News Archive Spring 2002

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Big Red Team Wins RoboCup Finals Date: Friday, June 26, 2002 Led by faculty advisor, Professor Raffaello D'Andrea, Cornell's Big Red team won the 2002 RoboCup small-size robot soccer league championship in Fukuoka, Japan. The Big Red beat out Germany's Freie Universität (FU) Fighters 7-2 during the finals, making this Cornell's third RoboCup championship win in the past four years.  Student team members included CS Undergrads: Joel Chestnutt ('02), Varun Ganapathi ('04), Evan Kuhn ('02),William Stokes ('02), Zennard Sun ('04), and Ying Yu Tan ('04). For more about this year's competition and the Robocup project, see: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/June02/RoboCup2002.bpf.html

Graduation Awards 2002 Date: Thursday, May 30, 2002.  Senior awards were presented as part of the Computer Science Class of 2002 Graduation Ceremony in Statler Auditorium on May 26, 2002.  Amit Gupta and Douglas C. Mitarotonda were the recipients of the Jonathan E. Marx Senior Prizes, awarded annually for demonstrated leadership, service, and extra-curricular activity.  The Alan S. Marx Memorial Prize for Excellence Supporting Undergraduate Education was awarded to Emmanuel T. Schanzer, recognizing his efforts as consultant and TA for CS 212/312.  The Computer Science Prize for Academic Excellence, given by the CS faculty, was awarded to Jeffrey M. Vinocur, in recognition of his academic and research achievements.

Erway '02 Profiled in Chronicle Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2002.  Included among the graduating seniors profiled in the May 23, 2002 issue of the Cornell Chronicle is Christopher Erway  CS '02. Graduating with a double major on May 26, 2002, Chris has managed to indulge his two main interests in computer science and music throughout his academic and extracurricular pursuits at Cornell.  For his senior project, Chris developed a computer music input device for trombonists that produces "fast, piano- or saxophone-like runs generally uncharacteristic of the instrument". Chris will apply his computer skills while working on IBM's Extreme Blue program this summer, and plans to eventually pursue graduate study in the field of computer music. For more about Chris and other Class of 2002 profiles, see the Chronicle: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle//02/5.23.02/tableofcontents.html

Campus "Guide" is PDA Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002. Students in the Human-Computer Interaction Group have developed technology that turns PDAs into tour guides.  Utilizing infrared sensors and GPS to pinpoint a users' location,  the two tour projects,  dubbed MUSE and CampusAware,  provide information about exhibits at the Johnson Museum and for sites on the Cornell campus. The systems were initially developed by Kiyo Kubo '02 (CS) and Jenna Burrell '01 (CS).  Another CS major, Nick Farina '02, joined the group this year.  The complete Cornell Chronicle article can be found at:  http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle//02/5.16.02/PDA_tours.html

Bailey Receives Advising Award Date: Friday, May 10, 2002. Professor Graeme Bailey, CS, is one of the first four recipients of the newly established Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, announced by Isaac Kramnick, Cornell vice provost for undergraduate education, on May 1. The award was established by Stephen Ashley, a Cornell Trustee, in honor of his former advisor, Kendall Carpenter, a professor of business management from 1954-1967. The recipient of the ACSU Faculty of the Year award in 2000, Professor Bailey is widely appreciated by students as advisor, teacher and mentor.  For more details on the Carpenter awards see: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle//02/5.9.02/advising.html

Undergraduate Consulting Awards Given Date: Thursday, May 9, 2002. In a ceremony held in the Atrium yesterday, eleven students were honored for their outstanding performance as CS consultants.  Six seniors were recognized for providing high quality, continuous service (between four and seven semesters each) in specific courses: Shaun Conlon '02 (CS 211), Walter Chang '02 (CS 312), Ashley Lin '02 (CS 100), Jason Palmer '02 (CS 100), Hubert Chao '02 (CS 312), and Jeff Vinocur '02 (CS 312). Sophomore Jonathan Emanuele was recognized by Graeme Bailey for his outstanding work in CS 230.  Daisy Fan nominated both Revelino Guron '03 and Ben Mathew '02 for their work in CS 100 M.  Ben was recognized for his "tireless" efforts as consultant and supervisor. Neeta Rattan '02 was commended for her invaluable assistance with CS 172, a new course taught by Lillian Lee in Fall 2001. Andrew Myers cited the excellent teaching, creativity, and dependability of Emmanuel Schanzer '02, who worked with CS 312 as an undergrad TA in Spring 2002.  Congratulations and thanks to all for their dedicated support of the CS faculty!

