Clarence (Skip) Ellis is working with the
African Virtual University to bring Afro-centric computer science curricula
to selected sub-Saharan African countries. During the spring semesters of 2006
and 2007, Skip has been teaching and doing curriculum development in Ghana and
Cameroon.
Michael Mozer is currently chair of the
Cognitive Science Society,
the main international organization that sponsors the major activities in
the field.
Three highlights from Michael Main:
Michael and two undergrad students received a 2007-2008 grant from the
Engineering Excellence Fund
to build a hybrid (analog/digital) computer that will implement some new
approaches to solving NP-hard problems.
PhD student Philipp Wetzler, the spring 2007
undergraduates in CSCI 3155, and Michael have redesigned the
Principles of Programming Languages course so that each student designs and
implements portions of a real programming language in order to learn about
principles such as parameter passing, object-oriented programming and more.
Michael's first science fiction story (involving robots, of course) was
published in
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
in 2006.
Alexander Repenning is on a sabbatical at the
University of Lugano, Switzerland.
Surrounded by palm trees he has enjoyed a snow-free winter. Repenning got over
one million dollars in funding from the European Commission, the National
Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Elizabeth Bradley spent the year at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
recovering from being chair, reacquainting herself with her students and her
research area, starting new projects
(one with Amer Diwan, several at the
boundaries between nonlinear dynamics and other fields, such as history and
film-making), and developing/presenting a multichannel performance piece called
Con/cantation,
which involves a human dancer and computer-generated animations.
Clayton Lewis has spent 2006-2007 academic
year as a sabbatical visitor at
Assistive Technology Partners,
a unit of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at CU's School of Medicine
in Denver. ATP is headquarters for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research
Center for the Advancement of Cognitive Technologies in which he participates,
funded by the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research and
CU's Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities.
After seven years with the department (five as a student),
Susanne Sherba has accepted an offer for a
Lecturer position at the
University of Denver.
The position begins in September. She would like to thank everyone for
their support and encouragement during her time at CU.
Evi Nemeth periodically sends out long and
entertaining messages about her world travels on her sailboat. Send her email
to get on her mailing list.
Leysia Palen was awarded a ~$600K
Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled
Data in Disaster. The five year project will empirically examine how
changing information generating and disseminating activities by response
agencies and the public place new demands on technology development,
acquisition and policy.
A paper,
Instant messaging in teen life,
co-authored by Leysia Palen has reached the
ACM Digital Library top ten
monthly downloads five times since 2005. For 2006, it ranked the 15th most
downloaded paper out of a total of ~775,000 articles in the library.
Kenneth Anderson spent his sabbatical at the
University of Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark
in 2005-2006 working with Professors
Kaj Grønbæk and
Niels Olof Bouvin
and their students on contextual hypermedia systems, resulting in a paper at
ACM Hypertext 2006 that received the
Engelbart Best Paper award. Ken kept an
Adventures in Aarhus
blog documenting his family's time in Denmark.
In a slight departure from normal faculty duties,
Bruce Sanders officiated the wedding ceremony
of former
Senior Project student and
Computer Science alumnus Simone Nicolò and
Jennifer Beltzer.
The wedding was held at Denver's Cheesman Park with a follow-up reception
at the Villa dei Quintili south of Rome.
