Kumar and Srivastava Invited Conference Speakers
Professor Vipin Kumar will give a keynote talk at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2003) in Nice, France, April 22-26, 2003. For further information, please visit http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2003/index.html. IPDPS'2003 is a premier event held annually over the past 16th years. The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing in cooperation with the ACM SIGARCH. Further information about this year's and past IPDPS conferences is available at http://www.ipdps.org/.
Professor Jaideep Srivastava was an invited session speaker at the 5th annual Data Mining Technology Conference held by the SAS Institute in Cary, NC on October 22-23, 2002. For additional information on the conference, please visit http://www.sas.com/news/events/dmconf/speakers.html.
Srivastava Appointed Conference Co-Chair
Professor Jaideep Srivastava been appointed a Program Co-chair for the 2003 PAKDD Conference to be held in Seoul, South Korea, April 30-May 2, 2003. For additional information please visit the conference website at http://aitrc.kaist.ac.kr/~pakdd03/.
Faculty Members to Serve on Various Editorial Boards
Professor Jaideep Srivastava has been appointed to serve on the editorial board for the World Wide Web Journal. For additional information on the journal, please visit http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1386-145X.
Professors Gary Meyer and Victoria Interrante have been named to serve on the editorial board of the ACM's (Association for Computing Machinery) newest journal, Transactions on Applied Perception.
Shekhar Named an IEEE Fellow
The IEEE Board of Directors, at its meeting on November 17, 2002, elected Professor Shashi Shekhar an IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2003, "for contributions to spatial database storage methods, data mining, and geographic information systems." An IEEE Fellow is the highest form of membership in the IEEE.
Zhang Receives Best Paper Award
"Service Overlay Networks: SLAs, QoS abd Bandwidth Provisioning" by Zhi-Li Zhang, Zhenhai Duan (his student) and Yiwei Thomas Hou, ECE, Virginia Tech, won the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols. This is the first time the conference has given out a best paper award.
Interrante Senior IEEE Member
Professor Victoria Interrante has been named a Senior Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.). IEEE Senior Members "shall have been in professional practice for at least ten years and shall have shown significant performance over a period of at least five of those years...." Please visit the IEEE website at www.ieee.org for additional information.
CS&E Ugrads Named Award Finalists
Computer Science and Engineering undergraduates Colin McMillen and Kristen Stubbs were selected as finalists in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2003. Awards will be made at a research conference, yet to be determined. For additional information, please visit the CRA website at http://www.cra.org.
Faculty Cited for Teaching Excellence
A recent letter from Craig Swan, U of M Provost for Undergraduate Education, identified members of the Computer Science and Engineering faculty who were cited for teaching excellence in a recent survey of graduating seniors. In response to the question "What was the best course you took in your progam/major while you were at the U? Who taught that course?" students cited the following CS&E faculty: John Carlis, Chris Dovolis, Wei Hsu, Victoria Interrante, George Karypis, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, John Riedl, Carl Sturtivant, Jamshid Vayghan, and Jon Weissman. Congratulations to all!
Papanikolopoulos to Serve on IEEE Committee
Professor Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos was elected by the members of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society to its Administrative Committee (AdCom) for the period 2003-2005.
Chen Receives Gift from Microsoft
Microsoft Research will make an unrestricted gift of $50,000 in support of Professor Baoquan Chen's research project "A New Design Tool on Tablet PC". Additionally, Microsoft Research will procure three Tablet PCs for his use now and potentially one additional higher graphics-performance Tablet PC next year. This year Microsoft Research University Relations has received a total of 152 research proposals worldwide and awarded 24 of them.
CSGSA Hosts Homecoming Reception
Computer Science and Engineering held a homecoming reception for alumni and friends of the department on Friday, October 11, 2002, in Walter Library. The event was hosted by the Computer Science Graduate Student Association and sponsored by the Computer Science and Engineering Industrial Partners.
Honeywell Foundation Grants Award to Department
The Honeywell Foundation has awarded a $5000 grant to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Foundation support is designed to build departmental partnerships on campus. Honeywell is a member of the Department's Industrial Partners Program. For additional information on the Program, please visit our website at: http://www.cs.umn.edu/external/partners.html
Chen Receives NSF CAREER Award
Professor Baoquan Chen received an NSF CAREER award totalling $408,959 over a fixe year period for his proposal "High Quality and Efficient Rendering of Discrete Primitives for Interactive Visualization."
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