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Professor Sharma
Chakravarthy was awarded
ACM Distinguished Scientist
Professor Sharma
Chakravarthy was awarded
ACM Distinguished Scientist
(http://awards.acm.org/
homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=157)
in November 2011 and IEEE Senior member in
August 2011. The Distinguished Member Grade
recognizes those ACM members with at least 15
years of professional experience and 5 years of
continuous Professional Membership who have
achieved significant accomplishments or have made
a significant impact on the computing field.
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Associate Professor Matthew Wright and
Professor Mohan Kumar are leading a new
project, funded by the National Science
Foundation
Associate Professor Matthew Wright and
Professor Mohan Kumar are leading a new
project, funded by the National Science
Foundation, on
designing robust and
secure peer-to-peer
(P2P) systems. This project advances the state of the art in P2P security and reliability by applying reputation information at the directory level for improved success of subsequent lookups.
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CReWMaN researcher is awarded the best PhD forum paper and nominated for best paper at ICDCN 2012.
The 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) was held at Hong Kong from January 3-6, 2012. two PhD forum papers from CReWMaN researcher presented at the conference. Ph.D student Na Li got the best PhD forum paper award for her paper "Community Detection on Online Social Networks".
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Dr. Chengkai Li got HP Labs Innovation Research Award
Assistant professor Chengkai Li has been been awarded a 2011 HP Labs Innovation Research Award of $40,000 for Aug.1, 2011-July 31, 2012, on "Entity-Centric Querying of Enterprise Information for IT Management". More information can be found at http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110907xb.html
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New NSF Grant Awarded to Dr. Christoph Csallner (PI),
Dr. Chengkai Li (Co-PI) and
Dr. Leonidas Fegaras
Assistant professors Christoph Csallner (PI), Chengkai Li (Co-PI) and Associate professor Leonidas Fegaras (Co-PI) have been awarded an $497K NSF grant for their proposal entitled "SHF: Small: Testing Large-Scale Database-Centric Applications".
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New NSF Grant Awarded to Dr. Heng Huang and Dr. Fillia Makedon
Assistant professor Heng Hunag (PI) and Professor Fillia Makedon (Co-PI) got a new NSF grant for their proposal titled "A Large-Scale Data Mining Framework for Genome-Wide Mapping of Multi-Modal Phenotypic Biomarkers and Outcome Prediction". This is a three-year project with a total budget of $499,904, collaborating with the Indiana University School of Medicine.
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Assistant Professor Athitsos has been awarded CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Vassilis Athitsos has been awarded a CAREER award on his proposal entitled "CAREER: Large Vocabulary Gesture Recognition for Everyone: Gesture Modeling and Recognition Tools for System Builders and Users". The total amount is
$513K for three years.
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Associate professor Jeff Lei got $250K grant award NIST
Dr. Jeff Lei (PI) and Tao Xie (NC State)got new NIST grant for their proposal titled "Fault Localization Based on Combinatorial Testing". This is a three-year project with a total budget of $250K.
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New NSF grant awarded for Dr. Chengkai Li and Dr. Gautam Das
Dr. Chengkai Li (PI) and Dr. Gautam Das(co-PI) have
been awarded an NSF grant
for their proposal "EntityEngine: A Query Engine for Entity-Relationship Queries over Web Text". The amount is about $500K for 3 years.
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Heng Huang grant from Consolidated Edison, Inc.
Dr. Heng Huang (PI) got a new $200K grant with Dr. Wei-jen Lee (Co-PI from EE department) from Consolidated Edison, Inc. This project is to investigate pattern recognition algorithms for utilizing data collected from Advanced Metering Infrastructure.
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Assistant Professor Christoph Csallner (PI) got an NSF award
Assistant Professor Christoph Csallner (PI) has been awarded an NSF grant for his proposal entitled "SHF: Small: Collaborative Research: Preserving Test Coverage While Achieving Data Anonymity for Database-Centric Applications" . This is part of a collaborative proposal with PI Mark Grechanik (the University of Illinois at Chicago).
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Professor Fillia Makedon (PI) and Dr. Zhengyi Le have been awarded a $152K NSF grant
Professor Fillia Makedon (PI) and Dr. Zhengyi Le have been awarded a $152K NSF grant for their proposal "EAGER: An Exploratory Pilot Project to Build an Intelligent Human-Computer Interface System for Neurological Disorder Assessment and Rehabilitation".
