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NewsJune 8, 2009 Moon Magic: Researchers Develop New Tool To Visualize Past, Future Lunar Eclipses Professor Barbara Cutler and graduate student Theodore Yapo have developed a new method for using computer graphics to simulate and render an accurate visualization of a lunar eclipse. The model uses celestial geometry of the sun, Earth, and moon, along with data for the Earth's atmosphere and the moon's peculiar optical properties to create picture-perfect images of lunar eclipses. Full story ... May 14, 2009 Graduate student Mohammad Al Hasan wins best paper award A paper authored by Mohammad Al Hasan won the best paper award at the 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), held recently (April 27-30) in Bangkok, Thailand. The paper was entitled, "Clustering with Lower Bound on Similarity", and the other authors were Saeed Salem, Benjarath Pupacdi, and Prof. Mohammed J. Zaki. February 13, 2009 Hardwick named Acting Head of Computer Science Professor of Computer Science Martin Hardwick has been named acting head of the Computer Science Department. Hardwick brings nearly a quarter-century of teaching and research experience at Rensselaer to the new role. Hardwick joined Rensselaer in 1985 as an assistant professor, coming to Rensselaer from Texas Technological University where he served as assistant professor of computer science. He received both his bachelor's degree and doctorate from Bristol University in the United Kingdom. He is the author of numerous papers and articles on engineering database systems and concurrent engineering. He supervised the Model Driven Intelligent Control of Manufacturing program, known as the "Super Model" Project. This program developed STEP-NC, a technology that is being evaluated by the aerospace and automotive industries as the next-generation language for control of manufacturing robots and computers. Full story ... February 3, 2009 Student Open Source Software Brings Personal Finance to the iPhone In these difficult economic times, everyone is seeking a better way to manage their personal finances. And at a time when even the newly elected president can't be separated from his wireless device, two undergraduates from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed an open source solution that combines smart personal financial management with your smartphone. The computer science students, who are part of the Rensselaer Center for Open Software (RCOS), have developed an application for Apple Inc.'s popular iPhone that allows users to log, track, and manage their personal spending. Full story ... May 7, 2008 Constellation Launch Event: The Future of the World Wide Web One June 11, 2008, some of the foremost experts on the World Wide Web will come together on campus for the Tetherless World Constellation Launch Event, "The Future of the World Wide Web." Speakers will be James Hendler, Deborah McGuinness, Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, and Nova Spivack. Full story ... April 18, 2008 Student hackers win second place in computer security competition Rensselaer students Alex Radocea, Ryan Govostes, Rob Escriva, and Henry Filgueiras took second place in the Information Security Talent Search, an annual competition at the Rochester Institute of Technology which pits teams of undergraduates against each other in a battle to build the most robust server possible and to tear through as many of their competitors' servers as possible. Full story ... April 7, 2008 Computer Program Reveals Anyone's Ancestry A group of computer scientists, mathematicians, and biologists from around the world have developed a computer algorithm that can quickly trace an individual's genetic ancestry with only a small sample of their DNA. In fact, the program can trace the genetic ancestry of thousands of individuals in minutes, without any prior knowledge of their background. Full story ... February 28, 2008 Student web language gains international recognition Gregory Williams, a Rensselaer doctoral student in computer science who works in the new Tetherless World Constellation, single-handedly implemented a Web language that allows Web sites to speak and share data with one another. His language was given high marks by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and will form a baseline for other companies and researchers to build upon. Full story ... October 20, 2007 Boleslaw Szymanski named first Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor For over a quarter of a century, Rensselaer's Boleslaw Szymanski has occupied a place at the cutting edge of computer science, systems, and networks. In recognition of his accomplishments, he recently was appointed the inaugural Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor of Computer Science. Named for the Institute's 16th president and his wife, the professorship is among the highest honors awarded to a faculty member. Full story ... October 16, 2007 Web Language and Artificial Intelligence Expert Joins Tetherless World Research Constellation A leading expert in Web research, Deborah L. McGuinness, joins Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an endowed chair of the Tetherless World Research Constellation. One of the creators of the Web language that is ushering in the next generation of the World Wide Web -- the OWL Web Ontology Language -- McGuinness is widely known in her field. She joins the senior constellation chair, James A. Hendler. Together the two top Web gurus make Rensselaer a leader in Web research. Full story ... September 20, 2007 Computer program traces ancestry using anonymous DNA samples A group of computer scientists, mathematicians, and biologists from around the world have developed a computer algorithm that can help trace the genetic ancestry of thousands of individuals in minutes, without any prior knowledge of their background. The team's findings will be published in the September 2007 edition of the journal PLoS Genetics. Full story ... May 3, 2007 Petros Drineas awarded School of Science's Emerging Researcher Award Professor Petros Drineas has been awarded the School of Science's Emerging Researcher Award. This award is given to a faculty or staff member who has worked in the School of Science 3-6 years. Professor Drineas was chosen for this award based on his many accomplishments during his four years in the Computer Science Department. Full story ... November 6, 2006 Schoffstall Gift Commitment To Establish Dr. Joseph E. Flaherty Lecture Series To honor the illustrious career of Joseph Flaherty, Rensselaer's recently retired dean of the School of Science, Martin Schoffstall '82 has made a $100,000 challenge gift commitment to establish the "Dr. Joseph E. Flaherty Lecture Series" in the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer. Full story ... November 2, 2006 Applications for faculty positions invited The Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) invites applications for one or more tenure-track positions at the Assistant Professor level; exceptional candidates at all professorial levels will be considered. While all research areas of computer science