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News + Awards
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(Tue May 8, 2012)
The Department celebrated the accomplishments of this year's Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Award winners along with undergraduate and graduate student award recipients during a banquet held at the UMass Campus Center Amherst Room on Friday, May 4, 2012. Over 90 people joined us for the celebration.
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(Fri May 4, 2012)
To recognize their remarkable accomplishments of graduates of the Department's degree programs and to acknowledge the support of important friends of the department, the Department established the University of Massachusetts Amherst Computer Science Department Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Award (OAA) program, under which awards will be presented annually in various categories.
The fourth annual Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Awards Banquet will be held on the evening of Friday, May 4, 2012 in the Amherst Room of the UMAss Amherst Campus Center.
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(Tue April 24, 2012)
The UMass Amherst Center for Teaching & Faculty Development named Assistant Professor Andrew McGregor as a Lilly Teaching Fellow for the 2012-2013 academic year. The competitive Lilly Teaching Fellowships enable promising junior faculty to cultivate teaching excellence in a special year-long initiative.
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(Tue April 24, 2012)
On April 28, 2012, a "Girls Connect" event organized by the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) will be held in the CS department with dozens of middle school girls learning to build and program LEGO Mindstorms NXT robots.
More on the event: http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/newsreleases/articles/152225.php
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(Mon April 23, 2012)
Associate Professor Gerome Miklau will receive the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award at the Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (ACM PODS) for the 2002 paper "Containment and Equivalence for an XPath Fragment" written by Miklau and co-author Dan Suciu.
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(Tue April 3, 2012)
UMass Amherst CS graduate student Peter Krafft and undergraduate student Evan Shelhamer received 2012 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Graduate student Ben Mears received Honorable Mention in the competition. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are in the early stages of their graduate study.
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(Mon April 2, 2012)
In an issue of Neural Computation, Associate Professor Hava Siegelmann and her post-doctoral research colleague Jeremie Cabessa report on their research to develop an adaptable computational system that learns and evolves, using input from the environment in a way much like our brains do. View full details.
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(Wed March 28, 2012)
In March, the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) and "Georgia Computes!" showcased their work at a poster session in the atrium of the NSF headquarters in Arlington, VA. The two groups, statewide alliances funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Broadening Participation in Computing program, were part of a reverse
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(Tue March 27, 2012)
Ph.D. alum Amy McGovern ('02) is researching tornado formation to better predict when and where tornadoes will form. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation. Read the full article on the NSF site. McGovern is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma. While at UMass Amherst, McGovern was advised by Prof.
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