Rachel Sparrow Lowenthal was born on July 25, 2005 to Jennie Sparrow and Professor David Lowenthal. Rachel weighed 5 lbs. 4 oz. at birth.

Dr. Julia Couto joins us as an Instructor. Dr. Couto arrives from James Madison University where she served as an Assistant Professor. Previously, she received her PhD in Computer Science from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.

Prashant Doshi and Lakshmish Ramaswamy will be joining the Computer Science Department at UGA as Assistant Professors, in August, 2005.

Prof. Liming Cai and his wife Dr. Ying Gao had a new baby girl, Lillian Yuan Cai, weighted 7 lbs & 14 ozs, & 21.5 inches long, on 9:52am November 25, 2005. Everyone in the family is doing great!

LSDIS lab has a collaboration with Athens Heart Center (AHC), the largest cardiology practice in Athens, GA. Building upon LSDIS's experitse in the Semantic Web, the collaboration has lead to the development and deployement of an Active Semantic Electronic Patient Record system. This system is also entering continuous usage in the AHC practice, and is one of the earliest Semantic Web applications developed and used that exploit multiple ontologies, semantic and lexical annotation and rule processing.

LSDIS lab's collaboration with IBM resulted in a member submission "Web Services Semantics: WSDL-S" to the World Wide Web consortium (W3C). On March 21, W3C launched "Semantic Annotations for WSDL Working Group" which recognizes UGA-IBM submissions on WSDL-S as the input.

Researchers in the adversarial modeling group of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory use Prof. Doshi's research on decision making in multiagent settings toward countering money laundering.

Prof. Cai serves on two Program Committees: IWBRA 2006 (International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Reading, UK) and IEEE GrC 2006 (IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Atlanta).

Dr. Funk is on two TPC's. OPODIS (9th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems to be held in Pisa, Italy December 12 - 14) and RTAS (12th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium to be held in San Jose, California April 4 - 7, 2006).

Dr. Ramaswamy will be serving as a PC member of 26th International Conference on Disrtibuted Computing Systems (ICDCS - 2006), to be held in Lisboa Portugal. The web page is available at icdcs2006.di.fc.ul.pt