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Raytheon Co. Supports SEECS

Anthony Sagardia (right), UCF Campus Manager for Raytheon Co., presents Erol Gelenbe (left), SEECS Director and Associate Dean, with a $10,000 check made out to the UCF Foundation. Raytheon approved our SEECS request for funding to support the integration of computer and network security into the SEECS curriculum.
Erol Gelenbe, SEECS Director and Associate Dean, was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the French journal Annales des Telecommunications. He was also the focus of an interview article in the Association for Computing Machinery publication Ubiquity. The article, entitled, "Talking with Erol Gelenbe," is found in Vol. 3, Issue 2 (dated Feb. 26 - Mar. 4, 2002) or online at: www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/e_gelenbe_1.html.

Christine Lisetti, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, was interviewed about her research in Artificial Intelligence for a story entitled, "Why is that Computer Laughing?" The article appeared in the Sept.-Oct. 2001 issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems.

Mubarak Shah, Professor of Computer Science, was the Organizer of the NSF REU Principal Investigator Meeting, Orlando, FL, Jan. 14, 2002. Previously he was Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Combined Research-Curriculum Development in Computer Vision, Dec. 10, 2001, Kauai, HI. He was Session Chair at the Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 24, 2002. Shah was also featured in the article, "Better Get to Work, Your Computer Could be Watching," which appeared in the Nov. 5, 2001 issue of InformationWeek. A story about his research also appeared in the Nov. 3, 2001 edition of New Scientist.

J.S. Yuan, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, was appointed in 2001 as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability.


seecs network - issue 2 - spring 2002

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