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In the recent ACM Mid-Atlantic Regional Programming contest, a team consisting of Sarah Cameron, Kevin Cox and Joel Gillespie placed 14th out of 161 teams.

Gang Zhou, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Department, has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "Holistic Transparent Performance Assurance within the Crowded Spectrum." This is a three-year joint project with Dr. Guoliang Xing from Michigan State University.
The College of William and Mary invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Computer Science for Fall 2010.

Prof. Poshyvanyk has been awarded a three year NSF grant.

NSF has awarded an ECCS-IHCS grant on Multi-Scale QoS for Body Sensor Networks to Professor Gang Zhou. This 3-year project is in collaboration with both the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia.

The annual Park Undergraduate Scholarship Award was given in 2008/09 to Michael Liarakos and Katie Williams.
Malcom Gethers has been awarded a Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) Graduate Research Fellowship.

NSF has awarded a STEM grant on SCORE: Scientific Computing and Operations Research Education to Professors Larry Leemis of Mathematics and Robert Noonan (shown) of Computer Science.

Kevin T. Smith and Marc J. Balcer co-authored a new book, "Applied SOA - Service Oriented Architecture & Design Strategies".
Song Jiang, who received his doctorate from the department in 2004, was awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his proposal titled Building Virtual Devices with QoS Assurance in a Consolidated Storage Infrastructure.
Ningfang Mi was selected as the recipient of the Computer Measurement Group (CMG) Graduate Fellowship grant for 2009.
Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, and Evgenia Smirni, together with Lucy Cherkasova (HP Labs) won the best paper award at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference.
Song Jiang, who received his doctorate from the department in 2004, was awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his proposal titled Building Virtual Devices with QoS Assurance in a Consolidated Storage Infrastructure.
On Saturday, October 25, William and Mary participated in the annual ACM Mid-Atlantic Regional Programming contest.
Graduate student Eddy Zhang received the Best Student Paper award at the 5th International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 2008.

NSF has awarded Prof. Xipeng Shen a CCF grant on "Exploring and Exploiting Heterogeneous Cache Sharing in CMP Systems for Locality Optimization and Proactive Cache Management."
Bill Spracklin is a Computer Science major at the College, having transferred in after three years at nearby Thomas Nelson Community College.
Graduate sudent Meghan Revelle was selected as a finalist for the 2008 Google Anita Borg Scholarship.
The annual Park Graduate Research Award was given in 2007/08 to Bo Sheng.
Graduate student Ningfang Mi was recently received the Incogen Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Natural and Computational Sciences at the 7th Annual Graduate Research Symposium of the College of William and Mary.
Yunlian Jiang has been awarded CAS PhD Fellowship by IBM.

Qun Li, an assistant professor in the department, recently received an NSF CAREER grant titled Advanced Data Management for Sensor Networks.
Songqing Chen, who received his doctorate from the department in 2004, was awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his proposal titled Internet Resource Management to Deliver High Quality Live and On-demand Streaming for Wireless Clients.
Hans Boehm, a Senior Research Scientist at HP Lab, will talk on Getting C++ threads right on Fri, Nov. 16, at 3 PM in McGl 020.
The Robert C. and Muriel M. Jennings Scholarship fund was established to support worthy Virginia students.
Prof. Jeannette Wing of Carnegie-Mellon Univ. will talk on her vision of Computational Thinking on Fri, Nov 9 at 3 PM in McGl 020.
Prof. William Sanders of the Univ. of Illnois will talk on a Probabilistic Validation of Computer System Security on Thu, Nov 1 at 5PM in McGl 020.
Applications are invited for two tenure-track faculty positions in Computer Science for Fall 2008 at all academic ranks. We are interested in individuals with research expertise in all areas of computer science.

Prof. Zhou received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science under Professor John A. Stankovic from University of Virginia in 2007.

NSF has awarded a CNS-CSR grant on Behavior-Based Speculative Parallelization and Optimization on Desktop Multiprocessors to Prof. Xipeng Shen.
According to CNNMoney, starting salaries for CS majors last year were 5th highest, with only some engineering majors higher.
Jill Matthews received a Women in Science and Technology Scholarship for 2007-2008 from the Virginia Chapter of Business and Professional Women (BPW/VA).

















