Computer Science

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Computer Science

• New faculty hires
• New CS courses/programs
• Grants and contracts received
• Current sponsored projects
• Start-ups, licenses and other tech transfer

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New faculty

• Itsik Peer (Fall 2006)
• Computational biology, genomics, bioinformatics
• Dana Peer (Fall 2006)
• Computational biology, machine learning,
  biological networks, genomics and systems biology
• Simha Sethumadhavan (Spring 2008)
• high performance computer architecture,
  microarchitecture, and compilers
• Junfeng Yang (Fall 2008)
• tools to check large systems

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New Courses

• Advanced Computer Design
• Instructor Donna E Dillenberger (F07, S07)
• Advanced Cryptography
• Instructor Tal Malkin (S07)
• Adv Topics in Game Design
• Instructors Bernard H Yee and David J Sturman
  (F07)
• Search Engine Technology
• Instructor Dragomir R. Radev (F07, S07)
• Computational Human Genetics
• Instructor Itshack Pe'Er (F07)

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New grants and contracts FY07
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CAT-supported projects 07/08

• Preventing Theft-of-Service in Large-Scale VoIP
  Deployments
• Sponsor Verizon Communications
• Tools and techniques for detecting
  theft-of-service specific to VoIP using call logs
  and real-time mechanisms
• PI H. Schulzrinne, Computer Science
• Machine Learning Algorithms and Applications to
  the Electric Power Grid
• Sponsor Consolidated Edison
• PI David Waltz

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CAT-supported projects 06/07

• Security and Presence Measurements, Tools,
  Prototypes
• Sponsor Verizon Communications
• PI H. Schulzrinne
• Large-scale firewalls to prevent
  denial-of-service attacks in VoIP systems
• Technology licensed to CloudShield multiple
  patent filings
• Machine Learning Algorithms and Applications to
  the Electric Power Grid
• Sponsor Consolidated Edison
• PI David Waltz

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Technology Example EndoView

• Profs. Peter Allen Dennis Fowler (Surgery)
• Platform to learn and perform minimally-invasive
  surgery
• modular camera with pan-tilt motors and lighting
• tested on animals for suturing, cholecystectomy,
  appendectomy, running (measuring) the bowel, and
  nephrectomy
• working on commercialization with CAT help

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Licensing Nowick

• Nowick NASA (Goddard) have developed a chip for
  space laser measurement, using async circuits and
  async CAD tools, and jointly designed, which has
  been incorporated into about 3 prototype designs
  being used at NASA

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Recent startups licenses Misra, Stolfo

• ContextWeb Misra
• ContextWeb, Inc. provides high-precision,
  real-time contextual advertising solutions to
  maximize the results and impact of online
  advertising. Misra redesigned their core
  adserving engine, formulating it as an
  optimization problem, enabling them to run their
  ADSDAQ system as an automated exchange where
  advertisers and publishers trade ad-inventory.
  Product has started beta testing and will be
  launched publicly in Q4.
• Worminator
• using Bloom filters to exchange alerts privately
  and securely has resulted in licensing and
  commercialization (Janak Parekh's thesis)

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Licenses startups Belhumeur

• Photometria Inc.
• new San Diego startup company that is redefining
  personal photo enhancement. We are creating photo
  enhancement technology that enables users to
  explore, change, and improve their photos using
  one-click photorealistic enhancements. Underneath
  an intuitive interface and hidden from the user,
  Photometria, a spinout from the University of
  California, San Diego (UCSD), exploits a
  confluence of technologies in computer vision,
  computer graphics, and machine learning.

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Licenses/startups Malik

• Hassan Malik PhD student VC funding
  development work
• 2007

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Startups Yemini

• arootz.com (co-founder advisor)
• Arootz is developing unique technology to
  deliver, store and manage personalized, high
  quality, video content on millions of personal
  storage devices over existing broadband network
  infrastructures. (2006)

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Startups Stolfo, Keromytis

• StackSafe (formerly Snakeyes)
• CounterStorm
• intrusion and anomaly detection systems was
  licensed by Columbia
• CounterStorm is a leading provider of modular
  threat detection and mitigation software
  development kits (SDKs) to security and
  infrastructure companies, as well as
  sophisticated government and commercial end
  users. (2001)

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Snakeyes Architecture

• Use two application instances
• Production
• Honeypot
• Detect suspicious traffic
• Analyze in isolated environment
• Automatically generate software fixes
• Update production server

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Technical Approach

• Automatic source-to-source code transformation
  for creating instrumented application server
• Plug-in attack/fault detectors
• Create targeted patches that address detected
  vulnerabilities and failures
• Automated impact testing of patches
• Roll-out of patched version if happy
• Under control of the administrator, or fully
  automated
• Actual roll-out not in our scope (we provide
  binary
• Experimental results very promising
• 2MM in follow-on federal research funding

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Current status

• CAT support helped create full-scale demonstrable
  prototype of work
• Helped support 4 Ph.D. students
• Demo done, patents backing the technology have
  been licensed by StackSafe Inc. (formerly known
  as Revive Systems Inc.)
• Columbia spin-off with VC funding

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Recent startups licenses Schulzrinne

• First Hand Technologies Schulzrinne
• SIP-based technologies for fixed-mobile
  convergence
• funds several GRAs in lab
• Emergent Communication Schulzrinne
• start-up venture on NG9-1-1 (emergency calling)
• early VC discussions in progress