In the News: Recent STIET PhD Eytan Bakshy's paper "The Role of Social Networks in Information Diffusion" is getting a lot of attention -- see Tech Crunch and Slate.

 News Note: WSU STIET faculty member, Robert Reynolds, STIET fellow Leonard Kinniard-Heether, and REU student Tracy Liu won first place in the IEEE Super Mario Competition and best student paper prize at the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in Barcelona, Spain.

 Press Release World Wide Research Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, edited by William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys includes contributions by STIET faculty member, Steve Jackson, and STIET fellow, Cory Knobel.

 News Note: WSU STIET fellow, Tom Carroll, received the "Michael Conrad Award" for his paper published in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. The award is given for the best research publication in the Department of Computer Science at WSU.

 News Note: WSU STIET faculty member, Robert Reynolds, has been appointed associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence in Games and is now on the IEEE Steering Committee for the journal.

 Press Release and  podcast -- Yahoo Answers users seek advice, opinion, as well as expertise in research by Mark Ackerman, Lada Adamic and STIET fellow Eytan Bakshy

 Press Release -- Bluffing in Prediction Markets research by Rahul Sami and STIET fellow, Stanko Dimitrov

 Metromode Feature Story Defending The Net with former STIET Director Jeff MacKie-Mason

 Press Release and another Press Release with video link -- U-M, WSU begin joint Ph.D. program to secure Internet

 Podcast discussing the STIET research program with former STIET Director Jeff MacKie-Mason and School of Information Associate Dean Tom Finholt

 STIET video showing lifesize, uncompressed fiber-optic video conference from UM Atkins room to WSU via OptIPortal

 Detroit Free Press on STIET: Project aims to secure Internet -- U-M, WSU to use grant to cut spam

 Radio interview "The Internet Advisor" on WJR Detroit of Dan Grosu, Wayne State STIET and STIET Director Jeff MacKie-Mason (listen for segment 2)