Recent News & Accomplishments

 2003

Vic Basili will receive an honorary degree from the University of Sannio, Benevento (BN), Italy, "for his continual, outstanding contributions to Software Engineering."  read more
Jeff Foster and William Pugh have both received Eclipse Innovation awards from IBM.  read more
Jeff Foster and Michael Hicks have both received NSF Career awards.  read more
Ben Shneiderman has won the IEEE Book Award for 2003 for his book, Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies .  read more
Work by Cornelia Fermuller and Yiannis Aloimonos has been highlighted in New Scientist and CNN , and was Yahoo New's top technology item on October 30.  read more
A paper by Atif Memon and his graduate students was selected as one of the outstanding papers of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering.  read more
A paper by Jeff Carver and Vic Basili won the best-paper award at the 17th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES 2003).  read more
Mema Roussopoulos , who got her undergraduate degree from our department, has accepted a position at Harvard University, as an assistant professor of computer science on the Gordon McKay endowment.  read more
Ben Shneiderman 's book Leonardo's Laptop was a finalist in the Independent Publishers Book Awards 2003.  read more
Dana Nau co-chaired the International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling in Trento, Italy.  read more