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New Faculty Member Joined CSE Department
The CSE department welcome a new faculty member, Dr. Gian Luca Marriottini. Dr. Mariottini will join us in the Fall of 2010 as an Assistant Professor.
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Assistant Professor Matthew Wright Wins CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Matthew Wright recently received a five-year, $499,880 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research project entitled, "anon.next: Privacy-Enabled Routing in the Next-Generation Internet."
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Dr. Chris Greer Visits CSE Department
Dr. Chris Greer, assistant director from the Office of Science and Technology Policy, visits CSE Department at UTA
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Professor Fillia Makedon received $722K NSF grant from NSF
Professor Fillia Makedon (PI) and Vassilis Athitsos, Heng Huang, Zhengyi Le and Dan Popa (Co-PIs) have been awarded a $722K NSF grant for their proposal "MRI/Dev.: Next Generation Multimodal Data Management Human-Sensing Instrument for Trustworthy Research Collaboration and Quality of Life Improvement"
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Professor Ishfaq Ahmad received two NSF grants for his collaborative research projects in "Green Computing"
Two NSF grants entitled "CSR: Medium: Collaborative Research: GridPac: A Resource Management System for Energy and Performance Optimization on Computational Grids" and "MCDA: Collaborative Research: A Multi-Element and Multi-Objective Optimization Approach for Allocating tasks to Multi-Core Processors" are awarded to Professor Ishfaq Ahmad for his collaborative research projects with several other universities.
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Dr. Jeff Lei received an award from NIST
Dr. Jeff Lei (PI)
has received an
award from NIST for his proposal
entitled, “Advanced Combinatorial Testing Techniques”, with a total
amount of $248K.
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New NSF grant awarded for Dr. Donggang Liu and Dr. Matthew Wright
Dr. Donggang Liu (PI) and Dr. Matthew Wright (co-PI) have
been awarded an NSF grant
for their proposal “TC:Small:
Towards Trustworthy Intrusion
Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor
Networks”. The amount is $450K for 3 years.
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Two NSF grants have been awarded to Dr. Chris Ding and Dr. Heng Huang
Dr. Chris Ding (PI) and Dr. Heng Huang (co-PI) have been awarded two NSF grants for their proposals entitled "New Theoretical Foundations of
Tensor Applications: Clustering,
Error Analysis, Global
Convergence, and Robust
Formulations" and "Collaborative Research: Nonnegative
Matrix Factorizations for
Data Mining: Foundations,
Capabilities, and Applications".
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Dr. Sharma Chakravarchy and Dr. Mohan Kumar got grant from Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. Sharma
Chakravarthy (PI) and Dr. Mohan
Kumar have been
awarded a $267k grant from
AFRL (Air Force Research
Laboratory) for their proposal
entitled, “A Distributed
Middleware-based Architecture
for Fault-Tolerant Computing
Over Distributed Repositories”.
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“GAANN Doctoral Fellowships in Computer Science Specializing in Security” was selected for funding.
Professor Ishfaq Ahmad
(PI) and Phil Cohen, Gautam
Das, Dongang Liu, Fillia
Makedon, Carter Tiernan and
Matthew Wright has been
awarded a $522,624 grant by
Department of Education for
their proposal “GAANN
Doctoral Fellowships in
Computer Science Specializing in
Security”. This grant will receive
$130,656 matching funds from
UTA, creating a total amount of
about $652K.
NSF grant awarded to Dr. Gautam Das
Dr. Gautam Das has been awarded an NSF grant
by IIS Division for his proposal
entitled “Suppressing Sensitive
Aggregates over Hidden Web
Databases, a Novel and Urgent
Challenge”. The amount is
$251.186 for 3 years.
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In 2009, we hired Dr. Nathaniel Nystrom as Assistant Professor in the CSE Department. He has done excellent work on
software extensibility, language-based security, programming language run-time systems,
and compiler optimizations.
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CSE On the Move
April 23-24, 2009 Dr. Arthur Alexander Reyes (CSE dept.), Dr. Atilla Dogan (MAE dept.), and Komkrit Kaewchay (graduate student in Aerospace Engineering) visited RotoMotion LLC in South Carolina to learn how to operate RotoMotion’s SR20 and SR30 autonomous helicopters. All the travelers are affiliated with the UTA Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory , which is buying two complete helicopter systems with funds provided by the Texas Workforce Commission. The systems will be used for workforce training and research in rapid-response aerial observation & reconnaissance.
