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Florida State UniversityDepartment of Computer Science2012 Honors and Awards Ceremony

Friday April 13, 2012

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Awards Program

Recognition of Guests and Opening Remarks … Dr. Robert van Engelen

Computer Science Department Chair

Special Guests Today

Julene Irwin, Harris Corp. Thomas Leonard, Red Rocket Solutions Michael Clarke, Citilabs Carl Owenby, Maclay School Ermine Owenby Tami Thomas, Infinity Software Jonathan Taylor, Infinity Software Ed Tunstall, retired from Eli Lilly

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Departmental Highlights and News Newest Degree Programs

MS in Computer and Systems Network Administration reactivated in Fall 2011

Dean of Arts and Sciences funded 5 Students to support this degree program

BA in Computer Science activated in Fall 2011

Enrollment Undergraduate – 471 Graduate – 136

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Departmental Highlights and News

Dr. Robert van Engelen took over as Chair, August 2012 Feifei Li accepted another position at the University of

Utah Department has authorization to hire two new faculty:

Staff News

Carl Forney II : new in the department as Administrative Support Assistant

Esther Diaguila : became Undergraduate Advisor (replacing Matthew Claypool)

Betty Stanton: returned to department as a part time Distance Learning advisor

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Recent Research Grants

Dr. Wang – Exploiting Semantic Equivalence of Files to Improve Storage System, NSF $499,904

Dr. Burmester – Scholarships for Information Assurance at FSU, NSA, $19,326

Dr. Zhang – Energy-Efficient Wi-Fi Partial Packet Recovery for Android System, Google, $31,216

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Faculty Recognitions… Dr. Robert van Engelen

Dr. Michael Mascagni was awarded the Distinguished Scientist award by the ACM for 2011

Dr. Ted Baker professor of Computer Science Selected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to real-time computing

applications." Dr. Baker was awarded Emeritus status for his contributions to the

Department, College and University.

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Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards… Mr. Robert Myers

Jonathan Jenkins Santosh Mahapatra Biswas Parajuli Surjyendu Ray Myles Wright

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ACM Recognitions…

FALL 2011 ACM Programming Contest 1st Place Team

Andrew Szyzadlisk, Patrick Tully

2nd Place Team Steven Burgart, Justin Danielson, Robert Griesmeyer

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ACM Recognitions… Dr. Zhang

SPRING 2012 ACM Programming Contest 1st Place Team

Steven Bronson, Nick Newson, Patrick Tully

2nd Place Team Brandon Davis

3rd place Josh Lindsey, Matt Lundberg

Student Publications S. Chatterjee B. Neff M. Mitchell C. Meyers F. Sposaro I. Finlayson F. Sanchez P. Chen P. Yount G. Miller S. Zhou

O. Redwood A. Marathe D. Lowenthal Z. Gu M Small W. Nienaber S. Mahapatra H. Yu J. Xie W. Hu

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http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~zzhang/paperlist.htm

Student Career and Award Recognition

Presidential FellowshipAlejandro Cabrera

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Student Career and Award Recognitions… p.2 Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service

(SFS) Michael Backherms Patrick Dwyer Sean Easton Ryan Gidus David Guidry Ivan Lozano Sereyvathana Ty

The Graphics and Multimedia Contest The Art Category

Varun VenkatesanHeidy KhlaafFrank Brailsford

Research CategoryNigel NyeRajat Raychaudhuri

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Harris Corporation Awards

Presented By Ms. Julene Irwin

Graduate Fellowship Melina Vastola

Undergraduate Scholarship Brandon Davis Cassandra Coan Cassandra Urmano

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Carl and Ermine Owenby Sr. Scholarships

Presented By Ms. Ermine Owenby Mr. Carl Owenby

Scholarship Awardees Jake Jennings (Fall 2012) Clark Wood (Spring 2013)

Certificates in Information Security… Dr. Mike Burmester

William Owen Redwood William Falcon Street Zheng Gu Sereyvathana Ty

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Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Electees … Ms. Ann Ford Tyson

Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Electees 2012 Britton Dennis III Steve Rutkowski Andrew Szydlik

Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest honor society in the United States, founded in 1776, and is the nation's leading advocate for the liberal arts and sciences at theundergraduate level

PBK Induction ceremony was held Sunday April 15th this year

Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society Induction

… Heidy Khlaaf, Caitlin Carnahan, Patrick Tully

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UPE Inductees

Paul Ackerman Brandon Davis Matthew Davison Thomas Erskine Haonan Lu Stephanie Ramseier Sarah Reinhardt Timothy Valentine Clark Wood

The 6 Chairs of UPE

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Reception Following

Please join us now in Room 151 of the Love Building for our Celebratory Reception

Thanks To…Organizing the Reception and Refreshments: CS Alumna Diana Orrick

And… to all of the CS department faculty, staff and students who helped out in many ways too numerous to list here