ACM Programming Contest

Zubair Chaudary, Justin Sonntag and Karol Zieba represented Lehigh as the C++ team at the ACM Mid-Atlantic USA Collegiate Programming Contest held at Wilkes University on November 7, 2009. The team received an Honorable Mention at the event. Andrew Lexa, Scott Woodward and Joseph Siefers represented Lehigh as the Java team. Professor Henry Baird served as their coach.

                ACM Programming Team

Appropriations awarded to CSE Department

The Department of Computer Science was recently awarded a congressional appropriation totalling nearly $1 million to work toward building a national resource for document analysis and exploitation. Henry Baird serves as the PI, with Dan Lopresti and Hank Korth serving as co-PI's. This work builds on an existing relationship the department has established with BBN Technologies in Cambridge, MA to support DARPA's MADCAT (Multilingual Automatic Document Classification Analysis and Translation) effort.

Promotions

Congratulations to Liang Cheng, Brian Davison and John Spletzer. All three were recently promoted to the rank of associate professor.

Professor Cheng's research interests include middleware, network processing and processor, wireless sensor networks, embedded systems, and high-speed networking.

Professor Davison's research is in web search and mining, focusing on the integration of text and link analysis applied to search and classification problems on the Web. He is a recipient of a 2006 NSF Faculty Early CAREER award.

The research interests of Professor Spletzer include intelligent vehicle systems, assistive technologies, and multi-robot systems. He received an NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Award in 2009 to investigate smart wheelchair technologies for navigating urban environments