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  • Professor Stephen Fickas Awarded Most Influential Paper Award in Requirements Engineering

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    A paper by Prof. Steve Fickas and his longtime research collaborator Martin Feather, currently at JPL, was recently selected as the Most Influential Paper from Requirements Engineering 1995. The research paper, Requirements Monitoring in Dynamic Environments, Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, York, England, March 1995, by S. Fickas and M.S. Feather, received multiple nominations. Comments included: "A VERY influential paper that introduced the whole idea of requirements monitoring and considering requirements artifacts at run-time." The award will be presented at Requirements Engineering 2005 in September ...»
  • Welcome From New CIS Department Head, Professor Andrzej Proskurowski

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    Professor Andrzej Proskurowski began a three-year term as CIS Department Head, effective August 1, 2005. Andrzej has conducted research in network graph theory with an array of international collaborators. See related news story about Andrzej's 60th Birthday Colloquium. Asked for a quote, Andrzej offers the following anecdote he calls Niels Bohr, meet Yogi Berra: Last Spring, our department's students, staff and faculty went together one night to see an interesting play Copenhagen at the Lord-Liebrick Theater about the Danish physicist, Niels Bohr. It was a lot of fun: an intriguing play, good production, nice company. To Bohr is attributed the following enigmatic statement: ...»
  • Dinosaur Research Featured at the American Museum of Natural History and in Newsweek

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    CIS Professor Kent Stevens has been working for over a decade on digitally modeling the movement of dinosaurs in research known as the DinoMorph (TM) Project. Kent's work is on display at the American Museum of Natural History exhibit, Dinosaurs - Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries, running May 14, 2005-January 8, 2006. Kent's Dinomorph research was also highlighted in the cover story of the June 27 issue of Newsweek Magazine. The DinoMorph (TM) Project has received widespread international coverage, including on the Discovery Channel, the BBC, NPR and Oregon Public Broadcasting. Kent is currently working with the BBC on a television production - "The Truth about Killer Dinosaurs," which ...»
  • Ph.D. student Kevin Huck receives award

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    A paper by CIS Ph.D. student Kevin Huck, his advisor Allen Malony, and co-authors from the UO Computational Science Institute won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'05). The paper, Design and Implementation of Parallel Performance Data Management Framework by Kevin Huck, Allen D. Malony, Robert Bell and Alan Morris, describes a framework which addresses objectives of performance tool integration, inter-operation, and reuse by providing common data storage, access, and analysis infrastructure for parallel performance profiles. For more information about this research group see http://tau.uoregon.edu. Kevin is pictured here receiving the ...»
  • Anthony Hornof Promoted to Associate Professor

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    Congratulations to Anthony Hornof for his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in the department of Computer and Information Science! Anthony's primary research interest is human-computer interaction (HCI). Specifically, he explores computer simulations of the perceptual, cognitive, and motoric processes that people employ in routine computer usage. He also develops techniques that enable children with severe motor impairments to access a computer with their eye movements. Anthony's research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. See Anthony Hornof's web site for more about his research and teaching at the University of Oregon. ...»
  • Departmental Programming Contest Results

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    This year's contest was the Ninth Annual UO Programming Competition and was held on May 7, 2005. There were 6 undergraduate teams and 5 graduate teams in the 2005 Ninth Annual UO Programming Competition. The winners were: Undergraduate Division First Place: Scott Burich, Ross McClure, Daniel Veilleux Second Place: Michael Buckley, Nathan Collins, Aaron Henner Graduate Division First Place: Peter Boothe, Daniel Stuzbach Second Place: Mark Erickson, Katie Ray Special note: With this 4th win, Daniel Stutzbach has broken the record (which he held along with Harold Connamacher) for most times on our winners' plaque. See the contest page for more information about this contest, or the ...»
  • Alum Gurdeep Pall Promoted to Corporate VP at Microsoft

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    CIS alumni Gurdeep Singh Pall (M.S. '89) was recently appointed to the position of Corporate Vice President in the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft. He is also responsible for developing Microsoft's strategy in the Real Time Collaboration space - including the emerging Integrated Communications and VoIP areas. Gurdeep joined Microsoft in 1990 as a Software Design Engineer. He has worked on many products in his tenure starting with LAN Manager Remote Access Service. He was part of the Windows NT development core team - working on the first version NT 3.1 in 1993 as a Software Design Engineer, all the way thru Windows XP in 2001 as General Manager of Windows Networking. During ...»
  • String of Successes for Recent Alum, Moira Burke

