NEWS ARCHIVE Fall 2004
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The News (headlines with text)
Conway Honored for Simulation Work Date: Thursday, December 9, 2004. Emeritus Professor Dick Conway, JGSM, a founder of Cornell's computer science department, was the focus of a recent article in the 50th Anniversary issue of the journal "Management Science". Conway's work, which includes two seminal papers published in 1959 and 1963, has continued to shape the efforts of other researchers in the field of computer simulation. Conway helped found the CS department in 1965, and served as chair of the department in 1978-1979 and 1983-1984. For more about Conway's career see: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/12.2.04/Conway_honored.html.
Kleinberg Delivers Dertouzos Lecture Date: Thursday, December 9, 2004. Professor Jon Kleinberg spoke recently at MIT on the topic "Bursts, Cascades, and other Temporal Phenomena in Information Networks." The lecture was one of a series of Dertouzos Lectures, an MIT tradition since 1976. The series has been host to influential computer scientists including Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, Donald Knuth and John McCarthy. Dan Huttenlocher, CS and JGSM, contributed to the series in April with his lecture: "The Computer Science of Computer Vision." For more on Kleinberg's talk and the Dertouzos Lecture Series see: http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/DLStalks/dlskeinberg05.html.
Duffield Hall to be Dedicated Date: Friday, October 1, 2004 With eager anticipation, computer science students and staff have observed the activity of welders, masons, carpenters, and glaziers as Duffield Hall has risen up alongside Upson Hall. Duffield is a research and teaching center for nanotechnology and new home of the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility (CNF). Construction on the Engineering Quad, which began in June 2001, has kept us alert with occasional blasts and bangs, and cheered us on Dragon Day as a crane operator hoisted the Phoenix over the oncoming parade. All the activity has come to an end, however, and CNF will host a series of events in addition to the building dedication on October 6, 2004.
Date: NSF will provide funding to develop an information access and analysis system for three data-intensive research efforts at Cornell; the Computer Science and Astronomy departments and the Program for Computer Graphics are the beneficiaries. The 5-year grant will create an infrastructure for massive data handling, eventually storing 1 petabyte (1 million gigabytes!) of data. The large-scale information access and analysis system will be housed at and maintained by CTC and will be tightly coupled with the Center's high-performance computing complex . Alan Demers, COM S, is the principle investigator; other COM S faculty who will help develop, and ultimately, utilize the system include Steve Marschner and Kavita Bala (computer graphics applications), and Associate Professor of Computer Science Jon Kleinberg and Professor Dan Huttenlocher (structure of the worldwide web). Prof. James Cordes (ASTRO) will utilize the new system to analyze data collected by the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico.
Date: Large banking and information systems are often composed of several thousands of computers in multiple locations and they must be designed so that they can tolerate failures while still remaining secure. A $1.6 million NSF grant will fund the research efforts of COM S Profs as they apply their collective experience with large scale systems to the problem. For additional details see the Cornell Chronicle: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/9.30.04/cybertrust.html.Uris Computing Lab Opens Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2004. Provost Biddy Martin cut the ribbon to officially open (CL)3, the Cornell Library Collaborative Learning Computer Laboratory, in Uris Library yesterday. The new facility is an interactive space where shape-sifting tables enable students to work collaboratively in groups of varying sizes. David Schwartz, COM S professor, designed the lab for use in courses like COM S 100, Intro to Computer Programming, and CIS 300, Intro to Computer Game Design, which are currently being taught in (CL)3. For more coverage and photos see the Cornell Daily Sun: http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/09/28/4158e72212bb0.
Caruana Awarded NSF CAREER Date: Thursday, July 22, 2004. Professor Rich Caruana, CS, is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award. This prestigious award recognizes and supports faculty in the early stages of their careers. An abstract of Caruana's successful proposal, "Meta-Clustering: Improving User Efficiency on Real-World Clustering Applications" is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0347318.
Gehrke Appointed to Theory Center Directorship Date: Thursday, July 22, 2004. Johannes Gehrke, CS, has been appointed to a two-year term as Faculty Associate Director of the Cornell Theory Center. Professor Gehrke will provide leadership for the Theory Center's data-intensive computing initiatives and will also develop and strengthen the center's collaboration with researchers in CS and CIS.
Graduation Awards 2004 Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2004. Senior awards were presented as part of the Computer Science class of 2004 commencement ceremony on Hoy Field on Sunday, May 30, 2004. Omar Ahmed Nayeem '04 and Ramona Pousti '04 were the recipients of the Jonathan E. Marx Senior Prize, awarded annually for demonstrated leadership, service, and extra-curricular activity. The Alan S. Marx Memorial Prize for Excellence Supporting Undergraduate Education was awarded to A.J. Fink '04, recognizing his efforts as a consultant and TA for CS 211. The Computer Science Prize for Academic Excellence, given by the CS faculty, was awarded to Matthew Wachs '04 and Asher Walkover '04.
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