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News in the Department
Announcements
- May, 2008:
Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya has been awarded a Distinguished
Service Award by the IEEE Computer Society in recognition of services
to the Society since 1998. During the last decade, Raj has been Chair
of the Task Force on Cluster Computing and Chair of the Technical
Committee on Scalable Computing, and founded four IEEE conferences and
new community programs with global impact. The President of the IEEE
Computer Society acknowledged Raj's service to the Society at a level
of dedication and achievement rarely demonstrated.
- 25 January, 2008:
Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya (Department of Computer Science and
Software Engineering) has been awarded the Chris Wallace Award for
Outstanding Research Contribution by the Computing Research and
Education Association of Australasia (CORE) - www.core.edu.au.
CORE Australasia is an association of university departments of
computer science in Australia and New Zealand. It offers the Chris
Wallace Award each year to an academic for research that includes a
notable breakthrough or a contribution of particular significance.
- 13 December, 2007:
Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya and Hui Li received the Best Paper
Award at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid
Computing for their work on model-driven simulation of grid scheduling
strategies. The paper was co-authored by a visiting research student
from Leiden University, The Netherlands. The award was presented on 13
December by M.V. Rajashekaran, Union Minister of State for Planning,
the Government of India.
- July, 2007:
Professor Leon Sterling has commenced as the Director of eResearch at
the University. This position is located within Information Services
(IS) with dual reporting lines to the Office of the Deputy Vice
Chancellor Research and IS.
Professor Sterling will provide leadership and strategic advice on
international, national and state e-research developments. He will work
closely with the newly formed eScholarship Research Centre, taking
responsibility for the development of the University's e-research
strategy and the development of successful consulting and research bids
to assist in building the University's capability in e-research.
Collaboration across the University and with key external partners will
be critical to the success of these initiatives. Professor Sterling
will be co-located with the eScholarship Research Centre on level 4 of
the Baillieu Library. He will maintain his strong association with the
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering with 20% of his
time spent on ongoing research activity and RHD student supervision.
- May, 2007:
Congratulations to Professor
Ramamohanarao (Rao) Kotagiri who received the PAKDD 2007
Distinguished Contribution Award. PAKDD (Pacific-Asia Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) is a leading international
conference in the areas of data mining and knowledge discovery. The
steering committee of PAKDD decided to confer the award on Rao based on
his "persistent outstanding contributions to PAKDD and eminent academic
record". Rao has had a long and distinguished academic research career
and a strong association with the PAKDD Conference.
- February, 2007: Congratulations to Associate Professor Harald
Sondergaard (Computer Science and Software Engineering),
who has just been awarded the CORE Inaugural Teaching Award
(2007) "for significant contributions to teaching and learning
in the Computer Science discipline". CORE, the Computing Research and
Education Association of Australasia, is an association of
thirty university departments in Australia and New
Zealand.
- September
2006: In a positive sign that the tide is turning for
ICT graduates and the ICT industry in general, The Minister for
Information and Technology The Honourable Marsha Thompson, this
afternoon, oversaw the signing of a Memorandum
of Understanding between Satyam Computer Services Ltd and The
University/Department. Satyam is one of the leading IT
companies in the world and one of the top four Indian IT
companies, with offices worldwide and a turnover of $US
794,000,000 (at March 2005). It is currently employing more
than 5,000 staff per quarter and believes that demand for IT
staff will exceed supply in the next decade, unless it can
secure mutually beneficial partnerships like the one it has
secured with the University/Department. The new MOU will
provide internship opportunities to students and expose them to
real world problems in a commercial environment. Satyam has
also committed to employing students from the
Department/University, which their CEO believes to be in the
top 20 Universities the world. The MOU will allow the
University and Satyam to actively collaborate on new research
projects and pave the way for a long term relationship.
- June,
2006: The federal government has formally acknowledged
the value of ICT in supporting a knowledge based society, by
appointing Prof. Rao Kotagiri as a member of the Data for
Scientists working party of the Prime Minister's Science
Engineering Innovation Council. The Council is the Australian
Government's principal source of independent advice on issues
in science, engineering and innovation and relevant aspects of
education and training.
- 3 March,
2006: The Department home page has moved to http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/,
a significant step in the migration away from the cs.mu.OZ.AU
domain. The new site uses a new web content management
system.
Celebrations
- 12 September 2007: Congratulations to
Linda Stern and
Steven Bird, who received two
of the three Faculty Teaching Awards that were presented at the Dean's
Honors Ceremony last night. Steven was also the recipient of the
Kelvin Medal.
- 21
February, 2007: The Department's
Teaching Excellence Awards for 2006 was shared by Tim
Baldwin and Tony Wirth, with a commendation to Joey Chua.
- 21
February, 2007: The Department's Research Excellence
Award for 2006 was shared by Chris Leckie and
Egemen Tanin. The
award is to academics in the department for quality and
productivity of research in 2006.
- 26 September 2006: Congratulations to
Shanika
Karunasekera who was presented with one of the three
Engineering Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching 2006.
Shanika was also the recipient of the Kelvin Medal for
excellence in Engineering education.
- June,
2006: Congratulations to Alistair Moffat who has
been appointed Associate Dean of the School of Graduate Studies
with responsibilities for Academic Programs and Quality
Assurance.
- 2006 is the
50th anniversary of CSIRAC, our first
computer, as well as a celebration of
50 years of computing education at the University of
Melbourne.
- 7 April,
2006: The Department's Research Excellence Award for
2005 was shared by Raj Buyya and Tim Baldwin. The award is to
academics in the department for quality and productivity of
research in 2005.
- 24 February, 2006: The
Departmental Teaching Excellence Awards for 2005 were awarded
to Steven Bird and
Lars Kulik.
Commendations were awarded to James Bailey and
Tim Baldwin.
- November 2005:
Congratulations to Xiaonan Ji, James Bailey and Guozhu
Dong for winning the best paper award at the IEEE 2005
International Conference on Data Mining for their paper "Mining
Minimal Distinguishing Subsequence Patterns with Gap
Constraints"
- September 2005:
Congratulations to Chris Leckie and
Michael Kirley
for taking out two of the three Engineering Faculty Awards for
Excellence in Teaching 2005. Chris also received the Kelvin
Club's "Kelvin Medal" for excellence in engineering
education.
- August 2005: Peter Stuckey has an
extensive collection of programming competitions trophies.
Hence it came as no surprise when he and Maria Garcia de la
Banda won the 2005 Constraint
Modelling Challenge.
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