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January
January
6, 2001
Two ISR faculty members have won National
Science Foundation Faculty
Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. The program fosters
the career development of outstanding junior faculty, combining
the support of research and education of the highest quality and
in the broadest sense. Assistant
Professor Haralabos Papadopoulos' (ECE/ISR)
award will support research in "Efficient Encoding and Data Fusion
Strategies for Wireless Networks of Sensors and Actuators." Assistant
Professor S.K. Gupta's (ME/ISR)
research is entitled "Automated Design of Multi-Piece Molds -- A Step towards Manufacturing
of Geometrically Complex Heterogeneous Objects." The five-year
award begins July 1 and is worth $375,000.
January
6, 2001
Professor Ben Shneiderman (CS/ISR), former director
of HCIL, has been named
a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science.
January 10, 2001
A new National
Science Foundation study shows graduate enrollment in science
and engineering increasing for the first time since 1993. Story
at NSF
February
17, 2001
ISR-affiliated
Professor Kyu-Yong
Choi (ChE) has been
elected to membership in the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.
Choi also was elected to the National Academy of Engineering of
Korea last year.
February
17, 2001
Sara Hewitt is
the latest recipient of the ISR/Northrop Grumman Fellowship. Hewitt is a Mechanical Engineering student working on the project, "Adaptable Simulation Models for Manufacturing" with Assistant
Professor Jeffrey
Herrmann (ME/ISR). She
is also a Gemstone student
in the Nuclear
Waste Disposal Research Group. Info
on ISR's Industrial Fellowship program
February
17, 2001
General Electric
is continuing its historically strong relationship with ISR by becoming
an official partner in the ISR Industrial
Affiliates Program. One of the ways GE participates in ISR is
through sponsoring the ISR/General
Electric Fellowship, one of several fellowships in ISR's industrial
fellowship program. ISR Director Gary Rubloff said, "We
are very pleased to continue to build our research and education
relationship with General Electric. Besides its substantial role
and history in industrial research, GE's diverse business and technology
portfolio presents a wealth of opportunity for systems research:
methodologies of control, modeling and simulation, optimization,
operations research, and systems engineering education can profoundly
impact GE businesses from transportation and power systems to information
systems and finance."
February
17, 2001
Assistant Professor Don DeVoe (ME/ISR) is
the principal investigator for a new Defense University Research
Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award. DeVoe's award is for a Deep Reactive Ion Etcher, a critical
component of ISR's capability for Microelectromechanical Systems
(MEMS) fabrication and nanotechnology. The award is one of six recently
announced DURIP awards for the University of Maryland. Story
February 25, 2001
ISR-affiliated
Assistant Professor S.
Raghavan (BGMT), was issued U.S. Patent #6,128,500 on Oct. 3, 2000. The invention, "Method and system to optimize
capacity of a CDMA cellular communication system," allows
for dynamic shrinking and enlarging of cell boundaries to enhance
the system capacity advantages of CDMA while maintaining contiguous
coverage and avoiding coverage holes. ISR's
patents page
February
28, 2001
The Gemstone senior Organ
Deficit Team recently hosted the regional meeting of the
Mid-Atlanitc Coalition on Organ Donation. The team and the executive
director of the College Coalition for Organ Donation each gave presentations
of their work to date.
March
March
7, 2001
ISR faculty are participating
in three just-announced Department of Defense 2001 Multidisciplinary
University Research Initiative program (MURI) grants:
ISR participants in the Communicating Networked Control Systems project include Principal Investigator P.S. Krishnaprasad (ECE/ISR), John S. Baras (ECE/ISR), Prakash Narayan (ECE/ISR), Professor Roger W. Brockett (Harvard University) and Greg Walsh (ME/ISR). ISR-affiliated Assistant Professor Dimitrios Hristu-Varsakelis (ME) is also one of the investigators. ISR-affiliated Ramamoorthy Ramesh (MNE) is one of the investigators in the Hybrid Smart Materials and Adaptive Structures project. ISR-affiliated Neil Goldsman (ECE) is on the team for The Effects of Radiofrequency Pulses on Electronic Circuits and Systems project. Full story
March
26, 2001
MSSE student Vasilios Lagakos' paper, "Object Modeling for the
Management of Narrow Passageways in Transportation Systems," has been accepted by the Eleventh Annual International Symposium
of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE
2001). The event will be held this July in Melbourne, Australia.
