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Honors, Awards & Recognitions — 2012 Spring

Jeff Chase had a 2003 paper on Cluster-on-Demand - which started his work on what is now called cloud computing - chosen as one of the "20 best papers in 20 years" for the conference in which it appeared, HPDC.
Vince Conitzer was named a Bass Chair and will give a Thomas Langford lecture in the fall.
Vince Conitzer's new journal, ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, is now up and running.
Vince Conitzer is program co-chair of AAMAS'12, the world's premier conference in agents and multiagent systems. The conference is in Valencia, Spain, in June 2012. He is also co-chairing the new IJCAI summer school.
Bruce Donald was awarded the James B. Duke Distinguished Professorship of Computer Science.
Melanie Eberhart, Computer Science Grants and Contracts Administrative Coordinator, graduated from the Research Administration Academy (RAA) on May 30. The RAA is a competetive placement program that features hands-on training in a robust combination of federal compliance and basic grants management functions, and is taught in a progression of courses that take participants through the life cycle of a sponsored project.
Julian Genkins was in the ACM SRC (student research competition) at SIGCSE 2012 in March where he presented a poster and was selected as one of five finalists to also give a presentation.
Alex Hartemink was selected to co-chair a session on "epigenomics" at PSB 2013.
Alex Hartemink will be the director of the CBB program starting in July.
Bruce Maggs was the keynote speaker at the 15th IEEE Global Internet Symposium in Orlando, FL.
Kamesh Munagala and Drew Hilton were ranked among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors at Duke during the 2011 fall semester.
Susan Rodger was a keynote speaker at CWIC 2012 and took seven undergraduates and one high school student with her to the conference.
Dan Sorin was selected for a Bass Chair and named W.H. Gardner Jr. Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

For more achievements, see the alum news page