August 2008

• Maryland Students Win Underwater Vehicle Contest
• Innovation Hall of Famer Smith Dies
• Nuno Martins appointed to Conference Editorial Board
• Anandalingam interviewed on Business Week video
• Sasan Bakhtiari joins University of New South Wales faculty
• Sandborn writes about obsolete systems for IEEE Spectrum
• Robotics@Maryland team wins underwater vehicle contest
• Raghavan co-edits new operations research compendium

July 2008

• S.K. Gupta is co-author of book on training in virtual environments
• Seddik Joins EE Faculty at Alexandria University
• Lovell, Sandborn join Clark School's Keystone distinguished professors
• Space Systems Lab awarded NASA contract
• Vahid Tabatabaee joins ISR as Assistant Research Scientist
• Ankur Srivastava is new ISR joint appointment faculty member
• Ghodssi Named Associate Editor of JMEMS
• Shneiderman interviewed about evolving government web sites
• Rance Cleaveland interviewed for medical device software story
• Alumnus Tan Presents Research at Capitol Hill Science Funding Event

June 2008

• Shayman, Khandani awarded US Patent 7,391,740
• Moss interviewed in NSF video
• Ben Shneiderman wins CMPS distinguished faculty award
• Krishnaprasad gives inaugural Cymer Distinguished Lecture
• Nau invited speaker at ProMas 2008
• ISR welcomes two Honda Visiting Scholars
• ISR alum Sanjeev Khudanpur earns tenure
• Barua, Udayakumaran awarded patent for memory allocation
• Ghodssi, Rubloff receive bioMEMS patent
• REU students spending summer in research

May 2008

• Vorontsov, Koev, Wei and McKinney win at ISR awards ceremony
• ISR welcomes Takeshi Yamanaka
• Liu Delivers Keynote at IEEE Conference on Communications
• Anandalingam named Dean of Robert H. Smith School of Business
• S.K. Gupta Promoted to Full Professor
• Alumni Introduce "Sezmi," New Broadcast TV Network
• ISR announces Systems Symposium poster contest winners
• Galloway and Tjoa Awarded Summer Research Fellowships
• ECE Students, Alumnus Among UM $50K Business Plan Competition Winners
• Student Wins First Prize in Professional Writing Program Contest
• Ephremides is keynote speaker at IEEE International Information Theory Workshop
• Espy-Wilson appointed Radcliffe Fellow
• New Scientist magazine explores Shneiderman's 911.gov idea
• 'eMedCheck' Aids Public Health Workers in Dispensing Antibiotics
• Clark School Researchers Collaborate on New Cell-Based Sensors
• Ghodssi Named Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor
• Davis, Smolyaninov awarded two patents for far-field optical microscope
• ECE Faculty Honored at Inaugural Scholarship & Research Celebration

April 2008

• Abshire, Cukier, Simon earn tenure
• Adomaitis on EuroCVD-17 international organizing committee
• Palathra, de Pilar Leon to gain international research experience
• ISR hosts 4th Northeast Control Workshop
• S.K. Gupta and teammates win 2007 'Invention of the Year' physical science award
• Subrahmanian wins first ISR Faculty Venture Fair
• Nuno Martins to be guest editor for control journal
• Boyson co-authors chapter in World Economic Forum report
• Reza Ghodssi named associate editor of Journal of Biomedical Microdevices
• Martins receives AFOSR grant for control of mobile multi-agent systems
• Liu, Alumnus Han Co-Author Book on Wireless Networks
• Ephremides Gives Distinguished Lecture at Texas A&M
• Alumnus Xiaobo Tan receives ONR grant for biomimetic robotic fish
• ECE Alumnus Wins Best Paper at IEEE Wireless Conference
• New Advance in Biochip Research
• Bergbreiter wins 2008 DARPA Young Faculty Award

March 2008

• Researchers Win MURI Award for Multi-Scale Networks
• Aytekin, Moss, Simon author Neural Computation cover story
• Ephremides speaks at University of Minnesota, IBM Research Center
• Shneiderman writes about future network collaboration research in Science magazine
• Chuang Earns Intel Achievement Award
• Davis Team Wins Funding for Wireless Research
• STOP software predicts terror groups' reasoning and actions