The paper's authors are Lagakos, Evangelos Kaisar and Associate
Professor Mark Austin (CEE/ISR). Abstract
March 27, 2001
ISR-affiliated Professor Stuart
S. Antman (Math) has been named a Distinguished University Professor, the highest
campus honor bestowed on faculty. Antman is known worldwide for
his research in mechanics and solid matter, specifically mathematical
elasticity. He is a leading authority on problems involving rods,
plates and shells. Story
March 27, 2001
The State University of New York at Stony Brook's Reinvention
Center is currently spotlighting the Gemstone program
on its web site as an example of changing undergraduate education.
The Reinvention Center is a national center focusing on undergraduate
education at research universities.
March
29, 2001
Five ISR faculty are members of a team that has won a $4 million,
five-year Department of Defense University Research Initiative
(URI) award. "Distributed Immune Systems for Wireless Networks
Information Assurance" is one of only 20 successful proposals
selected for funding during fiscal year 2001. The team includes
Professor John S. Baras (ECE/ISR), the Principal Investigator;
Professor Carlos Berenstein (Math/ISR);
Professor Anthony
Ephremides (ECE/ISR);
Professor K.J. Ray Liu (ECE/ISR); Assistant
Professor Haralabos Papadopoulos
(ECE/ISR) and Professor Nicholas
Roussopoulos (CS/UMIACS).
Professor Virgil
Gligor (ECE) is also a member. Story
March
29, 2001
Professor Shihab Shamma (ECE/ISR), Associate Professor Avis H. Cohen (Biology/ISR), and
Assistant Professor Timothy
Horiuchi (ECE/ISR) have been awarded
a three-year, $180,000 National Science
Foundation grant to continue the Telluride
Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop. This three-week summer workshop
focuses on both neurobiological and engineering aspects of sensory
systems and sensory-motor integration. It brings together an international
group of young investigators and more established researchers from
academia, industry and national laboratories.
March
29, 2001
ISR currently has two position vacancies: Coordinator
of the SEIL Lab and Engineer
(Systems Administrator) in the Neural Systems Lab and Computational
Sensorimotor Systems Lab.
April
April 12, 2001
Professor Dana
S. Nau (CS/ISR),
Assistant Professor S.K.
Gupta (ME/ISR)
and Associate
Professor Jeffrey
Herrmann (ME/ISR) have received a $38,445 National Science
Foundation instrumentation grant for a specialized computing environment for distributed and
virtual design and manufacturing.
April 12, 2001
Assistant Professor Linda Schmidt (ME/ISR), Professor David Bigio (ME), Dr. Janet Schmidt, and Professor Robert
W. Lent (College
of Education) have been awarded a three-year, $400,000 National
Science Foundation grant to create a developmental curriculum
in team training for engineering project teams.
April 12, 2001
Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Jane Garvey was the keynote speaker at the Workshop
on Airline and National Strategies for Dealing with Airport and
Airspace Congestion, March 15-16. The workshop attracted airline
executives, leaders from other transportation organizations, FAA
and other government officials and academic researchers from across
the nation. It was organized by Professor Michael Ball (Robert H. Smith School of Business/ISR) and Professor Amedeo
Odoni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ball and
Odoni are co-directors of NEXTOR,
the National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research. Story
April 12, 2001
ISR welcomes Toshiba Corporation as its newest Industrial
Affiliates Program Partner. ISR Director Gary Rubloff and Mr.
Koichiro Atsumi, Director, Toshiba Corporate Manufacturing Engineering
Center, acknowledged the new partnership during Toshiba's Feb. 27-March
2 visit to ISR.
