College of Computing
Grad Newsletter Spring 1994
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Recent Accomplishments:
Annie I. Anton represented
Georgia Tech at the Washington Center's 10th Annual "Women As Leaders"
seminar in Washington DC, May 16-28. Annie was one of three women
selected from Georgia to participate in this program. While in DC she
met Senators Paul Coverdell and Bob Dole; sat in on the National
Information Infrastructure (NII) hearings of the Space, Science, and
Technology Congressional Committee as well as the Senate Health Care
Reform hearings. She also participated in the "Mentor for a Day"
program with Dr. Dianne Martin at George Washington University.
Annie was selected as a recipient of the 1994 Georgia Tech Alumni
Association Leadership Award for International Study. The award is
a $3,000 scholarship which Annie will use to travel to England in
March (1995) to attend an IFIP WG Requirements Engineering meeting
in Hampshire, and the RE '95 Symposium in York. Peter Freeman
is serving as Annie's trip faculty advisor.
Annie also received the following distinctinons:
- Selected to receive a $1,000 Georgia Tech Bookstore/Student Center Leadership "Graduate Honorable Mention" Scholarship.
- Recieved a "Most Valuable Graduate Student Award" from the CoC Graduate Student Committee.
- recognized as a GTE Fellowship recipient at a luncheon with representatives from GTE this Spring.
Hernan Astudillo and Andres Gomez de Silva (both PhD students at CoC) won
the 1st place at the Trivia Contest of the Georgia Tech International
Festival. They lay claim to the title "triviameister" from now on.
Dave Brogan and Jessica Hodgins had a paper accepted into The Artificial
Life conference which will be at MIT this July.
Muthusamy Chelliah co-authored a paper with his advisor Prof. Mustaque Ahamad, titled
"System Mechanisms for Distributed Object-based Fault-tolerant Computing" that
has been accepted for publication in the 1994 IEEE Workshop on Fault-tolerant
Parallel and Distributed Systems. His advisor will be presenting it in Texas
A&M University, College Station on June 14. Muthusamy will be spending the summer working at
Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino. He'll be enhancing a generic performance measurement
tool of their NSA group for evaluating microkernels. He is also am getting married to
Ms. Geetha Chockalingam on June 12 at Tuticorin, India.
Michael Cox
has the following manuscripts accepted for publication.
- Cox, M. T. (in press a). Case-based introspection [Research summary].
In Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence .
- Cox, M. T. & Freed, M. (in press). Using knowledge of cognitive behavior to
learn from failure. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on
Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics. Windsor, Ontario, Canada: The
International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and
Cybernetics.
- Ram, A., Cox, M. T., & Narayanan, S. (in press). Goal-driven
learning in multistrategy reasoning and learning systems. In A. Ram & D.
Leake (eds.), Goal-Driven Learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press/Bradford Books.
- Ram, A., Narayanan, S., & Cox, M. T. (in press). Learning to Trouble-Shoot:
Multistrategy learning of Diagnostic Knowledge for a real-world problem solving
task. Cognitive Science Journal. (Also available as Tech.
Rep. No. GIT-CC-93/67, Atlanta: Georgia Institute of Technology, College of
Computing).
He also presented the following paper at Stanford University and participated on an
invited panel discussion on "Pursuing learning goals" at the same symposia on
March 21-23:
Additionally, Michael is also actively involved as member of the steering committee and
reviewer for the Sixteenth Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society to be held at Georgia Tech this
August. He reviewed 7 papers submitted to the conference. He also submitted
and had accepted the following two papers for the conference (an earlier draft
of the first paper won the SAIC Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition):
Finally, Michael was chair of the organizing committee for the 3rd Annual
Cognitive Science Graduate Student Conference (CSGSC-94)
at Georgia Tech, 21-22 April. He was an editor for the proceedings and presented
the conference introduction. He also gave the following talk at the conference:
- Cox, M. T. (1994). Computational and psychological explanations of forgetting
[Summary of presented paper]. In M. T. Cox, A. A. Cabrera, A. Edmonds, K.
Moorman, & J. Sawyer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1994 Cognitive Science Graduate
Student Conference (Cognitive-Science Tech. Rep. No. 4), Atlanta: Georgia
Institute of Technology, College of Computing.
Allison L. Elliott
has accepted a summer internship at Schlumberger Austin Systems
Center (ASC) in Austin, Texas. Allison will be working with Susan
Rosenbaum while at ASC this summer.
Harold Forbes had published the following papers:
-
John F. Gilmore(GTRI), Khalid J. Elibiary(ME) and Harold Forbes(CoC),
``A Distributed Blackboard System for Traffic Control'', to appear
14th International Conference on Expert Systems, June 1994.
- John F. Gilmore(GTRI), Khalid J. Elibiary(ME) and Harold Forbes(CoC),
``Knowledge-Based Advanced Traffic Management System'',
IVHS America Annual Meeting, April 1994.
- Tucker Balch, Harold Forbes and Karsten Schwan, ``Dynamic Scheduling
for Obstacle Avoidance in Mobile Robots'', to appear 6th EuroMicro
Workshop on Real Time Systems, June 1994, also availble as Tech Report GIT-CC-93
/39.
- Harold Forbes, ``Parallel Processing at the Crossroads'',
{\it Atlanta Computer Currents}, Vol. 6, No. 4, April 1994, page 42,
Jaye Communications, Inc., 3200
Professional Parkway, Suite 245, Atlanta, GA 30339.\\
- Harold Forbes and Karsten Schwan, ``Rapid - A Multiprocessor Scheduler for Dynam
ic Real-Time Applications'', GIT-CC-94-23, submited to the 15th Real-Time System
Symposium
Ed Gallant has graduated and accepted a job with Bluestone Inc., in
Mt. Laurel, NJ. Bluestone is a small company of 75 people
that specializes in Open Systems Products and Services. Ed is currently
assigned to the Professional Services group and is working for
AT&T on two different projects. Ed also reports that he is recently
engaged to one Ms. Leslie Montabon of Lilburn, GA.
Weiming Gu attended the Scalable High Performance Computing Conference at the
Univ. of Tennesee Knoxville on May 23rd through 25th where he presented a
poster on his research concerning the the FALCON online monitoring system.
Co-authors on the submission were Greg Eisenhaur and Karsten Schwan. Dilma
Da Silva, Eileen Kraemer, and Vernard Martin also attended the conference
but did not present their research.
Vernard Martin was cast as T-Bone in the DramaTech play "T-Bone N
Weasel". The play ran only 5 nights and was part of the DramaTech
Internation Theatre Festival.
Phyllis Schneck was the recipient of the 1994 Outstanding Computer
Science Graduate Student at the annual Society of Women Engineers
awards ceremony/dinner.
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GVU, College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
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