2007 News
2006 News
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Best Jobs in America!! |
| Money magazine identifies Software Engineer and College professor as the number 1 & 2 jobs in America! | |
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Engineering Ph.D. student wins $10,000 scholarship |
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Karen Fullam, electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student, is one of 19 students, chosen from a nationwide applicant pool of more than 300, to receive a $10,000 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes outstanding female undergraduate and graduate students completing their degrees in computer science or related fields. Selection criteria includes academic performance, letters of recommendation, answers to short essay questions and interviews with members of the review committee. In addition to the monetary prize, Fullam, who is affiliated with the university's Center for Excellence in Distributed Global Environments (EDGE), was invited to Mountain View, California to tour the Google headquarters and talk with the company's executives and engineers. Fullam researches agents, which are proactive, autonomous pieces of software acting on behalf of humans. Just as humans must learn who to trust before conducting transactions, agents must find other trustworthy agents for transactions, for example, in online marketplaces like eBay. Fullam researches techniques to help agents make the best decisions about which other agents to trust. She said she will donate part of her scholarship to her church because her graduate research assistant appointment with the EDGE Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems already covers her tuition and living expenses. The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology seeks to increase the impact of women on technology, and increase the positive benefits of technology for women's lives. Borg was a successful computer scientist who started her career in the 1980s when few women worked in the field. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology to provide mentors, support and encouragement for women entering the computing industry. |
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EDGE Professor, Dr. Margarida Jacome, receives NSF Grant |
| Professors Margarida Jacome, Derek Chiou, and Gustavo de Veciana recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study ways to make computational memory a viable alternative to algorithms. If this research is successful, we move another step closer to inexpensive computing sticks like today's flash memory that provide computing power and storage. | |
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EDGE professor selected to the Defense Advance Research Project Agency's (DARPA) "Computer Science Study Panel" |
| The DARPA Information Exploitation Office (IXO), in conjunction with the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), selected Dr. Christine Julien, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as one of 12 members for the Computer Science Study Panel (CS2P) for year 2006. The CS2P will explore the Department of Defense's organizational structure associated with inherent challenges and successes dealing with information analysis. Dr. Julien will travel throughout the United States with the CS2P and visit government and industry facilities for exposure to information technology fields related to military technological needs. For Fiscal Year 2006, Dr. Julien received a grant of $87,000 to pursue basic research, conducted in the Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory, which focuses on revolutionary technologies that permit significant advances in military information analysis capabilities. The program continues through years 2007 and 2008, allowing Dr. Julien to continue as a member of CS2P, attain additional research funding and continue research that revolutionizes military technologies. | |
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EDGE professor receives NSF grant to study software engineering for ubiquitous computing. |
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| The National Science Foundation has recently awarded Dr. Christine Julien, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a research grant to study the cross-roads of communications and software engineering, specifically as they relate to applications in ubiquitous computing. The research will investigate the changing requirements of emerging applications and will develop algorithms and middleware to support rapid development of applications for tomorrow's ubiquitous computing environments. The work will also investigate the creation of simplified programming constructs that enable non-experts to create reliable applications. Dr. Julien received a two-year grant of $200,000 to support the work of the Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory in these endeavors. | |
