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Gear Receives U of I's Highest Alumni Honor Alumni News Laursen And Summer 2001 Vol. 2, No. 6 Alumni News Gear receives U of I’s Reed named highest alumni honor Gutgsell Professor When C. W. (Bill) Gear intro- On May 7, 2001, Dan Reed was invested as an Edward duced his novel methods for William Gutgsell and Jane Marr Gutgsell Endowed finding solutions to stiff equa- Professor at a ceremony held at the Beckman Institute. tions, almost overnight solving He was recognized for innovative collaborative research these very difficult but impor- and for working with government, private industry, and tant problems became routine, academia to chart the future of computational science and and the computer program that engineering. The professorships were funded through an implemented these methods estate gift from the Gutgsells, who were loyal and made Gear’s name a household generous supporters of the university their entire lives. word among scientists and Both earned BS degrees in 1934—he in LAS and she in engineers across a myriad of journalism. They both died in 1989. In 1998, the univer- disciplines. Gear’s name is also Bill Gear sity established the Gutgsell Professorships to recognized one closely associated with the some of its most distinguished senior faculty. Department of Computer Science at the University of Reed recently stepped down as department head of Illinois, where he spent more than three decades, first as a computer science in May and will be interim head until a graduate student and later as a faculty member and head. replacement is found. He continues as a professor of Now, he is the first computer scientist whose portrait computer science and director of the National Center for graces the halls of the Illini Union as a recipient of the Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the National University of Illinois’s highest alumni honor, the Alumni Computational Science Alliance. n Association’s Alumni Achievement Award. Gear re- continued on p. 12 Laursen and Matsushita endow new fellowships Fellowships are one of the best ways to attract the Oracle6. He was most recently at Phone.com as vice brightest and most promising graduate students to our president of engineering before he retired in the summer department. Recognizing this, Andy and Shana Laursen of 2000. He and Shana, an educator, live with their two and Shigenori Matsushita have established and fully sons in Auburn, Calif. Their fellowship will be called the funded two new endowed fellowships that will benefit Andrew and Shana Laursen Fellowship. computer science students now and for generations to Shigenori Matsushita established a fellowship in honor come: The Laursen Fellowship and the Muroga Fellow- of Professor Saburo Muroga, with whom he studied at ship. Illinois in 1962-63. It will be called the Saburo Muroga Andy Laursen has had a long and productive career, Fellowship. Matsushita has had a long career at Toshiba starting at Bell Laboratories. He earned his MS at Uni- Corp. and now works for Wink Communications in versity of Illinois in 1982 as part of the company’s Japan. advanced degree program and returned to Bell Labs, An article on Matsushita appears on page 9, and an article where he worked on electronic switching systems. He on Laursen from the January 2001 CS Alumni News can be moved on to Tolerant Systems, before spending a decade found at www.cs.uiuc.edu. n at Oracle, where he was one of the original designers of Tebbe wins two From the corner office . alumni honors Reed says farewell Mark Tebbe Over five years ago, I agreed to take on the challenges seems to be and responsibilities associated with leading the depart- appearing in ment. During that time, we have seen extraordinary every issue of changes in computing within the department, across the the CS Alumni campus, and in our daily lives. The Internet has become News lately. a household word, in large part due to the seminal This time, his contributions of our alumni, students and faculty. More- accomplish- over, information technology is now recognized as one of ments have been the primary engines of national and international eco- recognized with nomic growth. I have been proud, privileged, and two very humbled to serve as head of one of the world’s very best important computer science departments during this time. awards: The As I look back on the past five years, I take great pride Chicago Illini of in the department’s accomplishments. the Year Award Mark Tebbe with longtime friend Profes- sor Sylvian Ray, who has been ACM’s and the College · The launch of our Internet distance learning program, adviser from its inception. of Engineering based on streaming media distribution of courses and our Alumni Award professional MCS degree. for Distinguished Service. After graduating with a BS in CS in 1983, Tebbe went · Dramatic growth in our departmental endowment for to Arthur Andersen. A year