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Department of Computer Science

Recent Department News

Four Computer Science Faculty Receive the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research and Teaching Awards (07 May, 2008)
Tyler Sondag selected for Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for 2008 (03 Apr, 2008)
Computer Science Department participates in ISU’s Science Bound program (01 Mar, 2008)
First Annual Freshmen Trip to Cargill (22 Feb, 2008)
Vasant Honavar part of USDA-funded collaboration to develop bioinformatics tools for comparative animal genomics (21 Jan, 2008)
Yan-Bin Jia appointed associate editor of IEEE T-ASE (20 Dec, 2007)
Computer Science Faculty Receive Four Grants from the Center for Information Protection (03 Dec, 2007)
Computer Science Students place first in the ACM Programming Regional Contest at the University of Lincoln Nebraska site (05 Nov, 2007)
Computer Science Undergraduate Creates Patent-Worthy Database While on IBM Co-op (04 Nov, 2007)
Steve Shaner won the "Best Student Paper" award from OOPSLA in Montreal, Canada (24 Oct, 2007)
Yan-Bin Jia receives NSF Grant to investigate the modeling of deformations of grasped objects (06 Sep, 2007)
Wensheng Zhang, Johnny Wong of Computer Science and Daji Qiao of ECE Receive an NSF Grant to Develop Approaches to Protect Privacy, Confidentiality, Integrity and Reliability in Sensor Networks (06 Sep, 2007)
Annual Computer Science Welcome Reception Held August 24th, 2007 (29 Aug, 2007)
Vasant Honavar Receives an NSF Grant to Develop Algorithms and Software for Collaborative, Integrative, Analysis of Large, Distributed, Semantically Heterogeneous Data Sets (16 Aug, 2007)
Leavens, Rajan and Basu awarded an NSF grant to revitalize JML (26 Jul, 2007)
Johnny Wong and Wallapak Tavanapong Receive a Grow Iowa Values Fund Grant to Develop Software for Computer-Aided Quality Control for Colonoscopy (06 Jul, 2007)
Professor Vasant Honavar part of an NIH-Funded International Collaboration on Improved Methods for Protein Structure Prediction (05 Jul, 2007)
Natalia Stakhanova receives the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE AINA 2007 for the paper co-authored by Samik Basu and Johnny Wong (05 Jul, 2007)
Samik Basu, Vasant Honavar, and Robyn Lutz Recieve an NSF Grant to Develop New Tools for Specification-Based Service Composition (25 Jun, 2007)
Dr. Shu-Hui (Susan) Chang receives Blackboard Greenhouse Exemplary Course Best Practice Award for Computer Science Course 103, Computer Literacy and Applications (21 Jun, 2007)
Professors Honavar and Leavens Become Senior Members of ACM (28 May, 2007)
Computer Science Department Releases its Annual Report for 2006-2007 (13 May, 2007)
CS Project “Computer-aided Quality Control for Colonoscopy” Receives Additional Funding Support (10 Apr, 2007)
Guillermo Hernandez selected to present his research in the First Annual Iowa State University Undergraduate Research Symposium (09 Apr, 2007)
Debra Lauterbach receives $1000 scholarship as a Finalist for Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for Women (03 Apr, 2007)
Professor Jack Lutz part of NSF Focused Research Group on Algorithmic Randomness (30 Mar, 2007)
Bancha Doungratanaex-chai selected to present his research on Medical Informatics in the First Annual ISU Undergraduate Research Symposium (13 Mar, 2007)
Matt Miller selected to present his research in the First Annual Iowa State University Undergraduate Research Symposium (09 Mar, 2007)
Dr. Honavar and colleagues receive support to develop e-science Cyberinfrastructure for life sciences (26 Feb, 2007)
Two Undergraduate Research Assistants in the Department of Computer Science Selected to Participate in Capitol Poster Presentation (26 Feb, 2007)
