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Yan Chen
Yan Chen

Ten of the top commercial Android antivirus software products were beaten by common malware obfuscation methods, according to new research.

The researchers -- EECS professor Yan Chen and PhD candidate Vaibhav Rastogi of Northwestern and Xuxian Jiang of NC State -- used a homegrown prototype malware obfuscation / transformation tool called DroidChameleon in their experiment,  which ran from February 2012 until February 2013. The tool automatically transformed known Android malware families, including DroidDream, Geinimi, Fakeplayer, Bserv, BaseBridge, and Plankton, to test the mettle of the AV programs.  Read more
Ken Forbus
Ken Forbus

Ken Forbus gave a talk at Google last week summarizing his group's work on the Companion cognitive architecture and how it may be a step towards human-level AI.  The Companion architecture is exploring the idea that analogy and qualitative reasoning are central in human cognition.  Companions have been used in many learning tasks, including solving physics problems and playing a variety of games.  Companions have also been used to model conceptual change, as found in prior studies of human students.  For more information on Companions and the research of the Qualitative Reasoning Group, please see  www.qrg.northwestern.edu.

Nikos Hardavellas
Nikos Hardavellas

Northwestern University hosts the 2nd Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR). The workshop is tasked with increasing communication and synergy amongst the computer systems research community in the greater Chicago area. The program features a keynote from Pete Beckman, Director of the Exascale Technology and Computing Institute at Argonne National Labs, and co-Director of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering.   Read more

Raphael Tsu, University of North Carolina
Raphael Tsu, University of North Carolina

Manijeh Razeghi will give an invited talk on Monday, May 6th, in Charlotte, North Carolina at "Superlattice Workshop Development of Man Made Electronic Materials and Devices: Past and Future," in honor of Dr. Raphael Tsu's 80th birthday and 25 years of service at UNC-Charlotte. Read more     

Yan Chen
Yan Chen

As a member of the Illinois Cyber Task Force, Yan Chen was invited to attend Illinois Governor Pat Quinn's Cyber Challenge Press Conference at James R. Thompson Center with a few Veterans, Cyber, and Community Leaders.  The event marked the launch of the Illinois Governor's Cyber Challenge  that will provide a pathway of learning and workforce training for students, veterans and others seeking to develop their cyber skills. Read more

Students: Nominate EECS faculty and administrators for ASG Honor Roll by May 12

Each year ASG hosts this opportunity for students to honor faculty and administrators who continually enrich our time here and represent a commitment to the Northwestern student body. Please take this chance to recognize those who have served Northwestern University with distinction. Enter your nominations here.If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions please e-mail Sofia Sami, ASG Academic VP, atasg-academic@u.northwestern.edu

May 2, 2013
Vol 1, No. 28
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Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop. General co-chair is Nikos Hardavellas. More
 
Fri May 3 @ 9:45 AM Ford 2.227
GEECS-Sponsored Bagels, etc. All are invited.

 

Mon May 6  @ 12:00 PM Tech L324
CS Theory Seminar: Kamal Jain "Algorithmic Game Theory of eBay's Buyer-Selling matching"
 
Mon May 6 @ 1 PM MS in Analytics Lecture Series: Blake Johnson
 
Wed May 8 @ 1:30 PM
PhD Defense - Kunpeng Zhang  
"Big Social Media Data Mining for Marketing Intelligence"  

 

Thu May 9 @ 5PM
Sadasivan (Sadas) Shankar, Intel Corporation: "Materials Genome - The Last Mile Perspective & Thermodynamics of Computing"
 
Thu May 9 & Fri May 10
Annual EECS Advisory Board Meeting 

 

Upcoming EECS Distinguished Speakers - Save the dates:

May 15: Prof. H. Vincent Poor (Princeton)

May 22: Dr. Mark Riedl (Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing)

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CS/Engineering/MSIT Students; Info Session & Interview & Pizza MON MARCH 6  
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Donlen: Java Developer/System Analyst (Northbrook IL)
 

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