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		  <title><![CDATA[11/16: Sophomore Jacob Wenger Co-Authors Accepted Paper]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[11/16/2009:Jacob Wenger, currently a sophomore in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, is co-author of a research paper he did during the summer of 2009 as an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) under the supervision of Dr. Jesus Izaguirre.The paper, titled "MDLab: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Prototyping Environment," and co-authored by Trevor Cickovski, Santanu Chatterjee, Jacob Wenger, Christopher R. Sweet, and Jesus A. Izaguirre, was accepted by the Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2009.Jacob is continuing to do research this fall with Dr. Izaguirre, and is taking a graduate class in the subject matter.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[11/6: Undergrad Stephen Siena Co-Authors Medical Imaging Paper]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[11/05/2009:Undergraduate computer science student Stephen Siena will be presenting a paper at the SPIE Medical Imaging conference in February 2010. Stephen will be presenting research from a medical informatics REU during the summer of 2009 at the University of DePaul. The paper is titled "A shape- dependent variability metric for evaluating panel segmentations with a case study on LIDC data." Stephen's research developed an algorithm to quantify the level of disagreement between multiple experts' outlines of lung nodules. The paper is co-authored by Harvard undergraduate Olga Zinoveva and DePaul professors Daniela Raicu and Jacob Furst.Stephen is currently working with Professor Chawla on medical informatics projects.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[10/29: Kogge Authors Lead Article In <i>Petascale Computing</i> Special Issue]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[10/29/2009:The magazine "Computing in Science and Engineering"(CiSE), published by the IEEE, devoted its September / October 2009 issue to the theme of Petascale Computing. Professor Peter Kogge authored the lead article, titled "The Challenges of Petascale Architectures". A petascale computer is one that is capable of executing a million billion floating-point operations per second. Professor Kogge also recently chaired a study group that reported on the feasibility of constructing an exascale computing, which would be a thousand times more powerful.Professor Kogge holds the Ted McCourtney Chair of Computer Science and Engineeering, is an IEEE Fellow and a retired IBM Fellow.Click here to see a copy of Professor Kogge's article in CiSE.Click here to see a copy of the exascale computing report.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[10/26: Professor Chawla Gave an Invited Talk at the NSF Next Generation Data   Mining (NGDM) Workshop]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[10/26/2009:NSF NGDM'09 focused on the emerging technologies and applications of data mining in 1) Energy crisis, information processing; 2) Greenhouse emissions, climate changes; 3) Transportation and emissions.Professor Chawla's talk was titled, A Complex Networks Perspective on Global Climate, Commerce and Environment.The talk abstract is as follows: Climate change is a pressing focus of research, social and economic concern, and political attention. According to the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the increased frequency of extreme events will only intensify the occurrence of natural hazards, affecting global population, health, and economies. Such extreme events are accompanied with degrees of uncertainty at local, regional and global scales. Moreover, the influx of massive volumes of observed and simulated data also requires scalable methods relying on parallel architectures or cloud computing. Thus, climate data presents a series of exciting challenges for data mining community - from learning to mining to discovery to insight. To that end, we propose complex networks based methodologies for modeling the multi-variate spatial relationships, long range teleconnections, and dependence structures in climate variables. Taking a data-centric approach, we have developed a unified framework for characterizing observed data as well as for developing predictive insights. We show that structural properties of climate networks have useful interpretations within the domain, and we extract patterns from the networks and use them to develop ocean climate indices for prediction of climatic variables over land. Moreover, complex networks enable us to study the stability and/or changes in climate by observing the network dynamics over time.  We also evaluate the impact of climate change on commerce and ecology of regions, and the relationships therein.