Introduction:

The College of Computing Grad Newletter hilights recent activities of its graduate student population. Starting with this, the Winter 1994 edition, the newsletter is available primarily as a multimedia document. This enables images, sounds, and movies to be embedded into the newletter. The suggested method of viewing the document is via Moasic. Mosaic browsers are available as freeware for Unix (/usr/local/bin/.xmosaic-2.1), Mac and PC platforms (the last two executables are available via anonymous ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu)n /Moasic). Of course, if you are reading this on paper, only images and text will be presented. Postscript and ascii versions of the newsletter are located in: /net/hg13/pitkow/grad-news/94-winter/94_winter.ps and 94_winter.txt). The URL for the newsletter is: http://www.gatech.edu/computing/grad-news/94_winter.html. Comments, suggestions, as well as entries for the Spring 1994 Grad Newsletter can be sent to grad-news@cc.gatech.edu.

Recent Accomplishments:

Annie Anton maintains the International Student Requirements Engineering mailing list (re-students@cc.gatech.edu). All newsletters will soon be available via WWW. If you wish to view the Requirements Engineering Newsletter maintained by Dr. Anthony Finkelstein, they are currently available via WWW at the Imperial College in London.

Also, Annie is currently serving on two Institute Search Committees (Executive Director of Information Technology, Coordinator for Disabled and Non-Traditional Students). Click here for more information on Annie.

M. Chelliah spent the last summer at NSA Lab, HP, Cupertino, CA. He worked as an intern in the design and implementation of a prototype performance measurement system for OSF's Distributed Computing Environment. An offshoot of the internship was the exciting cross-country drive he undertook with his buddies from CoC, Bala Lakshmanan and Ranjit John. They covered a total of 15 states altogether and saw lot of places on the way. After all this, he is really glad to be back in the 'real world'(school of course :-).
Russ Clark presented his PhD Research Proposal on December 9. The title of his proposed research is "A Multiprotocol Architectural Framework for Achieving Interoperability". Much fun was had by all who attended. Russ was notified of the acceptance of his paper "On the Use of Directory Services to Support Multiprotocol Interoperability" to the Infocom 94 conference to be held June 12 in Toronto. The paper was co-authored with Professors Ken Calvert and Mostafa Ammar.
Samir Ranjan Das attended the Performance'93 conference in Rome, Italy, on an NSF travel award. This January he also attended MASCOTS'94 conference in Durham, North Carolina. Also one of his papers with Professor Fujimoto has been accepted in the 1994 ACM SIGMETRICS conference in Nashville this May. He is planning to attend.
Keith Edwards was accepted into the CHI'94 Doctoral Consortium. The Doctoral Consortium is a pre-conference event where 15 Ph.D. students (post-proposal, pre-defense) present their research to various poobahs in the field. His entry is titled: A Framework for Information Sharing in Collaborative Environments and deals with the work that he is doing for his dissertation. (The system is part of his work is called Intermezzo, if you're interested in more details.) Keith also had a poster accepted to the conference on the same topic (same name even). Finally, he also just submitted a paper to CSCW'94 (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) called Session Management for Collaborative Applications. No word yet on whether it's been accepted or not.

Harold Forbes was selected as a Robert G. Shackelford Graduate Fellow at GTRI.
Scott Holt graduated with his MS at the end of Summer '93 and has accepted a position with BellSouth Wireless developing cellular telephony and intelligent network applications. His e-mail is holt.scott@bwi.bls.com. The office is in midtown so we will still be graced with his presence on campus from time to time! Congratulations Scott!
Ray Hsu is currently a SUCCEED funded research assistant working on the Georgia Tech Aerial Robotics System (GTARS). A commercial model helicopter is modified with a sensor bed and two CPUs to allow autonomous control while vision systems on the ground provide the necessary navigation. GTARS is a highly complex and multi-disciplinary system which requires the use of Concurrent Engineering design methodlogies. GTARS will be entered in the annual International Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) contest to be held in May 94 at Georgia Tech. The contest involves flying over a bin containing some metal disks and moving them to another bin. No one has accomplished the entire tasks in the three years of the competition. However, GTARS was awarded first place last year for demonstrating autonomous flight and retrieval of disks separately. This year's goal is to integrate the system so that the entire tasks can be accomplished.
Srinivas Kareenhalli graduated in Spring '93 (MS). He is currently working in Oracle Corporation ( Headquarters), Redwood Shores, CA. He is involved in performance evaluation/enhancement of Oracle on different Unix platforms. His new information is: 
Srinivas Kareenhalli    Unix Performance     Phone : (415)-506-6979. (O)
Oracle Corporation,          Group                   (415)-572-4725. (H)
500 Oracle Parkway,                          Email : skareenh@us.oracle.com
Box: 659408,
Redwood Shores,
CA 94065.                                    Fax   : (415)-506-7200.
Eileen Kraemer presented her research work at the National Intel Fellowship Forum (for students receiving fellowships from Intel). This was in late January in Santa Clara, CA. She also gave a talk at Intel's Supercomputing headquarters in Portland, OR. Eileen also is presenting a paper on her dissertation work at the IPPS '94 conference in Cancun, Mexico in April.
In the last six months Juan Carlos Santamaria published two papers: one in the Informatica Journal and another in the VI National Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems (CNIASE-93). At CNIASE-93 he also presented a plenary talk entitled: "Case-Based Reasoning". Juan Carlos presented two Virtual Reality demos as well at the GVU Lab.

He is currently working on self-improving intelligent robotic agents, model-based echolocation of environmental objects, and virtual reality and interactive visualization applications.

Paulo Santos attended the Human Computer Interaction Consortium Workshop in Fraser, Colorado this month.

Phyllis Schneck is continuing her work for the MITRE Corporation (with her boss at MITRE and Dr. John Shilling) applying Object-Oriented Technology to telecommunications. Her paper was accepted for publication/presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Telecommunications this Spring in Knoxville, Tennessee. She also received the MITRE Special Recognition Award for her work last Spring on a federal telecom contract (FTS2000).
Anand Sivasubramaniam and Aman Singla have co-authored two papers (along with their advisors Professors Kishore Ramachandran and H. Venkateswaran)that have been accepted for publication. The first paper titled "An Approach to Scalability Study of Shared Memory Parallel Systems" was accepted for ACM SIGMETRICS '94. Their second paper, "A Simulation-based Scalability Study of Parallel Systems" was accepted for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing devoted to scalability of algorithms and architectures.

Other News:

Drew Kessler is a "Professor" this quarter. Professor Kessler is teaching CS 2201 (Data Structures).
Ed Gallant is captain of the Georgia Tech Hockey Team. A large group of students from the CoC went to Ed's last game to cheer him on! Ed led the Yellow Jackets to a victory over UGA!
Greg & Peggy Eisenhauer bought a house and are moving in this March

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Fall 1993 Corrections:

Ajay Mohindra graduated with a PhD (Summer 93) working under the guidance of Professor Ramachandran. He is currently with IBM Watson Research, NY.

Additional Information on Students Mentioned Above:

Annie Anton

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Juan Carlos Santamaria

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Paulo Santos

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The Grad Newsletter is maintained by:

James Pitkow
GVU, College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
grad-news@cc.gatech.edu