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Welcome New Super ePartner - Foundry Networks(1/13/2003)
We are extremely happy to welcome our newest Super ePartner,
Foundry Networks,
one of the world's leading next-generation networking companies.
Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Foundry Networks is a leading
provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider
switching, routing and Web traffic management solutions. Foundry's
5,000 customers include the world's premier ISPs, Metro service
providers, and enterprises including e-commerce sites, universities,
entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial,
and manufacturing companies. Our primary contact will be alumnus
and Foundry Networks CEO, Bobby Johnson. Please join us in
welcoming Bobby and Foundry Networks to the ePartners Program!
Departmental Research Grants & Gifts (1/31/2003)
Welcome to new Corporate Friends, Bally Refrigerated Boxes
and Shark Technology Inc. Both are new sponsors of
Sr. Design Center projects this semester. In total, 18 project
teams are being sponsored this spring by many of our ePartners
and repeat sponsors including Network Appliance, EMC,
John Deere, Intel, I-cubed, Fujitsu,
Duke Energy, and Red Hat. Each sponsorship is
valued at $5,000. Thanks to all our project sponsors! Corporate
Friend, Lucent Technologies has pledged a $2,000 unrestricted
gift to the department and a $500 sponsorship of the Women
in Computer Science (WICS) program. Apple Computer recently
provided a $1,000 cash gift in sponsorship of both the Women
in Computer Science (WICS) program and the upcoming Triangle
High School Programming Competition (THSPC). In addition,
they will be providing equipment to support the programming
competition.
New Faculty Member Announcement (1/31/2003)
We are pleased to announce that Dr.
Steffen Heber has accepted our offer to join the Bioinformatics
Program and the Department of Computer Science. He comes to
us from the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla,
CA where he currently serves as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.
He will join us in late spring, and will have offices in both
the BRC and Computer Science. Although his primary teaching
will be in Bioinformatics, he will also teach in Computer
Science. Dr. Heber's recruitment is yet another example of
successful interdisciplinary efforts taking place on campus,
and how ePartners funding allows us to attract the very best
talent in the field.
Computer Gaming More Than Child's Play (1/31/2003)
From heroic epics of old to this winter’s blockbuster
movies, everyone loves a story. How we experience and enjoy
stories, or narratives, has a lot to do with our own cognitive
processes and how we understand the physical and social rules
at work in the world around us. According to Dr.
R. Michael Young, assistant professor of computer
science at NC State University, computers can contribute to
the process of helping people understand narratives and social
context. Young directs the Liquid Narrative research group,
a collection of collaborating professors, graduate students
and undergraduates working to apply artificial intelligence
(AI) computer programs to the construction of interactive
narratives. To read the entire online article, click
here. BBC News also recently featured an article on Dr.
Young's work, which can be found here.
NOTE: Dr. Young was also featured recently in an article
in the News & Observer. This Q&A type article
focuses on Dr. Young's research efforts to build artificial
intelligence into games so that "users get movielike
stories. With such technology, for example, a game could adjust
to a player's actions and provide a different experience every
time it is played."
Oxford English Dictionary Credits NCSU CS Professor for
New Term (1/31/2003)
The Oxford English Dictionary recently honored Dr.
Robert D. Rodman, professor of computer science at
NCSU, by giving him the first citation in the definition of
a new entry called “Montague grammar.”
According to the dictionary entry, Montague grammar is “a
linguistic theory which maintains that a grammar is built
up from individual syntactic units, each of which has a corresponding
semantic unit.” The dictionary adds that the term also
is “a description of the grammar of a language in terms
of this theory.” Rodman published the first occurrence
of the term in “Papers in Montague Grammar” in 1972.
Rodman joined the College of Engineering in 1978. Author of
books on linguistics, voice recognition and computer speech
technology, his research interests include computer speaker
identification and automatic lip synchronization of spontaneously
spoken speech.
WICS Supporting CoE Summer Outreach Program (1/31/2003)
This semester, the Women in Computer Science (WICS) plans
to develop a camp curriculum for the College of Engineering's
Summer Outreach Program in Computer Science. These summer
workshops are designed for high school students interested
in pursuing education and careers in computing. To date, the
WICS program has received approximately $5,000 in sponsorship
funding from Super ePartners; Cisco, EMC, Foundry Networks,
John Deere, Intel, Network Appliance, and Progress
Energy, from ePartner; SAS, and from Corporate
Friends; Apple and Lucent Technologies. The
funding we have received from our generous sponsors will assist
us in hosting development workshops, providing course materials
for the summer programs, and promoting the mission of the
WICS organization through outreach. If you would like to become
a named sponsor of the WICS program, contact Ken Tate at (919)
513-4292 or email at tate@csc.ncsu.edu.
Suzanne Gordon Honored as One of 2003's Top 100 IT Leaders
(1/31/2003)
Suzanne
Gordon, an alumna of the CS Dept (BS '75) and vice
president of information technology at SAS Institute, was
recently recognized by Computerworld, IDG's weekly newspaper
for IT leaders, as one of the business world's Premier 100
IT Leaders. The award honors individuals who have creatively
applied technology to execute their organizations' business
strategies. In addition to her BS in Computer Science, Suzanne
also holds a BS in Mathematics ('75) and an MS in Statistics
('80). She has been extremely involved with the university
over the years serving on the Alumni Association Board of
Directors, College of Management Board of Directors, and Caldwell
Scholarship Committee. In 1999, she was honored as the Distinguished
Alumna of the College of Physical and Mathematical Science,
and she is currently a member of the NC State Board of Trustees.
Gordon has also been actively involved in the Department of
Computer Science, where she has been a guest speaker at departmental
functions and a strong supporter of women in technology initiatives.
The entire list of Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders
can be viewed here.
Congratulations Suzanne!
Raif Onvural Named President & CEO of LCI (1/31/2003)
Yet another alum recently featured in an Alumni Spotlight
article, Raif
Onvural, has recently been appointed President & CEO
of Litchfield Communications Inc. (LCI) in Watertown, CT.
Prior to joining LCI, Onvural founded Orologic and eventually
sold it to Vitesse Semiconductor in RTP, NC, where he remained
as an executive until last year. Onvural graduated from NCSU
with an MS in Computer Studies ('85) and a PhD in Operations
Research ('87). Click here
to access LCI's news release on Onvural's appointment.
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