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Eager Grant
Professor Shatkay is spending her sabbatical at an unusual place for a computer scientist – a hospital. An expert in computational biology and medical informatics, she is applying machine learning methods to electrocardiograms that have been annotated by experts at Johns Hopkins to identify which signals in the echo images indicate trouble and where to measure the heart for the greatest accuracy.
GPU Computing
GPU Education Centers are institutions recognized for integrating GPU-accelerated computing into their mainstream science and engineering curricula. Sunita Chandrasekaran, assistant professor of computer science, will direct the effort at UD. Chandrasekaran explains that GPU-accelerated computing is the use of a graphics processing unit together with a central processing unit to overcome the power and space limitations inherent in previous generations of high-performance.
SPARC-ing Ideas
On Tuesday, Sept. 20, the ribbon was cut on the new facility, which features inspiring quotes on the wall, rolling whiteboards, comfortable furniture, and screens for sharing ideas. Department Chair Kathleen McCoy envisions the SPARC Lab providing valuable opportunities for students to learn how to work together and “become good computer scientists.” “I think we’re going to see great things coming out of this space,” she says. “It will be a place where a lot of good work will get done.”
New Named Professor
Lori Pollock has been named Alumni Distinguished Professor effective Sept. 1. “Lori has a rich record of accomplishment, and she is a role model for faculty in both her accomplishments and how she approaches the job,” said Errol Lloyd. “She has been recognized locally and nationally for her contributions to computer science education, her research, her service to the profession, and her mentorship of students and young faculty.”
Cisters Goes National
CISTERS is a well established group that brings together women in technology-driven fields at the University of Delaware. CISTERS now has become an official ACM-W student chapter. A sub-group of the Association of Computing Machinery, ACM-W celebrates, supports, and advocates for women in computing, providing a wide range of programs and services and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women.
Big Data for Better Medicine
Professors Cathy Wu and Vijay Shanker receive National Institutes of Health funding to facilitate translation of biomedical data. Two new grants from NIH are to continue building the capacity to use big data for precision medicine, aimed at designing individually targeted therapies for maximal efficacy and minimal side effects.
Sept. 13-16 = ICTIR
Professors Ben Carterette (CIS) and Hui Fang (ECE) are co-organizing the conference to be held Sept. 13-16. Information Retrieval is the computing discipline behind web search engines of all kinds.
Putting Software on a Diet
James Clause and Lori Pollock are partnering to address the needs of software engineer to understand how and why the decisions they make affect the energy consumption of their applications, and to have tools to discover and apply the modifications that would improve the energy usage of their applications. News Journal Story
Big Data, Better Health Care
CIS Professor Hagit Shatkay and doctoral student Moumita Bhattacharya team with clinicians to improve care for patients with chronic kidney disease.
Faculty Honors
CIS graduate student William Killian is one of Three doctoral students awarded the University of Delaware Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Award. Each recipient of the award receives $1,500.
Up in the cloud
Gosia Steinder, PhD 2003, has been named an IBM Fellow for her work including on an early version of cloud computing called Oceano. She began this work while a PhD student of Professor Adarsh Sethi and interning summers at IBM.
Cybersecurity grants
The University of Delaware Cybersecurity Initiative has awarded six grants to support research projects addressing a range of security issues. Half of these projects involve CIS Faculty, and concern a cyber scholars program (Novocin), security education using social robots (Shen), and bio-cybersecurity(Wu).