The Taub Faculty of Computer Science News and Announcements

Among nearly 3,000 applicants and 291 top researchers selected by the European Research Council's third prestigious 'Starting Grant' competition, one winner is CS Faculty members: Prof. Nir Ailon. The European Research Council (ERC) grants support worldwide researchers who wish to advance their research, and encourages ...

The Computer Science Department is proud to congratulate Prof. Orna Grumberg and Prof. Assaf Schuster on their naming as ACM fellows. This year ACM has recognized 42 of its members for their significant contributions to the development and application of computing in areas from data ...

Maariv December 2, 2015 Three Technion CS students developed a smartphone-controlled system that takes care of the dog while its owner is away. A guide-dog named Luk was the inspiration and the experimenter. Full Article nrg IBA Yediot Aharonot Maariv Galey Zahal

The finals of the 3rd Intel coding challenge competition together with the Technion Computer Engineering Center, CS and EE faculties was held on Wednesday, November 25, 2015. The competition is designed to reward contestants who develop innovative, creative, and original applications for PC and tablets. ...

WORLDQUANT - an international investment company - is looking for grads excelling in math, ee, physics and cs for challenging algorithmic research role. You are invited to meet the company representatives on Monday, November 30, 2015, between 14:00-16:00, at the CS Taub lobby. No prior ...

The CS Department in collaboration with Amdocs invites you to take part in the 2015-16 Outstanding Projects competition. The goal of the competition is to recognize and reward outstanding projects as part of Computer Science Graduate Training. A project will be considered outstanding if it ...

ELBIT Systems are recruiting CS and software engineering students and will offer you a variety of interesting jobs, on Wednesday, November 25, 2015, 11:30-15:30, starting at 10:30, at the lobby of CS Taub Building. Please bring your cv and grades record.

Dr. Ron Brachman, Head of Yahoo! Labs and Chief Scientist of Yahoo, visited  the Technion CS, accompanied by Dr. Yoelle Maarek, VP Research EMEA, and Head of Yahoo Labs in Israel and the UK, and hosted by Dean Prof. Irad Yavneh, Vice Dean for UG ...

INTEL representatives will meet CS students and will offer you various jobs, on Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 11:30-15:30, at the lobby of CS Taub Building. Please bring your cv and grades record.

ECM representatives will meet CS, Program and Computer Engineering students to present their latest startup purchase: ScaleiO, and to offer you various openings, on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 at the Taub Lobby. A lecture on storage will be given at 12:45 in Taub 2. Please ...

The 2015 Workshop in Cryptology will be held on Monday, December 28 2015, between 9:00-17:15, in Auditorium 1, CS Taub Building, Technion. You are all invited. More details and program, including lecture abstracts, (free but required) registration and arrival directions.

Globes November 3rd, 2015 Prof. Danny Raz [from Technion CS], Director of operations of Bell Labs in Israel, speaks about the future of the communications industry, "The operators act in 'survival' mode"; According to the forecasts in the new book, cellular networks capacity will increase ...

MELLANOX representatives will meet CS students and will offer you student-jobs (as engineers!) in various fields, on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 11:30-14:30, at the lobby of CS Taub Building. Please bring your cv and grades record.

RAFAEL representatives will meet CS students and will offer you student-jobs in various fields, on Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 10:00-15:00, at the lobby of CS Taub Building. Please bring your cv and grades record.

The mathematician and priest Prof. Nader Bshouty speaks about science and religion, artificial intelligence and learning machines and more, in a two-part talk on "Kifach" channel of the Educational TV. Full Article

On the occasion of his new book (נילי אושרוב, יוצא מן הכללים: עוזי אורנן, סיפור חיים, הוצאת כרמל, 2015), Prof. Uzzi Ornan speaks about his life and work in Yoav Ginai's program "Lagaat Ba-ruach") on Channel 1 of the Israeli TV. Full Article

Galei Zahal October 15, 2015 Prof. Irad Yavneh, a poet who uploads poets to Youtube and Technion CS Dean [... ] - The Minister or Education calls for upgrading math to 5 points. Full Article Anashim ve-Machshevim

Meirav Zehavi's paper "The k-Leaf Spanning Tree Problem Admits a Klam Value of 39" was selected among 3 others only by the Program Committee to receive the Best Student Paper Award from the the IWOCA 2015  - Int'l Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms. Meirav wil be ...

Congratulation to Prof. MIchael Elad who was named one of the top ten most Highly Cited Israeli Researchers in 2015 as published by Thomson Reuters rank of the world’s most influential scientific minds. Well done Miki!

CS proudly congratulates professors Ran El-Yaniv and Danny Raz who will be awarded the 2015 Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education. This is the Technion most prestigious prize and it is awarded for a substantial and unique contribution to the advancement of academic education ...

