Greetings
from the Department of Computer Science! I would like to
share with you just a few of our activities from this past semester. more...
Congratulations to our 2005-2006
scholarship recipients:
Scott M.
Lundberg: Patricia
Mohilner Memorial Scholarship for academic excellence in
Computer Science. Benson Joeris
and Gary
Lyman: Thomas
J. Heidenfelder Scholarship for service and academic
achievement in Computer Science. 
Robert France,
International
Planning Visits: Collaborative Research on Model Driven Development, NSF. Daniel
Massey, Monitoring
and Verification of DNS Security Deployment, DOD-USAF.
Many
thanks to Hewlett-Packard for helping us acquire 22 new XW4300
workstations for our HP classroom! 
Congratulations
to Dr. Asa
Ben-Hur, who was a Keynote Speaker at the 3rd Annual Rocky Mountain
Regional Bioinformatics Conference. The conference was held
in
Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado and was sponsored by the International Society
for Computational Biology (ISCB).
Industrial Advisory Board
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Dr. Bruce Draper
will
be on sabbatical this spring as a visiting scholar in the
Psychology Department at Harvard. He will be working with
Prof.
Stephen Kosslyn
on a project funded by phase 1 of the DARPA Biologically Inspired
Cognitive Architecture (BICA) project. Fritz Sieker is
joining us this spring as a temporary instructor for CS370.
We
are currently searching for another new faculty member to join the
department next year. This hire will bring
our number of
faculty up to 19. 
Charlie
Ross was awarded the 2005-2006 Anita Read Graduate Award
for dedication to education and excellence in teaching. Dr. Bruce
Draper and Elaine
Regelson were honored by Students and
Leaders in Science as Outstanding Mentors in the Field of Computer
Science. The awards ceremony was held on December 7.
CS
graduate student Kyriakos
Chatzidimitriou and team Mertacor won 3rd
place in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) game at the international
Trading Agent
Competition (TAC). The competition is an
annual event held in conjunction with major AI conferences like AAMAS
and IJCAI. This year, Kyriakos was co-designer and co-developer of the
agent. The other members of the team were from the Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki. |
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The
ACM had a great fall semester! Our proudest events included the annual
CS Department/ACM picnic and softball game. Students and teachers met
to eat burgers grilled by Ross Beveridge. This year, for the first time
ever, the graduate students and faculty beat the undergrads in the
softball game!
ACM also hosted
Computer Science
Jeopardy, sponsored by OCI. Thirty students on 10 different teams and
many spectators showed up. The Rams team, consisting of Barve Saurabh,
Tejkiran Balijepalli, and Prakash Subramanian won, and each took home
and IPod as first prize.
The
department is working hard to grow its scholarships and fellowships. We
now have almost $200,000 in our undergraduate student scholarship
funds. And we are working to build fellowships to provide summer
funding for graduate students. 
Fall 2005
Doctor of Philosophy
Laura V. Barbulescu, Analyses of Algorithm Performance for an Oversubscribed Scheduling Problem. Dr. Barbulescu is currently doing postdoctoral work at Carnegie Mellon.
Robert E. Rinker, Compiling Dataflow Graphs into Hardware. Dr. Rinker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Idaho.
Gabriel L. Somlo, Agents for Personalized Client-Side Information Gathering from the Web. Dr. Somlo is a network engineer for Carnegie Mellon University's computing services.
Doctor of Philosophy
Laura V. Barbulescu, Analyses of Algorithm Performance for an Oversubscribed Scheduling Problem. Dr. Barbulescu is currently doing postdoctoral work at Carnegie Mellon.
Robert E. Rinker, Compiling Dataflow Graphs into Hardware. Dr. Rinker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Idaho.
Gabriel L. Somlo, Agents for Personalized Client-Side Information Gathering from the Web. Dr. Somlo is a network engineer for Carnegie Mellon University's computing services.
Master
of Science
Charumathi Chandrasekaran
Jason L. Connor
Nilesh R. Kawane
Dae Gon Kim
Kyle R. Kolander
Mark C. Roberts
Alodeep Sanyal
Vidya Waykole
Yajie Zhu
Master of Computer Science
Priti M. Ajgaonkar
Michael Higginbotham
Shefali S. Joshi
Matthew S. Leinhos
Shaji K. Madathil
Nicholas H. Meier
Saravanan Sellappa
Barry S. Siegel
Binu V. Thayamkery
Peter M. Vile
Huixia Wang
Lingzhi Yang
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