News & Announcements

• Prof. Memon Interviewed on NBC Nightly News
  Posted: 07/11/05

• Poly PhD Student places 2nd in ACM SRC
  Posted: 07/11/05

• Poly Researchers Receive Best Paper Award at WWW 2005
  Posted: 05/30/05

• Poly PhD Student Nominated as Grand Finalist in ACM SRC
  Posted: 05/12/05

• Poly Gets Renewed Designation as Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education
  Posted: 05/12/05

• PhD information session hosted by Profs. John Iacono and Torsten Suel
  Posted: 04/26/05

• Computer and Information Science Research Showcase
  Posted: 02/13/05

• Poly Hosts Symposium on Future of Telecommunications on Friday 2/11
  Posted: 02/08/05

• Software Engineer and System Analyst Rated Among Top 10 Jobs for Next 5 Years
  Posted: 02/08/05

• CIS Welcomes New Postdocs and Distinguished Visiting Researcher: A. Bagchi, S. Taha, J. Erickson
  Posted: 01/07/05

• CIS offers Spring 2005 Online Courses
  Posted: 11/26/04

• CATT Annual Research Review on Friday 12/3: Keynote by Dr. Craig Nevill-Manning (Google)
  Posted: 11/20/04

• Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies and Deparment of Computer and Information Science seminar: "The Future of Peer to Peer (P2P) File Sharing in Large Environments" by Dr. Keith Ross
  Posted: 11/13/04

• Poly Holds Inaugural Meeting for Wireless Research Center on October 8
  Posted: 10/06/04

• Poly Receives $1M for Computer Security Research & Education
  Posted: 09/28/04

• Prof. Ross Publishes 3rd Edition of Networking Textbook
  Posted: 09/17/04

• New certification program in Information Systems Security
  Posted: 09/17/04

• NACE Study: Computer Science Third Most Lucrative College Degree
  Posted: 08/08/04
  

• CATT Research Center at Poly Redesignated by New York State
  Posted: 08/08/04
  

• Fall '04 Special Topics Courses
  Posted: 05/26/04
  

• Summer '04 Special Topics Courses
  Posted: 05/26/04
  

• CIS Receives $500K GAANN Award to Support Doctoral Education
  Posted: 5/23/04
  

• Poly to host 2004 ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in June
  Posted: 5/23/04
  

• Getting a PhD in Computer Science - An Information Session
  Posted: 4/19/04
  

• Spring '04 Special Topics Courses
  Posted: 12/18/03
  

• Fall '03 Research Showcase Presentations Are Now Available
  Posted: 10/31/03
  

• CATT/WICAT Annual Research Review on 11/14/2003
  Posted: 10/29/03
  

• Poly Receives $1.4M Grant for Peer-to-Peer Computing Research
  Posted: 10/29/03
  

• Prof. Keith Ross accepts Shustek Chair at Polytechnic
  Posted: 01/02/03
  

• January 2003 PhD Qualifying Exams
  Posted: 12/23/02
  The schedule for the January 2003 PhD Qualifying Exams is now official.

• CATT/WICAT Annual Research Review - Nov 15, 2002
  Posted 11/14/02
  

• Scholarships For Service Program - Application Deadline Dec 23
  Posted 10/25/02
  

• Presentations of Research Showcase held on October 4, 2002
  Posted 10/07/02
  

• CIS Hosts Research Showcase for Students on Friday, October 4
  Posted 10/01/02
  The Computer and Information Science Department is hosting a research showcase where faculty members will present their research to interested students and other members of the Polytechnic community.

• CIS Department mourns Edward J. Smith, Longtime Professor, EE Department Head, and Director of First Computer Science Division
  Posted 9/27/02
  Professor Emeritus Edward J. Smith died on August 20 in Brooklyn, New York. He was 81.

• The Computer & Information Science Department is currently hiring Lab Monitors/Instructors for the Fall 2002 semester
  Posted 6/31/02
  Hiring lab monitors/instructors for cs1114 and cs1124.

• Polytechnic Receives 3 Million Dollar "Scholarship for Service" Award -- Now Accepting Applications
  Posted 6/18/02
  Polytechnic University has received an NSF Federal Cyber Service "Scholarship for Service" (SFS) grant that provides financial aid to students wishing to pursue advanced studies in the field of information assurance and security.

• NSF Career Grant Awarded to Prof. Brönnimann
  Posted 6/17/02
  Hervé Brönnimann, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded a 2002 NSF Career Grant for his work on geometric computing.

• Prof. Shooman Publishes Textbook on Computer Reliability and Fault Tolerances
  Posted 6/17/02
  Prof. Martin Shooman has published a new textbook titled "RELIABILITY OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS: FAULT TOLERANCE, ANALYSIS, DESIGN".

• NSA Names Polytechnic Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education
  Posted 6/17/02
  The U. S. National Security Agency (NSA) has designated Polytechnic University as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.

• January 2002 PhD qualifying exams
  Posted 12/26/01
  Monday, January 7th: Algorithms & Theory (Coordinator: Prof. Chiang)
  Wednesday, January 9th: Architecture & OS (Coordinator: Prof. Hadimioglu)
  Friday, January 11th: Applications (Coordinator: Prof. Naumovich)
  Friday, January 18th: Snow/Emergency back up date

• Shustek Chair and Faculty Positions
  The Computer and Information Science Department at the Polytechnic University invites nominations and applications for the Leonard Shustek endowed chair.

• CIS Faculty organize Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry (Nov 2-3, 2001)
  We are pleased to announce the eleventh in a series of annual fall workshops on Computational Geometry.

• CIS Welcomes 3 New Faculty Members
  Three new tenure-track faculty members are joining our Department for the Fall 2001 semester.

• $1.5 Million Grant Awarded for New Wireless Research Center
  Polytechnic University has received a $1.5 million grant from the New York State Office of Science and Technology (NYSTAR) to establish WICAT, the Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (wicat.poly.edu).

• New Undergraduate CS Labs Opened
  Polytechnic has opened four new state-of-the-art computer science laboratories for undergraduate students in the CS program.

• Three Faculty Receive NSF Career Grants
  Three faculty members in the CIS Department, Profs. Yi-Jen Chiang, Gleb Naumovich, and Torsten Suel, have received prestigious NSF Career grants from the National Science Foundation, thus joining the departments three other recent Career awardees, Profs. Delis, Hellerstein, and Memon.

• CIS receives PhD Fellowships
  The CIS Department at Polytechnic University has received several PhD Fellowships from the US Department of Education.

• January 2001 PhD qualifying exams
  Tuesday, Jan 9: Application
  Friday, Jan 12: Algorithms & Theory of Comp.
  Tuesday, Jan 16: Architecture & OS
  Thursday, Jan 18: Snow/Emergency Day (backup date if one of the above is cancelled)

• Policy on collaboration on programming assignments
  Students are encouraged to read and understand the policy on collaboration on programming assignments.

• Get your own homepage
  All students enrolled in any program offered by the department can have their homepage listed on our site.

• PhD Qualifying Exams-Rules and Reading List
  This is the latest update of PhD Qualifying exams and reading list. Students are advised to read this before preparing for the exam.