Team Competes in World Finals

The World Finals of the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest was held in Beverly Hills, March 25. The CS&E team of James Esser, Jonathan Moon, and Elliot Olds (coached by Carl Sturtivant) was among 68 teams competing. They tied for 30th place with 12 other teams, all who solved 4 problems correctly during the 5-hour contest. The top three teams were from Warsaw University, Moscow State University, and St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics. Of the 26 North American teams, CalTech was the highest at 13th place.

Faculty Serve as Workshop Chairs

Anand Tripathi was the Program Chair for the Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing, held on May 19, 2003, in conjunction with the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. For more details see: http://www.cse.msu.edu/icdcs/

Vipin Kumar served as the Honorary Chair for The International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications, held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 18 - May 21, 2003.

Faculty Serve on Various Boards

Vipin Kumar was appointed to serve on the editorial boards of the following publications: IEEE Computational Intelligence Bulletin and the Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics.

Vipin Kumar has been invited to serve as the Chair of the Board of Visitors for the biennial program review of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of the Army Research Office (ARO) this year. The board prepares an appraisal of the overall ARO Mathematics and Computer Science research program for the Director of the Army Research Office. The board's report is used in assisting the ARO director Chang in improving the Army's basic research program.

Sturtivant Voted Best CS&E Instructor

For the third year in a row, Carl Sturtivant was selected by I.T. students as the best instructor of the CS&E department.

Recent Grants Awarded to CS&E Faculty

"Estimation within the CLARAty Architecture," JPL/NASA, 4/1/03-3/31/05, $120,000, Stergios Roumeliotis.

"Automatic Evaluation and Assignment of Business Opportunities," IBM, 5/14/03-5/13/05, $50,000, Jaideep Srivastava.

"A Compiler Framework for Supporting Speculative Execution," Intel, 6/1/03-5/31/04, $79,999, Pen-Chung Yew.

"Combat Zones that See," Honeywell International/DARPA, 9/1/03-8/31/06, $500,612, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos.

"ALGORITHMS: Parallel Large-Scale Sparse Linear System Solvers: New Methods and Paradigms," NSF, 6/1/03-5/31/06, $350,494, Yousef Saad

"Community Services: Parallel Scientific Computation Made Easy," USDOE, 5/1/03-4/30/06, $250,993, Jon Weissman.

"Real-Time Collision Warning and Avoidance at Intersections," MNDOT, 3/12/03-12/31/04, $195,000, Ravi Janardan.

"Vision Based and Inertial State Estimate for Autonomous Aerial and Ground Vehicles," JPL/NASA, 2/24/03-9/28/03, $10,340, Stergios Roumeliotis.

"NGS: A Framework for Dynamic Service Adaptation in the Grid," NSF, 2/1/03-1/31/06, $240,000, Jon Weissman.

"CAREER: High Quality and Efficient Rendering of Discrete Primitives for Interactive Visualization," NSF, 2/1/03-1/31/08, $541,882, Baoquan Chen.

Tolaas Receives Award

Georganne Tolaas has won the Outstanding DGS Assistant Award, a University-wide award given to recognize and reward the University's top DGS Assistants for their contributions in keeping graduate programs running smoothly, and for their direct support of students in the programs.