The Taub Faculty of Computer Science News and Announcements

Microsoft invites you to a demo fest of the latest technology world innovations on a unique and fascinating Campus Day, which will take place on Wednesday, January 12, 2011, between 10:00-15:00, in the lobby of CS Taub Building. Between 13:00-14:00 a lecture will be given ...

The CS Department is happy to announce that ClickSoftware and DELL have joined the Technion CS Industrial Affiliation Program. ClickSoftware is a provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for field service businesses; Dell develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services.

ELBIT representatives will meet students on Monday, December 13, 2010, 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.

INTEL representatives will meet students on Wednesday, December 15, 2010, between 12:00-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring your resume and grades record or send it to hiring at intel.com

The exhibition "The History of Computing" was inauguated on October 17, 2010 in the vitrine of Taub Building for Computer Science in the Technion. The exhibition depicts the history of computing from the 1950's until today with texts and exhibits, most of which were loaned ...

Google Anita Borg Memorial 2011 Scholarship: Anita Borg Memorial 2011 Scholarship - Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for female students enrolled in a Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D. programme in 2011/2012. The application deadline is February 1st, 2011. Each scholar selected will receive a EUR ...

IBM representatives will meet students on Wednesday, November 24, 2010, between 10:00-15:00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

The CS team, sponsored by Amdocs, won a Gold Medal (2nd place) in the ACM ICPC (SWERC) 2010 programming contest in Madrid. The team members, supervised and conducted by Prof. Gill Barequet, are CS students Carmi Grushko, Shahar Papini, Yaniv Sabo and coach Kolman Vornovitsky ...

RAFAEL representatives will meet students on Wednesday, November 17, 2010, between 12:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

MELLANOX representatives will meet students on Monday, November 8, 2010 between 10:30-15:00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

Intel representatives will hold a fun event at the Taub Building on Wednesday, November 10, between 12:00-14:00. The event will include a lecture and demo on Open CL in Room 3 of Taub Building and Q & A panel with students from Intel. First and ...

The Technion Computer Science Faculty will hold an open meeting for graduate studies in Spring Semester 2011. The event will take place on Sunday, November 21, 2010, at 11:00, in Room 337 on the 3rd floor of the CS Taub Building for Computer Science. More ...

Final company will grant a 10,000 NIS worth award to 5 Computer Science students in their first degree studies. More details and application.

Intel invites excellent students to apply for intel awards, to experience its latest projects and to win a rewarding prize. If you are a CS first degree student with grade average 90 and more, in your fourth or fifth semester of studies, you are welcome ...

2010/11 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 ...

Among over 400 top researchers selected in the European Research Council's third prestigious 'Starting Grant' competition, two winners are CS Faculty members: Prof. Amir Shpilka, for his project on "Lower Bounds and Identity Testing for Arithmetic Circuits"; and Prof. Yuval Ishai, for his project: on ...

ELBIT representatives will meet students on Monday, October 25, 2010, between 12:00-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

The SODA 2011 Program Committee awarded Tehcnion CS faculty Dr. Nir Ailon and his coauthor Dr. Edo Liberty (Yahoo! Research, Haifa), the Best Paper Award of the conference, for their paper: "An Almost Optimal Unrestricted Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform". The award will be announced at the ...

The government of Israel approved the recommendation of Gidon Saar, the Minister of Education and Chairman of the Council for Higher Education to appoint Professor Hagit Attiya as member of the council of Higher Education. Congratulations!

Itai Dabran, Chief Engineer of The CS Laboratory for Computer Communication and Networking (LCCN), is the new chair of IEEE Comsoc Israel. The communication group of IEEE Israel has now 300 members from the academy and the industry who join hands to promote and spread ...

The Academic Ranking of World Universities for 2010 graded the Technion in the field of computer science in the 15th place in the world. The ranking, performed by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is based on several excellency factors such ...

In the International Mathematical Competition 2010 held in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria the Israeli team won the fourth place (the places were computed as sum of best 3 students, plus average of the entire team). Seven students from Tel Aviv University, Open University and the Technion took ...

