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Carl Chang Receives Third IBM Faculty Award

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Carl K. Chang, Professor and Chair of Computer Science, has been
awarded his third IBM Faculty Award in Summer 2009. The IBM Faculty
Awards is a competitive worldwide program intended to foster
collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide
and those in IBM research, development and services organizations, and
to promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in
disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM. Candidates must

Computer Science Undergraduate Creates Patent-Worthy Database While on IBM Co-op

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Michael Rothschild, junior in Computer Science who will graduate in Spring'08, came up with the inspiration for his patent while engaged in a co-op with IBM in Fall'06. IBM had wanted some of its development teams to improve database design. Michael tweaked an idea a little with his team leader and over the next month worked on the patent proposal.

Carl Chang awarded the prestigious IBM Faculty Award

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Carl Chang, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, has received the prestigious 2006 IBM Faculty Award of $30,000. The award "recognizes the quality of Chang's program and its importance to the computer industry." Chang was among the few individuals who received the highly-competitive global award in software engineering.

As a global competition, the IBM Faculty Award is intended to recognize outstanding faculty, and to promote innovative, collaborative research in disciplines of mutual interest to IBM and the researcher.

Computer science Ph.D. student honored again by IBM.

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Once was great.

Now Doina Caragea, a Ph.D. student in computer science, has an opportunity to repeat the experience she had with IBM in Rochester, Minn., last summer.

For the second straight year, Caragea has been selected for the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, a highly competitive worldwide competition. She is one of 54 recipients in academic disciplines such as computer science, chemistry, physics, and electrical and computer engineering. Approximately half of the awardees are computer science students.