Maneesh Agrawala has been selected to receive the 2008 SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in recognition of his outstanding early contributions of novel visualization techniques and user interaction models across a range of problem domains. SIGGRAPH also produces a video describing the winner's work, which we will be shown after the conference.
July 17
Costis Daskalakis, Paul Goldberg (U. of Liverpool), and Christos Papadimitriou have won the first Game Theory and Computer Science Prize for their paper, "The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium". The citation is as follows: "This paper made key conceptual and technical contributions in an illustrious line of work on the complexity of computing Nash equilibrium. It also highlights the necessity of constructing practical algorithms that compute equilibria efficiently on important subclasses of games."
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July 16
The research of James O'Brien was featured in a Contra Costa Times article titled, "UC professor creates the Dark side". Prof. O'Brien is the Yoda behind the key technology in LucasArts' upcoming Star Wars video game, "The Force Unleashed." It's not every professor who can give a Jedi his chops.
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July 15
Ernie Kuh has received the 2009 IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award. The
citation reads: "For outstanding contributions to theory and practice in circuits and systems and for pioneering work in electronics design automation." The award is given for outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems that has a long-term significance or impact.
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July 7
Jitendra Malik and EECS alumnus Christoph Bregler have won the 2008 Longuet-Higgins prize for "Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision That have Stood the Test of Time". The citation reads: "Tracking people with twists and exponential maps. An inspired application of kinematic modeling techniques from robotics to the challenge of tracking people in motion from a single camera view, including a memorable model-based analysis of the Muybridge motion study videos." This is the second consecutive award for Prof. Malik - he was a co-winner of the 2007 prize for his paper with Jianbo Shi on "Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation."
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June 30
Kam Lau won the 2009 IEEE David Sarnoff Award. The award is given for exceptional contributions to electronics; the citation reads: "For seminal contributions to improved dynamics of quantum well semiconductor lasers." This is the second major award in optoelectronics garnered by Prof. Lau this year, following the Nicholas Holonyak Award from Optical Society of America earlier this year.
June 23
Richard M. Karp has been awarded the 2008 Kyoto Prize, an international award that honors significant contributions to the scientific, cultural and spiritual development of humanity. He has been selected to receive the award for his fundamental contributions to the theory of computational complexity, which he began developing in the early 1970s by establishing the theory of NP-completeness. In addition to creating many practical computer algorithms of his own, Prof. Karp's work has exerted profound influence on the guiding principles behind the analysis and design of algorithms used in many scientific disciplines.
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