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Three CSE faculty named ACM Fellows
Last year, two CSE faculty were named ACM Fellows. Today, the Association for Computing Machinery announced their
2011 ACM Fellow class and this year three of the 46 inductees are UCSD faculty! These are: Keith Marzullo, recognized "for contributions to distributed systems and service to the computing community", Dean Tullsen, recognized "for contributions to the architecture of high-performance processors", and Amin Vahdat, recognized "for contributions to data center scalability and management". In his announcement, ACM President Alain Chesnais writes, "These international luminaries are responsible for solutions that are transforming our society for the better—in healthcare, communications, cybersecurity, robotics, commerce, industry, and entertainment." Marzullo, Tullsen and Vahdat join their ten CSE colleagues who have been previous recipients of the honor. 
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CSE Research Scientist to take on MyHeartMap Challenge
CSE Research Scientist, Manuel Cebrian, and an international team of crowdsourcing experts, have taken on a public competition in an effort to create an effective location-based database of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in the Philadelphia area. This information could prove to be lifesaving, plus the team members will be able to use the challenge to test their theoretical research on mobilizing social networks and verification of information. The MyHeartMap Challenge began on January 31 and continues through March 13, 2012.
See full story at Calit2 News.
To become a member of the HeartCrowd team, register at http://scailab.media.mit.edu/heartcrowd/
For more information about the Challenge, visit http://www.med.upenn.edu/myheartmap/#.TygpPaVSSEZ
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Five UCSD papers accepted at premier cryptology conference
The 31st Eurocrypt conference (Cambridge in 2012) has accepted 41 papers, and of these papers, 5 have CSE authors including one of the top paper submissions. Congratulations Mihir Bellare, Rafael Dowsley, Daniele Micciancio (one of the top three papers), Stefano Tessaro, Sarah Meiklejohn, and recent alumnus Scott Yilek!
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UCSD E-crime work in Businessweek
The two-page spread explains how spammers make their living, based on research by CSE Professor Stefan Savage and colleagues at UC San Diego and at UC Berkeley. The article quotes E-crime researcher and Computing Innovation Fellow, Damon McCoy, as stating "They have better customer service than most real businesses" (McCoy recently accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University). The data for these visuals are derived from two efforts: one led by CSE Research Scientist Kirill Levchenko (spam value chain) and the other by CSE Ph.D. candidate Chris Kanich (spam revenue and demand).
