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Vasant Honavar delivers a Keynote Lecture on Humanities as Information Sciences at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

Professor Vasant Honavar delivered an invited keynote talk on Humanities as Information Sciences at the 2009 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS 2009) held at Chicago during November 14-16, 2009.

Vasant Honavar delivers a Keynote Lecture on Comparative Analysis of Biomolecular Networks at BIOT 2009

Professor Vasant Honavar delivered an invited keynote talk on Comparative Analysis of Biomolecular Networks at the 6th Annual Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT 2009) held at Lincoln, Nebraska during October 9-10.

Johnny Wong and his colleagues at ISU received an NSF/SFS award to train students in Information Assurance

Johnny Wong and his colleagues at ISU received a 2-year NSF award of $1,368,867, with a possible 3rd year totaling $1,956,883.

The United States Department of Agriculture Funds Dr. Honavar's Research on Elucidating Gene Networks Involved in Immune Response to Viral Infections

Dr.

Three in Computer Science are Finalists for 2009 Iowa Women of Innovation

Wallapak Tavanapong, Robyn Lutz, and Katie Githens were finalists in the 2009 Technology Association of Iowa's Women of Innovation Awards. The ceremony took place on November 9.

Robyn Lutz Awarded NSF Grant for Software Engineering Research

Robyn Lutz recently won an NSF-ARRA award to create techniques that improve the reliability of software product lines.

Dr. Wallapak Tavanapong and Dr. Johnny Wong received a 3 year grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health

Dr. Wallapak Tavanapong and Dr. Johnny Wong received a 3 year grant of 

Twenty one Computer Science and three Computer Engineering students participated in the 2010 ACM ICPC Regional Programming Contest on Saturday October 31

Seminars on Academic Computing Honored with EDUCAUSE Leadership Award

The EDUCAUSE Leadership Award acknowledges and celebrates leadership from those whose work has had significant positive impact on the contributions of information technology to higher education.

NSF Grant Supports Interdisciplinary SmartHome Project

Carl K. Chang (Com Sci), Johnny Wong (Com Sci), Peter Martin (Gerontology), 
Mack C. Shelley (Stat), and Simanta Mitra (Com Sci) have received a two-year 

Jie Bao, Doina Caragea, and Vasant Honavar receive the Best Paper Award at the First Asian Semantic Web Conference

The paper "Modular Ontologies - A Formal Investigation of Semantics and Expressivity" by Jie Bao, Doina Caragea, and Vasant Honavar received the best paper award, sponsored by the Knowledge Web project of the European Network o

Carl Chang Receives Third IBM Faculty Award

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 

Susan Chang Named LAS Master Teacher, 2009-10

Susan Chang, CS department lecturer, was named a 2009-10 LAS Master Teacher this fall. 
 

Yan-Bin Jia receives NSF Grant to investigate robot grasping of deformable objects

Professor Yan-Bin Jia has received from the US National Science Foundation a 3-year, $369,795 grant IIS-0915876 for designing algorithms that would enable the robot hand to grasp deformable objects. 

Aaron Sterling Wins Best Student Paper Award at DNA 15

Computer Science Team Places 49th out of 7,104 in the ACM ICPC World Finals

Yuly Suvorov, Pasha Kazatsker, and Michael Siebert (left to right, above) placed 49th in the world, and 6th among the 21 participating U.S.

Hridesh Rajan Receives 2009 NSF CAREER Award

Hridesh Rajan, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, is the recipient of a 2009 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his proposed research and educational project "On Mutualism of Modularit

Center for Information Protection Awards Grants to Computer Science Faculty(Spring 2009)

The Information Assurance Center (IAC) at Iowa State University has partnered with other universities to form the Center for Information Protection (CIP), with the IAC at the helm.

Dr. Tavanapong and Dr. Wong Receive 3-Year Grant for Improving Quality of Colonoscopy Procedures

Dr. Wallapak Tavanapong and Dr.

Professor David Fernandez-Baca named Associate Editor of BMC Evolutionary Biology

David Fernandez-Baca, Professor of Computer Science, has been named 
Associate Editor of BMC Evolutionary Biology , an open access journal