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    Congratulations to our recent alum Moira Burke for an extraordinary string of recent successes: Admission to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie-Mellon University for Fall 2005, to work in one of the strongest HCI research group in the world; An AT&T Fellowship which will provide three years of support, including tuition, stipend, books, conference travel and research internships http://www.research.att.com/academic/alfp.html; An accepted article (pending minor revisions) in ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction: Burke, M., Hornof, A., Nilsen, E., & Gorman, N. High-cost banner blindness: Ads increase perceived workload, hinder visual search, and are forgotten. A very ...»
  • Prof. Virginia 'Ginnie' Lo Publishes Children's Book

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    Virginia (Ginnie) Lo, associate professor in Computer and Information Science, in collaboration with her sister, has published her first children's book, Mahjong All Day Long. Ginnie wrote the story from childhood memories of her extended Chinese family's never-ending mahjong sessions. Her sister, Beth Lo, a ceramics arts professor at the University of Montana, illustrated the story using underglazes and stains on handmade porcelain plates. They both continue to play mahjong whenever they can. Read the article in Inside Oregon for more information about Dr. Lo and her book. Ginnie specializes in parallel, distributed, and peer-to-peer computing. Her work explores ways to harness ...»
  • Prof. Reza Rejaie Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

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    Reza Rejaie, assistant professor in Computer and Information Science, was named a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER awards for 2005. Prof. Rejaie will use the projected five-year grant to develop scalable and adaptive techniques for audio/video streaming in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems over the Internet. This research enables an average Internet user to stream video to any number of heterogeneous and dynamic receivers without any special support from the network, e.g. an average user can manage its own TV-like channel over the internet. This work also sheds light on several fundamental challenges in distributed resource management for large scale, heterogeneous and dynamic ...»
  • John Conery's research, published in Science, suggests population effects in genome complexity.

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    The November 21 issue of the leading journal Science includes the following article, jointly authored by Professor John Conery. THE ORIGINS OF GENOME COMPLEXIMITY Michael Lynch, Indiana University and John S. Conery, University of Oregon Abstract: Complete genomic sequences from diverse phylogenetic lineages reveal notable increases in genome complexity from prokaryotes to multicellular eukaryotes. The changes include gradual increases in gene number, resulting from the retention of duplicate genes, and more abrupt increases in the abundance of spliceosomal introns and mobile genetic elements. We argue that many of these modifications emerged passively in response to the long-term ...»
  • Colloquium Honors Work of Prof. Andrzej Proskurowski

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    The Department recently hosted a special Colloquium honoring CIS theory faculty Dr. Andrzej Proskurowski on the occasion of his birthday. A set of international speakers reviewed research work with Dr. Proskurowski, who has over 50 collaborators as coauthors on publications in the area of graph theory and network algorithms. Speakers included: Art Farley of the University of Oregon, Dr. Frank Ruskey of University of Victoria and Dr. Joseph Peters of Simon Fraser University, both from Canada; Drs. Jan Kratochvil and Jirka Fiala from Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic, and Dr. Jan-Arne Telle of University of Bergen in Norway. The following morning, an informal seminar was ...»
  • Bioinformatics Research Published in Nature.

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    CIS Ph.D. student, Bryan Kolaczkowski, and UO assistant professor of biology, Joe Thornton, used a small cluster of Apple computers to simulate the evolution of thousands of gene sequences on a hypothetical evolutionary tree. They found that a simple logical method known as maximum parsimony is far more accurate under a wide range of conditions than the more widely used technique known as maximum likelihood, which uses a mathematic model of the evolutionary process. Their work impacts the way evolutionary biologists infer the relationships among species. Bryan works in the area of Bioinformatics and is co-advised by CIS professor John Conery. The cluster consisted of four dual processor ...»
  • CIS department newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Dejing Dou

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    The CIS department welcomes our newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Dejing Dou, whose research focuses on practical as well as theoretical aspects of Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Biomedical Informatics and the Semantic Web. Dr. Dou’s work has focused on ontology integration and ontology translation for the Semantic Web and web-based databases. His current research work focuses on human-computer interactive and machine learning tools for ontology (database schema) mapping and merging, data integration and data mining for biomedical informatics. Dr. Dejing Dou finished his Ph.D. from Yale University in August 2004. He also received his M.S. degree from Yale and his ...»