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[10/23: Winners Announced for the Schubmehl-Prein Essay  Contest on the Social Impact of Computing ]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[10/23/2009:The Schubmehl-Prein Prize for the Best Essay on Social Impact of Computing is a competition open to high-school juniors, and supported by the Schubmehl-Prein Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at Notre Dame. The topic for the 2009 competition was "What are the potential social and ethical implications of the $100 laptop?" Winners of the 2009 Schubmehl-Prein competition have been announced:First place: Katherine Heit, St Thomas Aquinas High School (Kansas)Second place: Danielle Harris, Mayfield Senior School (California)Third place: David Purington, Damien High School(California)Honorable Mention: Bryan Dongre, Brookfield Senior High (Wisconsin)Honorable Mention: Erica Smith, St Agnes Academy (Texas)First-place winner Katie Heit recently visited the Notre Dame campus and met with Professor Kevin Bowyer, chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and one of the organizers of the competition.More information on the competition, and links to winning entries from previous years, are available on the competition web page, Schubmehl-Prein Contest.First-place winner, Katie Heit, with Dr. Kevin Bowyer.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[10/23: Professor Chawla Gives Invited Talk at NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[10/23/2009:Professor Chawla was an invited speaker at the NASA Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding (NASA CIDU). NASA CIDU conference brings together researchers in the area of Autonomous systems and systems health management, Discovery Algorithms, Data/Information Infrastructure, and Computational Methods and Frameworks. It is sponsored by the NASA's Integrated Vehicle Health Management Project, Aviation Safety Program and NASA's Applied Information Systems Research Program. The Conference was held at the NASA AMES Center, Moffett Field, CA.Professor Chawla's talk was titled, "From Learning to Knowledge Discovery to Action in Distribution Sensitive Scenarios." The abstract for this talk is as follows: Models for knowledge discovery in the real world face the pervasive and compelling problem of irregularities in data distribution. Decisions that are optimal in expected utility can be vulnerable to  failure, and value functions that reflect the discontinuities of the real world pragmatics can quickly become intractable. Surprises can happen in uncertain environments. The class distributions may not be the same (imbalanced data), with the class of interest being rare or extreme. The training and testing distributions can differ. The costs of making mistakes or benefits from making correct predictions may also not be constant and can evolve due to operational reasons. I will present some of our work on tackling such challenges in the journey from data to learning to knowledge discovery to action.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[10/22: Four Out of Seven "Professions with the most growth" in Computer Science & Engineering]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[10/22/2009:A current CNNMoney.com article lists seven occupations with the most projected job growth between 2006 and 2016. A Computer Science & Engineering degree can prepare you for 4 of the 7 occupations listed.  Telecommunications Network Engineer comes in at number 1, Systems Engineer at number 2, Business Analyst, IT at number 6, and Software Development Director at number 7. See the article at finance.yahoo.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[10/12: CSE Degree Leads to 3 of Best 10 Jobs In America - Yahoo Finance]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[10/12/2009:A Yahoo Finance article on the "Best Jobs In America" lists ten jobs, and a CSE degree leads to numbers 1, 5 and Y. Number 1 on the list is "Systems Engineer", number 5 is "Information Technology Project Manager" and number 8 is "Computer / Network Security Consultant".  To read the article, point your browser to Yahoo.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[10/7: Bowyer Chairs Biometrics Research Conference]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[10/7/2009:Professor Kevin Bowyer served as General Chair of the Third International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), held in Washington on September 28-30. BTAS is the premier research meeting focused on biometrics.Attendance increased by 20% over last year, reaching 180. Attendees came from universities, companies and government agencies in a variety of countries from around the world.For more information, consult the conference web site BTAS09.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/21: Professor Thain Receives NSF Grant for Collaborative Storage]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/21/2009:Professor Douglas Thain has received a Collaborative Research  Infrastructure grant from the National Science Foundation to build a wide area testbed for data intensive computing. The Distributed Research Testbed will consist of I/O-intensive computing nodes deployed at the Universities of Chicago, Florida, Hawaii, Notre Dame, and Mississippi. This testbed will provide an infrastructure for creating and evaluating new software systems for cloud and grid computing.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/17: Professors Sharon Hu and Michael Niemier Receive NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Award]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/17/2009:CSE department faculty members X. Sharon Hu and Michael Niemier are two of the four PIs on a recently awarded NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) proposal.  