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		  <title><![CDATA[10/19: Kogge Named Recipient of IEEE Computer Society 2012 Seymour Cray Award]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[10/19/2012:University of Notre Dame computer science and engineering professor Peter Kogge, developer of the space shuttle I/O processor, the world’s first multi-core processor, and a number of other important innovations has been named the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's 2012 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award. Kogge, the Ted H. McCourtney Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Notre Dame since 1994, was recognized "for innovations in advanced computer architecture and systems." The Seymour Cray Award is one of the IEEE Computer Society's highest awards, and is presented in recognition of innovative contributions to high-performance computing systems that best exemplify Cray's creative spirit. The award consists of a crystal memento, a certificate and honorarium.For complete news release, please see the  Notre Dame website.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[10/4: Notre Dame Leads $1.8M Science Data Preservation Effort]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[10/4/2012:Mike Hildreth, Professor of Physics, Jarek Nabrzyski, Director of the Center for Research Computing and Concurrent Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Douglas Thain, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, are the lead investigators on a project that will explore solutions to the problems of preserving data, analysis software, and how these relate to results obtained from the analysis of large datasets.  Known as Data and Software Preservation for Open Science (DASPOS), it is focused on High Energy Physics data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Fermilab Tevatron. The group will also survey and incorporate the preservation needs of other communities, such as Astrophysics and Bioinformatics, where large datasets and the derived results are becoming the core of emerging science in these disciplines.  The three-year $1.8M program, funded by the National Science Foundation, will include several international workshops and the design of a prototype data and software-preservation architecture that meets the functionality needed by the scientific disciplines.  What is learned from building this prototype will inform the design and construction of the global data and software-preservation infrastructure for the LHC, and potentially for other disciplines.  The multi-disciplinary DASPOS team includes particle physicists, computer scientists, and digital librarians from Notre Dame, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, New York University, and the University of Washington, Seattle.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[10/1: <i>TechRepublic</i> Article Features Computer Science Jobs]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[10/1/2012:Toni Bowers, a writer for TechRepublic (R), recently posted an article entitled, "The Growing Field of Computer Science: Where are the Jobs?" Her article gives an encouraging synopsis of the companies, locations and average salaries concerning Computer Science jobs.For the complete article, see TechRepublic.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/27: Senior Vikram Saraph Wins UPE Scholarship]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/27/2012:CSE is pleased to announce that Senior Vikram Saraph has received one of the scholarships awarded this fall. The Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) site explains that "All scholarship applicants are required to complete a comprehensive application form including a statement on their long-term plans for the profession, a summary of their contributions to their respective UPE chapters and related student activities at their university...and a recommendation from the UPE faculty adviser."For complete announcement, see UPE.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/14: ICeNSA Network Opens Flow of Ideas, Collaboration]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/14/2012:Red lines in the carpet connect the orange and yellow dots in the third-floor Nieuwland Hall headquarters of the University of Notre Dame's Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA), a network of researchers studying networks in the real world.The lines are not limits, but rather connectors to greater knowledge and greater good. iCeNSA is a connector and a hub whose interdisciplinary work and faculty affiliates span computing, science, engineering, mathematics, social science and humanities. Nitesh Chawla of computer science and engineering is director of the center, with co-directors Michael Ferdig of biological sciences, David Hachen of sociology and Zoltan Toroczkai of physics.For full article, see newsinfo.nd.edu.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/7: Blanton Receives NSF Grant]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/7/2012:Professor Marina Blanton has received a three-year research grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "Protecting Privacy of Biometric Data throughout Computation." The award was issued through the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program of the NSF's Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) to Blanton's research group. The project focuses on privacy-preserving mechanisms for computing with sensitive biometric data as such data is being processed in a variety of applications.The project will develop new techniques for securely outsourcing processing of sensitive biometric data to cloud providers and other third parties, as well as securely performing computation over biometric data owned by multiple entities who must protect privacy of their respective data sets.