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Selected highlightsICML 2016: Kilian Weinberger is co-program chairECML-PKDD 2015: Test of time award to Jon Kleinberg and coauthorsEMNLP 2015: Yoav Artzi and coauthors win best paper awardKDD 2015: best student paper award to Wenlei Xie, David Bindel, Alan Demers, and Johannes Gehrke for "Edge-Weighted Personalized PageRank: Breaking A Decade-Old Performance Barrier"ICML 2015: Jon Kleinberg keynote speakerKDD 2015 Test of Time award to Thorsten Joachims for "Optimizing Search Engines Using Clickthrough Data"EC 2015 best paper award to Vasilis Syrgkanis, Eva Tardos and coauthor Denis Nekipelov for "Econometrics for Learning Algorithms"2015: Kilian Weinberger gives keynote presentation at BeNeLearn 2015 conference2015: Thorsten Joachims gives keynote at the inaugural Amazon Machine Learning conference2015: Chenhao Tan wins the Facebook Fellowship in HCI and Social Computing2015: Ashutosh Saxena named one of Smithsonian Magazine's "eight innovators to watch"2015 Microsoft Research Graduate Women's Scholarship to Xanda Schofield (does not preclude eligibility for the Microsoft Ph.D. Fellowship, which is open only to third- and fourth-year Ph.D. students)WSDM 2015: Karthik Raman receives an Outstanding Reviewer Award, Thorsten Joachims gives keynoteWACV 2015: Serge Belongie and colleagues win best paper award in vision and learning2014: Thorsten Joachims named an ACM Fellow.NIPS 2014 best paper award to Anshumali Shrivastava and Ping Li2014: Thorsten Joachims named a AAAI Fellow2014: Jason Yosinski's co-authored paper "Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled" receives press coverage in the Atlantic, Wired, and New Scientist, among other venues, and reached #1 on Hacker NewsKDD 2014 inaugural Test of Time Award (one of three) goes to David Kempe (PhD '03), Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos for "Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network"EC 2014: Best paper award to Peter Frazier, David Kempe (PhD '03), Jon Kleinberg and Robert Kleinberg for "Incentivizing Exploration"2014: Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee, and Bo Pang's work on the effect of wording on message propagation (like retweets) covered in the Upshot section of the New York Times2014: Google PhD Fellowship to Hema KoppulaISMIR 2014: Best student paper award given to Joshua Moore, together with Thorsten Joachims and Douglas Turnbull, for the paper "Taste Space versus the World".SIGIR 2013: Best student paper award given to Karthik Raman and MSR colleagues Paul Bennett and Kevyn Collins-ThompsonKDD 2013: Innovations Award (the highest award for technical excellence, a lifetime honor granted by SIGKDD) to Jon Kleinberg 2013: Lillian Lee named a AAAI fellowRSS (Robotics: Science and Systems) 2013 best student paper award to Hema Koppula and Ashutosh Saxena. The work was also covered in the LA Times, Wired, CNet, NCS NEws, CBS News, and National Geographic2013 Google PhD Fellowship in Search and Information Retrieval to Karthik Raman2013: NSF CAREER award to Ashutosh Saxena2012: Ashutosh Saxena named a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow2012: NSF CAREER award to Tanzeem Choudhury 2012: NSF CAREER award to Peter Frazier2011: Sloan Research Fellowship to Ashutosh Saxena2011: Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges award to Karthik RamanWSDM 2011: best paper award nomination to Christina Brandt (Cornell CS B.S. '10, MEng '11, CRA award honorable mention), Thorsten Joachims, Yisong Yue (Cornell PhD '10), and Jacob Bank (Cornell CS A.B. '11, CRA award honorable mention)2010: AFOSR Young Investigator award to Peter FrazierICMLA 2010: Best paper award to Theodoros Damoulas, Carla Gomes and colleagues2010: Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges award to Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-MizilECML 2009: Best Paper Award to Thorsten Joachims and Chun-Nam YuAcademic year 2008-2009:Best Student Paper runner-up at KDD: Lars Backstrom, Jon Kleinberg, and Ravi KumarBest 10-year paper award at ICML 2009 to Thorsten JoachimsNomination for best paper award at WWW to Dave Crandall, Lars Backstrom, Dan Huttenlocher, and Jon KleinbergThorsten Joachims wins a Fraunhofer-Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt foundation; shakes hands with the president of Germany.Jure Leskovec joins the department as a postdoc, deferring a tenure-track position at Stanford2008: Bobby Kleinberg named Microsoft New Faculty FellowCOLT 2008: best student paper award to Robert D. Kleinberg, Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil and Yogeshwer (Yogi) Sharma2008: Microsoft Research Fellowship to Yisong Yue2008: Yahoo! Key Technical Challenges grant to Yisong YueECML 2007: Best Student Paper Award to Daria Sorokina, Rich Caruana, and Mirek RiedewaldKDD 2006: Best Research Paper Award to Thorsten Joachims2006: Microsoft Research Fellowship to Filip RadlinskiICML 2005:Best Paper Award to Thorsten JoachimsDistinguished Student Paper Award (of four) to Thomas Finley and Thorsten JoachimsDistinguished Student Paper Award (of four) to Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil and Rich CaruanaKDD 2005:10% of accepted papers have Cornell (co-)authorsBest Student Paper Award to Filip Radlinski and Thorsten JoachimsBest Research Paper Award co-won by Jon Kleinberg (with Jure Leskovec and Christos Faloutsos)HLT-NAACL 2004: Best Paper Award to Regina Barzilay and Lillian LeeKDD 2003: Best Research Paper Award to David Kempe, Jon Kleinberg, and Eva Tardos