Joan
Feigenbaum has been named a fellow of the
American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Details.

Yale
sent three teams to the
Greater New York Regionals
of the ACM Programming Contest, which took place
on Sunday, October 28th, at Stony Brook University in Stony
Brook, NY:

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Team
1 (
Michael Hopkins '15, Cezar Mocan '16,
and Cyril Zhang '15) finished in 4th place among
the 42 teams competing.
They were the top freshman/sophomore team.

*
Team
2 (
Mika Sumida '13, Ruyue Tan MS'13, and
Michael Tan
'15)
finished in 5th place.

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Team
3 (
Michael Giuffrida '13, Benjamin Peterson
'15, and Kayo Teramoto '15) finished in 8th place.
The teams were coached by
Yitzchak Lockerman,
and
Professor Michael
Fischer.Full details (including both problems
and standings) will be available soon at
http://www.acmgnyr.org/

Yale
CS alum
James Hendler '78 was awarded the
Inaugural Strata Data Innovation Award
at the O'Reilly Strata Conference.
Details.

The
"Big Data Science" symposium
in honor of
Martin
Schultz was held Oct 26. See
details
of the presentations at the symposium page.

It
was announced at this week's OSDI conference that
Kai
Li and
Paul
Hudak 1989 Memory coherence in shared virtual
memory systems, ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 7, 4 (November
1989), 321-359 has been selected for the
ACM SIGOPS
Hall of Fame.

The
Yale Corporation, at its last meeting, confirmed
Vladimir Rokhlin's appointment as the
Arthur K. Watson Professor of Computer Science.
Dan
Spielman has been named a
MacArthur
Fellow for “connecting theoretical and
applied computing to resolve issues in code optimization
theory with implications for how we measure, predict, and
regulate our environment and behavior.”
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