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/7: Chawla Receives Subcontract on a NIH Translational Biomedical Informatics Grant]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/7/2012:On an NIH pilot project, led by the Buck Institute of Aging, Chawla receives a sub-contract to study Parkinson's Disease using informatics and electronic medical records. An increasing focus in translational research has spread across biomedical research. This work is enabled by taking advantage of large integrated datasets of samples, genetics and electronic health records for biomedical investigation.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/6: Toroczkai and Chawla Receive a DARPA Grant on Big Data and Networks]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/6/2012:Professors Toroczkai (Concurrent professor of CSE, Professor of physics and Co-director of iCeNSA) and Chawla (Associate Professor of CSE, director of iCeNSA) receive a grant for DARPA titled, "Ensemble-Based Modeling of Large Graphs and its Applications to Social Networks." The central goal of this proposal is to develop a systematic mathematical approach towards modeling social networks using constrained graph ensembles. As any physical theory, a relevant understanding and modeling of social networks must be rooted in and develop from data. Data not only provides first-hand information, but also serves as a set of constraints on social network models. As data is never complete and is often noisy, there can be a large number of possible network structures obeying the given data. The set of all graphs obeying the empirical data forms a graph ensemble. Bringing together a team of mathematicians, statisticians, data-miners and physicist-modelers, already fused by previous collaborations. This project tackles social network modeling challenges on three main levels: 1) Structural, 2) Dynamical and b) Social context based/game theoretical. For publications and details related to the project: iCensa.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[8/29: Chen Receives NSF and NIH Research Grants]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[8/29/2012:Professor Danny Chen has received a three-year NSF award of $400,000 from the Algorithmic Foundations (AF) Program, Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) of NSF, for a project "AF: Small: Applied and Theoretical Algorithm Problems in Computational Geometry." This project focuses on solving a set of applied geometric problems in medicine (e.g., disease diagnosis and treatment), biology, biomedical imaging, data mining, etc. The target applied problems include geometric covering, shaping, approximation, motion planning, clustering, and matching. The project also studies an array of theoretical problems, which are among the most fundamental tasks in computational geometry, on various optimal paths, visibility, Voronoi diagrams, etc.Professor Chen has also received a four-year NIH grant of over a million dollars, for the project "Combined Multiscale Modeling and Experimental Study of Bacterial Swarming." This is a joint effort with Professors Mark Alber (PI, Concurrent Professor of CSE), Zhiliang Xu in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics and Professor Joshua Shrout in the Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences. This project will develop a multiscale modeling environment for studying bacterial motion and swarming.  The research team will conduct predictive simulations to investigate complex bacterial interactions that potentially control swarming.  Simulation study using such a multiscale modeling environment will lead to a deeper understanding of the universal or generic features of biological phenomena and simultaneous processes of bacterial swarming and interactions at different scales.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[8/6: Graduate Student Orientation Week]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[8/6 The activities for this years Graduate Student Orientation Week can be found at this link. For more information, contact our Director of Graduate Studies, Dr. Doug Thain.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[7/31: <a href=http://www.cse.nd.edu/newsletters/2012/July.pdf>July 2012 Department Newsletter</a>]]></title>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[7/25: MHIN Announces Notre Dame's Nitesh Chawla, PhD Appointment to MHIN Board of Managers]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[7/25/2012:Media release by MHIN:INDIANA - July 24, 2012 - As MHIN continues to provide cutting-edge health information technology solutions to the region, the multi-state health information exchange (HIE) is pleased to announce the appointment of Nitesh V. Chawla, PhD to the MHIN Board of Managers.Chawla, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Director to the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Sciences and Applications (iCeNSA) at the University of Notre Dame, will join healthcare and information technology executives from across the region to add a new academic perspective to the board. The new perspective will be beneficial to the community as MHIN evolves, extending its reach into new areas of the healthcare industry including stronger academically driven population health initiatives and clinical research. Chawla is at the frontier of research in personalized (patient-centered) healthcare and wellbeing and also teaches a class on Healthcare Analytics. Chawla's extensive research background focuses on the areas of data mining, machine learning, and network science. He has received many honors and awards for his research and teaching, published over 140 research papers, and received grants or sponsored research from a number of federal agencies and corporations. In addition to contributing crucial and high-impact research and pedagogy, Chawla is a frequent guest lecturer for universities, conferences, and companies. The new board appointment comes at a time when groundbreaking innovation is driving effective health IT. The collaborative nature of the MHIN Board of Managers promises to continue to facilitate innovation right here in the MHIN service region.