New Book By Prof. Sharma Chakravarthy
March 2009
We are very happy to announce that Professor Chakravarthy's book on
"Stream Data Processing: A Quality of Service Perspective" has now
been published by Springer and will be available on April 24th, 2009. The authors are Sharma Chakravarthy and QingChun Jiang.
CSE faculty have Operating Systems book published
February, 2009
Dr. Ramez Elmasri, A.G. Carrick (formerly a lecturer in UTA CSE) and David Levine had their book
Operating Systems: A Spiral Approach
published by McGraw Hill Higher Education.
CSE winners from the Engineering Reception and Banquet
On February 20, 2009, the E-Week Engineering Reception and Banquet was held in the UC Bluebonnet with great success. Several faculty and students from the CSE department received awards.
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NSF award for a Collaborative Research
Congratulations to Professor Chris Ding for a new NSF award that is coming.
The NSF/ DMS program will award Prof. Ding and his colleague Prof. Li from FIU, $100K ($56K for UTA and $44 for FIU) for their
proposed work on "Nonnegative matrix factorization for data mining".
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Dr. Chengkai Li has received a $10,000 Research Enhancement Program Grant
University of Texas at Arlington Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Chengkai Li has received a $10,000 Research Enhancement Program grant to conduct research on problems associated with mashing up information on the Web.
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NSF proposal recommended for an award
Congratulations to Professors Vassilis Athitsos (PI) and Dr. Gautam Das (co-PI) whose NSF proposal is
being recommended for an award by the IIS Division of NSF.
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NSF Grant awarded for Dr. Gautam Das and Dr. Nan Zhang
Professors Dr. Gautam Das and Dr. Nan Zhang's proposal for reserach on "Data Analytics over Hidden
Databases" has been awarded with NSF Grant. The grant amount is $120,001 for the period of 18 months starting from 9/1/2008. Dr. Das is th Principal Investigator and Dr. Zhang is the Co-PI.
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NSF grant for research on Distributed Opportunistic Computing
awarded ($159,998 for 2 years)
Congratulations to Professors Dr. Mohan Kumar (PI) and Dr. Yonghe Liu (co-PI) whose NSF proposal is
being recommended for an award by the CISE, CNS Division of NSF for research in "DOC - Distributed Opportunistic Computing"
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NSF award for research on Collaborative Virtual Observation in Dynamic Environments
($336,817 for 3 years)
Congratulations to Professors Dr. Mohan Kumar (PI) and Dr. Yonghe Liu (co-PI) who
are awarded with NSF award for research in Collaborative Virtual Observation in Dynamic Environments by NSF Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division.
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NEW FACULTY HIRED
It is with great pleasure that we announce the hiring for Dr. Christoph Csallner as Assistant Professor in the CSE Department.
Dr. Csallner is an expert in software engineering and is working on software engineering problems...
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1st International Coference On PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments : PETRA 2008
The PETRA Conference brings together different types of technology to address an important social
and healthcare issue: as the world's population ages, there is growing interest in solutions for
the in- home care of the elderly as well as for the care of people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
and other disabilities or traumas.
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The Data Management Group in CSE Department is organizing the first bigD* Regional Symposium on Data and Information Management. The goal of this symposium is to foster the collaborations and interactions among a large number of research groups working on topics related to data and information management
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NSF DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM STUDENT-AUTHOR TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS
We expect NSF funding to support a number of graduate student authors to participate in PETRA'08.
Funding will be made available of up to $1500 per student to cover his or her expenses.
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8th Annual High School Robot Programming Contest Lets Students Show Off Their Skills At UTA
Little yellow robots buzzed around the Nedderman Hall atrium at the University of Texas at
Arlington on Saturday, February 9th, 2008. The robots were programmed and built by high
school students to compete in the High School Robot Programming Contest, RoPro, sponsored
by the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UTA (CSE@UTA).
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Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad becomes a Fellow of the IEEE
Dec 21, University of Texas at Arlington Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Ishfaq Ahmad has been elevated to the rank of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics
Engineers (IEEE).
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Nov 1, The CommTech Program in the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Department of
Justice, has awarded researchers in the Computer Science & Engineering Department
a $264,879 grant to develop a mesh network based solution to identify and locate
strategic personnel within a secure area such as a police precinct.
