Journal Editors Named
Joe Konstan has been named an Associate Editor of the ACM Multimedia Systems Journal. He has also been elected to the editorial board of the journal, User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction, effective January 2002.
Zhi-Li Zhang has been invited to join the Editorial board of Computer Networks journal, one of the oldest journals in computer networks. He has also recently been invited to serve on the Editorial Board of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, the premier joint journal of the IEEE and ACM in networking area.
Pen-Chung Yew has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) by the Publications Board of the IEEE Computer Socicety effective January 2002. IEEE TPDS is the flagship journal in the field of parallel and distributed processing in the IEEE Computer Society. Prior to this appointment, Professor Yew served as an associate editor for the journal between 1993-1997, and also as a guest editor of several special topical issues.
Faculty Named as Conference Chairs
Zhi-Li Zhang has been invited to chair the SPIE ITCOM conference on "Scalability and Control for IP Networks" 2002. SPIE is the International Society for Optical Engineering. ITCOM stands for Information Technology and Communications.
Vipin Kumar is serving as Chair of the Steering Committee for the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining.
Pen-Chung Yew is the program co-chair of the 8th International Conference on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-8) to be held in Boston, February 2-6, 2002. He is co-chairing the conference with Professor David Lilja (ECE department). The conference is one of the major conferences in the field of computer architecture sponsored by IEEE.
Joseph Konstan has been named chair of the 2003 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
The 3rd IEEE Engineering in Information Technology conference sponsored by IEEE Region 4 will be held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA on June 1-2, 2002. The EIT Conference is focusing on presenting basic/applied research results in the fields of electrical and computer engineering as they relate to Information Technology. This annual conference provides opportunity for researchers and industrial investigators to present their latest findings. There will be an exhibit area to showcase the latest information technology tools and products. Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos is the general chair for the meeting.
Women in Computer Science Receives Grant
November 14, 2001, Georganne Tolaas and Amy Larson attended a Unisys sponsored luncheon in which they were presented a check for $1500 for the Women in Computer Science. The gathering brought together those on the Alliance team from Unisys (an organization that forms alliances with public universities throughout the world) and University faculty, staff, and students from a variety of programs across campus.
CS&E Undergrad Receives UROP Grant
One of Ahmed Naumaan's students, Kristine Paul, has been awarded a UROP grant, for a project entitled "Evolution of Cooperation", for the Spring '02 term. She was also a Landau scholarship recipient last year.
The Best Paper
The Best Contributed Paper Award in the Applications Development Section in the Ninth Annual Conference of the Western Users of SAS Software, 2001 was given to Pang Tan, Vipin Kumar, and Harumi Kuno for "Using SAS for Mining Indirect Associations in DATA."
Karypis Receives NSF Career Award
George Karypis has received an NSF Career award totalling $320,708 over a five year period for his proposal "Scalable Algorithms for Knowledge Discovery in Scientific Datasets."
Keynote Address Given by Kumar
Vipin Kumar gave a keynote talk at the International Parallel Computing Conference (ParCo2001) at Naples in September 2001.
Konstan Travels While on Sabbaticali
Joseph Konstan is spending his sabbatical year visiting universities and research centers around the world; he has taught seminars and given lectures in Brazil, India, China, Singapore, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, and will continue his travels through June.
Robot Scouts in the News
The IEEE Spectrum "The Institute Journal" for December 2001, described Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos' work on scout robots in a feature article Robots Used in WTC Search and Rescue Operation. See http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/INST/dec01/frobots.html
Intel and Hewlett Packard Make Donations
Intel and Hewlett Packard have donated several of their latest servers based on Itanium microprocessors to the department, totalling $44,980 from HP and $51,056 from Intel. The machines are primarily to be used in Wei Hsu and Pen Yew's research groups for projects related to runtime dynamic recompilation and new compilation technology for multithreaded architectures.
Alumni News
Ioannis Pavlidis, Ph.D. 1996, now with Honeywell, has been widely reported in the news media these days about his work on thermal facial screening. See the following website: www.msnbc.com/news/680837.asp about using heat sensing cameras to detect lying.
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