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January
January 19, 2000Professor William Levine (ECE) is the series editor of Birkhauser's new Control Engineering books. The first book in the series, Robust Kalman Filtering for Signals and Systems with Large Uncertainties by Ian Petersen and Andrey Savkin, has just been published. In addition, CRC Press has repackaged parts of Professor Levine's The Control Handbook into two new publications: Control System Applications and Control System Fundamentals.
January 10, 2000
ISR/Northrop Grumman Fellowship recipient Sean Gahagan is
working on the Adaptable
Simulation Models for Manufacturing project in ISR's Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Lab. This project is part of the NSF-CIRE program.
February
February 25, 2000A new edition of the ISR newsletter, Systems Signals, has just been published! | Read it online | PDF format | PostScript format |
February 25, 2000
ISR's diverse collection of major research programs and centers
affects a broad spectrum of applications. We have identified five
primary directions in ISR, all of which spring from our foundation
and leadership in systems methodologies. Information
With the recent addition of Iran, the Feasible Sequential Quadratic Programming (FSQP) algorithm is now in use in 57 countries around the world. FSQP is a high-quality optimization software tool that has been developed and refined over the past decade by an ISR/Electrical and Computer Engineering research group headed by Professor André Tits (ECE/ISR). FSQP is in use at more than 800 sites worldwide. Story
February 23, 2000
Assistant Professor S.K.
Gupta (ME/ISR) has
received a Young Investigator award from the Office
of Naval Research. Dr. Gupta will investigate ways of making
casting/molding of ceramic parts an affordable fabrication process
by combining machining and layer manufacturing to create complex
parts of large size with very small features. ONR's
story about the awards
February 18, 2000
Assistant Professor David B. Stewart (ECE)
was selected as one of five winners in the "Real-Time
Architecture Challenge," held at the 10th Annual Embedded Systems
Conference this year. The challenge was a real-time design problem
with 10 possible scenarios. Thanks to the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department for this news. ECE's
full story
Professor Michael C. Fu (Robert H. Smith School of Business/ISR) has been named Simulation Area Editor for the journal Operations Research.
February 16, 2000
Benny Bing has been selected to receive the new Lockheed Martin
Global Telecommunications Fellowship in Communication Networking.
Bing's research concentrates on performance evaluation of on-board
processing architectures in the Maryland Hybrid Networks Center (formerly the Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks). Advisors are Professor Armand Makowski (ECE/ISR)
and Professor Prakash Narayan (ECE/ISR). Gene Chipman has
been selected to receive the ISR/Northrop Grumman Fellowship.
Gene is involved in research in the Human
Computer Interaction Lab. View list of current fellows.
February 9, 2000
The Systems Engineering and Integration Lab has completely
redesigned its web site. Check
out the new look and functionality.
February 8, 2000
The National Science Foundation has just released data indicating that in 1998 the number of science
and engineering graduate students in the United States dropped for
the fifth year in a row. NSF's report
Check out the all-new Gemstone web site! Gemstone is a groundbreaking undergraduate interdisciplinary honors program administered by ISR. Throughout their undergraduate careers, Gemstone students work in teams to develop solutions to technology-related societal issues.
Feb. 1, 2000
ISR welcomed three new faculty members in Spring 2000. Assistant Professor Rajeev Barua is a new
joint appointment with the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department (ECE).
His research interests are in compilers and computer architecture,
particularly how aggressive compiler techniques will influence
next generation architectural designs for general-purpose, multimedia
and embedded computation. Dr.
Barua's MIT home page. Assistant Professor Reza Ghodssi, another
new joint appointment with ECE,
specializes in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for use in
VLSI-based microsystems, optical communications, micro-fluidic
systems, bio-medical microdevices, automobile and aeronautics
sensors and actuators.
