Threads 2007

Threads is the official newsletter of the Department of Computer Science, published once each semester

• Chair's Message (Pankaj Agarwal)
• Welcome new secondary faculty Romit Roy Choudhury and Mauro Maggioni
• Welcome new adjunct faculty Rob Fowler
• New grants awarded
• John Reif named chair of 2007 Gödel prize selection committee
• Susan Rodger reappointed
• Bruce Donald awarded Bass Chair
• Shivnath Babu and Richard Lucic receive IBM faculty award
• Forest dynamics: modeling and computation
• Beyond virtual data centers
• New course explores the Google view
• Student profile: Laura Grit
• Student publications/presentations
• Keep in touch
• Students attend Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
• December 2006 graduates
• Graduate awards for the 2005-2006 academic year
• National Undergraduate Research Awards
• C-SURF
• Welcome new Computer Science students
• ACM Gamers' Paradise
• ACM Programming Contest
• TechConnect 2006
• Staff Award given to Richard Braun

• Chair's Message (Pankaj Agarwal)
• Alvin Lebeck promoted to Full Professor
• Ronald Parr promoted to Associate Professor
• Hebert Edelsbrunner receives mentoring award
• Alexander Hartemink receives teaching award
• Vincent Conitzer receives distinguished dissertation award
• Shivnath Babu receives NSF Award
• New grants awarded
• COPSE (Concurrent Opportunistic Sensor Environment)
• GAANN Fellows Program
• Susan Rodger receives NSF and IBM funding
• Keep in touch
• Grad student profile: Dmitriy Morozov
• Undergrad alumnae profile: Beth Trushkowsky and Tiffany Chen
• Recent Graduates
• Undergraduate awards
• From application to orientation
• Welcome new Computer Science students
• Undergrads receive Google scholarships
• Student publications/presentations
• Honorary degree awarded to computer scientist Anita Jones
• Frontiers 2007
• RoboCupJunior competition held at Duke
• New computational economics minor