later, he started Lante, a undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, chairs, consulting firm, with money borrowed from his credit and professorships. card and with a passion for microcomputers and net- working. His company has grown from a two-person · An equally dramatic increase in the department’s annual operation in Chicago to a major public company with research expenditures, reflecting a renewed commitment offices in 10 cities and more than 300 employees, many of to cutting edge research and associated research infra- whom are U of I graduates. Tebbe is an authority on structure. emerging technologies and has appeared in numerous publications, including InfoWorld, for which he writes the · Tom Siebel’s incredible donation of $32M to endow the weekly column “Behind the Lines.” In 1999, Tebbe was Siebel Center for Computer Science, a dramatic new named to the “40 under 40” list in Crain’s Chicago Busi- $75M facility for computer science education and re- ness, and the following year he was inducted into the search. Along with this donation, our faculty size will Chicago Area Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame. He is a grow to 63, graduate enrollments will increase to over founding member of two leading computer groups in 500, and undergraduate enrollments will rise to over Chicago, is active in many technological organizations 1,300. and standard committees, and serves on several corpo- rate boards. · A broad and intellectually deep distinguished entrepre- Tebbe returns to campus often and has been especially neur lecture series that brings our successful alumni back supportive of the Association for Computing Machinery, to the department, with all lectures webcast via the which he resurrected on campus in the early 1980s. He Internet. was pivotal in making CS eligible to compete in Engi- neering Open House, and he and his colleagues won the · Recruiting new faculty and staff, the next generation of department’s first EOH award. In 1999 he joined the Illinois excellence. During the past five years, fifteen new College of Engineering Advisory Board and delivered a faculty members joined the department as the early talk as part of the department’s Distinguished Entrepre- founders and giants of the field retired. The influx of new neur Series. He received the Chicago Illini of the Year ideas and research directions from all of these additions is Award at the Chicago Athletic Club on March 1, 2001, bearing great fruit. and the COE alumni award at the Illini Union during Convocation on April 20, 2001. n One of the constants in computing is change, and leader- ship positions are no exception. I recently accepted a new 2 CS ALUMNI NEWS position as director of the National Center for Kay Tomlin honored Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at Illinois and its associated consortium of fifty national partners, the Kay Tomlin, secretary in the National Computational Science Alliance. This is an department’s academic exciting new opportunity for me to help define the future office, won the 2000-01 of high-performance computing in the United States. Chancellor’s Distinguished In my new role as NCSA and Alliance director, I will Staff Award. Professor Sam be leading creation and deployment of a new generation Kamin, director of under- of computing, communication, and storage systems for graduate programs, who the national science and engineering research community. nominated Tomlin, wrote: In this role, I look forward to working with the computer “Her dedication to her science department to advance the state of computing at work, her caring attitude, Illinois and around the world. her cheerfulness even in times of great stress, and her Keep inventing the future! — Dan willingness and ability to sort out bureaucratic Kay Tomlin problems make her a virtual legend among CS faculty and students.” For the past 11 years, Tomlin has been a More changes key contact person for undergraduates, helping students with academic problems or issues that arise as they Not only has Dan Reed stepped down as head of the CS navigate through the university. In 1998, she was hon- department (he will remain on the CS faculty and con- ored with the Dads Day Award, which is based on tinue to serve as director of NCSA) . David Daniel, student nominations. According to Professor Dan Reed, who has been head of the civil engineering department department head, “Kay is a calm and reassuring voice, for the past five years, replaced William Schowalter as with a quick smile and a deep knowledge of possible dean of the College of Engineering. Steve Kang left as solutions and alternatives. She mends intellectual and head of ECE to become dean of the engineering college at emotional skinned knees, dispenses wisdom, and moves University of California at Santa Cruz. Richard Blahut is with a quiet grace that makes even the most worried the new ECE head.
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