Professor Roberto Tamassia has been named the 2006 Technical Achievement Award winner by IEEE’s Computer Society for his pioneering research in the field of graph drawing and for outstanding contributions to the design of graph and geometric algorithms.

The Technical Achievement Award is presented for outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science, engineering, or computer technology within the past ten to fifteen years.

A list of previous award winners can be located at www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/. Congratulations Roberto!

Ph.D. candidate Danfeng Yao received the Best Student Paper Award at the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS '06) for her paper titled, "Point-Based Trust: Define How Much Privacy Is Worth." The work was in collaboration with her advisor Roberto Tamassia, Keith Frikken at Miami University, and Mikhail Atallah at Purdue University. The authors were also given a cash prize for their contributions. The paper was presented as the first talk on the second day of the conference.

The paper by Danfeng and her colleagues addresses the privacy protection problem on the web and ...