May
May
1, 2009
ECE/ISR 1999 Ph.D. grad Radha
Poovendran, now an assistant professor in the University
of Washington, Seattle's Electrical Engineering Department, has
received a National Science Foundation Faculty
Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, effective June 2001.
Poovendran received the award for his work on secure group communications,
and will use it to help him establish his research program at Washington. He was advised
by Professor John S. Baras (ECE/ISR) while at Maryland.
Incidently, Poovendran was one of the researchers who developed
the encryption scheme on which the encrpytion challenge contest
was based.
Professor James Hendler (CS/ISR) has co-written an article for the April 19 issue of Scientific American on how the advent of the semantic web will bring structure to the meaningful content of web pages. The article envisions an environment where software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users. The semantic web is an extension of the current web, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. Online story at Scientific American's web site In addition, a story Hendler wrote about how the semantic web will affect electronic publishing will appear in the April 26 issue of Nature.
May
9, 2001
Four ISR faculty members have been given tenure and promoted to
associate professor status: Ray Adomaitis (ChE/ISR), Jeffrey
Herrmann (ME/ISR)
Linda C. Schmidt
(ME/ISR) and Greg Walsh (ME/ISR).
May 9, 2001
The Computer
Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory, an ISR constituent lab
also affiliated with the Department
of Mechanical Engineering, has just produced its Spring 2001
newsletter, which is available for you to read
online or download in PDF format.
May
17, 2001
The encryption-breaking challenge issued by a team of undergraduate
students and Professor K.J. Ray Liu (ECE/ISR) in
April is officially over, and the results are in: no one was able
to break the scheme for secure multicasting. Close to 1,600 hits
were recorded at the contest web
site. The students have prepared a report about the contest as part of their submission to the Texas
Instruments Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Challenge. Although
the contest has officially ended and the cash prize has expired,
the site will remain open for those wishing to try their hand at breaking
the scheme.
May
20, 2001
Professor Anthony Ephremides (ECE/ISR) has
won the University of Maryland Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship
Prize. He has been recognized for his highly significant work of
research in the last three years. The prize will be awarded at the
campus convocation this fall.
May
20, 2001
Two former ISR postdocs
have begun positions as assistant research scientists. They are Michael
Gruninger,
who has been conducting research with Assistant Professor S.K.
Gupta (ME/ISR) on
the NIST-funded project to extend Process Specification Language
for design and manufacturing applications, and Eric
Justh,
who has been
conducting research on pattern formation, smart
structures and control applications with Professor P.S. Krishnaprasad (ECE/ISR).
May 22, 2001
Assistant
Professor Allison
Druin (EDU/UMIACS/ISR) has won the University
of Maryland's Outstanding Faculty Award. Dr. Druin was nominated
by the LearnUSA
team of undergraduate Gemstone students she has mentored for the past three years. Read their nomination
letter at the Human Computer
Interaction Laboratory site. More
than 50 faculty members were nominated throughout the university,
including two other Gemstone mentors: William
Nickels, (Robert H. Smith
School of Business), who mentors the Class of 2002 "E3:
Extracurricular -- Entrepreneurship -- Education" team; and Deborah
Speece (Special
Education), who mentors the Class of 2003 "Learning Disabilities" team.
May 23, 2001
Members of the Gemstone class of 2004 have chosen the topics they will be researching in teams for the next three years. The topics are: innovation of common
appliances — advisor Stuart Milner (ISR); genetic engineering/encryption; urban planning; gas sensors — advisor Ray Adomaitis (ChE/ISR); education in low-income
areas/digital divide; medical issues in
developing countries; campus styrofoam; and energy-efficient
housing.