The $658,070 from the MRI will fund equipment that will enable the /fabrication /of beyond CMOS, nanoscale magnetic memory elements and nanoscale magnetic logic devices and circuits. The Notre Dame group -- which also includes Electrical Engineering faculty members Gary Bernstein and Wolfgang Porod -- has pioneered magnetic quantum-dot cellular automata for digital logic, which are non-volatile, dense, low-power, radiation hard, and operate at room temperature.This new deposition system will allow the development of optimum magnetic materials, input/output structures based on magnetic tunnel junctions, and magnetically-yoked clocking wires.  This work offers the promise of all-magnetic information-processing systems, which combine memory and logic as well as hybrid systems consisting of magnetic logic/memory and transistor-based logic.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/17: Dingler, Garrison, Hu, Niemier Receive Best Paper Award at IEEE Symposium on Nanoscale Architecture]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/17/2009:CSE graduate student Aaron Dingler, undergraduate student Michael Garrison, and faculty members X. Sharon Hu and Michael Niemier were co-authors of the work that received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures held July 30-31, 2009 in San Francisco, CA . Their work, "System-Level Energy and Performance Projections for Nanomagnet-based Logic", examines how realistic implementations of the drive circuitry needed to control circuit elements made from nano-scale magnets can affect system-level energy and performance.  This work found that realistic fabrication mechanisms should not inhibit logical correctness and that this technology appears capable of out-performing low power CMOS equivalents with similar energy requirements.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/15: Faculty Team Receives NSF Grant for Open Source Engineering]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/15/2009:A team of engineers at the University of Notre Dame has received a $1.45M grant from the National Science Foundation titled "Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure". This project will create a virtual organization and online collaborative facility that will enable new ways of designing and evaluating civil infrastructure by applying concepts from the open source software community. The faculty team leading the project consists of civil engineers Dr. Tracy Kijewski-Correa and Dr. Ahsan Kareem, computer scientists Dr. Gregory Madey and Dr. Douglas Thain, and social scientist Dr. David Hachen.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/15: Undergrad Amanda Hentz Co-Authors Biometrics Paper ]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/15/2009:Amanda Hentz graduated with her Computer Science degree in May of 2009. The biometrics research that she worked on during her senior year grew into a research paper that will be  presented at the International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems in Washington DC in September 2009.  Amanda's research looked at how the recognition accuracy of iris biometrics is affected by whether or not a person is wearing normal prescription contact lenses. The paper to be presented at the BTAS conference is title "Contact Lenses: Handle With Care for Iris Recognition" and is co-authored with PhD student Sarah Baker, Professor Kevin Bowyer and Professor Patrick Flynn. Amanda is currently working at Lockheed Martin.Example image with a significant artifact on the iris from the lens - image: 04221d1382Example image with numbers on the contact lens - image: 04869d84]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/1: Professor Chawla Receives NSF Grant]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/1/2009:Professor Nitesh Chawla has received a three year NSF award of $164,948 for the project "Incremental Learning from Unbalanced Data in Nonstationary Environments." The project is funded from the PCAN program of the ECCS division of NSF. The abstract of the project is below. The ultimate goal of computational intelligence has long been emulating brain-like-intelligence by discovering and learning patterns from data. However, in related research, the data have been assumed to be generated by an underlying fixed physical process. Recently, new algorithms have emerged that can accommodate new data, or data with unbalanced distributions. However, learning from a non-stationary environment, where the underlying process that generates the data changes over time, has received less attention, whereas the problem of learning in a non-stationary environment that incrementally provides unbalanced data has received hardly any attention. Since the brain can and routinely does learn in such settings, the need for a general framework for learning from and adapting to a non-stationary environment that introduces unbalanced data can be hardly overstated. Spam detection, epidemiological studies, or analysis of climate change, are just a few examples of such scenarios. Given such a scenario of unbalanced data, the goal of this project is to develop a general framework that would recognize if and when there has been a change, learn novel content, reinforce existing knowledge that is still relevant, and forget what may no longer be relevant.