March
March 30, 2000
The University of Maryland, the National
Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR)
and Professor Michael
Ball (Robert
H. Smith School of Business/ISR) are part of the Computer Sciences
Corporation (CSC) team, which has been chosen as one of the two
winning contractors of the "Air Traffic Management System,
Development, and Integration" award by the NASA
Ames Research Center. Story
March 23, 2000
Professor Dana S. Nau (CS/ISR) has been awarded a
$1.4 million, four-year research contract by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA's Active Templates
(AcT) Program will develop an easy-to-use planning tool based on
a spreadsheet user interface for template manipulation. Story
The Bodossaki Foundation, Athens, Greece, has awarded Associate Professor Leandros Tassiulas (ECE/ISR) its prize in Theories, Technologies and Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems.
March 22, 2000
Professor Ben
Shneiderman (CS/ISR)
was featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered March 1. The 7-minute segment, called "The Future of Computing,"
looked at what the rapid adoption of computers in daily life might
tell us about the next 10 years as the digital revolution matures. Listen
to the segment at NPR's web site. (latest version of Real Audio
required)
From March 13-14 ISR welcomed Dr. Charles B. Duke, vice president and senior research fellow at Xerox's Wilson Center for Research and Technology. Dr. Duke presented a special colloquium on "Applications of Control Systems Principles in Xerox Businesses" and met with ISR faculty during his visit.
March 13, 2000
Professor William S. Levine (ECE/ISR) and Professor Anthony
Ephremides (ECE/ISR) have
been selected as recipients of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
IEEE members are selected by this award by their peers for their
outstanding contributions in their field.
March 10, 2000
Professor Christopher Davis (ECE/ISR) was awarded two
patents late last year. US
5,982,174 is an External Cavity Fiber Fabry-Perot Magnetometer,
invented with Richard Wagreich. US
5,990,474 is a Near Field Optical Probe. Davis collaborated
on this device with Walid Atia and Saeed Pilevar.
On Friday, Feb. 25, a photo and story about the underwater vehicle research of ISR alumnae Naomi Leonard was featured on the home page of Princeton University. Naomi is an associate professor in Princeton's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. Her ISR advisor was P.S. Krishnaprasad (ECE/ISR).
March 6, 2000
Professor James Hendler (CS/ISR) was
recently interviewed by PC Week about work he is doing with
DARPA on DAML (DARPA Agent Markup Language), a new web language
that addresses an important, unmet need—making Web sites understandable
to programs and nontraditional browsing devices. PC
Week story
March 3, 2000
Professor Guangming
Zhang (ME/ISR) is spearheading
FAIM 2000, the international Flexible Automation and Intelligent
Manufacturing Conference. The University of Maryland will host this
event June 26-28. Information
March 3, 2000
Professor Michael
O. Ball (Robert H. Smith
School of Business/ISR) has been appointed director of research
and acting director of the business school's Center for Knowledge and Information
Management. The center focuses on research dealing with the
transformation of business practices through information technology,
and the creation, management, and deployment of knowledge and information.
April
April 27, 2000
Congratulations to K.J. Ray Liu (ECE/ISR)
who is now a full professor at the University of Maryland.
April 27, 2000
On April 11, President Clinton named Assistant Professor
Don DeVoe (ME/ISR)
as one of just 20 recipients of the 1999 Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE award
is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding
scientists and engineers who are in the early stages of establishing
their independent research careers.
DeVoe's award is for developing a novel approach to fabricate six-DOF micromechanisms, and for innovative educational activities that nurture capable MEMS researchers of the future. Story at the NSF web site
April 25, 2000
Professor Ben
Shneiderman (CS/ISR)
was featured in an April 9 Washington Post story about how
the evolving use of computers, including the new practice of using
virtual reality rooms, is changing the way universities teach. Story
at the Washington Post web site
April 25, 2000
The 1991 paper "Bayesian Matching Techniques for Detecting
Simple Objects in Heavily Noisy Environment," by Professor John S. Baras (IECE/ISR) and Emmanuel Frantzeskakis
(an ECE Ph.D. student of Professor Baras at the time) has been selected
for inclusion in the new Selected SPIE Papers on CD-ROM series,
Vol. 8: Mathematical Imaging and Vision. Story
April 13, 2000
Gemstone Electrical
Engineering senior Matthew Guyton is one of only 850 students
nationwide to receive a National Science
Foundation Graduate
Research Fellowship. More than 15,000 applications were submitted.
