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After a 12 hour long drive, including a few visits to roadside ...

After a 12 hour long drive, including a few visits to roadside power outlets to recharge the laptop batteries that were necessary for hours of playing Unreal Tournament over a custom built VAN (Van Area Network), 7 UGA CS students, 6 competitors and Maggie Bradley, their coach (chauffeur), arrived to Melbourne, FL to participate in the 2005 ACM Southeast Regional Programming Contest. Their division (Division 1) included 45 teams. A. J. Beamon,…
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Prof. Amit Sheth has been elected an IEEE Fellow ...

Prof. Amit Sheth has been elected an IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2006. This honor is in recognition for his contributions to information integration and workflow management.
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Starting with just 11% acceptance rate at the most prestigious ...

Starting with just 11% acceptance rate at the most prestigious conference in the area, two of three LSDIS papers accepted for the 15th World Wide Web Conference, Edinburg UK (WWW2006) are nominated for best paper and best student paper, respectively. This, along with Prof. Sheth's invited talk "Semantic empowerment of Health Care and Life Science Applications" and his participation at the World Wide Web Consortium's Advisory Committee meeting…
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Congratulations to graduate students Chris Bennett, Fred Maier and Ananda Chowdhury for winning the University's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award! This award is given yearly to the top 10% of TAs at the University. Additionally, Chris Bennett has been selected to participate in the University's TA Mentor program for the 2006-2007 school year. This is an award given to 15 graduate students throughout the University per year. In addition to a…
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Congratulations to Semmy Purewal, who won ...

Congratulations to Semmy Purewal, who won the Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. The award will be given in Association of American Colleges and Universities 2007 Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA, January 2007). This national award recognizes graduate students who are committed to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others, and who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education.
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards

Congratulations to our graduate student, Semmy Purewal, who received the Excellence in Teaching Award. It is the first time a CS student received this award.  Congratulations to our graduate students Yong Wei, Bradley Wimpey, and Rabia Jafri, who received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards.
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Congratulations to Prof. Hamid Arabnia who was awarded ...

Congratulations to Prof. Hamid Arabnia who was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of his leadership and outstanding research contribution to the field of Supercomputing at the Seventh IEEE BIBE at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, October 15, 2007. This award was presented by President of IEEE/SMC.
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards

Congratulations to Bobby McKnight, Pooya Shareghi and Brian Smith for receiving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards.
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Congratulations to Prof. Eileen Kraemer for winning ...

Congratulations to Prof. Eileen Kraemer for winning the Best Paper award at the ACM Southeast Conference, for their paper "A Study of the Performance of Steering Tasks under Spatial Transformation of Input". The paper was co-authored with Professor M. Eduard Tudoreanu (Edi), a former student of Prof. Kraemer. The study described in the paper was performed as part of the UGA Human-Computer Interaction class.
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Prof. Don Potter and the AI Center are featured ...

Prof. Don Potter and the AI Center are featured in an article in the Athens Banner-Herald local newspaper.
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