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Alumni News Marc Snir Becomes Eighth Head of Department Siebel Receives Presidential Award and Medallion Winter 2001 Vol. 2, No. 7 Alumni News Marc Snir becomes eighth head of department Marc Snir became head of Snir began his career at New York University in 1981 the computer science during the Ultracomputer project, an early exploration of department on August 21, large-scale, shared-memory parallel computers. The 2001. He comes from project was led by Jacob “Jack” Schwartz, a parallel IBM’s T. J. Watson Research computing pioneer and distinguished mathematician Center in Yorktown whom Snir greatly admires. This was about the same Heights, N.Y., where he has time Illinois was building Cedar, the hierarchical shared- been since 1986. A senior memory supercomputer project led by David Kuck. scientist, Snir was most Frequent exchange between researchers at Illinois and recently leader of the NYU gave Snir a good look at computing at U of I. After Scalable Parallel Systems two years at NYU, he returned to Israel and spent four Group. Before IBM, he has continued on p. 16 held academic positions Marc Snir with Hebrew University of Jerusalem and New York University. His BS (1972) and Our new Web pages are up! PhD (1979) are from The Hebrew University of Jerusa- www.cs.uiuc.edu lem. Siebel receives Presidential Award and Medallion Tom Siebel received the Presidential Award and Medal- established in 1984 lion from University of Illinois president James Stukel on by Stanley Ikenberry, October 30, 2001, for his “commitment to excellence in who was then software engineering, computer science research, and president. Siebel graduate education, and to his continuing commitment was presented the and generosity to his alma mater.” award in Palo Alto, Siebel, who founded Siebel Systems in 1993, has three Calif., during the fall degrees from the university: a BS in history (1975), MBA 2001 meeting of the (1983), and MS in CS (1985). In 1999, he donated $32 Silicon Valley million to help construct the Thomas M. Siebel Center for Roundtable, a group Computer Science. A corporate gift from Siebel Systems of alumni business in 2000 established the Siebel Scholars Fellowship Pro- leaders working on gram. the West Coast who “The U of I is recognized as a global leader in informa- advise Stukel and the tion technology,” Siebel said. “I am honored to receive UI Foundation on this recognition. As someone who has benefited greatly technology, business, Tom Siebel, with his MS advisor from the leadership of the university, it is my pleasure to and alumni issues. Geneva Belford and the Presidential play a continued role in the success of this institution. The Roundtable was medallion Ten people have received the honor since it was established in 1997. n New faculty NCSA Jiawai Han, professor, received his PhD from U of wins grant Wisconsin in 1985. He was professor of computer science for 14 years at Simon Fraser U in Vancouver, In August 2001, NCSA was named a B.C., Canada, and has been research director at corecipient of a $53 million federal DBMiner Technology since 1997. His research interests grant to create the fastest and most include spatial data mining, data mining and ware- powerful computer system ever built housing on the Web, bioinformatics, DNA, multimedia, for general scientific research. Called and deductive and object-oriented databases. the Distributed Terascale Facility, the Jiawai Han system will be able to perform 13.5 Jennifer Hou, associate professor, received her PhD trillion calculations a second. from U of Michigan in 1993. Her research focuses on Argonne National Lab, Cal Tech, protocol design and implementation for multicast and the San Diego Supercomputer routing and multicast, network modeling and simula- Center shared the award. There will tion, wireless QoS, coordinated congestion and error be four groups of computers at each control for Internet servers, real-time communications, facility linked by a Qwest fiberoptic and real-time task management. She joins the depart- cable network sixteen times faster ment from Ohio State U. than any existing high-speed research network. The system, which will use Steven LaValle, assistant professor, received his PhD 3,300 Intel processors, will go online Jennifer Hou from UI in 1995 and held positions at Stanford and in 2002 and be ready for peak perfor- Iowa State after that. His current research interests are mance in 2003. in robotics, motion planning, computational geometry, “This award reflects the National artifical intelligence, computational biology, computer Science Foundation’s confidence in vision, computer graphics, and control theory. the long and distinguished history of computer at Illinois,” said UI Chan- José Meseguer, professor, received his PhD from U of cellor Nancy Cantor. NCSA is under Zaragoza, Spain, in 1975. His research interests include the direction of Dan Reed, who was formal executable specification and verification, instrumental in the success of software composition, reflection and NCSA’s bid. n metaprogramming, object-oriented specification and software