May 29, 2001
ISR's annual awards ceremony, held May 18, honored three persons: Assistant Professor S.K. Gupta (ME/ISR), outstanding faculty; Vasilios Lagakos outstanding graduate student; and Karen Deal, outstanding staff member. Story
May 29, 2001
ISR's Strategic Advisory Council met on May 9 to discuss the the institute's current research and educational directions. The Strategic Advisory Council annually provides strategic evaluation and guidance to ISR and contributes substantially to clarifying important systems engineering challenges for industry, government and society.
May 31, 2001
Congratulations to the five ISR Master of Science in Systems
Engineering (MSSE) students who graduated May 23: Angelo
Battiston, Jose
Faria, Yi-Wen Cheng, Amit Jain and Vasilios
Lagakos. Story Congratulations are
also due to the many other undergrad and graduate students affiliated
with ISR who have concluded their careers at the University of Maryland.
We have enjoyed working with you and wish you the best for your
future!
May 31, 2001
The Human Computer Interaction Laboratory, one of ISR's affiliated labs, will hold its 18th annual symposium and open house May 31-June 1. The June 1 symposium will present research on information visualization and learning environments. HCIL also will sponsor more than 20 demonstrations covering topics of the symposium presentations and beyond. There will be a pre-symposium program of six tutorials and workshops on May 31 that will enable small groups to focus on special topics. Info
June
June 12, 2001
Professor Ben Shneiderman (CS/ISR) is the recipient of the 2001 Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Lifetime Achievement Award for his commitment to the HCI field. This award is the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGHI)'s highest honor. In addition, Shneiderman and six others were inducted into the newly-formed CHI Academy for their contributions to the field. Info at Ben Shneiderman's web site
June 12, 2001
ISR Strategic
Advisory Council member Charles Duke of Xerox
Corp. has been elected to the National
Academy of Sciences for his work analyzing and understanding
the physical properties and behaviors of the surfaces of organic
materials. Full
story at Xerox's web site
June 12, 2001
Former Clark School of
Engineering Dean William Destler has been named Provost and
Vice President of Academic Affairs for the University of Maryland. Story
June 12, 2001
Read the May 22 Baltimore Sun story on the Gemstone undergraduate honors program. Story
at the Sun's web site. In addition, the theses of this year's graduating class of Gemstone
seniors are now online for you to view.
June 24, 2001
S.K. Gupta (ME/ISR) and David Alan Bourne of Carnegie Mellon University were issued U.S. Patent 6,233,538 on May 15, 2001 for an Apparatus and Method for Multi-Purpose Setup Planning for Sheet Metal Bending Operations. This setup planning technique identifies a family of parts to be manufactured and determines setup constraints imposed by the various bending operations in the part family. ISR's patents page
June 28, 2001
ISR faculty are involved in four new Army Research Laboratory
(ARL) Collaborative Technology Alliances (CTA) Program awards.
Each is an eight-year contract with project values ranging from
$49 to $76 million. The four awards and the ISR faculty involved
in each are:
Communications and Networks—John S. Baras (ECE/ISR) (Maryland PI); Anthony Ephremides (ECE/ISR); Evaggelos Geraniotis (ECE/ISR); K.J. Ray Liu (ECE/ISR); Haralabos Papadopoulos (ECE/ISR); Armand Makowski (ECE/ISR); Carlos Berenstein (Math/ISR); Nicholas Roussopoulos (CS/ISR)
Advance Sensors -- K.J. Ray Liu (ECE/ISR); and Shihab Shamma (ECE/ISR)
Power and Energy -- Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR) (Maryland PI)
Advance Decision Architectures -- V.S. Subrahmanian (CS/ISR)
| Story | ARL announcement |
July
July 13, 2001
CSHCN's
Administrative Assistant II Diane Hicks has received a University
of Maryland Exceptional Performance Award, one of only eight in
the Clark School of Engineering. Diane received this award in recognition
of her outstanding accomplishments and contributions to HyNet and
the greater university community.
July 13, 2001
A new issue of ISR's System Solutions newsletter is available online and in PDF format.
