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Collins Named CoE DEA Award Winner
(10/30/2003)
 Congratulations
to CSC alumnus, Keith Collins (BS '82), for being selected
as one of three winners of the Distinguished Engineering
Alumnus of the Year awards presented this month by the
College of Engineering. The award recognizes our most distinguished
alumni for their outstanding professional contributions and
their ongoing support for the university. Collins has been
a key player in the phenomenal growth and success of SAS Institute,
where he currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer. SAS is the world's largest privately owned
software company. Despite the demands of a hectic travel schedule
and his executive role, he has also maintained a strong and
lasting relationship with the university on a number of fronts.
He has served on the NC State University Engineering Foundation
board of directors, hosted student recruiting events, and
has served as a guest speaker at departmental events and classes.
He is a founding member of the Computer Science Department’s
Strategic Advisory Board, and currently serves as its chairperson.
He also played a pivotal role in the establishment of the
SAS Chair in Computer Science. For the complete news release
see, http://www.ncsu.edu/news/press_releases/03_10/307.htm.
Groundbreaking Held for new CSC /ECE Facility
(10/24/2003)
 On
a picture perfect day, the official groundbreaking ceremony
for the new Computer Science / Electrical & Computer Engineering
Building on Centennial Campus was held on Friday, October
24, 2003, at 3:00 pm, on the upper level of the Red Hat parking
deck overlooking the construction site. Approximately 300
alumni, students, faculty, staff, and corporate VIPs attended
this historic event. A reception followed inside the Red Hat
facility, showcasing the new building's design and spotlighting
numerous departmental research highlights and success stories.
Special thanks to Red Hat for the use of their facilities
and to Network Appliance for their generous financial sponsorship
of this event. For more information, please see http://www.ncsu.edu/BulletinOnline/10_03/engineeringII.htm.
Departmental Research Grants, Gifts, and
Support (10/31/2003)
Cisco Systems has renewed its membership as a Super
ePartner, providing the department with an unrestricted $25,000
contribution.
Centennial Campus based Red Hat Inc. recently donated
$12,500 in unrestricted funding to the department, extending
their ePartners membership through the 2003-04 academic year.
Corporate Friend Microsoft Corp. has provided the
department with MS Office Mac Pro 10.0 software valued at
approximately $1,500.
Dr. Frank Mueller's proposal titled "ITR: Collaborative
Research: SPARTA: Static Parametric Timing Analysis to Support
Dynamic Decisions in Embedded Systems" has been funded
by the National Science Foundation for $130,000. The
project will run from September 2003 through August 2006.
Embedded systems with temporal constraints rely on timely
scheduling and a prior knowledge of worst-case execution times.
Static timing analysis derives safe bounds of WCETs but its
applicability has been limited to hard real-time systems and
small code snippets. Dr. Mueller's project addresses these
limitations of timing analysis for embedded systems. It contributes
a novel approach to program analysis through parametric techniques
of static timing analysis and provides innovative methods
for exploiting them. The broader impact is to increasingly
expose students to embedded systems and to provide essential
temporal assurances, which are a prerequisite for applying
the results to hard and soft real-time scheduling for embedded
systems.
Drs. Doug Reeves' and Peng Ning's proposal titled
"Tracing Attacks Through Non-Cooperative Networks and
Stepping Stones with Timing-Based Watermarking" has been
funded for a 5-month period for $119,310 by the ARDA (Advanced
Research and Development Agency), a funding arm of the
intelligence community. If the ARDA exercises all of its options,
the total funding could grow to over $1M. Attack attribution
is the attempt to identify the source of an attack, so that
appropriate defenses can be put in place, and so the attacker
can be prosecuted or quarantined. Many approaches are possible
and have been tried. Most are not effective across proxies,
gateways, and stepping stones (intermediate hosts used for
staging attacks). Drs. Reeves and Ning propose an approach
based on packet timing characteristics. Their method embeds
in packet timing a subtle watermark for this purpose. The
watermark uses no bandwidth, can be made almost arbitrarily
robust, and is difficult to detect without knowledge of the
parameters of the watermark embedding scheme. The project
will also investigate implementation and deployment issues
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According to Ginger McGlamery, our Contracts and Grants
Manager, the department has received ten new sponsored
research awards since the start of the fiscal year on July
1st! These awards total $3,056,007 in committed funding
from external sponsoring agencies, bringing our total current
research funding to approximately $14 Million.
Faculty/Staff News (10/31/2003)
Marshall Brain recently announced that he would be
stepping down as Assistant to the Department Head at the end
of October, to focus more time on his "HowStuffWorks"
business commitments. The good news is that he will continue
to work with the Department as a volunteer. Marshall is also
working with our freshman Parks Scholar, Jordan O'Mara,
on developing web pages to garner the interest of prospective
undergraduate students.
Effective November 1st, Ron Hartis assumes a new role
within the department as Director of Operations. In this role,
created as a result of David Thuente's migration to the role
of Director of Graduate Programs and Marshall Brain's departure,
Ron will provide mission critical operational support for
the department such as working with the faculty client committee
to oversee the move to Centennial Campus.
