Recent News & Accomplishments

 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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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