Yale hosted the
2008 NSF Cyber Trust PI Meeting.
(
http://www.cs.yale.edu/cybertrust08/)
Vladimir Rokhlin has
been elected to the
National
Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the NAE is among the
highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy
membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions
to engineering research, practice, or education.
On February 7, 2008 the Yale College Faculty approved a new major
on
“
Computing
and the Arts.” The new major is designed for
students interested in
integrating work in computing and one of the arts disciplines:
Art, History
of Art, Music or Theater Studies.
Joan Feigenbaum
has been added to the Science Council
for the
Global Environment for Network Innovations
(GENI), along with 3 others. The new members will join 15 current
members of the council in providing scientific guidance for the
GENI project -- a proposed experimental facility to allow research
on a wide variety of problems in communications, networking, and
distributed systems.
Julie Dorsey won a fellowship
to support development of innovative teaching materials for CPSC
179, Digital Photorealism.
Details.
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