February 2008

• Simon Receives NIH Grant for Auditory Cortex Research
• Abshire, Shapiro, Smela part of biosensor grant
• All Things Considered explores icy waters with DEPTHX
• Spring 2008 Systems Solutions available
• Airline mergers are inevitable, Ball says
• Ephremides Gives Two Invited Talks at Colorado State
• International journal honors Ben Shneiderman with special issue

January 2008

• Space Systems Laboratory featured in Gazette newspaper
• Ben Shneiderman on visualizing data
• Ephremides gives lectures on wireless network cross-layer design
• Work of Cohen, Etienne-Cummings profiled in WIRED magazine
• Baras Delivers ECC '07 Plenary, Publishes Paper on Wireless Security

December 2007

• Clark School Research Team Introduces World's First Invisibility Cloak
• Clark School Research Featured in Top 100 Science Stories of 2007
• ECE Student Xiang Wins Award at BioScience Day
• P.S. Krishnaprasad gives Bode Lecture
• Alum Andrew Newman wins Hart Prize for Development
• Martins Joins Editorial Board of Systems & Control Letters

November 2007

• New Scientist highlights cell sensor research
• Liu and Siriwongpairat write book overviewing UWB multiband OFDM systems
• Alexander Barg elected IEEE Fellow
• Ghodssi To Give Plenary at International MEMS Conference
• Michael Fu elected as IEEE Fellow
• Herrmann develops public health emergency preparedness blog
• Liu Co-Authors New Book on Group Communications Security
• Additional $1.8M for Cancer Treatment Project

October 2007

• Miao Yu Receives AFOSR YIP Award
• Ephremides featured in Computerworld story on future mobile technologies
• Toshiba's Yosuke Okamoto begins six-month visit
• Ball to speak at airport systems planning and design course
• UMD To Host NanoBiotechnology for Defense Applications Workshop
• New ISR System Solutions newsletter available online
• Baras Gives Plenary Lectures on Wireless Security

September 2007

• Khandani Receives NSF Grant for Research on Information Flow Theory
• Farvardin Professorship Fund Reaches $500K
• Ephremides Establishes Chair Professorship
• Srivastava Receives NSF Grant for Circuit Optimization Research
• Alumnus George Kantor promoted at Carnegie-Mellon
• Baras gives plenary address at CAMS'07
• Ephremides, Luo receive NSF grant for wireless multicasting optimization
• NSF multi-user wireless communications grant for Ulukus
• Ephremides, Nguyen, Wieselthier receive U.S. Patent 7,233,584
• Subrahmanian writes Science article on cultural modeling software
• Makowski receives NSF grant for modeling wireless networks
• NEXTOR receives $1 million NASA grant for improving air traffic control

August 2007

• S.K. Gupta elected a Fellow of ASME
• Ghodssi, Rubloff part of $2 million NSF grant
• Martins to investigate optimal reference tracking
• Cukier advises on wireless security
• Ulukus is PI on new NSF wireless networks grant
• Barua awarded NSF grant for memory management as a run-time service
• New Clinic Surge Planning Model software released
• Chopra, Cleaveland, Kanold join ISR this fall

July 2007

• S.K. Gupta receives NSF award for context-dependent simplified models
• Alumnus Trappe Appointed Associate Director of Rutgers' WINLAB
• Anandalingam is new Smith School senior associate dean
• Dana Nau interviewed about Texas Hold'em computer program
• Faridi, Girici accept faculty positions
• ISR postdoc and alumna Mounya Elhilali to join Johns Hopkins University
• Wu named to Computerworld's "40 Under 40" list of rising stars
• Patent issued to Balachandran, Al-Bassyiouni and Yu
• ISR postdoc Vijay Gupta to join Notre Dame faculty

