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[ David
Stemple (1937 - 2006)  -
Professor Emeritus David Stemple died on March 22
after a long battle with cancer.
[ Three
CS faculty receive
NSF CAREER awards    -
Assistant Professors Oliver Brock, Deepak Ganesan, and
Erik Learned-Miller
have each received five-year NSF CAREER awards, the NSF’s
most prestigious award for new faculty members.
[ Barto
named IEEE Fellow -
 Professor
Andrew Barto among a select group of recipients
for one of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers'
most prestigious honors, the IEEE Fellow.
[ Weather
tracking radar network developed  -
Distinguished Professor Jim Kurose and the CASA team are working on a system
that could transform the way people monitor weather and track storms.
[ New
information theory course -
Asst. Professor Erik Learned-Miller applies information theory to real
data and practical problems in new course.
[ CS
student on NPR's Sunday Weekend Edition -
NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzed UMass Amherst CS undergraduate Jeff
Terrace during the national Sunday radio show on Nov. 27.
[ Other
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[ Two
CIIR students named Microsoft Fellows -
Microsoft selected CIIR graduate students Aron Culotta and
Don Metzler as 2006 Microsoft Research Fellows.
[ Olsen
receives Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship -
Graduate student Megan Olsen is one of only 19 students to
receive the scholarship.
[ Popplestone
memorial endowment established  -
Endowment funds will support a "Popplestone Fellow" each year, thanks
to contributions from Professor Emeritus Robin Popplestone's
wife Kristin Morrison.
[  Anandan
named Distinguished Alumnus
- CS Alumnus P. Anandan will receive a Distinguished
Alumni Award during Massachusetts State House ceremonies.
[ A
stimulating idea  -
Professor Andrew Barto's work is the basis of research being
done by neuroscientists around the world.
[ High
tech teaching -
Assoc. Professor Eliot Moss adds new high tech equipment to his classroom
presentations.
[ Ph.D.
alumni -- from 1974 until today -
See where all of our Ph.D. alumni are in located in their new careers.
[ Undergrad
develops STORM -
 Undergrad Matt Marzilli's STORM prototype is being used by the National
Mediation Board.
[ Goldwater
Scholarship recipient -
Marzilli (see news link above) also received a prestigious national
Goldwater Scholarship.
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