New Office for Information Science Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2002. Renovations have begun on the former Triangle Bookstore space at 312 College Ave. to create a new office for the program of Information Science. Robert Constable, Dean of CIS, cited an already full Rhodes Hall and the attractiveness of the Collegetown environment as reasons for locating the office at the new site. According to Constable, the space “....will house a useability laboratory in which professors Geri Gay of Communications and Phoebe Sengers [Science and Technology Studies] will design and study the next generation of user interface to information resources”, one of which is arXiv, the informational system developed by Professor Paul Ginsparg, Physics, currently under study by the Information Science group. The group will also continue work on the National Science Digital Library, an ongoing project led by Professor Bill Arms, CS. The new office is expected to open in late June 2002. More details about the new office site can be found at : http://www.cornellsun.com/articles/5698/

Math Excellence Initiative Funds Projects Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2002. The GE Fund has awarded $200,000 to Cornell to support programs designed to attract, encourage, and retain women and under-represented minorities in Computer Science.  Led by Professor Charles Van Loan, the initiative will fund high school and undergraduate programs, and support mentoring of  women in CS.  In addition to Professor Van Loan, CS professors Daisy Fan, Lillian Lee, and David Schwartz and CS staff members Krishna Athreya and Dan Jenkins are on the project team. For the full details see: http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle//02/4.25.02/GE-math.html

Announcing Marx Senior Prizes Date: Monday, April 22, 2002. Prizes of $500 each will be awarded to two graduating seniors who have majored in computer science. Winners will be selected based on demonstrated leadership qualities, extra-curricular activities (both in and out of Computer Science), and for being generally friendly and helpful to classmates and others. Additionally, all applicants must have at least a 3.0 grade average. For more information, see prize poster. Deadline for submission: May 10, 2002. Details & submission instructions.

Project MUSE to Guide Museum Goers Date: Thursday, March 28, 2002.   MUSE, a project of the Human-Computer  Interaction Group will put PDAs in the hands of visitors to the Johnson Art Museum on the Cornell campus, and three other participating museums. The handheld devices will give the user access to information about the individual pieces on display, using infrared sensors to determine where the visitor is located in relation to the exhibit.  Directed by Geri Gay of the Department of Communication, the research team includes a number of faculty and students including Nick Farina '02.  For more details, read the article in the Cornell Daily Sun at http://www.cornelldailysun.com/articles/5104/

BOOM 2002 Bigger Than Ever  Date: Friday, March 15, 2002.   The annual showcase of student projects in digital technology, otherwise known as BOOM (Bits On Our Minds) boasted a record number of participants.  Fifty-two projects were presented, featuring digital applications as far-ranging as body scanning for apparel design to online auction simulation.  Sponsorship for BOOM 2002 was provided by Credit Suisse First Boston and Verizon. The Cornell Chronicle report of the day's events can be found at:  http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicles/3.14.02/BOOM_coverage.html. Detailed descriptions of this years' projects are posted at:  http://www.cs.cornell.edu/boom/2002sp/projects.htm              

Yona Recipient of NSF Award Date: Friday, March 1, 2002.   Golan Yona, CS, has received a NSF Faculty Early Career Award. The award recognizes and supports early career development of outstanding new faculty members. Professor Yona joined the CS faculty in 2000. His teaching and research is in the field of computational molecular biology. Professor Yona's research is described more fully in the Cornell Chronicle:  http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle//02/4.11.02/Yona.html.

Myers and Gehrke Receive CAREER Awards Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2002.   Two CS professors, Andrew Myers and Johannes Gehrke, are recipients of the NSF Faculty Early Career Award. The award recognizes and supports early career development of outstanding new faculty members. Professor Gehrke's research is in the development of new data mining and database technology. He has been a member of the CS faculty since 1999, teaching courses in data mining and database systems. Professor Myers focuses his research efforts in the areas of security, programming language design and implementation, and persistent and distributed object systems. His teaching in CS has included courses in compilers and programming; he has been with the faculty since 1999.

Lee and Myers are Sloan Fellows Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2002. Lillian Lee and Andrew Myers have recently been selected to be Sloan Research Fellows. Sloan Research Fellowships identify young scholars who show outstanding promise. Fellows receive funds that they may use to pursue whatever line of inquiry they find most compelling, in the expectation that they will make fundamental contributions to new knowledge. Congratulations to Professors Lee and Myers!

Barr Wins IBM Scholar Challenge Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2002.   Rimon Barr, CS grad student, was one of 25 winners worldwide of the IBM Linux Scholar Challenge. Construction of a Linux application that synchronizes e-mail won Barr an IBM ThinkPad.  The contest was devised by IBM to encourage programming in the open source operating environment of Linux and attracted more than 1400 entries representing 669 Universities.  Rimon, a PhD student, wrote the program to solve a problem he was experiencing with his own e-mail, and expects that others will "write code and insert it into my program to make it work with their e-mail programs." An IBM spokesman remarked that the "overwhelming response to the ...Challenge proves how deeply Linux is entrenched in the university community worldwide." (Excerpted from an article that appeared in the February 12,  2002 issue of the Cornell Daily Sun).

Schneider Tapped by ACM Security Group Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2002.   Fred Schneider, professor of computer science, is one of 12 national authorities on computer security named to the newly formed Advisory Committee on Security and Privacy created by the Association for Computing Machinery. The purpose of the group is to provide objective advice to the computing community, the public at large and to policy-makers on emerging issues of information security, reliability and privacy. Members of the group will provide testimony, interviews, briefings and statements, as required. Schneider chaired the Committee on Information Systems Trustworthiness convened by the National Research Council in 1996 and is the editor of Trust in Cyberspace (National Academy Press, 1999), the book reporting the committee's findings. He is the head of the Information Assurance Institute, in which Cornell computer scientists work in collaboration with scientists at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Rome, N.Y., on computer security and reliability issues. (This story appeared in the January 17, 2002 issue of the Cornell Chronicle.)

 

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