News Archive Spring 2001

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Graduation 2001 Awards Date: Monday, June 25, 2001. Jonathan Marx Senior Prizes were awarded to Joseph R. Aliperti and Joseph Robert Polastre.  These prizes recognize outgoing and energetic students who are community minded. The Alan Marx Teaching Award was given to Brandon Roy Bray, for excellence in the support of undergraduate teaching.  The Marx senior awards are provided in memory of Jonathan Marx '85 and his father Alan Marx, JD '61. 

The Computer Science Prize for Academic Excellence was given to Richard Ryan Williams. This award is given annually at graduation and recognizes a student who has achieved excellence in academics, promise in the area of research (typically, published work), and a commitment to the field of Computer Science in terms of teaching and/or other leadership activities.

2000-2001 Consulting Awards  Date: June 18, 2001.  At the department's annual award ceremony on May 9th, eight undergrads were recognized for their outstanding contributions as course consultants and undergrad TAs. These students provide an invaluable service to both the teaching staff and the students enrolled in computer science courses. The 2000-2001 award winners are Brandon Bray (CS 312), Young Cho (CS 100), Bobby Chow (CS 100), Rob Cronin (CS 314), Ben Mathew (CS 100), Doug Mitarotonda (CS 100), Joe Polastre (CS 280 and 482), and Praveen Rajasethupathy (CS 100).

Hartmanis Honored at Symposium  Date: May 15, 2001. Commemorating three decades of achievement and academic excellence, a symposium for the retiring Juris Hartmanis was held on May 5.  Hartmanis, the recipient of numerous awards and honors throughout his academic and research career, was the first chair of the Department of Computer Science at Cornell.  The complete Cornell Chronicle is available at: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicles/5.10.01/Hartmanis.html.

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Eva Tardos Elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences  Date: April 30, 2001. Citing her contributions to the design of efficient algorithms, announcement was made on April 23, 2001 that Professor Eva Tardos, Department of Computer Science, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Professor Tardos is joined by 185 new fellows of the academy, including three other Cornell faculty.  Read more at: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicles/5.10.01/academy.html.

Jeremy Kubica, Class of '01, is Merrill Scholar  Date: April 30, 2001. Jeremy Kubica, Engineering Class of 2001, has been named a Merrill Presidential Scholar. Recognizing the top 1% of each graduating class at Cornell, nominees were asked to name their most influential professor at Cornell.  Jeremy selected Bart Selman, with whom he worked on an undergraduate research project.

Kozen Named Distinguished Teaching Fellow  Date: April 30, 2001.   Dexter Kozen, Professor of Computer Science, has recently been named a Russell Distinguished Teaching Fellow by the College of Arts and Sciences.  Congratulations to Professor Kozen!

Internet Arts Journal Launched at Weekend Workshop  Date: April 23, 2001. Performance art, lectures, and a panel discussion were among the featured events at a workshop showcasing Ctheory Multimedia, an internet art journal that will be published this spring.  Cornell will sponsor the semiannual publication of this collection of electronic art and theory.  For the complete story about the weekend workshop, see:  http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicles/4.19.01/Ctheory_Multimedia.html

Vinocur, Class of '02, wins Goldwater Scholarship  Date: April 23, 2001.  Jeffrey Vinocur, a junior Computer Science major, is one of three undergraduate recipients of a Barry Goldwater Scholarship for Science and Mathematics.  Read more about this prestigious award and the three winning Cornellians: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicles/4.19.01/Goldwater_scholars.html

Halpern is Named Fulbright Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow  Date: April 17, 2001.  Professor Joseph Halpern, Computer Science, has recently been notified that he is the recipient of two prestigious awards, a Fulbright Scholarship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. These highly competitive awards recognize individuals who have shown substantial professional accomplishment and have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship.  Professor Halpern will conduct research in the Netherlands and Israel.  For details see: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicles/5.10.01/Guggenheim.html

New and Revised Course Offerings for 2001-2002 Date: April 3, 2001. A list of new and revised course offerings in COM S and related fields is available. Click here: Fall 2001.

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Fall 2001 CoursEnroll Changed Date: March 26, 2001. CoursEnroll will begin on Monday, April 2, 2001 for Juniors and Seniors, April 9, 2001 for Sophomores, and April 19, 2001 for Freshman.  For more information visit our Events page. 

Record Number of Projects at Student Research Fair Date: March 9, 2001.  The upper reaches of Upson Hall were temporarily taken over by students on the last day of February, 2001. 'BOOM 2001: A Technology Odyssey' was an enormous success and attracted a host of high-level visitors, including Cornell President Hunter Rawlings and a group of senior IBM executives. Forty-seven projects were on display, a record number for the five-year old technology fair. Projects included: an AI landing system for spacecraft; wireless tour guides; a self-guided robot named Max; an on-line, virtual research laboratory; a chain-driven 'Moonbuggy' that was designed using Matlab; and a scalable web system designed to sell cosmetics to women. For the full story see: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicles/3.8.01/BOOM.html.

Laptops, In-class Browsing Studied Date: March 9, 2001. In Spring '00, researchers in Cornell's Department of Communication, Department of Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction Group gave students laptop computers equipped to connect to a wireless network and then monitored their online activities. Read more about the results of their study, to be published in the July 2001 issue of Journal of Educational Technology and Society : http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicles/3.8.01/wireless_eval.html.

CS 211 Project Now a Separate Course Date: March 5, 2001.  In an effort to address workload issues in CS 211 and to make the course attractive to a wider range of students, the Department of Computer Science is introducing a new one-credit hour companion course beginning in the Fall 2001 semester.  Affiliation with CS will require completion of CS 280, CS 211, and CS 212. Click on this link: New Course for all the details. 

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Undergrad Researchers Improve Videoconferencing Date: January 19, 2001.  A team of Cornell undergrads, under the direction of Toby Berger, professor of Engineering, has developed software that vastly improves the quality of Linux videoconference broadcasts.  Based on a video-compression algorithm developed by Berger, the software transmits full-motion, artifact-free video. The complete Cornell Chronicle article can be viewed at: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Jan01/qVIXvideoconf.ws.html.

Computers Aid Genomic Research Date: January 19, 2001.  Collaboration between researchers in Mathematics, Plant Breeding, and Computer Science has led to the development of a more efficient method for genomic comparison. Working with Susan McCouch, professor of plant breeding, and Jon Kleinberg, assistant professor of Computer Science, graduate student Debra Goldberg developed the algorithms that will soon be available for  geneticists' use. Read more at: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec00/genemaps.ws.html.

Computer Scientists to Develop Online Library Date: January 19, 2001.  Professor Bill Arms will lead a research effort toward development of a new online library for science education as part of a National Science Foundation initiative.  More details about the project can be found at: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec00/NSDLcore.ws.html.

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