Tel-Avivre-com September 7, 2015 Un des principaux objectifs de la visite d’Emanuel Macron en Israël est sans nul doute le développement des partenariats entre la France et Israël dans l’innovation et dans la création d’entreprises et autres start-ups. Full Article

Ynet September 7, 2015 Technion CS students developed KidKeeper - An alarm-app that updates parents in case their child didn't arrive to the kindergarten.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities for 2015 graded the Technion in the field of computer science in the 18th place in the world for the 4th time in a row. The ranking, performed by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ...

Geektime August 9, 2015 Prof. Ayelet Ben-Sasson and her husband Prof. Eli Ben Sasson [from Technion CS] Created Online Baby Croinc - A Research-backed, Crowd-based Platform This is every data-loving parent’s dream: An Israeli married couple, who are both researchers, created a crowd-based developmental diary ...

nrg August 4, 2015 Students at the Technion CS developed a cutting edge social volunteering platform "Enoshi" that helps volunteers, volunteering organizations and people who need them. The platform is based on crowd wisdom and on shared knowledge and helps to efficiently coordinate between the ...

Prof. Hagit Attya Named Technion Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (MANLA) CS is proud to congratulate Prof. Hagit Attiya on her appointment to the Technion Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs (MANLA). The office is in charge of academic and administrative duties in relation ...

CS congratulates Prof. Orna Gurmberg who has been awarded the cav-award Award - the most prestigious prize in Formal Verification. Together with Prof. Edmund Clarke and others she received it for development and implementation of the localization-reduction technique and the formulation of counterexample-guided abstraction refinement ...

nrg July 15, 2015 The worrisome decline in 5 points math studies was dealt in a panel held at the Technion Computer Science Department. The Ministry of Education plans to increase the 5 points math students from 9% to 18% within five years. Full Article

The Marker July 19, 2015 The three founders [Technion CS graduate] Assaf Rappaport, Ami Lutbak and Roi Reznik are 8200 Unit veterans. Adallom developed a monitoring and security system for organizations use of online software. Full Article

Meirav Zehavi's paper "Mixing Color Coding-Related Techniques" was selected by the Program Committee to receive the Best Student Paper Award from the the ESA 2015 - European Symposium on Algorithms. Meirav wil be awarded at the 23rd ESA Symposium in September, to be held in ...

nrg July 6, 2015 ... Another interesting project exposed in the exhibition was TELE-CARE, A robot which assists the pre-nursing elderly in their homes (joint project of Machine Engineering and Computer Science faculties). Full Article

Calcalist, July 9, 2015 What can we learn from the ants? And did they invent management-free managing? ... Prof. Alfred Bruckstein from Technion Computer Science Department and Prof. Deborah Gordon from Stanfrod University ... took on from where The  Book of Proverbs left it. Tracking ...

The winners of the 2014/15 CS Dean Excellence Award and Amdocs Best Project winners were awarded in a ceremony held in the faculty on Monday, July 6, 2015. The event hosted family members and guests of 160 excellent students. Dean Prof. Irad Yavneh and Vice ...

On Monday, July 6, 2015 CS held a Followships Award Ceremony for Excellent Students in Computer Science (SAMBA). The even hosted the donating families and their guests. Dean Prof. Irad Yavneh hosted the event and congratulated the winning students on their achievements. Mr. Israel Abramovich, ...

The traditional CS programming contest was held for the tenth time in a row on Friday, June 26 2015, sponsored by Google. Thirty students (including a record number of 8 girls!) split to 10 teams took part in the contest which was 5 hours long. ...

Three students from the Technion Computer Science Department developed the "Robodrink" - a robot that makes alcoholic cocktails. The robot was developed by Michal Friedman, Yoav Mizrachi,and Zorik Gekhman in the Course System Programming in Arduino Environment, led by Prof. Yossi Gil TAs Boris van ...

Researchers from Tel-Aviv University and Technion [CS] Have developed a method for cracking codes based on listening to the electromagnetic field of the computer; and there is Pita bread too. Full Article Calcalist

On Thursday, June 25 2015, the Computer Science Department celebrated the graduation of 200 students. Dean, Prof. Irad Yavneh, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Prof. Shaul Markovitch spoke in the presence of many guests and family members. Uzi Cohen gave a speech on behalf of ...

End of Year Fest

Meirav Zehavi's paper "Maximum Minimal Vertex Cover Parameterized by Vertex Cover" was selected by the Program Committee to receive the Best Student Paper Award, sponsored by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. Meirav wil be awarded at the 40th MFCS - Mathematical Foundations of ...

Calcalist June 21, 2015 ... Prof. Eli Biham, former Dean at the Technion Computer Science Department and one of Israel leading computer scientists, who composed the report, assumes that the alternatives were not examined, and not incidentally. "The state wants your data" says Biham plainly. ...

