1999 - 2000 CS Annual Report           Awards

Awards and Honors

Teaching Awards 

Graeme Bailey: Kenneth A. Goldman '71 Excellence in Teaching Award. 

Ken Birman: Stephen '57 and Marilyn Miles Excellence in Teaching Award. 

Jon Kleinberg: Fiona Ip Li '78 and Donald Li '75 Excellence in Teaching Award. 

Fred Schneider: Daniel M. Lazar '29 Excellence in Teaching Award. 

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards 

Daisy Fan, Randy Fernando, Debra Goldberg, Amanda Holland-Minkley, David Kempe, Evan Moran, Wei-tsang Ooi, Fabio Pellacini,Raju Rohde, Steve Zdancewic.

Other Awards 

Sergei Artemov: Spinoza Lecture '99 from the European Association for Language, Logic
and Information.  

Graeme Bailey: Association for Computer Science Undergraduates Faculty of the Year Award. 

Johannes Gehrke: IBM Faculty Development Award. 

Carla Gomes: Best Consultant to the Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Sciences Directorate. 

Joe Halpern: 2000 Milner Lecturer, University of Edinburgh Division of Informatics. 

Juris Hartmanis: Computing Research Association's Distinguished Service Award for 2000. 

Jon Kleinberg: 1999 Packard Fellowship.  

Jon Kleinberg: "best paper" award, ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, 2000. 

Dexter Kozen: Class of 1960 Scholar, Williams College.  

Greg Morrisett, Steve Zdancewic, and Daniel Grossman: "best paper" award From the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems, 1999 Joint Conference on Principles, Logics, and Implementation of High-Level Programming Languages.  

Keshav Pingali: Rama Rao Chaired Visiting Professorship for 2000-2001 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.  

Keshav Pingali, Induprakas  Kodukula, Dror Maydan, and Robert Cox: "best paper" award, International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS 99).  

Bart Selman: Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).Undergraduate Student Awards  

1999 Association for Computing Machinery Greater NY Regional Programming Contest winners: 
the first-place team consisted of Hubie Chen, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, and Gun Srijuntongsiri; the second-place team was Joel Chestnutt, Kang-hoe Kim, and Mon-Jed Liu. The team was coached by Adam Florence and David Kempe. 

Jonathan Marx Senior Prizes: Helen C. Jen and Priya Rajan.  

Alan Marx Teaching Award: Lisa Faith Fishman.  

Microsoft Junior Award: Danny Falkov.  

Microsoft Women's Technical Scholarship in CS: Sarah Brian.  

Computer Science Prize for Academic Excellence: Long Yin Ronnie Choy.  

Cornell Society of Engineers/College of Engineering Leadership Award: Ruban
Selvakumar,  President of the Association for Computer Science Undergraduates. 

The Lockheed Martin Engineering Scholars Award: John Blitzer, Daniel Dantas, Nidhi Kalra, Benjamin Ragheb, and Jeffrey Vinocur.  

Merrill Fellow: Antonio Cuadra '00 (EE/CS Double Major). 

The following undergraduates were recognized for their outstanding contributions ascourse consultants and undergraduate teaching assistants: Brandon Bray, Lisa Fishman, Tony Frasso, Henry Hsu, Douglas Kong, Corinna Krantz, Adam Kravetz, Alvin Mai, Thomas Salter.