June 2007

• Herrmann Joins QUEST Honors Fellows Program as Associate Director
• Subrahmanian describes computer models to combat insurgencies at AAAS seminar
• Shneiderman applauds new federal government web usability guide
• ISR's Intelligent Servosystems Lab places two summer interns at Intelligent Automation Inc.
• JáJá’s Producer–Archive Workflow Network software featured in Federal Times
• Antman receives NSF grant to study nonlinear problems of solid mechanics
• Ph.D. Student Receives AVS Graduate Research Award
• John Baras invited speaker at MIT Enterprise Forum
• ISR faculty host CRCNS Principal Investigators' Meeting
• Welcome, REU students!
• Herrmann tapes video for Centers for Disease Control
• ISR alum Fumin Zhang joins Georgia Tech faculty

May 2007

• Farvardin receives patent for image technology
• Liu Named Fellow of the Academy of Excellence in Teaching and Learning
• Ephremides Delivers Plenary Lecture at IEEE Communication Theory Workshop
• Ghodssi Invited to Participate in NAE Frontiers Symposium
• Engineers Sweep Movie Contest
• William Levine honored at retirement celebration
• NanoCenter Highly Ranked
• ISR alum Andrew Newman promoted at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
• Wired magazine discovers Horiuchi research
• Baras, Theodorakopoulos selected for IEEE Abraham Prize
• Espy-Wilson receives NSF grant for robust speech recognition
• Echolocating bat research of Cindy Moss featured in Washington Times story
• Shihab Shamma wins outstanding faculty award
• Strahan receives outstanding staff award
• Nima Ghalichechian receives ISR Outstanding Graduate Student Award
• ISR alum Wade Trappe earns tenure at Rutgers
• Farvardin Named University of Maryland Provost
• Baras Delivers Keynote Address at Control Over Communication Workshop
• TV news highlights Shneiderman's 911.gov idea

April 2007

• Subrahmanian software featured in Science
• Akin, recent alumni win at business plan competition
• MEMS Researchers Win IEEE LEOS Best Paper Competition
• Carol Espy-Wilson promoted to full professor
• Levine, Elliott to speak at memorial conference for W.P. Dayawansa
• Davis, Milner awarded NSF grant for directional hybrid wireless networks
• Shneiderman featured in Technology Review story on data visualization
• Rubloff, Bentley quoted in Business Gazette's 'nanofactories' story
• Guardian article cites Cukier research
• ISR alum Ram Venkataraman Iyer earns tenure at Texas Tech
• Clark School Highly Ranked

March 2007

• Ephremides, Nguyen, Wieselthier win NRL publication award
• ISR alums Leonard, Tassiulas named IEEE Fellows
• Smolyaninov, Davis superlens microscope research published in Science
• ISR students chosen for ECE dissertation fellowship awards
• Srivastava, Khandelwal Win Award for Computer Engineering Research
• MEMS research of Morgan and Ghodssi featured in NASA Tech Briefs
• Miao Yu wins NSF CAREER Award
• Krishnaprasad, Baras, Moss participating in new MURI awards
• UMD President Mote includes ISR highlights in remarks to legislators
• ISR alum Victor De Oliveira elected to International Statistical Institute

February 2007

• ISR alum Haga joins faculty at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
• Akin, Space Systems Laboratory featured on Discovery Channel program
• ISR alum Ajay Gupta chairs task force for incoming Maryland governor
• Five ISR communication researchers featured in E@M magazine
• New issue of ISR's Systems Solutions newsletter available
• Marcus, Fu, Chang and Hu co-author Simulation-based Algorithms for Markov Decision Processes
• Richard La promoted to associate professor
• Shneiderman, Preece advocate for 'online 911' system
• Wu and Qu awarded AFOSR grant for high-performance trusted computing platforms
• Baras, Liu, Davis receive MIPS grants
• March 26: Petar Kokotovic, ISR Distinguished Lecturer
• Nuno Martins receives NSF CAREER Award
• Cukier's study: hackers attack computers every 39 seconds
• Fischell Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering Business Plan Competition
• Smolyaninov and Davis' plasmon microscope cited in APS annual review
• S.K. Gupta featured in Mechanical Engineering Magazine story