Last Thursday, June 11, 2015, the faculty hosted 500 guests for a one-time event for our MSC and PHD alumni of all time. The list of participants included leaders of the Israeli Hi-Tech industry, faculty members of Israeli universities, researchers and entrepreneurs and everyone in ...

The Computer Science celebrated the graduation of 28 Magister students in a ceremony which was held on Monday, June 8 2015, at the Taub Auditorium. Dean Prof. Irad Yavneh, acting Vice Dean for Graduate Studies, Prof. Erez Petrank and Ido Gonen - on behalf of the ...

The Computer Science Department congratulates the winners of the Excellent TA awards for 2014-15 Winter Semester: Technion Persistent Excellent TA: Persistent Excellent Technion TA: Mor Weiss - for the 5th time Mor received the Technion Alfred and Yehuda WeismanTechnion and Muriel and David Jacknow Award ...

nrg June 3, 2015 Technion [CS] student developed - by analyzing contents of social networks - a software which identifies sentimental expression in text messages. Full Article Reshet Bet (15:45 min.) Channel 10 Morning Program (1:27 min.)

On Tuesday,  May 26 2015 CS held at the first all-labs project fair. In the colorful and lively event took part teams of undergraduate students and their labs advisors and  together they presented their research in various means : posters, videos, multimedia presentations and more. ...

Qualcomm representatives will meet CS, and Computer Engineering students and graduates with average grades on 82+ to meet them on Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 10:30-14:30, at the lobby of CS Taub Building. Please bring your cv and grades record.

CS Ph.D. Students Graduation Ceremony, 2015 Technion Ph.D. Graduation Ceremony, was held on Wednesday evening, May 20, 2015. 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 Department of Computer Science is proud to congratulate our students Areej Costa, Sarai Duek, and Sofia (Sonya) Gendelman, recipients of the 2015 Anita Borg scholarships, among 40 scholars from Europe, The Middle East and North Africa. All finalists will receive 7,000 Euro and will ...

We are happy to invite you to all times MSc & PhD CS alumni event. The event will be held on Thursday, June 11th at the lobby of CS Taub Building, starting at 15:00 and will include a fascinating workshop with famous speakers: Prof. Amnon ...

Eight successful start-up companies participated in a unique vigorous fair in the computer science faculty on April 29th. The companies which participated were Outbrain, Wix, Clicktale, Gett, Forter, Kaminario, Ravello systems and Glide. Each company presented itself, its technology and challenges. The company's representatives gave ...

The winners of Spring semester 2014 CS Dean Execellence Award and 2014 Programming Contest were awarded in a ceremony held in the faculty on May 3, 2014. The event hosted guests and family members of 155 Dean Excellent students and young leading programmers who won ...

The final stage of the 2014 Amdocs Best Project Contest was held on Wednesday, April 29 2015 and the competing teams presented and talked about their excelllent projects. The best project were elected by a judging committee from CS and Amdocs and are: "CutOut: Segmentation ...

EMC representatives will meet you on Monday, April 27 between 15:00-17:00 at the CS Taub lobby. You are all invited to come and check your options for future career. Please bring along you cv and grades chart.

ELBIT executives will meet you on recruitment event to be held on Wednesday, April 15, starting at 10:00, at the CS Taub Building Lobby. You are all invited.

The Technion Computer Engineering Center (TCE) is happy to invite you to attend the conference on Workshop on Coding for Emerging Memories and Storage Technologies on Sunday, May 03, 2015 at the Technion, Meyer building (Electrical engineering Department) room 1003. The conference will be focused ...

An extremely energetic Hackaton, 'HackPro 2015', was held at the CS faculty during the weekend (May 26th-27th 2015). The programing marathon was initiated by Sarai Duek, a master's student who is the head of the 'WomenTechPRO'- the women community of the CS faculty. Sarai was ...

Bloomberg R&D Israel representatives invite CS and Software Engineering students and graduates to check out variety of jobs in software development, on Monday, March 23, 2015, 14:00-17:00, at the lobby of CS Taub Building. Please bring your cv and grades record.

The 2015 open day of the Technion was held on Thursday, February 19th. A great number of visitors attended the CS Taub welcome event and packed the lectures halls and labs presentations. CS dean Prof. Irad Yavneh and Vice Dean Prof. Shaul Markovitch explained in ...

On Monday, 23/2/2015, the computer science department participated in a volunteering activity organized by LEKET ISRAEL, the country's largest food rescue organization. The main goal of LEKET ISRAEL is to alleviate the problem of nutritional insecurity amongst the growing numbers of Israel's poor. Faculty members, ...