Two other Gemstone students, Computer Science senior Adam Bargteil
and Math senior Timothy Darling, received honorable mention
in the annual competition. ISR administers Gemstone, an interdisciplinary
undergraduate honors program. Story
April 13, 2000
Philip Holmes gave a special colloquium lecture on "Models
for Insect Locomotion" at ISR on April 3. His talk focused
on research conducted with John Schmitt that studies the dynamics
and stability of legged locomotion in the horozontal plane. Professor
Holmes is a member of the Department of Mechanical and Space Engineering
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University.
April 13, 2000
On April 7 and 8, the Gemstone Team Thesis Conference showcased
the theses of the very first class of Gemstone students. The graduating
seniors presented the results of four years' teamwork.
Presentations:
- Ecommerce, Security and Privacy (team members in photo above)
- Global Positioning in Public Transportation
- Genetic Testing: Balancing the Conflicting Interests from a Stakeholder Perspective
- Extra-Terrestrial Technologies, Inc.: An enterprise developed by the Gemstone Space Team
- Nutrients and their Effects on the Chesapeake Bay
- Flexible Manufacturing
- The Future of Emergency Telemedicine
Additional info at the Gemstone site
April 11, 2000
The A. James Clark School of
Engineering at the University of Maryland continues to rank
highly in US News & World Report's annual rating of engineering
schools. Ranked 37th in 1994, the Clark School's graduate programs
are now rated 17th among all institutions, public and private. The
Clark School is especially proud of the fact that both its undergraduate
and graduate programs are consistently ranked among the top 25 nationally. US
News & World Report's 2000 rankings
April 10, 2000
Professor Shihab Shamma (ECE/ISR), Assistant Professor Timothy Horiuchi (ECE/ISR),
Professor John S. Baras (ECE/ISR), Professor P.S.
Krishnaprasad (ECE/ISR)
and Professor Cynthia
Moss (Psychology/ISR),
are part of a $ 2.2 million, three-year Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for "Intelligent
and Noise-Robust Interfaces for MEMS Acoustic Sensors."
The goal of this contract is to formulate, design, and implement
signal processing systems and technology that can adapt, control
and utilize the noisy MEMS sensor signals. Story
April 6, 2000
Professor John S. Baras (ECE/ISR), Professor Virgil
Gligor (ECE) and Assistant Research Scientist Radha
Poovendran (ISR) have been awarded a $2 million, three-year Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) contract for "Integrated Security Services
for Dynamic Coalition Management." The goal is to realize
the vision of an integrated access control, authentication, and
secure group-communication architecture to support dynamic coalitions
consisting of varied members with diverse interests and multiple
administrative domains. Story
April 3, 2000
Professor Anthony Ephremides (ECE/ISR) and Dimitrios Stamatelos
were awarded US
Patent 5,987,328 on Nov. 16, 1999 for a method and device
for placement of transmitters in wireless networks.
May
May 30, 2000
On May 15, Jerrold Marsden of the California Institute
of Technology spoke at ISR on "Nonlinear Model Reduction: Control
and Computational Mechanics." His talk was a part of the Control
and Dynamical Systems Invited Lecture Series. Marsden spent
the afternoon talking with students and faculty.
May 30, 2000
The Universtiy of Maryland has selected Professor Steven I. Marcus (ECE/ISR)
as a 2000-2001 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. The honor includes
public presentations, activities for the university and funds to
support professional activities. The program honors a small number
of faculty members who have demonstrated notable success in both
scholarship and teaching. It is sponsored by the Office of Academic
Affairs and administered by the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs.
May 25, 2000
More than 150 high-level representatives from industry attended
Research Review Day 2000 on Friday, May 12. This on-campus
event showcased the research of ISR, the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies,
and the Department of Computer Science.
