Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Awards (since 2005)

Sang Uk Lee Award: Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2009, September 2009
"Natural Image Segmentation with Adaptive Texture and Boundary Encoding"
 S. R. Rao, H. Mobahi, A. Yang, S. S. Sastry, and Y. Ma

IEEE Micro Top Picks from Architecture Conferences of 2008: 13th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, January/February 2009
" SoftSig: Software-Exposed Hardware Signatures for Code Analysis and Optimization"
J. Tuck, W. Ahn, L. Ceze, and J. Torrellas

23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2008) , September 2008
"Efficient Monitoring of Parametric Context-Free Patterns"
P. Meredith, D. Jin, F. Chen, and G. Rosu

Communications of the ACM Research Highlight: 35th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2008
" DeLorean: Recording and Deterministically Replaying Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Execution Efficiently"
P. Montesinos, L. Ceze, and J. Torrellas

14th IEEE Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications: Best Paper Award, August 2008
" Impact of Cache Partitioning on Multi-Tasking Real Time Embedded Systems"
B.D. Bui, M. Caccamo, L. Sha, and J. Martinez

Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing Analysis, and Debugging: Best Paper Award, July 2008
" Memory Tagging in Charm++"
F. Gioachin and L. Kale, R.H. Campbell

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy: Best Student Paper Award, June 2008
" Cloaker: Hardware Supported Rootkit Concealment"
F.M. David, E.M. Chan, J.C. Carlyle, and R.H. Campbell

ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced Distributed Simulation: Best Paper Award, June 2008
" Performance Analysis of Real Traffic Carried with Encrypted Cover Flows"
N. Schear and D. Nicol

Computer-Human Interaction: Best Paper Award, April 2008
" The Network in the Garden: An Empirical Analysis of Social Media in Rural Life"
E. Gilbert, K. Karahalios, and C. Sandvig

First Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergant Threats: Best Paper Award, April 2008
" Designing and Implementing Malicious Hardware"
S.T. King, J. Tucek, A. Cozzie, C. Grier, W. Jiang, and Y. Zhou

IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Best Paper Award, January 2008
" An Integrated Architecture for Demand Response Communications and Control"
M. LeMay, R. Nelli, G. Gross, and C.A. Gunter

IEEE Micro Top Picks from Architecture Conferences of 2007: 34th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, January/February 2008
" Hardware Atomicity for Reliable Software Speculation"
N. Neelakantam, R. Rajwar, S. Srinivas, U. Srinivasan, and C. Zilles

ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles: SOSP 2007 Audience Choice Award, October 2007
" Secure Virtual Architecture: A Safe Execution Environment for Commodity Operating Systems"
J. Criswell, A. Lenharth, D. Dhurjati, and V. Adve

ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Best Student Paper Runner Up, August 2007
" Automatic Labeling of Multinomial Topic Models"
Q. Mei, X. Shen, and C. Zhai

Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Best Student Paper Award, May 2007
" gPrune: A Constraint Pushing Framework for Graph Pattern Mining"
F. Zhu, X. Yan, J. Han, and P.S. Yu

SIAM International Conference on Data Mining: One of "Best of SDM'07", April 2007
" ROAM: Rule- and Motif-Based Anomaly Detection in Massive Moving Object Data Sets"
X. Li, J. Han, S. Kim, and H. Gonzalez

International Conference on Data Engineering: Best Student Paper, April 2007
" Mining Colossal Frequent Patterns by Core Pattern Fusion"
F. Zhu, X. Yan, J. Han, P.S. Yu, and H. Cheng

IEEE Micro Top Picks from Microarchitecture Conferences of 2006: 39th International Symposium on Microarchitecture, January/February 2007
" Patching Processor Design Errors with Programmable Hardware"
S. Sarangi, S. Narayanasamy, B. Carneal, A. Tiwari, B. Calder, and J. Torrellas

39th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture: Best Paper Award, December 2006
" Phoenix: Detecting and Recovering from Permanent Processor Design Bugs with Programmable Hardware"
S.R. Sarangi, A. Tiwari, and J. Torrellas

ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Best Student Paper Runner Up, August 2006
" Generating Semantic Annotations for Frequent Patterns with Context Analysis"
Q. Mei, D. Xin, H. Cheng, J. Han, and C. Zhai

SIAM International Conference on Data Mining: One of the "Best of SDM'06", April 2006
" Mining Interesting Patterns from Very High Dimensional Data: A Top-Down Row Enumeration Approach"
H. Liu, J. Han, D. Xin, and Z. Shao

International Conference on Data Engineering: Best Student Paper Award, April 2006
" Warehousing and Analysis of Massive RFID Data Sets"
H. Gonzalez, J. Han, X. Li, and D. Klabjan

IEEE Micro Top Picks from Microrchitecture Conferences of 2005: ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, January/February 2006
" Thread-Level Speculation on a CMP Can Be Energy Efficient"
J. Renau, K. Strauss, L. Ceze, W. Liu, S. Sarangi, J. Tuck, and J. Torrellas

ACM SIGOPS Symposium on Principle of Operating Systems: Best Paper Award, October 2005
" Rx: Treating Bugs as Allergies---A Safe Method to Survive Software Failures."
F. Qin, J. Tucek, J. Sundaresan, and Y. Zhou

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper: European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, September 2005
" CUTE: A Concolic Unit Testing Engine for C."
K. Sen, D. Marinov and G. Agha

ACM SIGKDD 2005 International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Best Student Paper Runner Up, August 2005
" Summarizing Itemset Patterns: A Profile-Based Approach."
X. Yan, H. Cheng, D. Xin, and J. Han

ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation: Best Paper Award, July 2005
" Particle-Based Simulation of Granular Materials."
N. Bell, Y. Yu and P.J. Mucha

ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation: Best Paper Award, June 2005
" Automatic Pool Allocation: Improving Performance by Controlling Data Structure Layout in the Heap."
C. Lattner and V. Adve

USENIX Technical Conference: Best Paper Award, April 2005
" Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines"
S.T. King, G.W. Dunlap, and P.M. Chen.