Prof. Don Potter and the AI Center are featured in an article in the Athens Banner-Herald local newspaper.

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate, Haibo Zhao, for winning the 2008-09 UGA's Dissertation Completion Award. Haibo's research on Web services is supervised by Prof. Doshi.

Prof. Funk's mother, Harriet Mayor Fulbright, will be the Graduate School's commencement speaker in December 2008.

Congratulations to graduate students Bradley Barnes, Kushel Bellipady and John Harney for winning UGA's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. This recognition is given to TAs whose teaching performance ranks in the top 10% of all TAs at UGA.

Congratulations to Tomasz Oliwa (advisor: Prof. Rasheed), BJ Wimpey (Prof. Potter) and, Anousha Mesbah and John Harney(both Prof. Doshi) for winning the first, second and joint third prizes respectively, in the recent CS Research Day poster competition. The event featured over 40 posters by graduate student researchers. 

Congratulations to MS student Sharon Paradesi for winning a Systers Pass-it-on grant from the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. Sharon will use the grant to travel to LA and present her paper in ICWS 2009.

Congratulations to MS student Kalesha Bullard for winning a NSF graduate fellowship. Kalesha will use it to fund her studies toward a MS in CS and MS in Bio and Agri Engg.

Congratulations to Prof. Doshi for winning the 2009 NSF CAREER award for his project titled, "Scalable Algorithms for Individual Decision Making in Multiagent Settings". The CAREER award is the most prestigious grant that NSF awards to early career faculty.

Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamy and his collaborators at IBM for having a patent granted for their invention, "System and method for achieving different levels of data consistency" (United States Patent 7,395,279).

Computer Science Department alumna Dr. Chunmei Liu won the 2009 NSF CAREER award for her project titled, "CAREER: A Complete System for Protein Identification with Computational Approaches". Dr. Liu received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Georgia in 2006 and is currently an assistant professor at Howard University, Washington DC. The NSF CAREER award is the most prestigious award to faculty in their early careers.