July 13, 2001
Seven visiting undergraduate
researchers are here at ISR for our summer Research
Experiences for Undergraduates program, participating
in state-of-the-art research in systems engineering. Meet
the students
July 13, 2001
ISR
welcomes two new visiting scientists from Honda for 14 months
of collaborative work with ISR faculty and students. Mr. Hirokatsu
Nakaie (top) designs chassis for scooters. He will be working with
ISR-affiliated Professor William
Levine (ECE). Mr.
Kazutomo Nishida (center) designs electrical components for
general purpose commercial engines. They join
Mr. Eiji Adachi (bottom), engineer in the Research Department of
Honda R&D Inc., in Japan, who began a 13-month visit with ISR in
June 2000. He is conducting research with
Dr. Balakumar Balachandran on the dynamic analysis of a motorcycle
structure via modeling and simulation. This is the third year
ISR has hosted Honda Visiting Scientists.
July 27, 2001
ISR Director Gary
W. Rubloff (MNE/ISR)
was recently in Italy, where he was interviewed by the newspaper Alto Adige about his work in protein technology and chips
at IRST in Trento. Dr. Rubloff met with Mariano Anderle of IRST. Story
(in Italian) at Alto Adige's web site
August
August 8 , 2001
A new issue of ISR's System Solutions newsletter is available online and in PDF format.
August 8 , 2001
On July 12, ISR honored Mr. Eiji Adachi, engineer in the Research Department of Honda R&D Inc., Japan, at a special reception on campus. Mr. Adachi also presented a seminar on the "Dynamics and Stability of Motorcycles." He is concluding a 14-month visit with ISR. While here, he conducted research with Dr. Balakumar Balachandran on the dynamic analysis of a motorcycle structure via modeling and simulation.
August 12, 2001
On July 13, Northrop
Grumman's Director of Industry-University Initiatives George Reynolds
presented a $50,000 check to Clark School Dean Nariman Farvardin.
A portion of this funding helps to support the ISR/Northrop
Grumman Fellowships.
Professor Eyad Abed (ECE/ISR) is the principal investigator for a $150,000, three-year National Science Foundation award. "Stability Monitoring and Control of Power Systems" will apply progress in the theory of bifurcation control and stability monitoring to the detection and control of impending instability in stressed electric power networks.
August
30, 2001
On Aug. 8, the University of Maryland welcomed
close to 50 participants in the initial Consortium Management
Committee Meeting for the new Collaborative
Technology Alliance in Power
and Energy. Principal Investigator Mukund Acharya of Honeywell International,
Inc. addresses the meeting. The
Army Research Laboratory award is shared by a consortium of
seven industry and 16 academic participants. Clark
School Dean Nariman
Farvardin welcomed the group to the university. Assistant
Professor Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR) hosted the meeting. Ghodssi is the PI for the Maryland participants.
September
September 15, 2001
Professor Christopher Davis (ECE/ISR) and Senior
Research Scientist Stuart Milner (ISR) have been awarded a contract
for Three Dimensional Optical Wireless Networks by the
Army Research Laboratory. They will design, develop and prototype
a unique three-dimensional optical communication node and demonstrate
its utility as part of a diverse, reconfigurable wireless network.
September 28,
2001
ISR-affiliated Professor Ramamoorthy
Ramesh (MNE) has
received the Faculty Outstanding Research Award from the A. James
Clark School of Engineering for his contributions to the science
and technology of materials, especially his landmark contributions
to ferroelectrics. The award recognizes exceptional and influential
engineering research.
September 28, 2001
Associate Professor Linda
C. Schmidt (ME/ISR)
is the principal investigator for a new, three-year, $900,000 National Science Foundation grant.
The Research
Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) program is designed
to encourage the participation and persistence of women students
in engineering and the sciences. Schmidt is joined in the project
by Anne M. Spence
(acting director of Women
in Engineering at the A.
James Clark School of Engineering) and Dr. Janet Schmidt. Story
September 28, 2001
All
of us at ISR would like to thank Gary
W. Rubloff, who has completed his five-year term as ISR
director. Dr. Rubloff has returned to full-time academic life
as a professor with a joint appointment in ISR and the department
of Materials Science and Engineering.