will be considered, the department has special interest in security, cryptography, scientific computation, data science (mining, handling and visualization) and bioinformatics. Full story ... October, 2006 Wei Zhao appointed Dean of Science Rensselaer has appointed Wei Zhao as dean of the School of Science. Zhao, who is currently senior associate vice president for research at Texas A&M University, will take over the position from acting dean Samuel Wait Jr. '53 in January 2007. Full story ... July 19, 2006 RPI becomes a founding member of the International Technology Alliance IBM Research is leading the International Technology Alliance, a consortium of 24 institutions from industry and academia in both the U.K. and the U.S. created in May 2006. The International Technology Alliance opens a new era of collaborative, multi-disciplinary research which spans multiple universities and industrial research labs. A number of leading researchers have come together to perform joint research, forming a virtual organization of some of the best minds in both countries over the next ten years. Among them, Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski of RPI is leading Project 9, one of the 12 projects of the alliance. Dr. Jim Hendler, who joins RPI in January 2007 is a participant in Project 12. Both RPI researchers are excited to be a part of this group, and are looking forward to achieving several breakthroughs in network-centric systems over the course of the next ten years. Full story ... June 14, 2006 Web Visionary James A. Hendler Will Lead Tetherless World Research Constellation James A. Hendler, a renowned computer scientist and World Wide Web researcher, has been appointed senior constellation professor of the Tetherless World Research Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Hendler will join Rensselaer Jan. 1, 2007. Full story ... February 9, 2006 The Computer Science Department at Rensselaer is unable to consider applications for tenure-track faculty positions. Rensselaer's administration has recently made a strategic decision to cancel our regular faculty search in favor of searching for groups of chaired professors. Full story ... October 19, 2005 David Kotfila, RPI's Cisco Networking Academy Director, quoted in Cisco press release David Kotfila, RPI's Cisco Networking Academy Director, was quoted today in a Cisco Systems press release about Cisco's expanded technology training curriculum. The story was carried by Business Wire and Yahoo Finance. Full story ... May 16, 2005 Computer Science major graduates at 18 and founds company Ryan Trinkle will receive his B.S. in Computer Science and Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer on May 21, 2005. He will take a year off from school to found a game development company and then will enroll in Harvard Law School. Full story ... February 7, 2005 Professor Carlos Varela selected for NSF Career Award Carlos Varela, assistant professor of computer science at Rensselaer, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Varela will use the projected five-year, $400,000 grant to design and implement computer programming technology for use in solving complex scientific problems through high-performance grid computing. Full story ... October 20, 2004 Professor Bruce R. Donald kicks off Distinguished Speaker Series The Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute initiates this year a Distinguished Speaker Series, in part to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Department. The Series will bring world leading researchers in diverse areas of Computer Science to present state-of-the-art research, salient results, and future directions. The Series will be kicked off November 3 by Professor Bruce R. Donald of Dartmouth University, who will present a talk entitled Algorithmic Challenges in Structural Molecular Biology and Proteomics. Details ... May 18, 2004 New Research Project Investigates 3D Modeling and Tracking From Distributed, Mobile Sensors The Departments of Computer Science and Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering are pleased to announce the formation of a new Army research project. Led by Professor Charles Stewart, with co-Investigators Professors Daniel Freedman, Lester Gerhardt and Richard Radke, this project involves the development of algorithms to automatically construct dynamic, three-dimensional models of urban scenes using a variety of mobile, airborne and ground sensors. Work on this project, which is planned for five years at half-million dollars per year, will proceed in close association with Object Sciences Corporation of Springfield, VA. Object Sciences was founded by Dr. Glenn Tarbox, '92 who earned his Ph.D. at Rensselaer under the guidance of Professor Gerhardt. The new project will support several graduate students and will be housed in renovated space on the 3rd floor of the Materials Research Center. May 7, 2004 Two researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are creating a faster, more efficient data-mining technique to determine basic rules of how proteins form. The researchers are Mohammed Zaki, assistant professor of computer science, and Chris Bystroff, assistant professor of biology. Full story ... April 26, 2004 Rensselaer To Host Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Networking "Anytime, Anywhere" computing will be the focus of a "Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Networking" at Rensselaer this week. Scores of leading-edge researchers are coming to campus April 29 and 30 for the event, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Rensselaer Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking. Full story ... April 15, 2004 Rensselaer Researchers Developing Program to Root Out Terrorists Online In the wake of the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, it became clear to experts worldwide that international terrorist organizations - Al-Qaeda in particular - rely heavily on cybercommunications for their planning. This prompted a group of Rensselaer researchers in the departments of computer science and decision sciences and engineering systems to start developing techniques for modeling the evolution of social groups in Web chat rooms, newsgroups, and bulletin boards, with the specific goal of detecting potentially harmful groups. Full story ... April 15, 2004 ROSS.Net to be Launched in Summer '04 Chris Carothers and his team are working on an extremely light-weight model implementation framework called ROSSNet that is specifically designed for large-scale network simulation. The framework poses the question: "what do you really need to model in order to answer a particular protocol dynamics question in a large-scale scenario?" For example, are all layers in a protocol stack really necessary? Can a host just be a TCP sender or just a TCP receiver? Does the simulated host really need to be both? By asking these kinds of questions, the framework enables a single TCP connection state to be realized in just 320 bytes total (both sender and receiver) and 64 bytes per each packet-event. Full story ... |
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