News & Events Archive - 2002
New Minimum GPA requirement for 3000/4000 Computer Science courses
Beginning in the Spring semester of 2003, all
3000 and 4000 level computer science courses will require students to
have an overall 2.30 grade point average (GPA) prior to enrollment.
However, students who have already completed CSc 2010, 2310, 2311,
3210, and 3410, each with a C or better, will have the 2.30 minimum GPA
requirement waived. For details of this new policy, click
here. (Posted 10/18/02)
GSU Plays Host to Bioinformatics Symposium
On October 3 and 4, GSU hosted a research symposium named
Applying
Bioinformatics: From Genes to Systems. The event was sponsored by the
University System of Georgia, which has held an annual research
symposium at one of the state's research universities every year since
1991. The symposium had three focus areas: functional genomics,
molecular structure, and models of cells and systems.
Dr. Robert Harrison was a
member of the symposium committee. He also presented a talk entitled
"Efficient Algorithms for Molecular Modeling." (Posted 8/13/02;
updated 10/18/02)
Computer Science Students Get Awards
at Honors Day
Eleven computer science students were presented with awards at
the annual Arts and Sciences Honors Day ceremony. A number of awards
were given for this first time this year. The following list shows all
awards and the winners:
Outstanding Senior Award
The ceremony was held on April 3 in the Rialto
Theater on campus. (Posted 4/3/02)
Yamacraw InfoSession Held on April 2
On April 2, GSU students, faculty, and staff attended the latest meeting in the Yamacraw InfoSession Series. The meeting
featured Dr. Vijay Madisetti, the principal investigator of the Yamacraw
embedded software thrust, and Dr. Sushil
Prasad, the principal investigator of GSU's Yamacraw embedded
software program. (Posted 3/29/02; updated 4/3/02)
Harrison Featured in Georgia State Magazine
Dr. Robert Harrison and his
wife, Dr.
Irene Weber, were featured in the Winter 2002 issue of Georgia
State Magazine, a quarterly publication distributed to more than
120,000 alumni, donors, and other friends of the university. The
article, "Common Ground," discusses married couples who are
both faculty members at GSU. Dr. Weber holds joint appointments in the
Biology and Chemistry departments. (Posted
3/13/02)
GSU Team Chosen to Compete in Design Competition
A team of undergraduate computer science majors has been chosen to
compete in the 2002 IEEE Computer Society's International Design
Competition (CSIDC). This year's competition features the area of
wireless communication. The GSU team consists of Dr.
Michael Weeks (advisor), Marjorie Moss, Gene Oh, Alex Reznik, and
Wun Yin. (Click here
for pictures of the team.)
The team's project
focuses on integrating Bluetooth wireless technology with a database.
The application is an information-requesting scenario, where a person
shopping in a store can use his or her PDA to locate items instead of
relying on sales clerks. This team's efforts can be easily applied to
any situation where two or more devices (such as cell phones and
personal digital assistants) need to recognize one another and
communicate automatically without a physical link between them.
The top 10 projects
will be announced in late May. These teams will compete in the CSIDC
World Finals in June to decide the winner of the competition. The top
team prize is $15,000, with an additional $10,000 contributed to the
winning team's school for scholarships, lab equipment, or travel funds. (Posted
3/5/02)
Zelikovsky Wins Best Paper Award
In January, Dr.
Alex Zelikovsky won the Arun Kumar Choudhury Best Paper Award of the
Joint Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference and
International Conference on VLSI Design. The paper was titled "Floorplan
Evaluation with Timing Driven Global Wireplanning, Pin Assignment and
Buffer/Wire Sizing." The joint conference was held in Bangalore,
India. (Posted 2/18/02)
Department Hires Lecturers
Ken Nguyen
joined the department in January 2002 as a lecturer. Mr. Nguyen has two
computer science degrees from GSU (B.S., 1999, and M.S., 2001). His
specialty is database systems. Another lecturer, Louis
Henry, arrived in August 2001. Mr. Henry received the M.S. degree in
computer science from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. His
interests include computer science education, database systems, and object-oriented programming. (Posted
1/7/02)