The computer science faculty welcomes a new faculty member – associate professor Benny Kimelfeld. Prof. Kimelfeld completed his Ph.D. with honors in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2008. After finishing his studies he started a two year postdoctoral fellowship at the ...

YnetFebruary 23, 2015 Israeli [Technion CS] students developed a led screen that projects the smart phone on the vehicle windshield and is manipulated by hand gestures only. Full Article

The Technion Open Day for prospective students will be held on Thursday, February 19, 2015 between 09:00-16:00 and will start in Beit Hastudent, where the CS booth will invite visitors to a welcome event at the lobby of The Taub Building for Computer Science. CS ...

Congratulation to Daniel Genkin, Javobs Prize winner for his project (together with Prof. Adi Shamir from Weizmann Institute of Science, Dr. Eran Trumer and Lev Pachmanov from Tel-Aviv University) on RSA Code Deciphering. More on the project.

TCE in Collaboration with Caesarea Rothschild Institute Proudly Present a Lightweight Crypto. Lightweight cryptography is an emerging field of research trying to address low-end devices that need security such as RFID tags. As known, security solutions cannot be accommodated in these restricted environments, and lightweight ...

IBM Research Lab will hold a recruitment event and will present the latest on cognitive computing, The researchers will conduct an open discussion, including demos and posters of their projects. The event will take place on Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 12:30-14:30, at the lobby of ...

Mellanox Technionogies invites students and graduates to check out variety of jobs in software, hardware, chips and architecture development, on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, 12:30-14:30, at the lobby of CS Taub Building. Please bring your cv and grades record.

The 5th Annual International TCE (Technion Computer Engineering Center) Conference on Scalable and Reliable Systems will be held on Monday-Tuesday, June 1-2, 2015 at the Technion. This year the conference will focus on large scale parallel and distrubuted systems, methods for testing and verifying large ...

Congratulation to our student Nachson Cohen, winner of Javobs Fellowship for Excellence. Kol hakavod!  

Calcalist February 4, 2015 Sesame Enable was established by Technion graduates Oded Ben-Dov [CS] and Giora Livne. The company developed an application which enables - with the help of front built-in camera - to operate all smart phones by nodding only and no touch at ...

The Computer Science Department congratulates the winners of the Excellent TA awards for 2014 Spring Semester: Persistent Excellent TA: Dana Drachsler- for the 2nd time Mor Weiss - for the 4th time Faculty Persistent Excellent TA: Hassan Abassie Gal Lalouche Kfir Lev-Ari Faculty Excellent TA: ...

Technion January 26, 2015 The Technion and Microsoft R&D launch a unique project at the Systems and Software Development Laboratory of the Computer Science Faculty. The project will focus in the field of "The internet of things" and will serve the students in developing new ...

As a part of a series of events to mark the birthday of Anita Borg, the "Leading in Technology" convention was held on January 20th 2015. The convention, which targeted promoting gender equality and diversity in the fields of technology, was created due to a ...

Dr. Amir Adler, CS Ph.D. graduate (co-advised by Prof. Michael Elad and Prof. Yacov Hel-Or) was appointed Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Communications. Amir's research in the CS Department focused on Machine learning and Video and image processing. In his new position as the ...

CS faculty Prof.Michael Elad has been named the head of the Technion's Excellence Program. The Technion Excellence Program is customized to extract curiosity, creativity and deepening disciplines and designed for outstanding students who are capable of studying "differently" and are ready to extent and expand ...

CS students in the course "Project in Advanced Programming" invite you to the application fair within the cours Software Engineering on Thursday, January 15, 2015, between 10:30-12.30, in room 337 (3rd floor) of CS Taub Building. The fair will exhibit new android applications designed to ...

You are invited to a special event on leading in technology. The objective is to promote equality and diversity in technology and inspire choice of technological topics and progressing in them. The event will be held on Tuesday, January 20th, 2015, at 17:30 in CS ...

TCE in Collaboration with Bell Labs Israel and CloudBand Proudly Present a Winter School and Hackathon on Distributed Cloud Networking. This 4 days event offers a concentrated in depth acquaintance with the fundamental concepts behind cloud computing, software defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualization ...

Prof Dan Tsafrir received the IBM Faculty Award for his research on Accelerating Virtual I/O. The award is a competitive worldwide program intended to faculty with outstanding reputation for contributions in their field or, in the case of junior faculty, show unusual promise. The award's ...

Forbes January 1st, 2015 Faster, Cheaper, Younger: Meet 30 under 30 Rising Stars of Enterprise Technology [among them Technion CS graduate, Dr. Radinsky]. Full Article More on Kira

Dr. Nadav Amit, CS Ph.D. graduate (co-advised by Prof. Assaf Schuster and Prof. Dan Tsafrir) received the SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2014 - an annual award that aims to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations within the scope of the SPEC Research Group in terms of scientific ...