December 9, 2002

Course Time Change:

Please note a time change for COS 522 (Computational Complexity): now Wednesday 11:00-12:20 and Friday 10:30-11:50.

November 22, 2002

New Course Announcement

CS491: Information Technology and the Law
Taught by Ed Felten
M 1:30-4:20. Please see this page for more information.
Note: this course did not appear in the Course Offerings publication.

November 6, 2002

We would like to welcome Robert Schapire to the department! Professor Schapire will be joining the faculty in December.

November 4, 2002

Grad Student Profiles Added
We've just added a section to the web site that will allow you to browse the employment profiles of graduate students nearing completion. Click on the link "Profiles - Finishing Grads" in the menu bar to the left under "People".

October 18, 2002

Congratulations to Prof. Bernard Chazelle on his election to the European Academy of Sciences for "outstanding and lasting contribution to computer science and fundamental developments in the field of computational geometry."

October 3, 2002

We want to welcome our visiting Industrial Affiliates, here for our annual Fall Meeting.

September 30, 2002

Fall Industrial Affiliates Meeting this Thursday!

September 5, 2002

Fall 2002 - New Courses (not in Course Offerings)

COS 526 Advanced Computer Graphics (Funkhouser)
COS 597C Scalable Internet Services (JP Singh)
COS 597D A Theorist's Toolkit (Arora)

August 28, 2002

Welcome and Welcome Back!
We want to welcome everyone back, and a special welcome to new students! We hope you had a good summer.

Here are some Calendar reminders:

Tues, Sept 3 - Fri, Sept 6: English Language Program Orientation for new foreign students.

Mon, Sept 9:

• On-line registration for all graduate students.
• Department orientation for new grad students. Room 402, at 2PM.
• Departmental welcome back picnic for faculty, staff, visitors, grad students. Starts at 4:30PM, Broadmead Field

Tues, Sept 10:

• Graduate School Orientation for new graduate students.
• Undergraduate Orientation, 4-5:00pm in the Tea Room (2nd floor, CS building).

Wed, Sept 11: First year graduate students complete registration. Dillon Gym, 2-4:30PM

Thu, Sept 12: First day of classes

June 13, 2002

Congratulations to Subhash Khot, who has been awarded an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship for 2002-03. Subhash is a member of the theory group, and his advisor is Sanjeev Arora.

June 4, 2002

Congratulations to the Computer Science and Program in Applications of Computing Class of 2002!

May 23, 2002

Yaoping Ruan has been awarded the Friends of the International Center Excellence in Teaching Award as part of the APGA Teaching Awards. This award is made "to an international student who has contributed to inter-cultural understanding and manifested excellence in (undergraduate) teaching". Yaoping was an AI for COS 318 and COS 320 this year. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Amal Ahmed who has been awarded the George Von Ness Lothrop Fellowship in Engineering for the 2002-03 academic year. This award is one of the University Honorific Fellowships given each year by the Graduate School to students in their final year of graduate work. The honorific fellowships recognize outstanding performance and professional promise and represent high commendation from the Graduate School.

April 15, 2002

Thank you everyone for coming to our Spring Annual Meeting
of the Industrial Affiliates Program

February 21, 2002

Congratulations to Brian Kernighan, who has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to software and to programming languages".

Read the University press release here.

February 8, 2002

Hearty congratulations to Professor Mona Singh on her presidential early career award!

February 1, 2002

New Course Announcements:

COS 493: Algorithms for Massive Data Sets.
Taught by Moses Charikar
TTh 1:30-2:50. Please see this page for more information.

COS 598E: Foundations of Language-Based Security. Taught by David Walker
MW 1:30-2:50. Please see this page for more details.

January 29, 2002

Please Note: The correct schedule for COS 522 is MW 11:00-12:20. The time listed in the course offerings is incorrect.