Professor Eyad Abed (ECE/ISR) is ISR's interim director while a national search is undertaken for Dr. Rubloff's successor.
September 28, 2001
ISR researchers have won a $239,405 NSF Major
Research Instrumentation Award (MRI) to purchase an aligner/bonder
for MEMS and Microsystems research. This state-of-the-art MEMS
microfabrication equipment patterns features in photosensitive
polymeric materials, aligns multi-stack silicon (and other materials
like glass) wafers with micron scale accuracy and bonds these
wafers permanently to form structures and devices of different
shapes and forms.
Assistant Professor Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR) is the Principal Investigator; co-PIs are: Assistant Professor Don DeVoe (ME/ISR), Assistant Professor Elisabeth Smela (ME) and Professor John Melngailis (ECE/IREAP). Story
October
October 5, 2001
This fall, ISR welcomes three new joint appointment faculty members:
Associate Professor Carol
Espy-Wilson (ECE/ISR);
Assistant Professor Richard
La (ECE/ISR); and
Assistant Professor Sennur
Ulukus (ECE/ISR).
We also welcome three new affiliate faculty members: Professor Robert Dooling (Psychology); Assistant Professor Jonathan Simon (ECE); and Assistant Professor Min Wu (ECE/UMIACS). Welcome also to new ISR assistant research scientists Michael Gruninger and Eric Justh.
October 15, 2001
New ISR-affiliated Assistant Professor Min
Wu (ECE/UMIACS) is
the holder of two U.S. patents: 6,282,300, "Rotation, scale, and translation
resilient public watermarking for images using a log-polar fourier
transform" and 6,285,775, "Watermarking scheme for image authentication." ISR patents page
October 15, 2001
Professor Anthony Ephremides (ECE/ISR), Deepak Ayyagari (ISR); and Samuel Resheff (Verizon Laboratories) have been awarded U.S. Patent 6,278,701 for "Capacity enhancement for multi-code CDMA with integrated
services through quality of services and admission control." ISR
patents page
October 15, 2001
Professor Christopher
Davis (ECE/ISR),
Professor Armand
Makowski (ECE/ISR)
and ISR Senior Research Scientist Dr.
Stuart Milner have been awarded a contract for Omni-Directional
Optical Wireless Networks by the U.S. Army Communications and
Electronics Command. Story
October 29, 2001
Associate Professor Carol
Espy-Wilson (ECE/ISR)
has accepted an invitation from the National
Insitutes of Health to serve as a member of the Biobehavioral
and Behavioral Processes (3) Study Section, Center for Scientific
Review. This membership will allow Dr. Espy-Wilson to contribute
to the national biomedical research effort. Story
October 29, 2001
ISR doctoral student Wade
Trappe and Math Department Professor Lawrence C.
Washington are the authors of a new Prentice Hall textbook, "Introduction
to Cryptography with Coding Theory." The book grew out
of a cryptography class the two developed at the University of
Maryland. Story
October 31, 2001
The Computer
Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory, an ISR constituent lab
also affiliated with the Department
of Mechanical Engineering, has just produced its Fall 2001
newsletter, which is available for you to read
online or download in PDF format.
