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From Sitterson Hall NewsNews&NotesNotes The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Computer Science from Sitterson Hall SPRING 2008 • ISSUE FORTY-ONE In this issue Chairman’s corner CHAIRMAN’S corner 1 Welcome to the for example, or you could honor a final edition of former professor who had a positive WELCOMES AND fareWELLS 2 “News & Notes influence on your life and career. Your CongratuLations TO... 2 from Sitterson donations will help further the goal of Hall.” Starting making UNC Computer Science a truly FAMILY Matters 3 with the fall world-class research and teaching grants, contracts & Patents 3 2008 issue, the facility. Contact me if you are department will interested. ALUMNI NEWS 4 no longer be At the start of the spring semester, RECENT PUBLications 5 solely located in Sitterson Hall, so we’ll take the the department welcomed new faculty RESEARCH NEWS 6 opportunity to change both the name member Marc Niethammer, assistant and the look of the newsletter. This professor in both the Department of DepartMENT NEWS 7 redesign will also coincide with the Computer Science and the Biomedical launch of a new and much improved Research Imaging Center (BRIC). Marc www.cs.unc.edu Department of Computer Science Web joins the department from Harvard site. Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he was a research One of the most notable pieces fellow. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgia of news I’d like to share is that the Tech. Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Computer The 2008 Science Building is still on schedule We will also be welcoming computer SIGGRAPH for occupancy starting this fall. As I security researcher Fabian Monrose UNC Reunion is mentioned in the previous newsletter, to the department this summer as an we will be holding a dedication associate professor. Fabian is joining us coming... ceremony for the new building mid- from Johns Hopkins University, where fall, with the final date still under he is an associate professor in the and we want to make discussion. We will let you know as department of computer science and sure you don’t miss the soon as the date is finalized, so that a member of the JHU Information official announcement! you all can plan to join us. We are Security Institute. Fabian works in the excited about the impending opening areas of biometrics, cryptography, Please send an email to of the new building, with its new and network security, and is a terrific addition to the new computer [email protected] classrooms, faculty conference room, laboratories, and research space. security research group. Look for to make sure you are on more information on him in the fall our email list. Speaking of all that space, it is not too newsletter. late to secure naming rights for various areas and rooms in the F.P. Brooks I hope to see you at this fall’s Brooks Building. By making a qualifying Building dedication! Thanks! donation, you could choose to have your name grace a conference room, Jan F. Prins 2 Welcomes and farewells Welcome to... receives a financial stipend of up Symposium VRST 2007. to $7,500 per year for each of the NEW FACULTY two years. The program is a new Xiang Zhang and Feng Pan, Marc Niethammer (Ph.D. 2004, initiative of Carolina Center for who won the best student Georgia Institute of Technology), Public Service and the Office of paper award of the 24th IEEE Assistant Professor in Computer the Vice Chancellor for Public International Conference on Data Science and the Biomedical Service and Engagement to Research Imaging Center (BRIC). advance faculty involvement in the Marc joins the department from scholarship of engagement. At OOPSLA ‘07 in Harvard Medical School, Brigham Montreal, a panel on the and Women’s Hospital, where he Ming Lin, who was recently named 20th Anniversary of Fred was a research fellow in psychiatry the faculty scholar for the spring Brooks’s software paper, and radiology. 2008 semester by the Carolina “No Silver Bullet—Essence Women’s Center. Ming will work and Accident in Software VISITING RESEARCHERS on a project that responds to the Engineering,” featured the Suriayati Chuprat, Visiting disproportionately small presence swift transformation of Scholar working with Sanjoy of women in computing, and panelist Martin Fowler into Baruah. Since 1997, she has been she will design a new course to a werewolf, whose comments a lecturer at the University of integrate cutting-edge research into enlivened and enlightened Technology in Malaysia. the undergraduate classroom and the whole panel. Brooks and include women undergraduates former UNC faculty member Dwight Makaroff, Visiting in research opportunities. Ming David Parnas were among the Scholar working with Ketan will also be working to engage in untransformed (but unharmed) Mayer-Patel. Dwight is an outreach to area middle schools as panelists. The January- associate professr at the University an early recruitment