Assistant Professor Vicki Interrante received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for "Perceptual Issues in Data Visualization: Conveying 3D Shape and Depth through Texture," CCR-9875368, $273,936.
Wade Muller won a SIGGRAPH Pioneer award ($1000).
Ahna Girshick won the 1999 Special Agnes Hansen Travel Award from Sigma Delta Epsilon (graduate women in science) Xi chapter to present her technical sketch "Real-Time Principal Direction Line Drawings of Arbitrary 3D Surfaces" at SIGGRAPH.
Professor Ravi Janardan has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms.
Associate Professor Joseph A. Konstan has been named editor of SIGCHI Bulletin and appointed to the ACM SIGCHI Executive Committee.
Associate Professor Jaideep Srivastava has been named to the editorial board of the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal.
A University of Minnesota group participated with great success in the first year demo in Quantico, VA (September 14-16, 1999) of the project "Distributed Robotics." The group included Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos (Principal Investigator), Maria Gini , Richard Voyles, Paul Rybski, Sascha Stoeter, and Dean Hougen from Computer Science and Engineering, and Brad Nelson and K. Yesin from Mechanical Engineering, along with researchers from Honeywell, MTS,and Architecture Technology Corporation (ATC). The group demonstrated a team of "scouts" which are miniature robotic devices (40mm wide and 110mm long). The scouts rolled, jumped, and easily traversed a challenging obstacle course. The scouts carry miniature sensors such as cameras, microphones, magnetometers, and radar sensors. The team of robots survived an extensive testing. In particular, scouts were functional even after being tossed 87 feet.
Associate Professors Joseph A. Konstan and John Riedl received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support their work on "Reflective GroupLens: Collaborative Filtering in Self-Aware Communities." The grant is for $303,264 for the period 9/15/1999 through 8/31/2002.
Assistant Professor Chris Dovolis received a 1999 IT Student Board Best Instructor Award.
Professor Vipin Kumar co-organized the "Workshop on Scientific Data Mining" at the Army High Performance Computing Research Center (September 9-10, 1999). He also gave an invited lecture at the NSF Summer Institute at the University of Dayton (August 26) and at the Rocket Center at the University of Illinois (August 9).
Associate Professor Joseph Konstan has been named program co-chair of the ACM Multimedia 2000 Conference to be held next fall in Los Angeles.
Jaideep Srivastava has been appointed the program chair for the IEEE International Conference on Multi-media Software Engineering to be held in Taipei, ROC, December 2000.
"Unsupervised Document Set Exploration Using Divisive Partitioning - REU Supplement," to Daniel L. Boley, from the National Science Foundation, $5,019, 11/30/98-08/31/00.
"CISE Experimental Partnerships: Prototyping the Superthreaded Architecture," to Pen-Chung Yew and David J. Lilja (Electrical and Computer Engineering), from the National Science Foundation, $336,086 (first year), 09/15/99-08/31/00.
"Structuring Formal Requirements Specifications for Reuse and Product Families," to Mats Per Erik Heimdahl, from NASA, $20,685, 10/1/99-11/30/99 (remaining funds to 9/30/00-$41,369).
"Y2K Testing," to Wei-Tek Tsai from the Army Research Office, $110,000, 10/1/99-12/31/99.
"Efficient and Scalable Streaming Techniques for Large-Scale Delivery of Stored VBR Video," to Zhi-Li Zhang, from the National Science Foundation, $104,154, 10/01/99-09/30/00.
"Multi-Constraint, Multi-Objective Graph Partitioning," to George Karypis and Vipin Kumar from the National Science Foundation, $286,544, 09/01/99-08/31/02.
"Structure Preserving Reduced Rank Approximation: Theory, Algorithms and Software," Haesun Park and J. Ben Rosen, from the National Science Foundation, $161,000, 09/01/99-08/31/02. "GroupLens: Scalable Collaborative Filtering for the Internet - REU Supplement," to John Riedl and Joseph A. Konstan, from the National Science Foundation, $15,000, 04/01/99-02/29/00.
"CAREER: Algorithmic Issues in Collaborative Filtering - REU Supplement, to Joseph A. Konstan, from the National Science Foundation, $10,000, 06/01/99-07/31/99.
"Dynamic Feature Extraction and Data Mining for the Analysis of Turbulent Flows," to Vipin Kumar, George Karypis, and Victoria Interrante, Computer Science and Engineering, and Ivan Marusic, Graham Candler, Ellen Longmire (Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics) and Sean C. Garrick (Mechanical Engineering), from the National Science Foundation, $1,462,500, 10/15/99-09/30/02.
Nancy Leveson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on "Building Safety into Computer Controlled Systems" March 20, 2000, 2:30 p.m. in Room 3-180 EE/CS Building.
Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University, will talk about "Virtual Reality: from Real to Virtual" on April 3, 2000, at 2:30 p.m. in Room 3-125 EE/CS Building.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2000 (tentative)
Tuesday, May 9, 2000 (tentative)
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