January 2007

• Grad student Sean Gahagan wins best paper award
• ISR alum Yan Sun wins NSF CAREER Award
• Shihab Shamma featured in National Public Radio interview

December 2006

• Krishnaprasad Receives IEEE Bode Prize
• Ball quoted on airline mergers in Newark Star-Ledger
• K.J. Ray Liu honored as 2007-2008 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
• Hill Whiting-Turner Lecture Online
• Baras honored for IVA membership at special reception
• Welcome to Professor of the Practice Marvin Sambur
• Zhang is first recipient of ENPM outstanding teacher award

November 2006

• Winter Commencement Speaker Announced
• K.J. Ray Liu develops 'brain' for concealed weapon detector
• New legs for chitosan nanosensor story
• ISR alumni Sarkar, Poovendran earn tenure
• Krishnaprasad delivers Munich Mathematical Colloquium lecture
• ISR alum Gubner author of new book on probability and random processes
• Davis, Smolyaninov developing two-dimensional plasmon microscope

October 2006

• Happy Halloween! Radio discovers Horiuchi's work with bats, micromachines
• ISR alum Rajiv Laroia honored by Clark School of Engineering
• Former ISR professor Wijesuriya Dayawansa dies
• McAvoy Team Awarded NIH Grant
• ISR undergrad Travis Young named Merrill Presidential Scholar
• Ball, Lovell awarded NASA grant for air traffic flows
• Lovell receives NSF grant for electrophoretic displays

September 2006

• Barg receives NSF theoretic analysis grant
• Ephremides Delivers Distinguished Lectures on Wireless Networks
• Renowned Telecom Experts to Deliver White Symposium
• Davis receives patent for optical wireless communication
• Kedem receives IBM Faculty Award
• Gupta, Etienne-Cummings designated as 'Trailblazers'
• NSF Funds Microscopy Facility Upgrades
• Gupta, Peng receive ASME best paper award
• InterDigital becomes ISR strategic partner

August 2006

• $1 Million For Nano-Bio Initiative
• Honda R&D becomes ISR partner
• ISR alum Hamid Jafarkhani named IEEE Fellow
• Computerworld honors research by Subrahmanian; Liu and Wu
• Undergrads Goldman and Chen Selected as NCMR Scholars
• Raghavan receives Glover-Klingman prize; Olian Award
• New ISR Systems Solutions available online
• Alumnae Chiu wins Macronix Golden Silicon Award
• Book by ISR alum and UMD professor enters second edition
• Abshire, Gupta, Liu receive MIPS grants
• Ephremides quoted in Computerworld article
• Shneiderman receives software patent
• ISR alum helps develop technology to regrow teeth
• Berenstein, Baras, Gavilánez author network tomography article
• Sambur Brings Research Collaboration Skills, Contacts

July 2006

• Crab Nano-Sensor Detects Dangerous Substances
• News story about Ghodssi's III-V MEMS work rockets around globe
• Flu Clinic Software Required by CDC
• Herrmann new associate editor of ASME journal
• NIST and NanoCenter announce partnership
• Liu delivers keynote address to IEEE multimedia conference
• Landwehr named editor-in-chief of IEEE Secuity and Privacy
• Shayman appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
• Stealth strategy paper by Justh, Krishnaprasad published

June 2006

• New Honda Visiting Scientist arrives at ISR
• State Approves $3.65 Million for NanoCenter
• Shamma, Simon, Fritz receive five-year, $1.57 million NIH grant
• McAvoy elected Fellow of IFAC
• Gupta quoted in story on biologically inspired robots
• Twelve REU students welcomed
• Ph.D. student selected for AVS Graduate Research Award

May 2006

• Jiaqiao Hu accepts SUNY Stony Brook faculty position
• Hendler part of DoD/MoD International Technology Alliance contract
• Hendler, semantic web featured on the BBC
• Mingyan Liu promoted at University of Michigan
• Simon research featured on Cerebral Cortex cover
• Baras elected to Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science
• ISR awards honor faculty, grad student and staff member
• Horiuchi, Shamma labs cited by IEEE Spectrum magazine
• Ephremides wins information theory service award
• ISR alum earns tenure at MIT
• Cukier study: female user names receive overwhelming amount of unwanted messages
• Miao Yu wins Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
• JaJa wins IDEA award
• Bats use 'guided missile' strategy
• Herrmann edits new production scheduling book