Congratulations to our webmaster and systems programmer extraordinaire,
Carlos Benavente, for being selected as a College of
Engineering Pride of the Wolfpack Award winner in October.
Special thanks to Dr. Robert Fornaro for his outstanding
leadership and service as Director of Undergraduate Programs
for the department for the past 6 & 1/2 years. Bob recently
announced that he will step down from that position effective
January 1, 2004 to concentrate on the Senior Design Center
and his research in the use of wireless motes. Bob's outstanding
leadership and commitment to our students, our department
and our University during this period are greatly appreciated.
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Wurman and three of his
PhD students for having their paper titled "An Algorithm
for Computing the Outcome of Combinatorial Auctions with Proxy
Bidding" receive a best paper award at the International
Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC-03) held recently
in Pittsburgh. The paper was written by Dr. Wurman, Gangshu
Cai, Jie Zhong, and Ashish Sureka.
Congratulations to Dr. Douglas Reeves, who has received
the Professional Engineer of the Year Award as an "outstanding
alumnus" of the Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Department of the Speed Scientific School at the University
of Louisville.
Dr. Peng Ning's book (co-authored with Sushil Jajodia
and X. Sean Wang) entitled "Intrusion Detection in Distributed
Systems: An Abstraction-Based Approach" has been published
by Kluwer Academic Publishers in the Advances in Information
Security Series
SAS Sponsors New Communications Initiative
(9/30/2003)
 Be
on the lookout for major changes to the ePartners Update in
the next few months. Thanks to a $5,000 grant provided by
SAS Institute's Publication Marketing Group, our departmental
enewsletter will migrate to a new HTML format allowing for
a more dynamic and powerful display of content. In addition,
we will expand our distribution list to include all CSC alumni.
The department will continue to publish Connected, our a bi-annual
paper newsletter, however this increased focus on providing
more timely news via email will allow us to be more strategic
in the news features provided in print. We trust that you
will see great value in these changes. As always, your comments
and suggestions are welcome.
Shelton Leadership Forum - Nov. 13 &
14 (9/30/2003)
 Make
your plans to attend the General Henry Hugh Shelton Leadership
Forum to be held Nov. 13 & 14 at the McKimmon Conference
& Training Center on the campus of NC State University.
Scheduled keynote presenters include General Hugh Shelton,
Dr. G. Thomas Houlihan, and Dr. Stephen Covey.
For more information or to register for this special event,
click
here.
Priority 'Naming Rights' for ePartners
(7/25/2003)
 The
official groundbreaking ceremony for our new 100,000 sq. ft,
$41M state-of-the-art teaching and research facility on Centennial
Campus is tentatively planned for October 24th. At the same
time, we plan to launch the official Naming Rights Campaign.
While the details of this campaign are still being finalized,
we expect naming opportunities to range from $25,000 to over
$1M. Premiere naming spaces include an expansive atrium and
a series of terraces designed to host events of all sizes,
as well as labs, classrooms, conference rooms, and faculty
offices. Our ePartners will have priority naming rights opportunities.
More information will be released officially on this campaign
in the coming months, but if you have questions or would like
more information, please contact Ken Tate at 919-513-4292
or tate@csc.ncsu.edu.
University Names New Diversity Leader
(10/31/2003)
Dr. Jose Picart joined the NCSU faculty on October
1st as vice provost for diversity and African-American affairs.
He brings with him an impressive list of achievements and
a demonstrated commitment to enhancing the academic experience
of all students through diversity programs and partnerships.
Picart, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, comes to NCSU
from the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point,
where he was director of psychology studies and co-chaired
the USMA Diversity Working Group. He was chosen for the post
from a field of more than 150 applicants in a national search.
You also can read more about him at www.ncsu.edu/news/press_releases/03_09/275.htm.
Major Gift to Launch Construction of Alumni
Center (10/31/2003)
On Sept. 29, Chancellor Marye Anne Fox announced that Dorothy
Dent Park of Ithaca, N.Y., has given $5 million to the NC
State Alumni Association’s Campaign for Excellence. The
gift will help fund the new Alumni Center, an integral part
of the Alumni Association's plans for the future. In recognition
of Park’s gift, the new center will be named The Dorothy
and Roy Park Alumni Center. Dorothy Park is a native of Raleigh,
attended Peace College and graduated from Meredith College.
The widow of Roy H. Park '31, one of NC State’s most
illustrious alumni, she is the chair of the Park Foundation,
founded by her late husband. “The Park Alumni Center
will be among the nation’s finest alumni centers, offering
elegance, warmth, accessibility and all the conveniences of
modern technology,” says Chancellor Fox. “It will
be a fitting tribute to Dorothy and Roy’s vision, and
of their enduring support and love for NC State.” To
read more about the Alumni Center gift, visit http://www.cgibin.ncsu.edu/alumni-bin/article.pl?a=200309291.
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