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January 31, 2007
New SAB Members Announced
Dr. Mladen Vouk, department head, and the NC State Department of Computer Science are pleased to announce the addition of four new members to the department's Strategic Advisory Board (SAB): Sidd Chopra (CSC B.S. '88) - President & Founder of Analytrix LLC, Gail Kramer (CSC B.S. '85) - VP, Business Intelligence Clients w/ SAS Institute, Eric Wagner - Senior Director, NAS Solutions w/ EMC Corporation, and Mark Wyatt (CSC B.S. '80) - VP, IT Business Applications w/ Duke Energy. more
Departmental Research Grants, Gifts, and Support
NVIDIA has provided Dr. Ben Watson an NVIDIA Professor Partnership Award valued at $25,000. The unrestricted cash award will be used to augment Watson's research on sparse change-focused imagery as detailed in his proposal "Fonts for Imagery".
Rhee Technology Consulting has provided the department a $10,000 unrestricted gift to support research in the area of computer networks and multimedia computing.
Super ePartner, Microsoft, has made a $5,000 donation to the department in support of our Senior Design Center.
Walter & Sarah Heckman have made a generous $1,000 personal pledge to the Joyce Hatch Scholarship Endowment. To date, 59 donors have contributed almost $22,000 and pledged almost $39,000 to this fund.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has donated 10 Sun SPOT wireless sensor kits to Dr. Robert Fornaro, professor of computer science and Director of the Senior Design Center. The technology gift, valued at $5,500, will be used to support student projects, classroom instruction and research initiatives. more
Dr. Frank Mueller has received a grant of $15,000
from the Oak Ridge National Laboratories in support of his research
proposal titled "Online Data Reconstruction for Supercomputers."
The award will run from January 1st, 2007 through June 30th, 2007. more
CSC Faculty / Staff News
Dr. Carla Savage's research on Symmetric Venn Diagrams was featured in the December 2006 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society. In addition to the feature article entitled "The Search for Simple Symmetric Venn Diagrams" (link), the work of Savage and her colleagues was featured on the magazine's cover. more
With mixed emotions, we report that two members of our faculty have made career moves this month. Dr. Jaewoo Kang, assistant professor of computer science, has resigned to accept a joint appointment in the Korea University Computer Science Department and its Medical School. Dr. Jun Xu, also an assistant professor, has accepted a permanent role with Google where he has been working for the past year while on leave of absence from the department. While their departures are a great loss for us, we wish them great success in their new jobs.
Geek-a-Thon Coming to NC State
As
part of our 40th Year Celebration, the Association for Computing
Machinery/Association for Information Technology Professionals (ACM/AITP)
and the Women in Computer Science (WiCS) student organizations
in association with the NC State Department of Computer Science and
the Kramden Institute, Inc. are organizing a Geek-a-Thon! A Geek-a-Thon
is a weekend long event where computers are refurbished and then donated
to help high-achieving, but less-advantaged middle school students in
Wake County cross the digital divide. To help make this a successful
event, we need your support. more
University Helps Researchers Crunch Numbers
NC State's High-Performance Computing Program (HPC), created from a crisis, is a cost-effective model in higher education, and faculty members are doing more advanced computer work than ever. more
Finding Storage, Processing Power in Numbers
Dr.
Xiaosong Ma is working on programs that borrow unused memory and
processing power from groups of work stations to crunch numbers and
store information for data-intensive computing projects. more
CSC Web Site Sporting a New Look
Many of the web sites within the NC State community are getting make-overs, including ours in computer science. From the end users' perspective, the changes to the computer science site may appear to be simply cosmetic in nature. However, behind-the-scenes, the changes are a bit more dramatic. more
Alumni & Friends Invited to "Meet-the-Dean"
The NC State College of Engineering cordially invites all alumni and friends to come out and meet the new dean of the college, Dr. Louis Martin-Vega, at one of the many "Meet the Dean" events which have been scheduled throughout North Carolina and across the nation this spring. more
NC State Again Ranked a National 'Best Value'
NC State University's combination of quality and affordability makes it one of the best values in higher education. In rankings released today, NC State is rated 12th among the nation's colleges and universities, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance. In the last year, NC State was ranked second by Princeton Review and fifth by U.S. News & World Report on their lists of best values among the nation's public colleges and universities. more
Raleigh - Durham Area Makes Another Top Ten List
In the January 2007 issue of Wired Magazine, the Raleigh-Durham metro area is listed as one of the nation's "10 Top Tech Towns". more
Sun Microsystems University World Tour Set for Feb 7th
Students, Faculty, & Developers: Come by Room 1025 in EBII on Wednesday, February, 7th from 5:15-8:15 pm, and learn what's cool in the latest Java and Solaris technologies from the experts at Sun Microsystems! This free and exciting event features topics like "The Information Age: The Next 10 Years", "Unleash the Power of Java!", and "Connect Everything: Employment Opportunities at Sun and More". During the event, Sun will provide free software, free T-shirts, free pizza, and a drawing for a $100 Best Buy gift card. RSVP today and get more information about the event at http://blogs.sun.com/sunatncsu/.
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