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$900,000 NSF Grant For Technology To Study American Sign Language
Oct 29, Assistant Professor Vassilis Athitsos and his collaborators have been awarded a three-year, $900,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop new technology for learning American Sign Language (ASL).
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Professor Sajal Das wins IEEE Engineer of the Year Award
Oct 14, Dr. Sajal Das was awarded the "IEEE Engineer of the Year Award" by the IEEE Ft. Worth Section during the Metrocom 2007 Conference held in Arlington. This award recognizes the recipient's leadership and technical contributions in engineering, community and societal activities.
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Dr. Fillia Makedon received a $500K grant from the National Science Foundation
Dr. Fillia Makedon has received a $500K grant from the National Science Foundation as the principle investigator to study trustworthy recommendation systems.
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Talk by online comic and graphic novel creator Scott McCloud
The Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Sabre Holdings
present online comic and graphic novel creator Scott McCloud,
currently on his "Making Comics 50 State Tour".
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CSE Alumnus Dr. Jeff Smith Receives National Foundation Award
Jeff Smith, a distinguished alumnus of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
at UTA, has received the Kauffman Foundation's Community Award for his successful efforts to
improve the economic conditions of the citizens of Magote,
a mountain village in Honduras.
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UTA Co-Hosts ACM South Central Regional
Programming Competition Nov. 3-4
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UTA joins Louisiana State University
in hosting on the UTA campus Nov. 3-4 the 2006 ACM South Central USA Programming
Contest. Read More
Dr. Fillia Makedon Named Chair of CSE
Dr. Fillia Makedon, a leading researcher in her field, has been named chair of the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at
Arlington.
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NSF Project Director, Guru Parulkar, Speaks Oct. 18 on Major Research
To Create New Internet Architectures and Distributed Systems
Dr. Guru Parulkar, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Computer and
Network Systems division, will speak at UTA as a CSE Distinguished Lecturer on Wednesday,
Oct. 18.
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Forrester Research Analyst to Speak Sept. 28 on Future Impact of
Blogs, Podcasting and Other Social Computing Technologies
Charlene Li, a principal analyst for Forrester Research, a leading global
technology and market research company that forecasts technology's impact on business and
consumers, will speak at UTA Sept. 28.
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Dr. Jean Gao Receives NSF Grant to Research Early Disease Detection
Dr. Jean Gao has received a $356,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation as the principal investigator to study biomarkers that help identify early
disease detection and help in the discovery of new drugs.
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UTA Student Team Scores Big Again in National AUV Competition
A team of engineering students from the University of Texas at Arlington won third place
in the 2006 national AUVSI Student Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Competition. A UTA team won first place
in the national student competition last year.
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CSE Receives $1.7 million in Research Funding
CSE has received $1.7 million in research grants so far in 2005-2006. The awards include $602,284 for
research on integrated cognitive systems from the Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise,
$386,553 from TxDOT, $275,000 from the NSF to develop new applications integrating stream and event processing
and $100,000 for a security framework research project funded by the Texas Advanced Research Program.
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CSE Team is National Finalist in Microsoft Software Design Competition
A team of UTA CSE students was among the nation's top 15 university teams who competed in
Microsoft's 2006 Imagine Cup national finals in May. The finalists beat out 300 university teams
nationally to place as finalists in the software design competition.
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Professors Das, Charavarthy, Huber Recognized for Research, Teaching Excellence
Professor Sajal Das has been named to UTA's Academy of Distinguished Scholars in
recognition of his outstanding scholarly achievements. Professor Sharma Chakravarthy
received the College of Engineering's Excellence in Research Award in recognition of superior
scholarship. Assistant Professor Manfred Huber received the Lockheed Martin
Aeronautics Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition for being a superior teacher.
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Dr. Chakravarthy receives $275,000 NSF Grant For Stream and Event Processing Research
CSE Professor Sharma Chakravarthy has received a $275,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation to integrate stream processing with event processing to meet the needs of new
applications for intelligent home monitoring, accident monitoring on highways and in other
areas.
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Dr. Jean Gao Recognized as One of Nation's Promising Young Researchers by NSF
Dr. Jean Gao has been recognized by the National Science Foundation with one of the
nation's top honors for investigators in the early stages of careers who are
considered likely to become America's research leaders.
