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CS HIGHLIGHTS 2009-10

NEWS

	CS Alumna Judy R. Faulkner (Founder and CEO, Epic Systems) to receive Honorary Doctor of Science degree from UW-Madison.
	Center for High-Throughput Computing's Condor system receives plaudits at Forbes.com.
	Condor Center for High-Throughput Computing enables mapping of corn genome by a team including UW-Madison genomicist David Schwartz.
	Judy Faulkner (Founder and CEO of Epic Systems) gives the CS Distinguished Alumni Lecture (Thursday, Oct 15, 4:00pm), which inaugurates the newly remodeled 1240 CS lecture hall.
	CS Job Fair took place on 5 Nov 2009.

ALUMNI

	Akash Lal (Ph.D. 2009) co-recipient of the ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
	Andreas Moshovos (Ph.D. 1998) receives the 2010 Maurice Wilkes Award from SIGARCH
	Haryadi Gunawi (Ph.D. 2009) receives Honorable Mention in the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
	Shubu Mukherjee (Ph.D. 1998) receives 2009 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
	Judy Faulkner (Founder and CEO, Epic Systems) appointed to U. S. Health Information Technology Policy Committee
	Gamma Parallel Database Team wins 2008 ACM Software System Award.
	Carol Bartz (B.S. with Honors '71) joins Yahoo! as CEO.
	Tevfik Kosar (Ph.D. 2005) receives NSF CAREER Award.
	Doug Burger (Ph.D. 1998) named as an ACM Distinguished Scientist for 2008.
	Our '07-'08 PhD Graduates
	Peter Spiro (M.S. '85) receives Microsoft Technical Achievement Award
	Nick Rasmussen (B.S. '01) receives Academy Award for Science & Engr.
	Olga Holtz (Post-Doc '00-'02) receives European Math Society (EMS) Prize
	Sarita Adve (PhD '93) receives 2008 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
	Vasant Honavar (PhD '90) receives Iowa Board of Regents Faculty Excellence Award

Further alumni awards & honors

STUDENTS

Alex Diedrich awarded 2010 DeWitt Scholarship

Ashok Anand wins the 2010 Google US/Canada Fellowship in Computer Networking.

Bill Harris wins 2010 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.

Tom Duffield, Nathalie Cheng, and Jamie McMahon (adviser: Prof Bilge Mutlu) win the 2009 UW-Madison Hirsch Family Award

UW team "Wrong Answer" places first in NCNA Region of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, and advances to the world finals in Harbin, China (Feb, 2010).

Fatemah Panahi wins AAUW Selected Professions Fellowship for 2009-2010.

Brandon Smith wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Bill Harris receives honorable mention.

David He, Chris Hopman, and Mikola Lysenko placed equal 49th in the World Finals of the 2009 International Collegiate Programming Contest in Stockholm.

Theo Benson and Vivek Shrivastava awarded 2009 IBM Ph.D. Fellowships

Shravan Rayanchu awarded a 2009 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship

Further student awards and honors

FACULTY

	Chris Re receives 2010 SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award.
	Ben Liblit and Jerry Zhu win NSF CAREER Awards for 2010.
	Li Zhang wins 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship.
	Mark Hill wins Kellett Mid-Career Award from UW-Madison.
	Landweber and Solomon and collaborator Michael Litzkow receive the Internet Society's Postel Award for their CSNET project.
	Landweber gave the commencement lecture at CUNY Brooklyn College and received an honorary Doctor of Science degree.
	Hill receives 2009 ACM SIGARCH Distinguished Service Award
	Sankaralingam and Zhang receive 2009 NSF CAREER Awards

BEST PAPER AWARDS

	Ameet Soni, Craig Bingman, and Jude Shavlik awarded Best Paper at ACM-BCB 2010, August 2010.
	Swaminathan Sundararaman, Sriram Subramanian, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Michael M. Swift awarded Best Paper at FAST 2010, February 2010.
	Asim Kadav , Mahesh Balakrishnan, Vijayan Prabhakaran, and Dalhia Malkhi awarded Best Paper of ACM Hot Storage 2009, October, 2009.
	Vivek Shrivastava , Nabeel Ahmed, Shravan Rayanchu,Suman Banerjee , Srinivasan Keshav, Konstantina Papagiannaki, and Arunesh Mishra awarded Best Paper of ACM MobiCom, September, 2009.
	Saumitra Das, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Suman Banerjee, Y. C. Tay awarded recognition for one of the top three papers of ACM CoNEXT, December 2009.
	Michael J. Brim and Bart Miller awarded Best Paper in 16th Annual International Conference on High Performance Computing, December, 2009.
	L. N. Bairavasundaram, S. Sundararaman, A. C. Arpaci-Dusseau, R. H. Arpaci-Dusseau awarded Best Paper in USENIX '09.
	N. Agrawal, A. C. Arpaci-Dusseau, R. H. Arpaci-Dusseau awarded Best Paper in FAST '09.
	A. Gupta, P. Kuppili, A. Akella, and P. Barford awarded Best Paper in COMSNETS '09
Further best paper awards

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