Cisco granted the Excellent Students Prize, to six excellent students, who were selected out of 30 candidates from the Technion, Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University, and who study or research computer and internet networks. Both Technion CS winners - Moran Feldman, a doctoral ...

Moran Feldman, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the Technion won the World Google European and American Doctoral Fellowships. It is the first time that Google decided to grant a fellowship to research students outside the United States and in ...

Excellent CS Students Program (SAMBA) and Dean Execellence Followships Award Ceremony was held on Sunday, July 4, 2010, at the Taub Computer Science Building and was attended by many guests, family members of the awardees and representatives of the fellowships granting companies: Check Point Technologies ...

On 24th of June, 2010, the Computer Science Department celebrated the graduation of 219 students. Dean, Prof. Eli Biham, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Prof. Irad Yavneh, and graduates representative Oded Ben-Dove spoke in the presence of many guests and family members. Two students, Adrian ...

Excellent CS Students Program (SAMBA) Followships Award Ceremony will be held on Sunday, July 4, 2010, at 17:30, in Auditorium 2, Taub Computer Science Building. The fellowships are granted by: Check Point Technologies Assaf Lavi Foundation Elbit Systems Yosefa Abramovitch Foundation Mellanox Technologies Guy Shvat ...

On June 13, 2010, members of the Board of Governors participated in a special program "Be a student for the day" in the CS Faculty. They visited the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems (ISL), the Geometric Image Processing Laboratory (GIP), the Distributed Systems Laboratory (DSL) and ...

Distinguished Professor Leonard Kleinrock visited our faculty on June 15, and gave a lecture in the framework of CS Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave a second lecture in the Department of Electrical Engineering and received an Honorary Doctor of Science from the Technion. He is ...

The Computer Science celebrated the graduation of 26 Magister students in a ceremony which was held on Thursday, June 7 2010, at the Taub Auditorium. Dean Prof. Eli Biham, Vice Dean for Graduate Studies, Prof. Danny Raz, Ph.D. student Tamir Levi and graduating Magister Student ...

The first annual meeting of the CS advisory board took place on Wednesday, May 26, in the Department of Computer Science. More than 20 senior Hi-tech industry representatives were present and hosted by faculty and major Technion members. The main issues were the prospective CS ...

The Computer Science Department congratulates the winners of the Excellent TA awards for Winter Semester 2009-2010. Persistent Excellent TA: Tamar Aizikowitz - for the 4th time Gadi Aleksandrowicz - for the 2nd time Ilia Nudelman Persistent Faculty Excellent TA: Ron Rubinstein - Ron was awarded ...

INTEL representatives will meet students on Monday May 24, 2010, between 16:00-18:00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. A lecture about PFV department, which deals with processors validation process, and is looking for CS, EE and CE students, will be given at 16:30 ...

LSI representatives will meet students on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, between 12:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

Our new faculty member, Dr. Eran Yahav, received the prestigious Allon Fellowship. Dr. Yahav is one of six (record number) Technion new faculty who won the Allon Fellowship this year. Congratulations!

On May 5th and 6th, the Israeli Hungarian Workshop on Future Internet Research was held in the Computer Science Department. Eight Scholars from Hungary joined colleagues from the Technion and other Israeli universities in presenting work related to the Future Internet. The Hungarian Ambassador to ...

The 2010 Workshop in Cryptology will be held on Wednesday, June 9 2010, between 9:00-16:10, in Auditorium 1, CS Taub Building, Technion. You are all invited. More details and program

The CS Department is happy to announce that Kontera and LSI have joined the Technion CS Industrial Affiliation Program. Kontera specializes in information and "in-text advertising"; LSI develops chips in information storage products.

On Sunday April 25, 2010, the computer science department hosted an open day for prospective graduate students. The events included a meeting with the Dean, Prof. Eli Biham, the vice dean for graduate studies, Prof. Danny Raz and the graduate student Yaniv Carmeli. After the ...

