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		  <title><![CDATA[5/9: CSE Undergrad Nicholas Shaneyfelt Competing in Fischoff National Chamber Music Association Competition]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[5/9/2008:CSE undergrad Nick Shaneyfelt will compete in the first round of the senior strings division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association Competition.For full article, please see South Bend Tribune.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[5/9: CSE PhD Paul Brenner's Green Computing Work Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[5/9/2008:CSE PhD grad Paul Brenner's work on "green computing" is featured in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Paul is currently on the staff of the Center for Research Computing at Notre Dame and a Concurrent Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering.For complete article, please see  this link.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[5/5: Ph.D. Student Steinhaeuser Awarded Travel Grant]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[5/5/2008:Ph.D. student Karsten Steinhaeuser has been awarded a student travel grant for the International Conference on Network Science 2008 (NetSci'08). He will present, "Is Modularity the Answer for Evaluating Community Structure in Networks?", co-authored with advisor Dr. Nitesh Chawla. NetSci'08 will take place from June 23-27, 2008 at Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom.The award is sponsored by the United States Military Academy (USMA).]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[5/5: Andrew Blaich Receives Scholarship to 2008 Apple WWDC]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[5/5/2008:Graduate Student Andrew Blaich has received a scholarship to the 2008 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Apple's WWDC 08 will be held June 9-13 in San Francisco. Scholarship applicants were judged on technical ability, creativity of ideas expressed in products or projects, prior WWDC attendance, technical and work experience.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[5/2: CSE Students Participate in <i>Motorola Labs Challenge</i>]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[5/2/2008:During the Spring of 2008, ten Notre Dame undergraduate students,  under the guidance of Professors Aaron Striegel and Christian Poellabauer, participated in the 2008 Motorola Labs Challenge, a 4  month project to develop novel content sharing applications on WiFi- equipped mobile handheld devices. In conjunction with the Capstone  design course (CSE 40422 - Computer System Design), Motorola Labs  generously provided MC-35 smartphones equipped with Wi-Fi and the initial design requirements.During the challenge, students competed in three teams.  Team 1  consisted of seniors Ryan Gross, Nick Hopf, Patrick McGowan, and Sean  O'Toole; team 2 consisted of senior Jeff Simmer and juniors Ed Suski  and A.J. Sporinsky; team 3 consisted of seniors Kyle Marks, Sean  Murray, and Stephen Woods. Students were tasked with creating design documents, proof of concept builds, and a fully working demo over the  course of the challenge.During the last week of classes, Dr. Shivajit Mohapatra from Motorola  Labs visited Notre Dame to recognize all participants and to present prizes to the most outstanding team (Team 2: Jeff Simmer, Ed Suski,  A.J. Sporinsky). The software developed by the winning team will be demonstrated to researchers and managers at Motorola Labs and both  undergraduate and graduate researchers at Notre Dame will continue to  develop the software and perform field tests (which potentially includes a large-scale test during a soccer game in a stadium in  Mexico).Congratulations to all participants for their outstanding efforts! ]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[5/2: Emrich Receives Zaffrano Prize]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[5/2/2008:Scott Emrich has been selected to receive the Zaffrano Prize for Graduate Student Research given by Iowa State University.  One award is given university-wide each year based on a committee's evaluation  of the quantity and impact of a graduating PhD student's  publications. The award has been given since 1989, and this is the  first time that a Electrical and Computer Engineering or Computer  Science PhD graduate has won the award. Dr. Emrich joined Notre Dame in the fall semester of 2007 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. The award was presented at the Iowa State annual Sigma Xi banquet on May 1. ]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[5/1: CSE Undergraduate Lisa White Receives an Anita Borg Scholarship]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[5/1/2008:In 2003, the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship was established to honor the work of Dr. Anita Borg, a computer scientist who dedicated her professional career to increasing the participation of women and other under-represented minorities in the field of technology.Computer Science major, Lisa White, received a $1,000 Anita Borg Scholarship as a finalist. For full article, please see  Anita Borg Scholarship.