May 17, 2000
The University of Maryland and Motorola held an information exchange on campus April 25. Motorola representatives
met with professors from Maryland's high tech units and with university
officials.
May 17, 2000
Matthew Koll, AOL Fellow at America
Online, spoke on "Search Engines: At the Intersection
of Science and Business" at an ISR Special Colloquium on April
18. Koll also spent time meeting with University of Maryland computer
science and engineering faculty.
May 15, 2000
Nariman
Farvardin (ECE/ISR),
professor and chair of the Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department, has been named the new
dean of the A.
James Clark School of Engineering. Dr. Farvardin's term begins
Aug. 17, 2000. Story
May 15, 2000
Professor Christopher
Davis (ECE/ISR) has
won the University of Maryland Invention of the Year award
in the Information Science category from the university's Office
of Technology Commercialization. Davis developed a delayed diversity
communications scheme to reduce the problem of fading and improve
the performance of optical wireless communications systems.
Two other inventions by ISR faculty members were finalists for the award: Ben Shneiderman's (CS/ISR) "Direct Annotation For Digital Images" and "IMPACT Agent Development System," developed by V.S. Subrahmanian (CS/ISR), Carolyn Gasarch, Fatma Ozcan, Robert Ross, Jason Ernst, Thomas Eiter, Sarit Kraus, Juergen Dix, Timothy Rogers, Mustafa Tikir and Anatoliu Levkov. Story at OTL's web site
June
June 16, 2000
A television production crew from A.H. Belo Corp., the parent
company of 15 broadcasting stations, visited the Intelligent
Servosystems Lab on June 2 to film a segment on the Learning
and Intelligent Systems binaural robot. This mobile robot
can detect and track sound and move towards the sound's source.
June 16, 2000
Brian Todd Woodard, Chun-Ying
Ko and Krishnakumar Venkatesan graduated from the Masters
of Science in Systems Engineering (MSSE) program May 25.
Brian, a system manager for PECO Energy Company in Delta, Pa., completed a thesis on "An Electronic Service Records Document Management System." It proposes a hybrid system for managing military service records based on an existing system for managing records on paper. The objective of the research was to establish a new structure that is fully capable of organizing documents in digital data formats while minimizing the effort of converting existing documents into electronic forms.
June 13, 2000
Dr. Edward Belbruno of the Program in Applied and Computational
Mathematics at Princeton University spoke at ISR on May 26. His
talk on "Low Energy Routes Using Chaos in Space Travel and
Astronomy" was part of the Control
and Dynamical Systems Invited Lecture Series.
June 8, 2000
With the addition of a site in Jordan, FSQP optimization
software—developed by an ISR/Electrical Engineering research
group headed by Professor André
Tits (ECE/ISR)—is now
being used in 58 countries around the world. Story
June 6, 2000
ISR's annual awards ceremony, held May 16, honored
three persons: Professor Anthony Ephremides (ECE/ISR),
outstanding faculty; Thomas Vossen (in
photo above with ISR Director Gary Rubloff), outstanding
graduate student; and Tina Vigil, outstanding staff member. Story
June 6, 2000
New online--ISR's highlights from the 1999-2000 academic year.
July
July 28, 2000
Professor Steven I. Marcus (ECE/ISR)
is now the Acting Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. Steve is a former director of ISR.
Professor Nariman Farvardin (ECE/ISR) stepped down as ECE chairman on July 7 to prepare for his new position as Dean of the Clark School of Engineering, which begins August 17. A search for the permanent ECE Chair will start during the fall semester.
July 25, 2000
On Friday, June 2, Lockheed Martin presented ISR and CSHCN with a check for the Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications
Fellowship in Communication Networking. Left to right are Lockheed
Martin's Roger Mancuso, Professor Armand
Makowski (ECE/ISR), Benny
Bing (fellowship recipient), Lockheed Martin's Gwen Jackson and HyNet Director John S.