April 2006

• NanoCenter to Host First NanoDay
• Post-doctoral Fellow Luo Joins Colorado State Faculty
• Ephremides To Deliver Keynote at IEEE Communication Theory Workshop
• Wall Street Journal columnist falls for Treemaps
• Grad student's high altitude work highlighted in GPS World
• Moss, Ghose work profiled on children's web site
• Martins Wins AACC Award for Theory
• NetImmune wins entrepreneurship award
• Herrmann receives NACo Award
• ISR's 20th Anniversary Celebration Symposium

March 2006

• Book edited by ISR faculty becomes best seller
• Ghodssi Group Paper Featured in Journal of Micromechanics & Microengineering
• Engineers Pioneer New Digital Forensics Technology
• Shapiro, Barua, Ulukis and Wu receive tenure
• Alumna Featured in MIT's Technology Review
• Magazine highlights Ghodssi's III-V optical MEMS work
• Nau, Subrahmanian are principal investigators for $3.4 million MURI
• Moss and Ghose research bat signals with clutter
• Baras, Gu, Jiang awarded patent for video codec
• Two ISR teams awarded NSF DDDAS grants
• Cukier and students semifinalists in business plan competition

February 2006

• ISR alum Xiaobo Tan wins NSF CAREER Award
• ISR alum wins INFORMS dissertation award
• S. Raghavan wins INFORMS computing society prize
• MIPS contracts for Liu, Gupta
• Khosla elected to National Academy of Engineering
• Moss, Ghose research published, featured in media outlets
• Herrmann speaks to IBM TJ Watson Research Center

January 2006

• Clark School Sends Students to Aid Katrina Victims
• S.K. Gupta speaks at South Korean workshop
• Alumnus Wins MIT Technovator Award
• ISR quartet writes multimedia fingerprinting book
• Zhang selected as Keystone Professor
• Wu, Liu, Wang and Trappe win best paper award
• Shneiderman gets 'high five'
• Hendler writes op-ed on the future of artificial intelligence

December 2005

• Kedem is featured speaker at SCMA2005
• Raghavan, Anandalingam edit two new operations research books
• Shneiderman quoted in New Scientist
• Cukier's quantifying computer security work profiled in the media

November 2005

• Herrmann's mass vaccination clinic research covered extensively in the media
• Former ISR postdoc Ye Li named IEEE Fellow
• Grad student Tarun Pruthi wins ASA best student paper award
• Espy-Wilson named ASA Fellow
• Makowski named IEEE Fellow
• NanoCenter featured on PBS's Nightly Business Report
• Ephremides, Ayyagari awarded patent for DS-CSMA Networks
• Espy-Wilson receives NSF grant for speech recongnition

October 2005

• K.J. Ray Liu is Rutgers Distinguished Lecturer
• Brockett honored with Rufus Oldenburger Medal
• Mao and Karakos selected for IBM symposium
• Visiting scholar Wen Long completes assignment
• Berenstein, Krishnaprasad contribute to new signal processing book
• ISR staff member Frank Briggs retires
• Research Brief details Cukier's work on quantifying computer security
• New System Solutions newsletter available
• Grad student Om Deshmukh wins best poster award

September 2005

• Narayan earns NSF grants for wireless research
• Bertsimas, Poor are ISR Distinguished Lecturers
• Davis, Milner awarded $2.7 million ONR research contract
• Gupta's Virtual Training Studio profiled by Office of Naval Research
• ISR alumna Haitao Zheng named to 'top 35 innovators under 35' list
• Herrmann's clinic planning software available for free download
• Yuichi Kato helps design new Honda Gold Wing motorcycle
• Ephremides is PI for NSF MRI grant on wireless sensor networks
• Cohen is PI for five-year NSF/NIH grant on lamprey locomotion
• Shamma receives grant from Honda for robotics work