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[7/6: Milenkovic Receives an NSF EAGER Grant]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[7/6/2012:Professor Tijana Milenkovic has received two years of funding from the National Science Foundation through the EAGER mechanism, which supports "high-risk, exploratory and potentially transformative research." Professor Milenkovic and her Complex Networks Lab will develop new computational methods for network analysis that can cope with the complexity of functionally uncharacterized, dynamic, and noisy real-world networks, and they will use the new methods to study human aging from biological (cellular) networks, in hope to suggest novel candidates for therapeutic intervention.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[6/6: NPR Story on Great Job Opportunities and Shortage of CSE Students]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[6/6/2012:An audio file for a recent NPR story is available at: npr.org. The story is focused on the Seattle area and the state university in Seattle. But the situation for job prospects of Computer Science / Computer Engineering majors is the same across the country.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[6/4: <i>US News / Money</i> - 5 of the 6 Best Technology Jobs are in Comp Sci / Comp Eng]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[6/4/2012:The US News / Money site has an article titled, "The 6 Best Technology Jobs of 2012". Five of the top six are: software developer, database administrator, web developer, computer systems analyst, and computer programmer. See the full article at usnews.com.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[6/4: <i>US News / Money</i> - The 25 Best Jobs]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[6/4/2012: US News and Money magazine have an article rating "The 25 Best Jobs". Five of the top ten are related to Computer Science / Computer Engineering. For the complete article, see the link: usnews.careers.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[5/29: Senior Sam Fenker's Research Featured In <i>Nature.Com</i> Article]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[5/29/2012:Graduating senior Sam Fenker's research in iris biometrics will be presented at the Biometrics Workshop associated with the IEEE CVPR conference in June. Sam has worked on iris biometrics research with Professor Kevin Bowyer for the last two years, and has co-authored several previous papers. His latest paper presents results of an improved experimental investigation into template aging for iris biometrics.The point of the experiment is to determine whether iris biometric performance degrades with increasing time between enrollment and recognition. The results in this paper are featured in a news article in Nature.Com.To see the article in Nature.com, click here.The link for the paper to be presented at the IEEE CVPR Biometrics Workshop is cse.nd.edu.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[5/21: Ryan Lichtenwalter Receives CRC Award for Computational Sciences and Visualization]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[5/21/2012:Ryan N. Lichtenwalter, advised by Professor Nitesh Chawla, is one of three winners of the 2012 CRC Award for Computational Sciences and Visualization. This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the areas of computational sciences and visualization. Contributions may include applications of high performance computation, novel data visualization techniques, or the development of algorithms and tools for better using high performance computing or visualization systems. Ryan won the award for his LPmade software, which was accepted into the prestigious Journal of Machine Learning Research and is available on MLOSS.org, which streamlines, parallelizes, increases the reproducibility of, and contributes new methods to link prediction and network science.This is the second student from Professor Chawla's group to win the CRC Award since 2010. Karsten Steinhaeuser won the award in 2010.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[5/14: David Wei Wins Best Paper Award]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[5/14/2012:Grad student, Yi (David) Wei was awarded the AWARE Best Student Paper Award for his paper (co-authored with Professor M. Brian Blake) "An Agent-based Services Framework with Adaptive Monitoring in Cloud Environments", at IEEE's 21st International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures. The paper will appear in the proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures (WETICE 2012), IEEE Press, Toulousse, France, June 2012.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[5/4: Emrich, Milenkovic Receive NIH Supplement]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[5/4/2012:Professor Scott Emrich has received two years of funding to support a new collaboration between his NIH-funded computational group and R01-funded experimentalist Professor Patricia Clark (Chemistry and Biochemistry). This supplement was awarded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to "stimulate and support new multidisciplinary collaborations between [primary] investigators with different intellectual and technical approaches that can promote the novel insights required to achieve significant research advances." Professor Emrich and his Notre Dame Bioinformatics Lab will develop new algorithms, distributed frameworks, statistical tests and visualizations to analyze codon usage in hundreds of species and help focus its role in co-translational folding, an area of expertise of biochemist Professor Clark and a process important in some diseases. CSE Professor Tijana Milenkovic will collaborate on this project. Over these two years she and a partially supported member of her Notre Dame Complex Networks Lab will develop a new algorithmic framework for network analysis to study the potential interplay between codon usage and their topological positions.Investigator Clark and a member of her lab have been instrumental guiding initial work based on their expertise and will experimentally validate both areas of inquiry, which will reinforce the multidisciplinary nature of this funded project. We also expect this project to open additional avenues for future CSE-Chem/Biochem collaboration.]]></description>
		
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