Baras (ECE/ISR). View
a list of current ISR fellows
July 17, 2000
The American Vacuum Society has presented ISR Director Gary
W. Rubloff (MNE/ISR)
with its Gaede-Langmuir Award for 2000. This award is given to recognize
Dr. Rubloff's inventive application of surface science and vacuum
technology to the semiconductor industry, and for fostering an effective
bridge between AVS research and manufacturing. It is one of the
premier honors bestowed by the AVS.
July 17, 2000
Congratulations to ISR staff member Tanya Craft, who won
one of eight Exceptional Performance Awards for Non-Exempt Staff
in the A. James Clark School of Engineering! The award is given
for initiative and creativity, team work and responsiveness.
July 17, 2000
ISR welcomed six students particpating in our summer Research
Experiences for Undergraduates program on June 12. These
students will partner with ISR faculty during the next weeks on
research projects of mutual interest.
August
August 30, 2000
The Human Computer Interaction
Lab, the College of Computer,
Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and ISR are pleased to report
the creation of a new fellowship, the America Online Fellowship
in Human Computer Interaction. Information about the awardee
and the work associated with the fellowship will be available this
fall.
HCIL made the news twice in June. Assistant Professor Allison Druin's (EDU/UMIACS/ISR) research with children's technology was profiled in the June 20, 2000 Pittsburgh News-Gazette. Story
HCIL Lab Director Ben Bederson's work on zoomable user interfaces, specifically Jazz and Fisheye menus, was profiled in ComputerWorld's June 26, 2000 issue. Story
August 28, 2000
Ranger
TSX, a neutral buoyancy robot designed to repair satellites
and assist astronauts during EVA excursions, will be a Space Shuttle
payload in late 2001. Ranger is a long-term project of the Space
Systems Lab, headed by Associate Professor David
Akin (AE/ISR).
August 28, 2000
Professor James Hendler (CS/ISR) has
been awarded the very first AAAI Effective Expository Writing
Award. This award was established this year to honor the author(s)
of a high quality, effective piece of writing, accessible to the
general public or to a broad AI audience. Hendler received the award
for his article, "Is There an Intelligent Agent in Your Future?"
It appeared in Nature on March 11, 1999. Read the award winning article at Nature's web site.
August 25, 2000
ISR welcomes two new affiliate faculty members this summer. Professor Cynthia
Moss (Psychology/ISR)
has research interests in auditory information processing and sensorimotor
integration in vertebrates, using the echolocating bat as a model
system. Professor Ramamoorthy
Ramesh (MNE) has research
interests in ferroelectrics and metal oxides, thin film materials,
and wide bandgap semiconductors.
August 25, 2000
Professor Lung-Wen Tsai
(ME/ISR) is serving as the
general conference chair of the 2000
ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and
the Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Sept. 10-13 in Baltimore. Other ISR faculty playing key roles in
the event are S.K. Gupta (ME/ISR), Linda C. Schmidt (ME/ISR),
and Jeffrey W. Herrmann (ME/ISR).
August 21, 2000
On July 19, Honda Visiting Scientists Yuichi
Kato (R), a motorcycle engineer; and Naritomo Higuchi (L),
an automotive engineer, presented the results of their research
work at ISR. The two Honda R&D Japan engineers are concluding
a 14-month visit, during which they collaborated with ISR faculty
and students.
On July 17, ISR welcomed Masaharu Kinoshita, senior fellow at Toshiba's Corporate Manufacturing Engineering Center in Japan. Dr. Kinoshita met with university officials, learned about ISR-related research activities and gave a talk on Toshiba's manufacturing engineering directions.
From June 26-28, Associate Professor Guangming Zhang (ME/ISR) chaired FAIM 2000, the international Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing Conference. About 150 engineers from around the world attended this conference at the University of Maryland's Inn and Conference Center.
September
Sept. 12, 2000
Professor Michael Ball (Robert H.
Smith School of Business/ISR) was a guest on National Public
Radio's August 18 Science
Friday show on air traffic control. Ball is associate director
of the National
Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR).