October 31, 2001
Professor Prakash Narayan (ECE/ISR) has received a $371,049 National
Science Foundation award for "An
Information Theoretic Approach to Secret Key Generation for Encrypted
Communication in a Network." The award is one of 309
Information Technology Research awards NSF announced October 1. Story
November
November 8, 2001
ISR professors Ben
Shneiderman (CS/ISR)
and James Hendler
(CS/ISR) will debate each
other on the future of the web as the closing keynote presentation
at the American Society for Information
Science and Technology's 2001 Annual
Meeting in Washington, D.C. November 8. Limited free tickets
are available by emailing Trina
Harris in the Computer Science Department. Story
November 9, 2001
Professor Michael
C. Fu (Robert
H. Smith School of Business/ISR) was quoted in an October 28 Baltimore Sun article about the dollar-cost averaging technique
for investing in the stock market. Story
November 9, 2001
The ISR-affiliated Space Systems
Lab, headed by Associate Professor David
Akin (AE/ISR),
has been approved to build the Space Engineering and Hardware
Development Lab in the University of Maryland's soon-to-be-built Jeong
H. Kim Engineering and Applied Sciences Building. This will
be a complete spacecraft integration facility including rapid
prototyping equipment, a class 10,000 clean room, vibration tests
stands, and a thermal vacuum chamber. The SSL is also a partner
in the Virtual Reality Laboratory to be housed in the same building.
November 9, 2001
Assistant Professor Allison
Druin (EDU/UMIACS/ISR) was a guest on Maryland
Public Television's Direct
Connection program on Oct. 23. Druin talked about her research
into infusing technology into early childhood education classroom
environment.
November 13, 2001
Professor Christopher Davis (ECE/ISR)
recently gave an invited plenary address at the Photonics Conference
2001 in Sokcho, Korea. The title of his talk was “Optical
Wireless: A Rapidly Evolving, Flexible Technology for High Bandwidth
Network Extension and Connectivity.” Davis also gave an invited
lecture on the same subject at the Electronics
and Telecommunications Research Institute in Daejon and gave
an invited lecture on “Linear and Nonlinear Near Field Scanning
Optical Microscopy” at the Korean
Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul.
November 13, 2001
Professor Shihab Shamma (ECE/ISR)
was
part of a panel on "Building Partnerships in Neuroscience" at the University of Maryland's Bioscience
Research & Technology Review Day. The session was
moderated by ISR affiliated Professor Robert Dooling (Psychology). NSF Director Rita Colwell was the day's keynote speaker. The event
will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 13 at the Inn
and Conference Center in College Park. Info
November 13, 2001
Professor Ben
Shneiderman (CS/ISR) was quoted in a Oct. 25 Baltimore Sun article about
the introduction of Microsoft's new "Windows XP" operating
system. Shneiderman says the product will exacerbate the "digital
divide" between rich and poor because it requires features
of fairly new computers to run. Story
at the Sun's web site
November 13, 2001
MIT's Technology Review's article on the semantic web mentions
Professor James
Hendler's (CS/ISR)
work with DARPA. Story
at Technology Review's web site
Also, the magazine IEEE Intelligent Systems web site's current sample issue includes Hendler's article on "Agents and the Semantic Web." Reprint ( PDF)
November 16, 2001
ISR
professors Ben Shneiderman (CS/ISR) (left) and James Hendler (CS/ISR)
(right) headlined "The Great Debate" on the future of
the web as the closing keynote presentation at the American
Society for Information Science and Technology's 2001 Annual
Meeting in Washington, D.C. November 8. Story
November
26, 2001
NSF Director Rita Colwell was the keynote speaker at the University
of Maryland's Bioscience
Research & Technology Review Day, Nov. 13 in College Park.
Dr. Colwell spoke of the many synergistic advantages of industry,
academic, and government partnerships, and said NSF Engineering
Research Centers [such as ISR] are "an incredible success
story" that "set an international example for collaboration."
In addition, Professor Shihab Shamma (ECE/ISR) was part of a panel on "Building Partnerships in Neuroscience." The session was moderated by ISR affiliated Professor Robert Dooling (Psychology).
November
30, 2001
Professor Thomas
McAvoy's (ChE/ISR)
work in dynamic modeling recently caught the attention of the
Australasian Business Intelligence service. Story
November
30, 2001
ISR has won a $16,000 block grant fellowship award from the University
of Maryland graduate school. The grant will allow ISR to recruit
an outstanding MSSE student for next year early in the recruitment
season. Lee Harper, Coordinator of Educational Programs, prepared
the
winning proposal.
