Recent News & Accomplishments

 2004

The OWL web ontology language, derived from the SHOE language developed by Jim Hendler and colleagues, has been endorsed by the more than 400 companies in the W3C.

The OWL web ontology language, derived from the SHOE language developed by Jim Hendler and colleagues, has been endorsed by the more than 400 companies in the W3C .  read more

Pete Stewart has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, "for the development of numerical algorithms and software widely used in engineering computation".

Pete Stewart has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering , "for the development of numerical algorithms and software widely used in engineering computation."  read more

Bobby Bhattacharjee has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship.

Bobby Bhattacharjee has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship .  read more

Bill Arbaugh was featured on CBS Evening News in connection with security issues in electronic voting machines.

Bill Arbaugh was featured on CBS Evening News in connection with security issues in electronic voting machines.  read more

 2003

In NASA's current Mars mission, the 3D visualization that they used to manage the orientation of the spacecraft was built using Ben Bederson's open-source Togl tool kit.

In NASA's current Mars mission, the 3D visualization that they used to manage the orientation of the spacecraft was built using Ben Bederson 's open-source Togl tool kit.  read more

Azriel Rosenfeld will receive an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Azriel Rosenfeld will receive an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.  read more

Vic Basili will receive an honorary degree from the University of Sannio, Benevento (BN), Italy, "for his continual, outstanding contributions to Software Engineering."

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.

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.

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.

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