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[4/25: Hu and Niemier a Part of MANA]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[4/25/2008:On March 25, 2008 Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels announced the establishment of the Midwest Academy for Nanoelectronics and Architectures (MANA), a new research consortium led by the University of Notre Dame and designed to discover and develop the next nanoscale logic device, which will be the basic building block of future computers.Conventional microelectronic technology has relied on shrinking transistors to produce increasingly smaller, faster and cheaper devices ranging from cell phones and personal music devices to laptop computers. However, because the laws of physics prevent conventional devices from working below a certain size, this method is nearing its physical limits. The continued shrinking of transistors will lead to various problems with electric leakage,power consumption and heat.MANA's mission will be to explore and develop advanced devices, circuits and nanosystems with performance capabilities beyond conventional devices. Direct support for MANA from the public and private sectors and the participating universities will total more than $25 million over three years. Notre Dame also will offer other additional support.Niemier and Hu are part of two efforts associated with the MANA center -- research studying the potential of using nano-scale magnets to represent and process binary information, and an effort to benchmark candidate technologies of interest to the SRC at the circuit and architectural level.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[4/24: CSE Plays Key Role in Grid Heating Initiative]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[4/24/2008:CSE faculty and students have played a key role in the successful deployment of a grid heating prototype at the South Bend Botanical Gardens and Greenhouse unveiled this week on Earth Day by the South Bend City Mayor. Grid Heating is a new technology to dynamically map thermal byproduct from computation to municipal and commerical heat sinks, with direct economic and environmental benefit.CSE researchers have contributed expertise in grid software, molecular simulation, and hardware configuration.  Dr. Paul Brenner has led the grid heating initiative coordinating ND and South Bend scientists, engineers, and staff in the Greenhouse project. Dr. Douglas Thain's CCL has been instrumental in adapting and administering a Condor based distributed compute interface for the Grid Heating deployment.  Dr. Jesus Izaguirre's LCLS has submitted multiple molecular dynamics simulations to the Grid Heating nodes to advance the development of algorithms let by his team member Dr. Christopher Sweet.  To round out the participation two CSE undergraduates Mike Lammie and Mike Kelly have been actively developing novel Grid Heating Appliances designed to capitalize on specific Grid Heating factors.More information is available via the following ND and South Bend press releases: Notre Dame News and South Bend Tribune. ]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[4/22: PhD Candidate Patrick La Fratta Awarded SMART Scholarship for Service]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[4/22/2008:PhD Candidate Patrick La Fratta has been awarded a scholarship from the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program. This program was established by the Department of Defense to support graduate students in science and engineering. It aims to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers working at DoD laboratories. The scholarships are offered to individuals "who demonstrate outstanding ability and special aptitude for a career in scientific and engineering research and product development."Patrick will be sponsored by the Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.  He will continue his studies in high performance computing at AMRDEC through contributions to a project entitled "Optimized Efficiency in Highly Parallel Radar Signal Processing Utilizing SIMD and MIMD Architectures: How to Squeeze Every Ounce of Throughput from the Cell Broadband Engine." Patrick is a PhD student under Dr. Peter Kogge.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[4/4: Software Engineering on <i>Top Five Job</i> Outlook List ]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[4/4/2008:Yahoo's "hotjobs" site has a news item titles "2008 Job Outlook for New Grads and Others."  Five job categories are listed.  Number 2 on the list is "Computer Applications Software Engineers", with the highest listed median income of the five categories.The article is online at:http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-2008_job_outlook_for_new_grads-353.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[4/4: Brockman's Book <i>Introduction to Engineering</i> Published]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[4/4/2008:In his groundbreaking new text "Introduction to Engineering", Jay Brockman helps students develop an engineering mindset, providing them with the core knowledge and skills _all_ engineers need to succeed. This text grew out of a course the author helped develop over the past decade at Notre Dame, and this approach has been field-tested and developed into a model for other schools.To see the homepage for Dr. Brockman's book, please see www.wiley.com/college/sc/brockman.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[4/2: Megan Vance Receives SMART Scholarship]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[4/2/2008:PhD Candidate Megan Vance has been awarded a scholarship from the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program.  This program was established by the Department of Defense to support graduate students in science and engineering. It aims to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers working at DoD laboratories.  