Welcome to the Maseeh College Computer Science Department!
Melanie Mitchell Publishes New Book
(3/12/2009) Melanie Mitchell's latest book, "Complexity: A Guided Tour" is now available. It can be purchased from Amazon.com.
From Amazon: "What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures like the immune system, the World Wide Web, the global economy, and the human genome? These are just a few of the fascinating and elusive questions that the science of complexity seeks to answer."
Tom Shrimpton Receives NSF CAREER Award
(2/4/2009) Dr. Tom Shrimpton has received an NSF CAREER Award for his cryptography research. His proposal entitled "CAREER: Design Principles for Cryptographic Hash Functions: Foundations, Primitives, and Transforms" focuses on revisiting the design and analysis of hash functions. Given recent attacks on often-used hash functions like MD5 and SHA-1, the project will focus on formal foundations in hashing that will establish new and meaningful notions of what it means for a hash function to be "good". Congratulations, Tom!
Message from the Chair
We have 26 tenure-track faculty in our department, leading a number of research areas including: data and information management, systems and networking, programming languages, software engineering, and machine learning. Our faculty includes three NSF CAREER / PYI award winners and two ACM fellows. Our faculty members are also heavily engaged in a large number of international editorial and board positions.
Sincerely,
Wu-chi Feng, Chair and Professor