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[9/1: Professor Hu Receives NSF Award ]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[9/1/2009:Professor Sharon Hu, together with PI Professor Michael Lemmon (EE), received a 3-year NSF award of $525,000 from the new Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program for their project titled "Dynamically Managing the Real-Time Fabric of a Wireless Sensor-Actuator Network (WSAN)". This project aims to study the implementation of feedback control algorithms with hard real-time constraints over wireless sensor-accuator networks, examples of which include the electric power grid or water distribution networks. (The term cyber-physical systems, according to NSF, refers to the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources.)]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[8/11: Professor Chen's Paper Selected as the Close Runner-up of the 2008  Roberts Prize]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[8/11/2009:Professor Danny Chen's article titled "Arc-modulated radiation therapy (AMRT): A single-arc form of intensity-modulated arc therapy", published in the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB) in November 2008, has been selected as the close runner-up of the prestigious 2008 Roberts Prize for the best paper published in PMB in 2008. For more information, seewww.iop.org.The PMB journal published 520 articles in 2008.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[8/7: Juniors Receive Best Student Paper Award]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[8/7/2009:Juniors Sean McRoskey and Jim Notwell receive the best student paper award for their paper titled, Mining in a Mobile Environment, published in the Third International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data held in conjunction with the KDD conference 2009. The paper is co-authored by Professors Nitesh Chawla and Christian Poellabauer.Jim and Sean are interning at Microsoft this summer.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[8/7: CSE Department Awarded GAANN Fellowships Grant]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[8/7/2009:The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been awarded one of the prestigious GAANN Fellowships grants from the Department of Education. The GAANN acronym stands for Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need. The U.S. Department of Education awards GAANN grants to academic departments and programs in order to provide fellowships to assist graduate students with excellent records who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue the highest degree available in a field designated as an area of national need.The grant will allow the Department of Computer Science and Engineering to offer GAANN fellowships to as many as six students per year for the next three years.  A GAANN Fellowship includes a stipend of up to $30,000 per year, with the actual amount based on demonstrated need, plus support for some educational expenses.Students who are awarded a GAANN Fellowship will have an excellent academic record and be committed to preparing themselves for a career in teaching and research.  As part of their experience, GAANN Fellows in CSE at Notre Dame will participate in teaching workshops offered by Notre Dame's Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, and have their own mentored teaching experience.GAANN Fellows may work on their PhD research with any of the faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.  The GAANN program is administered by a Faculty Advisory Committee consisting of Professor Kevin Bowyer, Chair of the CSE Department, Professor Sharon Hu, Director of Graduate Studies in CSE, Professor Brian Blake, Associate Dean of Engineering for Special Initiatives, and Research Professor Greg Madey, who has previously served as Director of Graduate Studies in CSE.  The PI for the grant is Professor Bowyer, and the first-year funding from the Department of Education is $217,760.Graduate students or potential graduate students wishing to apply for a GAANN Fellowship in CSE should contact Professor Bowyer and Professor Hu. Students from under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply.For more information about the GAANN program, see this web site, Department of Education.]]></description>
		
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		  <title><![CDATA[7/24: Computer Engineering and Computer Science in Top-earning Degrees List ]]></title>
		
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		  <description><![CDATA[7/24/2009:A recent Money CNN article lists Computer Science and Computer Engineering in two of the top five spots in their list of "15 top-earning degrees".  More generally, engineering-related degrees accounted for 12 of the top 15 spots. The complete article is online at this link.]]></description>
		
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