishment of a technological university Roosevelt Island - by Cornell University and the Technion. Full Article More articles on the issue: Globes, Haartez.

Calcalist, February 28, 2012The breakthrough was done as a project by CS students and aroused great interest in two scientific conferences; The students will receive the Technion "Amdocs" award. Full Article

Calcalist, October 4, 2011The group that develooped an enterprise which enables best shot in one shot received $20,000 and reached the finals to be held on November in the USA. Full Article

Prof. Anwitaman Datta from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, will give a talk series at the CS Technion on"Building Reliable Distributed and Social Systems: Some Selected Snecdote" as follows: Monday, May 14, 12:30-14:30 (Room 539, Taub Bld.) Self-repairing codes for networked distributed storage systems Global data storage need keeps on increasing, requiring efficient and reliable storage solutions which have to scale several orders of magnitude more than a decade back. In this talk, we will discuss ...

Cynthia Disenfeld, a CS Ph.D. student has just won first place in the ACM Student Research Competition at Modularity - AOSD 2012 (the annual conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development). The winners in the individual conferences go on to compete in a Grand Final competition later this year. Congratulation to Cynthia!

Elad Haramaty, a CS Ph.D. student has won the Jacobs Excellent Publication Prize for his joint work with Amir and Madhu Sudan which appeared at the FOCS 2011 conference. The prize is awarded each year to 2-3 graduate students from the entire Technion. Congratulation to Elad!

Prof. Frédérique Oggier from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, will give a Mini-Course at the CS Technion: “On Algebraic Lattice Codes” as follows: Monday, May 14 & Tuesday, May 15, 10:30-12:30 (Room 539, Taub bld.) Lectures I and II: introduce number fields, lattices, and how lattices can be built from a number field. The coding application is the design of modulation schemes for Rayleigh fading channels. Wednesday, May 16 (Room 401, Taub bld.) and Sunday, May ...

Prof. Michael Fellows, who is visiting the Technion CS Department, is recognized as one of the founders of Parameterized complexity, a complexity framework that uses structure in hard problems for the design and analysis of algorithms for their solution. Parameterized complexity has strong connections to algorithmic engineering and is increasingly important in diverse fields, including Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Bioinformatics. Professor Fellows will give a six hour mini-course on Parameterized complexity and Algorithms. The ...

Prof. Judea Pearl, 2011 Harvey Prize and Turing Award Laureate, gave a special guest talk at the CS Department. The lecture was held in honor of his Harvey Prize endowment, but meantime he was also announced as the 2011 Turing Award Laureate. Prof. Pearl's lecture was held on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 11:00, in CS Taub Building and was titled: "The algorithmization of Causes and Counterfactuals". Prof. Pearl's lecture on YouTube.

MELLANOX representatives will meet students on Wednesday, March 29, 2012 between 12:00-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

Check Point Software Technologies will hold a special evet at CS on Tuesday, March 28, 2012. The event will include a lecture at 16:30 in Taub 337 (Foor 3) by Erez Berkner (Check Point Virtualization Security Director) on Cloud Technology More details in the attached poster.

ELBIT representatives will meet students on Monday, March 26, 2012, 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.

Prof. Judea Pearl, 2011 Harvey Prize and Turing Award Laureate, will give a special guest talk at the CS Department. The lecture is held in honor of his Harvey Prize endowment, but he jwas just lately announced as the 2011 Turing Award Laureate. Prof. Pearl's lecture will take place on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 11:00, in CS Taub Building Auditorium 2 and will be titled: "The algorithmization of Causes and Counterfactuals" More details in ...

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 to encourage excellence in research and study in these areas. For additional information and applying (by March 25, 2012) please contact Keren Keisari: ciscoprize2012 at cisco.com More details in the ...

The Technion Computer Science Department will hold an Open Day for graduate studies in Winter Semester 2012, on Sunday, April 1, 2012. 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.

Intel representatives will hold a recruitment event at the CS Taub Building on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 between 11:30-14:30. First and second degree (2nd semester and on) students are invited. Please see more details in the attached document.

Microsoft will hold a special event on behalf of its Excellence Program CS students and will award them the Microsoft scholaship. The ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 18 2012, at 14:30, in room 337 at the CS Taub Building and will be followed by a Tech Talk on "The Use of Brain Machine Interfaces for Music Recommendations". Please bring your resume and grade record. More details in the attached document.