The scholarships are offered to individuals "who demonstrate outstanding ability and special aptitude for a career in scientific and engineering research and product development."Megan will be sponsored by the Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg Mississippi, with her work focused on the DoD High Performance Computing Major Shared Resource Center. Megan is currently completing her PhD with Professor Peter Kogge in high-performance computer architecture.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[3/13: Kogge Gives Invited Talk at SIAM Conference]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[3/13/2008:Professor Peter Kogge gave an invited talk titled "The Shape of Things to Come: The Future of Microarchitectures for HPC Systems" at the SIAM 2008 Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing. The conference was held March 12-14 of 2008, in Atlanta, Georgia, and was attended by approximately 500 people. ]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[2/20: Twelve CSE PhDs at May 2007 Graduation]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[2/20/2008:The Department of Computer Science and Engineering awarded the largest annual number of PhD graduates in its history at last May's graduation ceremony.These PhD graduates have taken positions at universities, companies, and national laboratories. For current information on what our grads are doing, see this link.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[2/18: Christley, Madey Journal Paper Given the Status of Highly Accessed in BMC Bioinformatics]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[2/18/2008:Journal paper authored by PhD student Scott Christley, Research Assistant Professor of Biology Neil Lobo and Associate Professor Greg Madey with the title "Multiple Organism Algorithm for Finding Ultraconserved Elements" in BMC Bioinformatics was recently given the status of 'Highly accessed'.  The 'Highly accessed' designation identifies those articles that have been especially highly accessed, relative to their age, and the journal in which they are published.  BMC Bioinformatics is a top-ranked open access journal with an impact factor of 3.62.  The paper has been accessed almost 800 times since first being publicly available on January 11th.  BMC Bioinformatics statistics estimates this as half the actual accesses with the other half performed at the Pubmed Central literature archive.Scott Christley was the Thomas Meurer Graduate Teaching Scholar in the fall semester of 2007, teaching a course in Bioinformatics Computing. The article is available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/15.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[1/30: Cieslak and Chawla paper selected for Best of IEEE ICDM'07]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[1/30/2008:Paper authored by PhD student David Cieslak and Assistant Professor Nitesh Chawla in IEEE ICDM'07 with the title "Detecting Fractures in Classifier Performance" is selected as the Best of IEEE ICDM'07. The paper was recommended for fast- racked review and publication in the Knowledge and Information Systems Journal; the extended version is now accepted to appear in the journal. The journal paper is titled: "A Framework for Monitoring Classifiers' Performance: When and Why Failure Occurs?"Only 2% of the submitted papers were selected in this category. The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) is a premier, top-tier research conference in data mining. More information about the conference, see this link.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[1/22: <a href=http://www.cse.nd.edu/newsletters/2008/January.pdf>January 2008 Department Newsletter</a>]]></title>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[1/9: Striegel and Thain Receive Sun Equipment Grant]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[1/9/2008:Professors Striegel and Thain have received a Sun Academic Excellence Grant (AEG) entitled, "Unified SGD Support for Enterprise Network Management," for approximately $41k worth of equipment and software licenses. The purpose of the equipment will be to create a high-end database node / SunRay server for managing the Lockdown project which is focused on practical enterprise network security management as well as the creation of a new SunRay thin client pool. The new server offers exciting opportunities for the development of Lockdown in terms of application development from an Sun Global Desktop perspective (SunRay thin client) and trust dependency analysis of the SunRay itself from a management perspective. The equipment will enable the development of SGD-friendly tools for visualization of the Lockdown data (Java-based), optimizations focused on the CoolThreads architecture (database), and direct support for SunRay security analyses into Lockdown itself.For more information, see this link.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[1/4: Poellabauer and Striegel Receive $300K NSF Grant for Undergraduate Research]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[1/4/2008:Professors Christian Poellabauer and Aaron Striegel have received an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Site grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project name is "Experimental Research on Wireless Networking (ERWiN)" and will provide ten paid positions for undergraduate researchers each summer over the next three years. The site is the first one being offered by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering as an official NSF REU site.  Participants will choose their research projects from a group of problems described by faculty mentors from both CSE and EE culminating in a final research presentation at the end of the summer.  For more information, see this link. ]]></description>
		
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