June 2009 -- We send congratulations to two of our Computer Science alums.

Dan Wakeman, B.S. in Computer Science 1990, was named to Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders list for 2009. According to Computerworld's website, "Computerworld's annual list of the men and women shaping the IT industry showcases the best talent in the industry." Dan is currently the Chief Information Officer at Educational Testing Service.

Dr. Janet Burge, B.S. in Computer Science 1984, recently received a prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. Janet's proposed research is entitled, "CAREER: Rationale Capture for High-Assurance Systems". Janet is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Systems Analysis at Miami University of Ohio.

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  New Research Funding

  Exploring Sustainability in Computing Education

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March 25, 2009 -- Computer Science Doctoral candidate Alicia Thorsen, Assistant Professor Phil Merkey, and Professor Fredrik Manne from the University of Bergen, Norway received the Best Paper Award for their paper, "Maximum Weighted Matching Using the Partitioned Global Address Space Model", at the High Performance Computing and Simulation Symposium (HPC 2009) March 23-25 in San Diego, California. Alicia presented the paper at the conference.

The paper described the design and implementation of an algorithm for the weighted matching graph processing problem. The algorithm was expressed in the new programming language, UPC. UPC is based on C and expresses parallel computations using a partitioned global address space. Languages such as UPC are being developed to make programming the coming generation of peta-scale supercomputers easier and more reliable. The UPC implementation developed is much simpler than a similar implementation using MPI, which is currently the most common way to express algorithms for parallel systems.