In December, The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) appointed Henning Schulzrinne (Ph.D. '92) as Chief Technology Officer. He will advise on matters across the agency to ensure that FCC policies are driving technological innovation, including serving as a resource to FCC Commissioners. Schulzrinne is Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Mathematical Methods and Computer Science and Professor of Engineering at The Fu Foundation School of Engineering at Columbia University. He has been an Engineering Fellow at the FCC since 2010. This fall, Schulzrinne also received the IEEE William Terry Lifetime Distinguished Service Award.
A number of CS alums and current faculty had their publications included in the recent list of SIGSOFT Top 10 Most Cited Articles. Alexander Wolf (Ph.D. '85) and co-author were listed #1 for "Foundations for the study of software architecture," James Corbett (Ph.D. '92), Matthew Dwyer (Ph.D. '95), and co-authors were second for "Bandera: extracting finite-state models from Java source code," Peri Tarr (Ph.D. '96), former Sr. Research Fellow Stanley Sutton, and co-authors were third for "N degrees of separation: multi-dimensional separation of concerns," Prof. Leon Osterweil was seventh for "Software processes are software too," and Matthew B. Dwyer, Prof. George S. Avrunin, and James C. Corbett were eight for "Patterns in property specifications for finite-state verification."
CIIR Alum Giridhar Kumaran (Ph.D. '08) and his wife Ramya Vaidyanathan announced the birth of their son Pranav Giridhar, born on September 1st.
This fall, Mario Barrenechea (B.S. '11) was on the winning team of the Winward Code War Contest held at the University of Colorado Boulder where he is currently a graduate student.