Kira Radinsky, a CS Ph.D. student, has been named a finalist in the 2012-2013 Facebook Fellowship Program. This is an extremely competitive program that seeks to support Ph.D. students doing groundbreaking research in computer science. The 12 winners and 30 finalists were selected from a group of 300 applicants. Congratulations to Kira on being included in this prestigious list.

Google R&D center invites CS students to attend Google TECH TALK on Sunday, March 25, 2012, at 16:30 in room 337 (3rd floor), CS Taub Building, by Adi Avidor, Senior Software Engineer at Google, who will review Google's approach for creating an infrastructure to its wide number of products as well as distributed systems software infrastructure while elaborating on Google File System (GFS) and the Map-Reduce framework Spots are limited! please register in advance.

Yesterday the RSA Conference has presented Prof. Eli Biham, Dean of Computer Science Department, with the prestigious RSA Conference Award 2012 for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics: "Professor Eli Biham has contributed groundbreaking work on the cryptanalysis of symmetric-key ciphers. Biham, a professor and dean of the Computer Science department at the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology, co-discovered the technique of differential cryptanalysis with Adi Shamir in the late 1980’s." Eli Biham has also ...

CS students Alex Kirshon and Dima Gonikman are the winners of the 2011 Amdocs Best Project Contest. Their project "Persistent OSPF Attacks" was conducted under the supervision of r. Gabi Nakibly and Chief Engineer Itai Dabran within the facilities of the CS Laboratory for Computer Communication and Networking LCCN). The young researchers attacked the OSPF and caused its defense systems to receive their own scattered false data and thus to disrupt its autonomic system operation, ...

CS Ph.D. student Nadav Amit has been approved to receive an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship award. The Fellowship Program annunciation proclaimed that this award is highly competitive and and recognizes the student as well as the quality of his institution. Congratulations to Nadav!

The winners of the CS 2010-2011 Best Project Contest will receive the Amdocs Prize in a ceremony which will on Monday, Mars 12, 2012 at 16:00, in Taub 337. Congratulations to the winners. You are all invited. Following are the winning projects of the 2010 Amdocs Best Project Contest: - Anan Abu-Yousef and Anna Ginzburg: "Descriptors-Based Stereo Reconstruction Project"; (supervised by Prof. Ron Kimmel Yaron Honen and Guy Roseman, GIP). - Ranit Gotsman and Nir ...

The 2012 open day of the Technion was held on Thursday, February 2nd. A great number of visitors attended the CS Taub welcome event and packed the lectures halls and labs presentations. CS dean Prof. Eli Biham and Vice Dean Prof. Irad Yavneh explained in their presentation about computer science in general, and about studying it in the different department Undergraduate Studies tracks. The student Amir Cohen shared his personal point of view and described ...

On November 17th the faculty celebrated the 80th birthday of Prof. Azaria Paz, one of the founders of the CS faculty, who played central role in the development of the faculty in its first 30 years. The event included two scientific talks: A lecture by Prof. Richard Karp from UC Berkeley, a distinguished visiting professor of the faculty, titled "Theory of Computation as a Lens on the Sciences", and a lecture by Dr. Ronny Lempel ...

The Technion Open Day for prospective students will be held on Thursday, February 2, 2012 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 which lectures will be given by faculty members and students as follows: 11:00 - Prof. Eli Biham, CS Dean Prof. Irad Yavneh, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies - A Close ...

On Thursday, February 9, 2012, we will hold a one-day symposium in memory of Prof. Moshe Israeli. The event will be held in Taub 3 (on the ground floor), starting at 10:00 and the program will include recollections and memories by the Israeli family and friends, and lectures by speakers who are long-time personal and professional friends of Moshe. You are all invited. Detailed program in the attached document. If you plan to attend, please ...

The Computer Science Department congratulates the winners of the Excellent TA awards for Spring Semester 2011. Persistent Excellent TA: Yaniv Carmeli - for the 6th time Limor Leibovich - for the 2nd time David Yanay - for the 2nd time Jonathan Yaniv - for the 3rd time Persistent Faculty Excellent TA: Sivan Kim Albagli Alon Mishne Faculty Excellent TA: Shahar Chen Omer Levy Omer Strulovich David Wajc Nimrod Saban Partosh