strategy, and February 2008 issue of IEEE of Saskatchewan. to enhance mentoring and advising Software has a description (pp. efforts in her department. The 91-94). Christopher Zach, postdoctoral Faculty Scholars program is funded research associate working with through the Office of the Provost Brooks, on Research Leave Jan-Michael Frahm, who joins and provides course replacement during 2007-2008, has given the department from VRVis money for one course during the lectures or colloquia at Research Center for Virtual award semester. Cambridge and at a sd&m Reality and Visualization, Vienna, Design Conference in Austria, and the Institute for GRADUATE STUDENTS Berlin. During January and Computer Graphics and Vision, Sasa Junuzovic, who was the February, he gave colloquia at Graz University of Technology, recipient of one of the twelve Manchester and Oxford. Austria. Microsoft Research Fellowships Thanks and farewell to... given this year. FACULTY AND STAFF Avneesh Sud, Fred Jordan, who retired in Russell Gayle, December 2007 with nearly 28 Stephen Guy, years of state service. Erik Andersen, Ming Lin Congratulations to... and Dinesh , who FACULTY AND STAFF Manocha received a Best , who has been Gary Bishop Paper Award named one of the first Faculty for their paper, Engaged Scholars at UNC. In “Real-time this two-year program, Faculty Navigation of Engaged Scholars will apply their Independent skills to make a difference in a In February 2008, Greg Welch and Henry Fuchs attended the Agents Using particular community as they National Academy of Engineering banquet where Rudolph E. Adaptive connect their work with the needs Kalman, for whom the “Kalman filter” is named, received the Roadmaps,” of the community. Each scholar NAE Draper Prize. Above: Greg, who maintains a web site on the at ACM Kalman filter, is pictured with Kalman. 44 RecentAlumni publications news M.S. AND PH.D. ALUMNI management challenges associated the total to five and holding. Rodger Blair, (M.S. 1969), is with ad hoc networks, and provides ([email protected]) a Lead Systems Analyst with an in-depth description of how McKesson Corporation. He is policy-based network management Jaideep Mirchandani (M.S. also a Certified Scrum Master and can be used for increasing 1992) moved to Chennai, India a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, automation in the management in 2006, to set up and run the and is working towards becoming of mobile ad hoc networks. The India Operations for Relativity a Certified Six SigmaMaster book features a foreword by J. Technologies, a Raleigh-based Black Belt. Rodger says hello to Christopher Ramming, who was a software company. The India Dr. Brooks and reports: “We are program manager at DARPA at the Operations supports the currently planning our annual time, and is also a UNC CS alumnus. deployment, adoption and vacation to Topsail Island -- a ([email protected]) commercial success of Indian 20-year family tradition. Ryan, our Services companies in the use adult son, and his wife have joined Marc Levoy (Ph.D. 1989), of Relativity’s products. In us last summer; we believe they Professor of Computer Science India, Jaideep is in contact with will do so again this year. Lauren, and (jointly) Electrical Engineering Rajaraman Krishnan (M.S. 1993) our daughter and family, moved to at Stanford University, was named as well as Subodh Kumar. (jaideep. Los Angeles in July 2007 and will an ACM Fellow in December 2007. [email protected]) not be joining us at Topsail Island ([email protected]) this summer. Topsail Island is a Yen-Ping Shan (Ph.D. 1990) great North Carolina secret but is Robert Lewis (M.S. 1981), founded a company, iSource becoming well-known up here in professor of mathematics at Technologies, and is serving as Pittsburgh!!” ([email protected]) Fordham University, recently the CEO. The company provides published the following: high quality and low cost IT and Michael Capps, Ph.D. (B.S. “Heuristics to Accelerate the Business Process Outsourcing 1994, M.S. 1996) is still happily Dixon Resultant,” in Mathematics (BPO) services to small and employed as President of Epic and Computers in Simulation (2007); midsize businesses utilizing Games in Cary, NC. After an “Algorithmic Search for Flexibility capacities from China and Asian award-winning year for Gears Using Resultants of Polynomial countries. ([email protected]) of War, Epic Games has just Systems” (with E. Coutsias), in released Unreal Tournament 3 on Automated Deduction in Geometry: 6th Josh Steinhurst (Ph.D. 2007) PC and PlayStation 3. It’s the first International Workshop; Lecture Notes published the following paper game to be released on a console in Computer Science, Vol. 4869, with Anselmo Lastra and Greg platform with user modification Springer, Berlin, 2007. (rlewis@ Coombe (Ph.D. 2007): “Reducing tools, so users can make levels fordham.edu) Photon-Mapping Bandwidth by or write gameplay code on PC, Query Reordering,” J.
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