News and Announcements
Professor Prasant Mohapatra was honored as one of the eleven 2008 Outstanding Engineering Alumni of Penn State University. The Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award is the highest honor conferred by the College of Engineering and recognizes graduates who have received exceptional levels of professional achievements.
Emeritus Professor Builds Cultural Bridges
Prof. Dick Walters is helping to revive academic ties between UC Davis and Egypt.
NSF Award for Kepler/CORE to Accelerate Scientific Workflow Development
The National Science Foundation, Office of Cyberinfrastructure has
awarded $1.7M over three years to a team of researchers led by Prof.
Bertram Ludaescher to develop Kepler/CORE, a Comprehensive, Open,
Reliable, and Extensible Scientific Workflow Infrastructure.
Networks Lab PhD student Marwan Batayneh, his research advisor Child Family Professor Biswanath Mukherjee, and their research collaborators Dr. Andreas Kirstädter, Dr. Dominic A. Schupke, and Dr. Marco Hoffman from Siemens, Germany, have won the IEEE Globecom 2007 Best Paper Award. Read the paper (PDF).
Intel has awarded the Department of Computer Science an equipment grant in the form of fifteen dual-core workstations and five dual-core laptop computers with an approximated value of $60K. The equipment will provide educational platforms for introducing multi-core computing in our relevant undergraduate and graduate courses. Professors Zhendong Su and Prasant Mohapatra led the effort in obtaining this grant.
Prof. Nelson Max has won the Steven A. Coons Award from ACM SIGGRAPH. This award is given every two years for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, and earlier recipients include other giants in the field. [ more (PDF) ]
CS grad student Shubhabrata Sengupta was first author on the Best Paper at Graphics Hardware 2007, along with Mark Harris, Yao Zhang, and his advisor John D. Owens. This is a competitive conference in a hot area. Download the paper here
Professor Zhendong Su has been awarded the 2007-08 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. The Dean's Faculty Awards honor the achievements of outstanding faculty members in the College of Engineering.
Professor Kwan-Liu Ma has been awarded the 2007-08 Outstanding Mid-Career Research Faculty Award. The Dean's Faculty Awards honor the achievements of outstanding faculty members in the College of Engineering.
ECS 40 added to Summer Sessions II
The 2007-2008 Department Citation recipients are Kari Okamoto (CSE) and Andrey Goder (CS). They will be presented with their citation on Thursday, June 5th, at 3 pm in 1065 Kemper.
2008-09 DRAFT Course Offerings