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Alum Matters:

Read our Alumni Newsletter, Alum Matters, to keep current on the latest Alum news. Alum Matters is included in the Department newsletter, Significant Bits. We hope that the newsletter is both informative and enjoyable reading.

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Alum News and Announcements:

• The Fourth Annual University of Massachusetts Amherst Computer Science Department Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Award (OAA) program award celebration will be held on campus on May 4, 2012.  More details.
• Join us on Facebook (group name: UMASS CS) and LinkedIn (group name: UMass Amherst Dept. of Computer Science).

Recent News:

• Bruce MacLeod (Ph.D. '89) develops cell phone technology for health care delivery in Ghana 
• Alum Connections - Winter 2012: Latest news on our alums
• David W. Stemple Scholarship in Computing Established
• Computer Science Ph.D. Alums (AY 2010-2011)
• Read about all the Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Award (OAA) Recipients.
• Alum Connections - Summer 2011: Latest news on our alums
• 2011 Oustanding Achievement and Advocacy Awards banquet held in May
• Nilanjan Banerjee (Phj.D. '09), Asst. Prof. at the University of Arkansas, received an NSF CAREER Award for his work on "System Support for Renewable Energy-driven Devices."
• Rahul Simha (Ph.D. '90), Prof. at George Washington University, was named the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Professor of the Year for the District of Columbia.
  

Less Recent News:

• Eric Brown (Ph.D. '96) and Watson take on Jeopardy! challenge
• David Miller (M.S. '06) chosen as one of Final Two on Fox TV's Master Chef Competition.
• Two people receive kidney transplants in a pilot program using CMU Professor Tuomas Sandholm's (Ph.D. '96) software
• Alum Connections (Fall 2010): Jody Daniels (PhD '97) nominated for promotion to rank of Brigadier General, Jay Corbett and Matthew Dwyer receive ICSE Most Influential Paper Award, Steve Vinter named to Board of Directors; Jay Bolgatz named VP of Engineering & Delivery, Richard Resnick appointed CEO, and Tom Wagner appointed Senior VP and CTO.
• Recent Ph.D. Alums (AY 2009-2010)
• 2010 Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Awards Banquet held in April
• Using Algorithms to pick winning NFL coaches
• Alum Connections (Spring 2010): (John Cavazos receives NSF CAREER Award; Matthew Cornell publishes time management guide; Adam Williams creates top iPhone/iPod Touch App)
• Recent Ph.D. Alums (AY 2008-2009)
• Alum Connections (Fall 2009): (Microsoft appoints Steve Sinofsky as President of Windows and Windows Live division; Anita Raja promoted to Assoc. Professor and gets married; Ben Carterette received Best Paper Award; Evan Smith in med school)
• Bryant York (Ph.D. '81) Retrospective
• CIIR holds Reunion at ACM SIGIR Conference
• Michael Franklin's career spans academia and industry
• All in the Franklin family
• Alum Connections Spring 2009
• Alston named Vice President
• Daniel Barrett Publishes MediaWiki
• Steve Beckhardt Named as Founding Member of Advisory Board for Virtual Iron Software
• A. Podgurski Featured in Science Daily
• Brent Heeringa Awarded a NSF Grant
• Sandholm Named ACM Fellow
• The First Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Awards Banquet was held on May 1, 2009 to honor our award recipients and celebrate the Department's 45th anniversary. View details on the award recipients and see photos from the events held that day.
• Call For Nominations - CS Alum Award Program
• CS Alum Award Program Initiated
• Alum Researcher Focus (Fall '08): Robert Jacobs
• Jennifer Neville Selected as on of “AI’s 10 to Watch.”
• Amy McGovern Receives NSF CAREER Grant
• CIIR Alums Awarded Best Paper
• Ravi Ravindran Promoted
• Where Have they Gone? Careers of our Ph.D. students who have graduated within the past year.

Where are they Now?

• View the careers of our CS Ph.D. graduates from 1972 to today.

Events:

• Save the date for the 4th Annual Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Awards. The 2012 banquet will be held on May 4, 2012.
• The Third Annual Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Awards Banquet was held in the Mullins Center on May 6, 2011.
• A well-attended and fun-filled Alum Social was held at Google in Cambridge, MA on Thursday, March 4, 2010.
• The Second Annual Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Awards Banquet was on campus on April 30, 2010.
• The First Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Awards Banquet was held in the Mullins Center Massachusetts Room on May 1, 2009.
• Our 2007 Computer Science Homecoming was held on Friday, October 19, 2007. During the event, we celebrated the 35th Anniversary of our Ph.D. program, and celebrated the retirement of Distinguished University Professor Arnold Rosenberg.
• The Department held its 2006 Computer Science Homecoming on Friday, October 20, 2006.  A celebration to honor Professor Allen Hanson and Professor Emeritus Edward Riseman was held during homecoming.
• The Department held its 2005 Computer Science Homecoming on Friday, October 14, 2005.

Department Chairs Reunite

All of the Computer Science current and former department chairs (since the inception of the Ph.D. program) gathered together during the 2005 annual fall CS homecoming event. Left to right: Arnold Rosenberg ('92 - '93, acting chair), Edward Riseman ('81 - '85), Andrew Barto ('04, acting chair; '07 - present), Michael Arbib ('70 - '75), David Stemple ('94 - '98), Jim Kurose ('98 - '01), Robert Graham ('75 - '81), Rick Adrion ('86 - '94), Bruce Croft ('01 - '07), and Connie Wogrin ('85 - '86, acting chair). Not shown: J.A.N. Lee ('64 - '69, pre-CS Ph.D. program).

Job Opportunities:

• Visit the Department's job posting site for career opportunities.

We Want to Hear from You:

If you have any comments, suggestions, or information for our Alumni page or for Alum Matters, please email us at alumni [at] cs [dot] umass [dot] edu. We hope you will visit this page -- and the Department web site -- often for new information about CS Alumni activities.

Please remember to keep your address information up-to-date with the UMass Alumni Association. We get all our address information (USPS and email) from their database. You can also send contact information updates directly to us at alumni [at] cs [dot] umass [dot] edu.