architecture, concurrent, distributed, and Steven LaValle mobile computing, logical frameworks and formal interoperability, and logical and semantic foundations. University of Illinois Computer Science Alumni News He has been principal scientist at SRI’s Computer Science Laboratory since 1984. Editor: Judy Tolliver Computer Science Alumni News Edgar Ramos, assistant professor, received his PhD is published twice a year. Deadlines for from UI in 1995. His research areas are combinatorial submissions: March 1 for the spring and computational geometry, randomized algorithms issue, October 1 for the winter issue. and derandomization, optimization and appoximation All ideas expressed in the CS Alumni algorithms, mesh generation, topological methods and News are those of the authors or editor algorithms, and parallel algorithms. He will join the and do not necessarily reflect the official José Meseguer department in January 2002 from the Max-Planck position of the alumni or the Department Institut für Informatic. (no picture) of Computer Science. Correspondence concerning Mahesh Viswanathan, assistant professor, received his the CS Alumni News should be sent PhD from Penn in 2000. His research interests are in Editor, Department of Computer Science, analysis and validation of software systems, including 1304 West Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, or to [email protected]. design of efficient algorithms, characterization of computational limitations, development of formal www.cs.uiuc.edu models for system specification, and implementation of The University of Illinois is an equal opportunity software tools for program analysis. n and affirmative action institution. Mahesh Viswanathan 2 CS ALUMNI NEWS From the corner office . I write my first column for tents of the building: the furnishings, artwork, and the alumni newsletter as I equipment that will fill its public spaces. The move to complete my third month Siebel Center will marke the close of nearly forty years of as head of computer association of computer science with the current Digital science. This has been an Computer Laboratory building. It is important that exhilarating experience. I history not be forgotten in this transition. With your knew that I was joining a help, we hope to ensure that the new building commemo- superb department, with a rate the history of computer research and education at long and proud tradition. Illinois with suitable exhibits and displays. However, I did not expect Siebel Center also represents an excellent opportunity the breadth and depth of to explore ways we can improve our education and day- research and education that to-day operation with a modern digital environment. Marc Snir I found, the professionalism The building has been designed to promote interaction in and dedication of the staff, small classes and small public spaces, as well as interac- the wealth of student tion remotely through digital audio and video communi- activities, and the friendliness of midwestern society. I cation. It will provide exciting opportunities to explore am also impressed by the dedication of many of our new collaborative environments and new approaches to emeritus professors, who continue to contribute their teaching. Much thinking has already gone into making skills and experience to the department. Finally, I was Siebel Center an exciting living laboratory. I expect in the not aware how large the family that I joined was. I coming months to solicit advice and help from you, our realize now that in addition to 39 faculty, 90 staff, 1,150 alumni and friends, on how to best realize this vision. undergraduate students and 420 graduate students, I I would like to close this column by briefly discussing joined a family of 6,370 alumni, all proud of the achieve- the September 11 attack and its impact on our depart- ments of the department and many helping it to continue ment. Together with the entire nation, we are mourning and improve its long tradition of excellence. the deaths of the thousands of victims. Since September The department has gone through a remarkable 11, many people in the College of Engineering have evolution under Dan Reed, my predecessor. Close to a looked for ways to apply the expertise we have at the half of the faculty has changed, as old-timers have retired university to the fight against terrorism. In our depart- or followed other opportunities, and new professors have ment, there are significant research and education activi- joined. This includes myself and five other faculty ties relating to digital security and privacy. We have members who joined this fall (see p. 2). They open and been designated as Center of Academic Excellence in strengthen important research directions for the depart- Information Assurance Education by the NSA and have ment. recently established, with Argus Systems Group, a Center Siebel Center was endowed and planned. New and for Advanced Research in Information Security to pro- exciting research projects, such as the active spaces vide a focus for collaborations with industry and other project, were started (see p.
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