August 2005

• Coriale speaks at PICMET conference
• Shneiderman's Treemaps work profiled in Financial Times
• Akin featured on All Things Considered
• Abed, Baras, Krishnaprasad, Justh speak at swarming workshop
• ISR alum Sean Andersson joins Boston University faculty
• Abshire, Horiuchi advise MERIT Fair winners
• Fitzgerald wins ASME/NSF Design Essay Competition
• Masaaki Nagashima lectures on control for engines and emissions
• Yuichi Kato pays return visit to ISR
• Three new MIPS contacts for ISR faculty
• Shneiderman's Treemaps work highlighted in Information Week
• Three best paper awards for NEXTOR authors

July 2005

• Ghodssi awarded ARL grant for microball bearing technology
• Washington Post columnist lauds university's nanotechnology efforts
• Two patents for Ephremides and Ayyagari
• Wang, Trappe, Wu and Liu win EURASIP best paper award
• Nitta Haas senior vice president speaks at ISR
• Jack Kustanowitz wins ACM/IEEE best student paper award
• Min Wu selected for NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
• Vorontsov, Krishnaprasad, Justh and Beresnev receive sensor patent
• Ulukus receives ITR-Cybertrust grant
• Abed attends transportation symposium
• Etienne-Cummings speaks at NASA-Goddard
• Alexander Barg joins ISR faculty
• NSF scientists speak to REU undergrad researchers
• NASA-Goddard to award Space Systems Lab cooperative research agreement

June 2005

• ISR alum George Kantor co-authors new robotics book
• Twelve undergrads in town for REU program
• Herrmann's clinic model research lauded by NACCHO
• ISR alum Koushik Kar wins NSF CAREER Award
• Cohen, Etienne-Cummings featured on Australian TV
• Smolyanivov, Davis, Zayats issued optical processing patent
• JaJa receives NSF grant for digital preservation
• Nuno Martins joins ISR
• ISR organizes event honoring Pravin Varaiya

May 2005

• Horiuchi featured in Scientific American
• ISR alum Aaron Falk named chair of IRTF
• Shayman receives TEDCO tech transfer award
• K.J. Ray Liu wins teaching award
• Pruessner and Amarnath selected for Best Student Paper Award
• Levine co-edits new volume on control systems
• Weifeng Su to teach at SUNY Buffalo
• Three MSSE students graduate
• Peg Jayant honored for service
• 2005 ISR Awards honor Adomaitis, Nesgarani, Briggs
• University of Maryland ranked No. 1 in nano research and education

April 2005

• Ball's work on airport landing slots profiled in trade magazine
• Raghavan promoted to tenured position
• Abshire is PI for NSF grant on cell-based sensing
• Aiken appears on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
• ISR collaborations with Toshiba
• American Vacuum Society honors student paper
• Student paper wins multimedia signal processing award
• Ghodssi selected for ROSS-2004 award
• Two grad students awarded ARCS Scholarships
• Ghodssi team wins best poster award
• SSL's Ranger robot featured on Discovery Channel
• ISR faculty win two Invention of the Year awards
• Former ISR visiting scientist develops new engine

March 2005

• Cohen, Etienne-Cummings interviewed by BBC
• Ephremides, Ulukus, Tassiulas part of DoD MURI
• Ghodssi, Horiuchi earn tenure
• K.J. Ray Liu elected to prestigious publications post
• Min Wu selected as ONR Young Investigator
• Herrmann team conducts research at TOPOFF 3
• Cohen speaker at Mathematics Colloquium

February 2005

• Smith School's Sandor Boyson joins ISR
• Ulukus receives NSF CAREER Award
• ISR alumna Naomi Leonard delivers distinguished lecture
• Ephremides speaks at LG Labs
• Gupta, Davis awarded MIPS contracts
• Higuchi speaks at SAE symposium

January 2005

• Cohen interviewed by Science Letter and Life Sciences Weekly
• Michael Powers wins at Maryland Bioscience Research Review Day
• Priya Ranjan and AID help tsunami survivors
• Shamma named ASA fellow
• Shapiro organizes NSF micro/nano workshop
• Daniel Fitzgerald wins ARCS Scholarship
• High-resolution microscope in Physical Review Letters
• Professor Shamma interviewed by news media after voting in Iraq election