December
December
10, 2001
On Nov. 16, Professor Ben
Shneiderman (CS/ISR)
testified before the House Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on
Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental
Relations on the issue of a national identification system. You
can view his testimony by linking to C-SPAN and selecting "Hearing
on a National Identification System." Dr. Shneiderman's testimony
occurs about 5/6ths of the way through the video stream. Testimony
December
10, 2001
Assistant
Professor Reza Ghodssi (ECE/ISR) was one of the
organizers of the MEMS Alliance's Special Topics Symposium on MEMS Technologies in Microfluidics
and RF Applications, Nov. 16 at the Johns
Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.
The University of Maryland team of Hyo Suk Oh and Yingkai Liu (advised by Dr. Elisabeth Smela, ME) took second place in the independently refereed poster session for their work on "micro-origami" -- the fabrication of self-folding microstructures.
December 10, 2001
Professor Anthony Ephremides (ECE/ISR) presented
a talk in the University of Pittsburgh's Distinguished Lecture Series
on Nov. 30. He spoke on "Who is afraid of the wireless links?
A foray into energy-efficient wireless networking."
December
10, 2001
Professor K.J. Ray Liu (ECE/ISR),
ISR alumnus Ut-Va Koc, and Jie Chen of Flarion Technologies have
written a new book, Design
of Digital Video Coding Systems: A Complete Compressed Domain Approach.
The book has just been published by Marcel Dekker, Inc.
December 19, 2001 Congratulations to ISR alumnus Matthew James, who has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE. He is Reader and Acting Head of Engineering, Department of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Matt finished his PhD in Applied Mathematics in ISR under Professor John S. Baras' (ECE/ISR) direction in 1988. Dr. Baras notes that Matt "achieved this important recognition in record time" and was an ISR Fellow throughout his three years here.
December
22, 2001
Assistant Professor Allison
Druin (EDU/UMIACS/ISR) was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about children's toy technology. Story
at the San Francisco Chronicle's web site
December 22, 2001
Professor Cynthia
Moss (Psychology/ISR)
has been elected a Fellow by the Acoustical
Society of America. Moss also recently received a $340,000 NSF
award for "Active Sensing for Three-Dimensional Auditory
Localization." Story In addition, Moss and Catherine Carr (Biology) received
an NIMH training grant for "Neuroethology: Neurobiology, Evolution
and Behavior."
December
22, 2001
ISR Assistant Research Scientist Michael
Hadjitheodosiou reports that a paper he co-authored has
received a lot of press attention in England for its during the
last couple of days. "Complexity theory," a
mathematical method used to try to predict the behaviour of highly
complex systems, has application to the state of Britain's National
Health Service. BBC Radio 4 presented a report on Nov. 30, BBC NEWS
ONLINE carried an online
report and a related article appeared in the London
Daily Mail Nov. 30. The paper was published in the Journal
of the Royal Society of Medicine. Read
the paper at the JRSM web site
December
28, 2001
Assistant Professor Rajeev
Barua (ECE/ISR) and
ISR-affiliated Assistant Professor Min
Wu (ECE/UMIACS) have
received NSF Faculty
Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards.
Both are five-year awards that begin Feb. 1, 2002. Wu's award is for "Signal Processing Approaches for Multimedia Security and Information Protection." Barua's award is for "Synthesis-Assistance and Compilation Software for Embedded Systems." His work will develop new technologies to help in the synthesis of embedded processors in an application-specific manner. The approach involves compiler analysis to direct such synthesis, and produce high-quality code for the resulting processors.
CAREER awards support exceptionally promising college and university junior faculty who are committed to the integration of research and education.
December
28, 2001
Assistant
Professor S.K. Gupta (ME/ISR) has won a Presidential
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for
his work on developing a new molding process and decision support
tool that make it possible to manufacture multi-material parts in
a cost-effective manner. The PECASE is the highest honor given by
the U.S. government to outstanding scientists and engineers in the
early stages of establishing their research careers. Only 20 NSF-supported
PECASE awards are given out each year.
