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October 09, 2008
Professors David Fernandez-Baca and Oliver Eulenstein have received a 3-year $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's "Assembling the Tree of Life" (AToL) Program to investigate the construction of phylogenetic trees for comparative biology.
Phylogenetic trees, which depict the...
September 12, 2008
Professor Vasant Honavar delivered an invited plenary lecture on Machine Learning in Bioinformatics at the Tenth Biannual Symposium on Artificial Intelligence organized by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence at Cagliari, Italy during September 11-13. This year, the...
September 04, 2008
The sensor network research team led by Dr. Wensheng Zhang of the Computer Science Department and Dr. Daji Qiao of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has received a 3-year, $344,510 research grant from the US National Science Foundation, to develop new energy replenishment protocols...
May 07, 2008
The Iowa State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has chosen four Computer Science Faculty for Research and Teaching awards during 2008.
Professor Vasant Honavar received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Career Achievement...
April 03, 2008
Graduate student Tyler N. Sondag was selected for Honorable Mention in the National Science Foundations's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) for 2008.
NSF's GRFP recognizes graduate students nationwide who show outstanding research potential. According to the NSF GRFP...
March 01, 2008
Atanasoff Hall was all agog with excitement on the morning of Feb 23rd (Saturday). A group of fourteen high school students were visiting the Computer Science Department to get a glimpse into the fascinating world of Computer Science! Dr. Carl Chang, Dr. Johnny Wong, Dr. Jim Lathrop...
February 22, 2008
On February 8th, twelve undergrads spent the entire day at Cargill's office at Minnetonka, Minnesota job-shadowing COMS alumni! This trip provided freshmen a unique opportunity to see for themselves the varied activities IT employees are engaged in on a day-to-day basis. The feedback has been...
January 21, 2008
The United States Department of Agriculture has awarded a 3-year, $1,000,000 grant to a team led by Professor Vasant Honavar of the Department of Computer Science and Professor James Reecy of the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University...
December 20, 2007
Yan-Bin Jia, associate professor, was recently selected as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), the flagship publication in automation. His term will begin in January 2008 with possibility to extend beyond 2009.
December 03, 2007
Four security informatics projects led by Computer Science Faculty have been selected for funding by the Center for Information Protection (CIP), an Industry-University Coperative Research Center supported by the National Science Foundationand several industrial...
November 05, 2007
The 32nd ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), also known as the Battle of the Brains, challenges students to solve real-world computer programming problems under a grueling, five-hour deadline. The contest pits teams of three university students against eight or more complex,...
November 04, 2007
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...
October 24, 2007
Steve Shaner, PhD student of Professor Gary Leavens, today won the "Best Student Paper" award from the International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA) in Montreal, Canada. The paper is the following:
Steve M. Shaner and Gary T....
September 06, 2007
Professor Yan-Bin Jia has received from the US National Science Foundation a 1-year, $74,999 Special Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) to investigate how to model the deformations of grasped objects.
A main thrust of the project will be on the search for a geometric formulation of surface...
September 06, 2007
The US National Science Foundation has awarded a 3-year, $250,000 CyberTrust Grant to a team led by Professors Wensheng Zhang and Johnny Wong of Computer Science Department and Professor Daji Qiao of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department to develop an Integrated Solution to Provide Privacy...
August 16, 2007
The US National Science Foundation has awarded a 3-year, $449,999 grant to a team led by Professor Vasant Honavar of Computer Science to develop algorithms and software for collaborative, integrative analysis of large, semantically heterogeneous data sets....
July 26, 2007
The Java Modeling Language(JML) is a formal specification language that can document detailed designs of Java classes and interfaces. JML has been used by many formal methods researchers in different projects such as the ESC/Java extended static checker, the Daikon invariant detector,the Bogor...
July 06, 2007
Colonoscopy is an endoscopic technique that allows a physician to inspect the inside of the human colon to screen for colorectal cancer---the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the US. Millions of colonoscopic procedures are performed annually. However, an objective method that...
July 05, 2007
The paper "A cost-sensitive model for preemptive intrusion response system" authored by Computer Science Ph.D. student Natalia Stakhanova and Computer Science faculty Samik Basu and Johnny Wong received the Nokia Best Student Paper Award at 21st IEEE International...
July 05, 2007
Accurate knowledge of protein structures is important for predicting protein function, and structure-based drug design for therapeutics. The gap between the number of experimentally determined structures and the number of known sequences continues to increase at a rapid rate. Hence, there is an...
June 25, 2007
The US National Science Foundation has awarded a 3-year, $335,000 grant to Computer Science professors Samik Basu, Vasant Honavar, and Robyn Lutz. The Web services are beginning to play an increasingly important role in scientific, engineering,...
June 21, 2007
Dr. Shu-Hui (Susan) Chang is recognized by the Blackboard Greenhouse Exemplary Course Project (ECP) for Teaching Best Practice for her course research and the movement to a fully online format while preserving student satisfaction and success.
The Blackboard Greenhouse Exemplary Course...
May 28, 2007
Professors Vasant Honavar and Gary Leavens are among the 142 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) members worldwide selected for recognition as senior members based on nominations received during 2006. The senior member designation recognizes ACM members with at least 10...
April 10, 2007
A research project on "Computer-aided Quality Control for Colonoscopy" led by ISU Profs. Wallapak Tavanapong and Johnny Wong has recently received funding of $50,000 from Mayo Clinic Rochester, $25,000 from Iowa State Research Foundation (ISURF), and $10,000 from the ISU Institute for Physical...
April 09, 2007
Guillermo Hernandez, a senior in Computer Engineering, was selected to present his research on Smart Home in the First Annual Iowa State University Undergraduate Research Symposium. Guillermo has been engaged in research with the ISU Smart Home, which is directed by Drs. Carl Chang,...
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