If you have Real
Player software, you can listen to the show on NPR's web site
at 14.4 or 28.8.
October
October 31, 2000
Assistant Professor Ray Adomaitis (ChE/ISR)
is playing an active role in the Computers
and Systems Technology (CAST) division of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). CAST is responsible
for activities that involve applying computers and mathematics to
chemical engineering problems, including process design, process
control, operation and general applied mathematics. Adomaitis is
responsible for the CAST web
archive, which includes a mailing list for practitioners and
researchers, and postings of CAST-related conferences, events and
job opportunities.
October 24, 2000
The Discovery Channel visited the Intelligent
Servosystems Lab and Professor Catherine
Carr (Biology) on October 11 to film a segment on the Learning and Intelligent Systems barn owl auditory system project. The segment appeared in the premier
episode of "Science Daily," October 23 at 9:00 pm on Discovery's Science
Channel. Professor P.S. Krishnaprasad (ECE/ISR)
is another principal in the project. Story
October 17, 2000
Professor Steven I. Marcus (ECE/ISR)
received his award as a 2000-2001 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
at the University of Maryland Faculty and Staff Convocation on October
10. The program honors a small number of faculty members who have
demonstrated notable success in both scholarship and teaching. Marcus
will deliver a distinguished lecture as part of the award on Nov.
30 at 4:00 pm in room 1410 Physics Building.
October 12, 2000
ISR welcomes two
new affiliate faculty members this fall. Assistant Professor David
J. Lovell (CEE) specializes
in traffic engineering, operations, control, and roadway design
using methods of differential geometry. Assistant Professor Dimitrios Hristu (ME) has research
interests in limited communication control, control of smart structures,
tactile sensing, and dynamical systems. He is a former ISR postdoctoral
appointee.
October 12, 2000
Professor James Hendler (CS/ISR)
has been named Chief
Scientist in the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Information Systems Office
for the remainder of his stay at the agency. Hendler will help DARPA
set strategic directions for future funding by assessing the top
"game changing" research efforts in progress today.
October 5, 2000
Northrop Grumman's Director of University-Industry
Programs, George Reynolds (third from left), presented a check to
Clark School of Engineering Dean Nariman Farvardin (second from
left) on August 28. Part of the money is used to help support two ISR/Northrop
Grumman Fellowships. Also attending were ISR Director Gary W.
Rubloff (left) and ISR Assistant Director for External Affairs Jeff
Coriale (right).
October 5, 2000
Congratulations to Professor Christopher Davis (ECE/ISR)
who has been awarded U.S. Patent 6,103,535 for an optical fiber evanescent field excited fluorosensor and the
method of its manufacture. Davis collaborated on this device with
Saeed Pilevar, Alexander Fielding and Frank Portugal. View all ISR patents online
October 3, 2000
Members of the Gemstone Nuclear Waste Disposal
Research Group were "smash hits" at the 220th
meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 21 in Washington,
D.C. Story
November
November 29, 2000
Assistant Professor Allison
Druin (EDU/UMIACS/ISR) has received a 2000 National
Science Foundation CAREER
award for "A Classroom of the Future: Developing and
Infusing New Technologies in Early Childhood Education." Druin also is the Principal
Investigator for a two-and-a-half year, $600,000 NSF grant for Digital
Libraries for Children. Other members of the team are Professor Ben Shneiderman (CS/ISR), HCIL Director and Professor Ben Bederson (UMIACS/CS) Glenda Revelle (UMIACS)
and Dana Campbell (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard). Story
November 29, 2000
On Nov. 8 the wireless research work of the Maryland Hybrid Networks Center (HyNet--formerly CSHCN) was
showcased to a group of Baltimore-based business and government
leaders visiting the University of Maryland as guests of President
Dan Mote.