Samik Basu, Hridesh Rajan, and Johnny Wong's Projects funded by the Center for Information Protection (CIP) (22 Feb, 2007)
Rockwell provides funding for project on Addressing Resource Allocation Problem in Integrated Modular Avionics (16 Feb, 2007)
IJCAI 2007 Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition Co-Chaired by Professor Vasant Honavar (31 Jan, 2007)
Professor Honavar delivers keynote talk on Semantic Web for Collaborative e-Science at ICISIP 2006 (21 Dec, 2006)
Hridesh Rajan to Co-Chair the First International Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages for emerging modularization mechanisms (VMIL 2007) (06 Dec, 2006)
Robert Dyer selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2007 (30 Nov, 2006)
Fall’06 Computer Science Department Undergraduate Scholarship/Award Recipients (20 Nov, 2006)
COMS students participate in ACM Programming Contest (16 Nov, 2006)
Jyotishman Pathak, Samik Basu, Robyn Lutz, and Vasant Honavar receive the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICTAI 2006 (14 Nov, 2006)
First International Workshop on Modular Ontologies Chaired by Professor Vasant Honavar (13 Nov, 2006)
The 30th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2006) chaired by Dr. Carl Chang and Dr. Johnny Wong (10 Nov, 2006)
ISU Computer Science Research Selected for 2006 American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Governors Award (01 Nov, 2006)
AAAI Fall Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition chaired by Professor Vasant Honavar (18 Oct, 2006)
NSF grant awarded for BBSI Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Summer Institute at Iowa State University (12 Oct, 2006)
Robert Dyer, Youssef Hanna and Harish Narayanappa awarded travel fellowship to attend ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2006 (11 Oct, 2006)
Memorandum of Understanding (MOA) Signed with University of Sofia, Bulgaria and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as part of JVA 2006 (04 Oct, 2006)
Michelle Moseman receives ISU Outstanding Young Alumni Award (01 Oct, 2006)
Jie Bao, Doina Caragea, and Vasant Honavar receive the Best Paper Award at the First Asian Semantic Web Conference (06 Sep, 2006)
Rajan and Zhang awarded NSF grant to study specification and verification challenges for Security Protocols in Sensor Networks (01 Sep, 2006)
Honavar and Slutzki awarded NSF grant to study collaborative modular distributed knowledge bases (29 Aug, 2006)
Carl Chang awarded the prestigious IBM Faculty Award (20 Aug, 2006)
Computer Science 2006 annual welcome reception held on Thursday evening, August 17 (19 Aug, 2006)
Dr. Carl Chang appointed Computer editor-in-chief (19 Jul, 2006)
Research article among the most highly accessed in BMC Bioinformatics (17 Jul, 2006)
Forty-two Graduates with Bachelor Degree in Computer Science in Spring 2006 (15 May, 2006)
List of Undergraduate and Graduate Internships for the 2005-06 year (15 May, 2006)
Computer Science Students win PappaJohn Competition (14 Mar, 2006)
Computer Science students attend Google Workshop for Women Engineers (28 Feb, 2006)
Ryan Babbitt gave a talk on Privacy Management at ICADI 2006 (13 Feb, 2006)
Computer Science faculty receive Grow Iowa Values Funding (13 Feb, 2006)
Dr. Miner receives NSF Career Award (09 Feb, 2006)
Jun Zhang and Changhui Yan receive Iowa State University Research Excellence Awards (20 Dec, 2005)
Two students receive Teaching Excellence awards (16 Dec, 2005)
New center for protecting information (13 Dec, 2005)
Computer Science faculty advance research-based graduate training in Bioinformatics (12 Dec, 2005)
Computer Science faculty advance engineering informatics (12 Dec, 2005)
Computer scientists advance medical informatics research (09 Dec, 2005)
COMPUTER SCIENCE MINOR NOW OFFERED (01 Nov, 2005)
