Computer and Information Science

The UO's Zena Ariola received this year's ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award. SIGPLAN is the ACM's Special Interest Group in Programing LANguages: comprised of programming language developers, educators, implementers, researchers, theoreticians, and users, the group supports numerous conferences and publications exploring the design, implementation, practice, and theory of programming... Read more

An annual, two-week, conference-style lecture series, the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School (OPLSS) has attracted thousands of students and scholars from around the world to the UO since 2002. Each year, guest lectures focus on the fundamental importance of theory in programming language... Read more

Be a tech tourist for a face-to-face experience with tech companies from around Oregon and SW Washington! Tourists will wind their way through the city to find out what cool technology host companies are working on, experience their company culture, network with other tourists, and find out about jobs available in the fastest growing industry in Oregon. The event will culminate with an After... Read more

A team of 10 UO students competed in the Black Rock Desert for this summer's ARLISS student rocketry and design competition.

"These students worked hard to develop, test, and run the challenge with a robot of their own design.  They worked long hours, put up with nasty dust storms, and competed against some of the top... Read more

This preeminent cyber resilience event takes a “whole community” approach, bringing together the private and public sectors, owners and operators, cybersecurity experts, students, and community members to network and train together to defend our infrastructure from ever-evolving cyber threats. Click here to read more and register! Read more

Photos from the 2018 Computer Science commencement celebration are posted: click here to see! Read more

Machine learning systems are widely deployed by social media networks, corporate HR departments, and government intelligence operations to pick up on unsavory conversations.  Ongoing work by UO's Daniel Lowd, Javid Ebrahimi, and Dejing Dou shows that these systems can be tricked into false... Read more

Perhaps climate change is not foremost on the minds of most Internet users, but this is soon bound to change. In a recent, pioneering, interdisciplinary paper, the UO's Ramakrishnan Durairajan and others at the University of Wisconsin found that, within the next 15 years, critical Internet hubs in several American cities will be affected by sea water. Much must be done both to protect existing... Read more

Ripple's  University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) will fund a new program in the CIS department: The Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Cybersecurity Program (BCCP). The UO is one of just 17 universities worldwide in the UBRI.

"I think this is just an absolutely wonderful opportunity," said Joe Sventek, CIS head. "Two things we need to be good at to prepare students for this... Read more