[ OWL profiled on Apple site The Center for Computer-Based Instructional Technology's Online Web-based Learning (OWL) project is described on Apple Computer's "Profiles in Success" Web site.

[ Mark Corner and Andrew McCallum join CS faculty

Mark Corner joined the Department as an Assistant Professor this fall. His research focuses on the performance, security, and usability of mobile computing systems.
Andrew McCallum began this fall as an Associate Professor. His research interests include natural language processing, information extraction, Web mining, and finite-state models.

[ Faculty awarded four NSF ITR grants - CS faculty are collaborating on more than $11 million in grants from the NSF on ITR projects which include research in marine science, next generation high-performance passive network infrastructure, peer-to-peer networking theory, and novel statistical models for information extraction and data mining.

[ The Department: Then and Now - Professor Rick Adrion reflects on the past and present of the Department of Computer Science.

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[ Department collaborates on $40 million NSF ERC - Computer Science faculty are playing a major role in UMass Amherst's new Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA).

[ Tic-tac-toe with DNA - CS Alumnus Darko Stefanovic (Ph.D. '99) and his collaborators developed a molecular automaton that can play tic-tac-toe.

[ Towsley accepts NSM award - Distinguished University Professor Don Towsley received the Outstanding Faculty Award for Research at the Natural Science and Mathematics (NSM) fall convocation.

[ Professor Edward Riseman Retires - After 34 years with UMass, Ed Riseman retired this fall. He was instrumental in the establishment and success of the Department's Vision Laboratory, which he co-directed with Professor Al Hanson.

[ The Analytic Web - The Analytic Web project, funded by the NSF ITR program, is investigating computer support for web-based scientific processes.

[ Robotics team explores uses of Segway - The Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics is developing control software for producing an autonomous version of the Segway Human Transporter.

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