ELBIT representatives will meet students on Monday, May 10, 2010, between 12:00-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

IBMrepresentatives will meet students on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 between 10:00-15:00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

Two CS Technion teams won first and second place in the finals of Microsoft's ImagineCup Competition. The winning project was HELP which team members are: Yoav Kantor, Klara Gorinshtain and Amit Gil, and the second runner up was MEC which team members are: Tamer Salman, ...

Craig Mundie, chief executive of research and strategy in "Microsoft", visited the Technion on April 13 at and met researchers in computer science, electrical engineering, nano-technology, bio-Physics and Bio-Medicine. Mr. Craig was accompanied by Moshe Lichtman, vice president of "Microsoft" and president of Global R&D ...

The German Research Institute "Hasso Plattner" established a branch at the Technion, in collaboration with Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments. This is the second extension institute located outside Germany and second to the South Africa branch established a year ago. The institute, founded by ...

Supervised by Dr. Eli Ben Sasson, Crash Course in Derandomization is a series of lectures which will be given by Gil Cohen, a graduate student at the Computer Science Department. The meetings will be held as follows: Lecture 1 - Thursday, May 27, 2010, 15:30-17:30 ...

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 Wednesday, April 21, 2010 between 12:00-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

The Technion Computer Science Department will hold an Open Day for Graduate Studies (towards Fall Semester 2010), on Sunday April 25, 2010 starting at 10:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building for Computer Science. Lectures by Faculty and Ph.D. students will be given ...

The Technion CS Department is proud to announce that Prof. Emeritus Abraham Lempel will receive the 2010 Rothschild prize in the area of engineering. The prize will be awarded in today, April 15 2010. Congratulations!

INTEL representatives will meet students on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, between 12:30-14.00, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. More details are in the attached poster.

RAFAEL representatives will meet students on Wednesday, Mars 24, 2010 between 11:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

The CS Deptrtment congratulates Prof. Uzzi Ornan, winner of the Technion Excellent Lecturer Award for Winter semester 2009-2010 and the excellent teachers: Dr. Roee Engelberg, Dr. Shirley Ginsburg-Halevy and Dan Raviv.

Congratulations to Dr. Eli Ben-Sasson who received the 2009 Technion Henry Taub Prize for Academic Excellence. The prize will be awarded at a festive ceremony on the approaching 2010 Koretorion events.

Congratulations to Prof. Michael Elad and Matan Proter who won the "Hershel Rich" - Technion Innovation Award, for their research work on "Super-Resolution: Improving Video Sequences" and will be awarded at a festive ceremony on the approaching 2010 Koretorion events.

INTEL representatives will meet students on Wednesday, March 17, 2010, between 11:30-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Students in their second or more semester of studies in software and computer engineering and are interested in joining development groups in Intel Haifa and ...

ELBIT representatives will meet students on Monday, March 8, 2010, between 12:00-14:30, in the lobby of the CS Taub Building. Please bring along your resumes and grades record.

The Faculty of Computer Science invites you to a series of lectures to be presented by Prof. Emmanuel Candes from Stanford University, according to the following program: Lecture 1: Compressed Sensing: After the Burst Sunday, March 14, 2010, 14:30 Room 337, Computer Science Taub Building ...

THE VISIT IS CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER IN WASHINGTON D.C. Vinton G. Cerf, "Chief Internet Evangelist" and Vice President for Google, will be hosted by the Technion CS Department on Mondy, February 8, 2010. He will give a talk on "Tracking the Internet into ...

The Technion Open Day 2010 for prospective students will be held on Sunday, January 24, 2010 between 11:00-15:00. The main CS booth will stand in the lobby of The Computer Science Taub Building at the Technion. Lectures will be given by faculty members in the ...

The Technion’s Computer Science Faculty is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, an Alumni Reunion, dedicated to alumni who graduated during 1972-1980, was held on December 30th, 2009. Some 250 alumni and faculty members from those years attended the meeting in ...