Dr. Vasant Honavar Lectured in Singapore (31 Oct, 2005)
In full splendor Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov presents computer scientist Valentin Pavlov the esteemed John Atanasoff Award for his contributions to information technology (23 Oct, 2005)
Serena Gift for Computer Science Department (21 Oct, 2005)
Cargill Grant for Computer Science Department (21 Sep, 2005)
Panel discussion on future of business and technology (08 Sep, 2005)
New center for cross-disciplinary research - CCILD (08 Sep, 2005)
Bioinformatics Research at ISU appears in Nature (07 Sep, 2005)
Carl Chang chairs 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (July 15, 2005) (29 Aug, 2005)
Two new faculty members join the Department of Computer Science (25 Aug, 2005)
Computer Science Faculty and Staff Attend Deere & Co. Student Presentations (17 Aug, 2005)
Four CS faculty members promoted or tenured (16 May, 2005)
Computer Science Department Accepts Gift from Caterpillar (28 Apr, 2005)
Pursuing Excellence (01 Apr, 2005)
Dr. Vasant Honavar Named to NIH Review Team (01 Apr, 2005)
CS Team Wins The Pappajohn Business Plan Competition (28 Jan, 2005)
Article coauthored by Vasant Honavar and Changhui Yan among most viewed in BMC Bioinformatics journal (20 Jan, 2005)
Carl Chang named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (16 Dec, 2004)
Chicken Genome Assembly produced by Xiaoqiu Huang's program (13 Dec, 2004)
Brian Dorn Recieves The Premier Award from National Engineering Education Delivery System (18 Nov, 2004)
Student internship presentations at John Deere (17 Sep, 2004)
Two CS students attend the 2004 Summer School on Advanced Modelling of Biological Function (25 Aug, 2004)
Dr. Gordon Moore visited Computer Science at ISU (19 Aug, 2004)
Doina Caragea awarded Iowa State University Research Excellence Award (28 Jul, 2004)
ISU COMS team won kudos for excellence in Software Engneering at the CSIDC World finals (29 Jun, 2004)
ISU students created global positioning messages (23 Jun, 2004)
Carl Chang Fosters Stronger Exchange of Graduate Research and Education with Four Top Universities in China (30 May, 2004)
ISU ComS Team Proceed To IEEE-CS CSIDC World Finals (28 May, 2004)
Computer Science faculty are active in editorship (18 Mar, 2004)
Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery Initiative Launched (18 Mar, 2004)
Honavar begins a three-year term on a National Institutes of Health Study Section (18 Mar, 2004)
Carl Chang delivers a keynote speech at IPSJ General Assembly (18 Mar, 2004)
Four NSF Career Awards for CS faculty! (01 Mar, 2004)
Carl Chang delivers a keynote address at Japan Gigabit Network Symposium (01 Mar, 2004)
Learning from disparate data sources may become more manageable thanks to the work of computer science's Vasant Honavar (23 Feb, 2004)
Cargill sponsors Computer Science Instructional Laboratory (15 Feb, 2004)
Carl Chang elected President of world's biggest computer organization (01 Jan, 2004)
Iowa State computer scientists to construct genealogical time line for all biological species. (03 Nov, 2003)
In honor of those who helped build this department - a Home Coming! (30 Oct, 2003)
The International Symposium on Modern Computing (01 Oct, 2003)
Carl Chang chairs the 11th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (21 Sep, 2003)
Robyn Lutz receives double honors (15 Sep, 2003)
Welcome Reception - August 2003 - Computer Science - Reminder (17 Jul, 2003)
Computer science Ph.D. student honored again by IBM. (05 Apr, 2003)
Computer Science team made it in the World Finals! (28 Mar, 2003)
Robyn Lutz receives two NSF grants. (04 Nov, 2002)
Johnny Wong is devoted to securing info (28 Jan, 2002)
ISU professors working to provide geospatial data to field researchers (22 Oct, 2001)