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Charlie Brubaker, an August 2009 Ph.D. graduate in Computer Science, has won the College of Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award for his thesis, “Extensions of Principal Component Analysis,” and the College has voted to recommend the work for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, which each year recognizes the best CS dissertation in the country. Source: Office of Communications

With a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the College of Computing has launched "Operation Reboot." The program pairs a laid-off IT professional with an existing high school teacher for at least one year, allowing the IT professional to learn the ins and outs of a classroom, and the teacher to get an education in IT. "We will transform these IT workers' identity into that of a computing teacher," said Barbara Ericson, director of computer-science outreach for the College. Source: Computerworld

A paper coauthored by Associate Professor George Biros (CSE) has been highlighted with a "Viewpoint" commentary on the American Physical Society website. The site selects certain papers published in the journals Physics and Physical Letters, and publishes Viewpoint pieces to explain the paper's impact to a wider audience. Biros' paper, "Why Do Red Blood Cells Have Asymmetric Shapes Even In a Symmetric Flow," was published in Physics in October. Source: APS.org