11/30/2004 -The Center for Information Assurance and Security (CIAS) has been founded at The University of Texas at Austin to address the nation's growing cybersecurity problems. Dr. Frederick R. ChangPrimary center objectives are conducting research that will lead to innovative cybersecurity solutions and addressing the national need to produce more trained professionals in the field.
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11/08/2004 -On November 8, 2004 Department of Computer Sciences (UTCS) faculty, graduate students, FoCS members and other guests attended the Fall 2004 Visions of Computer Sciences Lectures.
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09/20/2004 -The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences (UTCS) Friends of Computer Sciences (FoCS) 2004 Honors Brunch was held in conjunction with the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) Career Expo on September 20, 2004.
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09/15/2004 -"It is with great sadness that I report that John Werth died peacefully at home on Wednesday, September 15, 2004, after a struggle with cancer. John's dedication to Computer Sciences education and research were rivalled only by his warmth and support of students and colleagues. His loss is felt keenly by his family and friends everywhere. We will miss him." -J Strother Moore Chair, Computer Sciences
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09/03/2004 -Simon S. Lam, professor and Regents Chair in Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has received the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) Award for lifetime contribution to the field of communications networks.
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08/31/2004 -At the Postel Center, Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan will be studying the histories of ARPAnet and Internet design using the Postel Center Archives -- housing documents written as far back as the 1960s -- as well as by interviewing key people in the initial development of the Internet.
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08/30/2004 -Dr. Frederick R. Chang will take the position of Research Professor at The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Computer Sciences (UTCS).
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08/25/2004 -Sugato Basu, Misha Bilenko and Ray Mooney won the SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award for their paper "A Probabilistic Framework for Semi-supervised Clustering," presented at KDD2004, "the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining."
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08/01/2004 -From July 25 to July 31, 45 young high-school women attended the 2004 First Bytes Summer Camp where they explored computer science. At the camp, they had the opportunity to learn that "computer science is more than video games."
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07/09/2004 -For his paper entitled "Diverse Firewall Design" co-authored with Dr. Mohamed G. Gouda, UTCS Graduate Student Alex X. Liu received the 2004 William C. Carter Award.
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06/12/2004 -The June 9, 2004 edition of the @Texas Newsletter announced that UT is home to 29 of the most highly cited researchers in the world by the Institute for Scientific Information. Among those listed are two UTCS faculty, Dr. E. Allen Emerson and Dr. Jayadev Misra.
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06/07/2004 -In a recent article entitled "Fired Up for the Supercomputer Derby", Business Week highlighted the TRIPS technology along with the other competitors in the contest.
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05/28/2004 -NVIDIA has awarded CS Ph.D. student Gregory Johnson a 2004 International Fellowship Award "for his work in Computer Graphics and Visualization" as noted in the TACC's fellowship announcement.
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05/07/2004 -The Department of Computer Sciences presents the Visions of Computer Sciences Research Lectures featuring Dr. Jim Browne and Dr. Simon Lam. The Visions Lectures honor both professors for recent awards.
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05/07/2004 -We are proud to announce UTCS Ph.D. Graduate Seth Pettie received an Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2003-2004 for his dissertation titled "On the Shortest Path and Minimum Spanning Tree Problems" written under the supervision of Vijaya Ramachandran.
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