2008
Emulab Total Network Testbed Now Open
Emerson wins 2007 A. M. Turing Award
2007
Chang appointed to Congressional Cybersecurity Commission
CIAS Achieves Courseware Certification for CNSS Standards 4011 & 4015
Chang appointed to CSTB
Witchel receives NSF Career award
Moore, Lam appointed to NAE
2006Moore elected ACM Fellow
2005 ACM Award to Boyer, Kaufmann, Moore: ACM release / UT releaseAnup receives STOC 2006 Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award
2005NSA Hires Dr. Fred Chang as Director of Research
Austin Business Journal: UT teams up with Navy for Cybersecurity Project
2004FOCUS on Science, New Information Security Center
Austin Business Journal: UT Information Security Center
UT Welcomes Dr. Chang to Department of Computer Sciences
STOC 2006 Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award Goes To UT Student, Anup Rao
February 2006
Anup Rao, Graduate Student Assistant
Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at AustinAnup received his undergraduate degree in Math and Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2002. He started his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 2003 under David Zuckerman. His interests are in the role of randomness in computation. He expects to graduate in 2007.
'Randomness is essential for the security of many cryptographic protocols, yet it is difficult to obtain high-quality randomness. Anup Rao showed how to extract high-quality randomness from several independent low-quality random sources. Using elegant techniques, he was able to substantially reduce the input randomness requirement. In particular, each n-bit low-quality random source need only contain $n^{\Omega(1)}$ bits of randomness, rather than the $\Omega(n)$ known previously.'
~David Zuckerman, Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, UT Austin
(Anup's award winning paper)
'Extractors for a Constant Number of Polynomial Min-Entropy Independent Sources'
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