Independent Colleges of Computing Embrace New Era In an era where information powers, a growing number of higher-learning institutions have responded to the rapid growth of computer and information sciences by creating an independent College or School of Computing CS Professor Mubarak Shah Elected to Fellow of the IEEE On November, 17, 2002, the Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) conferred upon Mubarak Shah, Professor of Computer Science, the elite honor of IEEE Fellow. Shah's election to Fellow came with the citation: "For contributions to motion-based recognition and shape from shading in computer vision." IEEE - a technical professional association of more than 377,000 individual members in 150 countries - designates only about 0.1 percent of its membership to Fellow. SEECS Conference and Journal Publications Society of Women Engineers Chapter Wins First Place in Three National Awards UCF's dynamic and talented student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) was rewarded for its excellence and hard work at the 2002 National SWE Conference in October. At the conference, held in Detroit, Michigan, UCF's SWE chapter earned an impressive first place award in three national competitions.

Independent Colleges of Computing Embrace New Era In an era where information powers, a growing number of higher-learning institutions have responded to the rapid growth of computer and information sciences by creating an independent College or School of Computing. The formation of separate, self-reporting Computing Colleges, once considered an unusual move, is becoming much more common. "Several factors seem to be the impetus for creating separate academic units," states Dr. Peter Freeman, founding Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. "A compelling one is the synergy in curriculum and research that can be obtained by pulling together the various computing-related disciplines." Click here for past Issues

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