November
22, 2000
Congratulations
to Professor John S. Baras (ECE/ISR) and Nick
Sidiropoulos, who were issued US
Patent 6,127,669 for "Computer-Aided Determination
of Window and Level Settings for Filmless Radiology" on October
3, 2000. Sidiropoulos, a former ISR student and assistant research
scientist, earned his Ph.D. with the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department and is now an associate professor in the Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota. View ISR patents and patents
pending
November 22, 2000
With
the addition of a site in Cuba, FSQP optimization software—developed by an ISR/Electrical Engineering research group headed
by Professor André
Tits (ECE/ISR)—is now
being used in 59 countries around the world. | List of
FSQP countries | FSQP
home page at AEM Design |
November 8, 2000
ISR has received a three-year, $500,000 National
Science Foundation grant for Combined Research and Curriculum Development in Systems Engineering.
ISR's faculty team includes Principal Investigator Professor John
S. Baras (ECE/ISR), Co-Principal
Investigator Associate Professor Mark Austin (CEE/ISR), Professor Michael Ball (Robert H. Smith
School of Business/ISR), Assistant Professor Jeffrey
Herrmann (ME/ISR), and
Assistant Professor Linda C. Schmidt (ME). Story
November 8, 2000
Professor James Hendler (CS/ISR) was
featured in a Washington
Post article, "Mastering The Robot," on Sunday, Sept. 17. Article
at the Post's web site
November 8,
2000
The Fall 2000 issue of ISR's Systems Signals newsletter is
now available in PDF, PS,
and online formats.
December
December
18, 2000
Professor Prakash
Narayan (ECE/ISR)
has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
for his contributions to Shannon theory and its application to the
evaluation of the reliability of communication channels.
December
18, 2000
Professor Michael
C. Fu (Robert
H. Smith School of Business/ISR) was quoted in a Dec. 3 Baltimore
Sun article on the effectiveness of using the Monte Carlo
simulation process in retirement planning. Fu and Jian-Qiang
Hu won the
1998 Outstanding Simulation Publication Award from the INFORMS College on Simulation for
their research monograph, Conditional
Monte Carlo: Gradient Estimation and Optimization Applications.
December
18, 2000
Assistant Professor S.K.
Gupta (ME/ISR)
is one of nine 2001 recipients of the Society
of Manufacturing Engineers' Robert
W. Galvin Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. The
international award recognizes Gupta's significant achievements
and leadership in manufacturing engineering as a young engineer.
December 18, 2000
Two members of the Gemstone Nuclear Waste
Disposal Research Group have been honored with the American
Chemical Society Division
of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology's "Best Paper by a
New Member" award. Bob Kucner, majoring in mechanical
engineering, and John Starr, a chemical engineering major,
won for their paper, "Prudent Move or Mobile Chernobyl: Transportation
of Nuclear Waste." The paper was presented at the 220th meeting of the ACS, August 21 in Washington, D.C. The
award recognizes excellence in oral presentations of papers by new
members of the division at ACS national meetings.
December
18, 2000
During the week of Nov. 27, ISR welcomed visiting engineers from
Toshiba to explore areas of mutual interest.
December
18, 2000
ISR-affiliated Professor Ramamoorthy
Ramesh (MNE)
has received the prestigious Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award. Ramesh is being
honored for the excellence and worldwide reputation of his research.
In conjunction with the award, Ramesh will be spending time at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure
Physics in Halle, Germany.
December
18, 2000
Professor Anthony Ephremides (ECE/ISR) has received the
2000 Fred W. Ellersick Milcom Award for the "Best Paper in the Unclassified
Technology Program." The award, sponsored by the IEEE
Military Communications (Milcom) Conference Board in conjunction
with the IEEE Communications Society, was given to Ephremides for a paper entitled "Algorithms for Bandwidth-Limited
Energy-Efficient Wireless Broadcasting and Multicasting."
December 18, 2000
A new book in Birkhauser's Control Engineering series, Nonlinear
Control and Analytical Mechanics: A Computational Approach by Gilmer Blankenship (ECE) and Harry Kwatny (Drexel University),
is now available. ISR-affiliated
Professor William
Levine (ECE) is the series
editor of the books.
