Recent News & Accomplishments

 2006

John Shin, a senior CS major, is the college's Outstanding Undergraduate for 2006, and will be the student speaker at the college's graduation ceremony. View the transcript of Shin's Graduation Speech .  read more
Julian Mestre was awarded a Dean's Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2006  read more
Pete Stewart has been elected a Distinguished University Professor. He is the first person in our department to be awarded this honor by the campus.  read more
Sharma Chakravarthy (Ph.D. 1985 C.S.), a professor at U. of Texas at Arlington, is their College of Engineering's 2006 Excellence in Research awardee.  read more
Naresh Gupta (Ph.D. 1993 C.S.), a senior vice president of Adobe Systems, is the university's Distinguished International Alumnus for 2006.  read more
Jack Minker is the recipient of the 2005 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award .  read more
Amy Karlson was selected as a Microsoft Research Fellow.  read more
Jen Golbeck was named one of the "Top 10 People to Watch" by IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine.  read more
Ben Bederson won an IBM Faculty Award for his work on Piccolo .  read more

 2005

Amol Deshpande has received an NSF CAREER award.  read more