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Industry Leaders from Texas Instruments, Intel to Speak
In CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series March 29, April 10
Dr. Hans Stork, chief technology officer at Texas Instruments, will speak in the CSE Distinguished
Lecturer Series on March 29. He is responsible for furthering TI's position as a top developer of
advanced silicon technology and for the company's long-term research and development strategy.
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World's leading conference on pervasive computing sponsored by CSE, IEEE
Leading computer scientists from industry and academia from around the world will travel to Italy in
March to attend PerCom, recognized as the leading international conference on pervasive computing and
communications. The conference is sponsored by CSE at UTA and IEEE.
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Dr. Hao Che was awarded a $64,200 research grant from NSF
Assistant Professor Hao Che was awarded a $64,200 research grant from the National Science Foundation.
The project is titled "Collaborative Research: NeTS-NBD: An Integrated Solution to Provide QoS, Traffic Engineering,
and Fault Tolerance in an Overlay Networking Environment". The one-year project is a collaborative effort with the
University of Pennsylvania.
UTA ACM Student Chapter Hosts National Student Conference March 3-4
UTA's ACM chapter is hosting the National ACM Student Conference at UTA March 3-4.
The event, held at University Center, includes a job fair and technical presentation from industry.
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CSE High School Robot Programming Competition Big Success
High school students from Arlington, Dallas and DeSoto independent school districts and other
schools participated in RoPro 2006, an annual robot programming contest for high school students
sponsored by CSE. The challenging, fun event was held on the UTA campus Feb. 4.
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High School Students Converge on UTA for CSE Robot Competition
Students from DFW-area high schools will face off Saturday, Feb. 4, at the University of
Texas at Arlington to see whose robot can navigate through a maze without direct control or find
an object using vision and touch.
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Talk by Dr. Mahbub Hassan of the University of New South Wales
Mahbub Hassan is Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and a seconded Principal Researcher at National ICT Australia.
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CSE ©UTA and LSU to co-host
2005 ACM South Central Regional Programming Contest
On Saturday, Nov. 12th the UTA Computer Science and Engineering Department will co-host the 2005 ACM South Central Regional Programming Contest with LSU. Approximately 24 teams from Texas and Oklahoma colleges and universities will converge on Nedderman Hall at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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Industry Advisory Board (IAB) meeting set for November 11, 2005
The IAB, comprised of almost 20 leading North Texas technology companies, advises the department on student curriculum, research and other matters. The board provides a broad range of support to the department and plays a critical role in ensuring that CSE graduates meet the needs of industry.
Leading Researcher Roger Walker Named Interim Chair
Of Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Roger Walker, a leading research scientist at the University of Texas at Arlington, has been named interim chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
New Funding Received for Graph-based Data Mining Research
Professors Larry Holder and Diane Cook have received three grants totaling almost $800,000 to continue their pioneering work in graph-based data mining using the Subdue system.
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UTA, the Mayo Clinic and Iowa State University
Collaborate on Medical Technology Research
Professor JungHwan Oh is the lead investigator on a $579,000 grant funded by the National Science Foundation to develop new hardware and software to produce advanced endoscopy videos.
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PerCom Is Leading International Conference on Pervasive Computing
Computer scientists worldwide seeking current state-of-the-art research on pervasive computing and communications are turning to PerCom, the leading international conference on pervasive computing, which is sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UTA and IEEE.
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1.6 Million Research Project Funded by NSF
Seeks to Develop Secure Infrastructures
Meeting at an annual workshop to discuss their research project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, are researchers from UTA, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Kentucky.
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Former CSE Faculty Member Eric Byrne Dies While on Himalayan Trek
Eric Byrne, a former faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UTA, died May 9 after being stricken with an illness while trekking in the Himalayas. He was 44.
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CSE Ranks No. 1 at UTA in New Research Funding
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering ranked No. 1 in new research funding in 2004 among all UTA academic and non-academic departments, according to UTA's Office of Research.
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PerCom 2005 Meets in Hawaii; Sponsored by CSE
More than 200 computer scientists and students attended the third annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), which is co-sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UTA, March 8-12 in Kauai, Hawaii.
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Sabre Holdings Scholarships Announced
Sabre Holdings Corp.'s annual scholarships for CSE students were announced at the Engineering Banquet during E-Week in February.
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Security Research Institute Receives $250,000 Funding
The Institute for Research in Security (IRIS) at the University of Texas at Arlington has received $250,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation to develop advanced security detection methods to monitor, prevent and recover from natural or inflicted disasters.
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