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Awards Funds for Wireless Emergency Response System • Poellabauer Receives CAREER Award • Chen Honored for High-impact Papers • Bowyer Receives Award of Excellence |
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NSF
Awards Funds for Wireless Emergency Response System The National Science Foundation (NSF) Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems program has awarded Associate Professor Gregory R. Madey, computer science and engineering, and Professor Albert-László Barabási, the Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics, a $500,000 three-year grant for the development of an integrated wireless phone based emergency response system. The goal of the system, which would be capable of monitoring the activity of millions of wireless phone users in real time, is to collect and analyze data so that it can generate traffic forecasts, issue emergency advisories, and alert public safety and emergency response personnel. David Hachen, associate professor of sociology, is assisting Madey and Barabási. [back to top] |
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Poellabauer
Receives CAREER Award Associate Professor Christian Poellabauer has been named a recipient
of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Early Career Development
(CAREER) Award for his proposal “Judicious Resource Management
in Wireless Systems.” He is the 11th faculty member in the
department to receive the award, which is the highest given by the
government to faculty at the beginning of their careers. |
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Chen Honored for High-impact Papers Two papers authored by Danny Z. Chen, professor of computer science
and engineering, have been recognized for their impact. “Skew Voronoi
Diagrams,” published in the June 1999 issue of the International
Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications (IJCGA), and “Topological
Peeling and Applications,” published in the April 2003 issue of
the same journal, were cited as the first and sixth most accessed articles
in the IJCGA. |
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Bowyer Receives Award of Excellence The Philadelphia
chapter of the Society for Technical Communication has presented, Kevin
W. Bowyer, the Schubmehl-Prein Chair of the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, with the 2005 Award of Excellence. The award,
given annually, recognizes excellence in technical communication. Bowyer
was honored for an article published in the spring 2004 issue of IEEE
Technology and Society Magazine titled “Face Recognition
Technology: Security versus Privacy,” which discusses the social
controversy surrounding the field of biometrics in the wake of September
11. Bowyer’s research interests are in the areas of computer
vision and pattern recognition, with a special emphasis on biometrics
and data mining. |
