EVENTS

  • CIS Department Open House

    Saturday, November 21
    Learn about majors/minors in CIS Enhance your technology skills and your job opportunities!
    Hear the details directly from our students and our faculty.
    Can’t make it? Contact Wendy Urban (wurban@temple.edu) to learn more!

COLLOQUIA


  • 12/3/2009, Mary Lou Soffa (U. Virginia) Distinguished Lecture, " Path-Based Fault Correlations ", 11am - 12 pm, TECH Center 111.

NEWS

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Jie Wu picture Dr. Jie Wu joins the College of Science and Technology as Professor of Computer and Information Sciences and Chair of the department, effective July 1, 2009. An internationally respected researcher in a number of areas, including mobile computing and wireless networks, parallel and distributed systems, and fault-tolerant systems, Professor Wu’s goal as chair will be to develop the department into a center of excellence in computer and information science research and education.

    Wu, formerly a Distinguished Professor at Florida Atlantic University, is the author of 148 journal articles, 294 conference papers, 2 books and 28 book chapters. He is an IEEE Fellow who serves on the editorial boards of many distinguished professional journals and has organized 50 professional conferences. His research has been continuously funded since 1990 by grants from industry, the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Army Research Office, and the National Science Foundation. He has served as Program Director for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Computer and Networking Systems since January 2007. Wu earned his PhD in computer engineering from Florida Atlantic University

  • Dr. Xiaojiang (James) Du joins the Computer and Information Sciences Department as an Assistant Professor on August 1, 2009. Dr. Du was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Dakota State University, where he received the Excellence in Research Award from the College of Science and Math in May 2009.

    Dr. Du's research interests are in wireless networks, security, computer networks and systems. He has published over 70 journal and conference papers in these areas, and has been awarded more than $1M in research grants from the National Science Foundation and Army Research Office. He serves on the editorial boards of four international journals. Dr. Du is the Chair of the Computer and Network Security Symposium of the IEEE/ACM International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (IWCMC) conference 2006 - 2010. He is a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of several premier ACM/IEEE conferences such as INFOCOM (2007 - 2010), IM, NOMS, ICC, GLOBECOM, WCNC, BroadNet, and IPCCC. Dr. Du is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.

  • 2009 ACM Awards Dinner and Alumni Reception

    • Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award to a member of the graduating class who is in Computer Science or Information Science and Technology with the highest overall grade point average:

          Justin Roman (CS) and Ernest Wieczorek (IS&T)

    • Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding CIS 0835 Laboratory Assistant Award for outstanding service as a lab assistant for CIS 0835:

           Kaitlin Ziminiski

    • Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for outstanding teaching as a graduate teaching assistant:

            Shusha Li

    • Computer and Information Sciences Student Leadership Award to an undergraduate who has made a significant leadership contribution to the Computer and Information Sciences ACM organization and to the CIS department:

            Matthew Forero

    • Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding CIS 1055 Laboratory Assistant Award for outstanding teaching as a CIS 1055 laboratory assistant:

            Allison Wass

    ACM Awards:

    • ACM Student Service Award to an ACM officer for outstanding service:

            Tim Henry

    • ACM Service Award to a staff member for outstanding service to the ACM organization:

                 John Ikoniak

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