December 2004

• Adomaitis, Rubloff, Kidder own U.S. Patent 6,821,910
• Washingtonian magazine names Min Wu one of 20 'young people to watch'
• Yu joining Mechanical Engineering Department
• Wired magazine interviews Cohen, Cummings about lamprey research
• K.J. Ray Liu is prime architect of new IEEE journal
• ISR's Lee Harper earns M.A. in education policy
• Coriale is featured speaker at 43rd Conference on Decision and Control

November 2004

• Waits, quoted in "New Scientist" magazine
• Ball, named a Fellow of INFORMS
• Subrahmanian named director of UMIACS
• Naomi Leonard profiled in New York Times
• Anandalingam featured on MPT's Business Connection
• Liu, Jájá to speak as Iowa State distinguished lecturers
• Ephremides editor-in-chief of Foundations and Trends in Networking
• Paul Houpt named an IEEE Fellow

October 2004

• Cohen interviewed in wake of Christopher Reeve’s death
• Milner awarded NSF grant for broadband wireless networks
• Ghodssi speaks at National Cancer Institute
• Theodorakopoulos and Baras win best paper award
• Dimitri Bertsekas speaks as ISR’s Distinguished Lecturer

September 2004

• W.M. Keck Foundation award establishes new nano lab
• Sandborn is PI for NSF SGER GOALI award
• Hendler is PI for NSF ITR award
• Moss is PI for "Innovative Technologies Inspired by Biosonar"
• W.M. Keck Foundation gives award to M-CINSE, University of Maryland
• Hendler speaks on national security panel at National Press Club
• Kalluri to join Starkey Research Labs
• Barua receives TEDCO "significant commercial potential" award
• Min Wu named 'top young innovator' by Technology Review
• Rubloff leads new M-CINSE nanotech center
• Moss, Ghose win first place in Science Engineering Visualization Challenge
• Alum Naomi Leonard named as MacArthur Fellow

August 2004

• Berentstein receives NSF award for 'Topics in Complex and Harmonic Analysis'
• André Tits receives NSF grant for 'feasible point optimization methods for design'
• K.J. Ray Liu named editor in chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
• Toshiba's Iguchi joins ISR Visiting Scientists Program
• Masaaki Nagashima is visiting scientist from Honda R&D, Japan
• NASA announces Canadian robot, not Ranger, to be used to repair Hubble
• Horiuchi's student team wins RITE competition at MERIT Fair
• Liu wins 2004 EURASIP Meritorious Service Award
• K.J. Ray Liu is researcher on two MIPS contracts

July 2004

• Jeffrey Herrmann, students assist in mass vaccination drill
• Rossoupoulos now joint appointment; Fritz is assistant research scientist
• ISR visiting exchange student receives City of Toulouse Award
• FAA 'close to signing' contract with NEXTOR, trade magazine reports
• ISR's Xiaobo Tan joins Michigan State University
• Honda Visiting Scientist Morimichi Nishigaki gives final presentation

June 2004

• Dana Nau one of three authors of Automated Planning
• Rubloff, Takeuchi are co-PIs for NSF International Materials Institute
• Guangming Zhang receives 2004 Poole and Kent Outstanding Teaching Award
• Moss to become director of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program
• Carlos Berenstein honored with celebration of his career
• Akin is finalist in Hubble Space Telescope repair plan
• ISR SAC member named engineering dean at Carnegie-Mellon
• Xerox scientist gave lecture at ISR colloquium
• Dana Nau is PI for 'Pushing the Boundaries of AI Planning'
• ISR Strategic Advisory Council met on June 25

May 2004

• Milner advises Gemstone 'Innovations' team
• Hendler quoted in the Jerusalem Post
• MacroPhage wins graduate student category of Business Plan Competition
• Akin team ties for first place at NASA competition
• ISR alum Leonard speaks at ECE Alumni Lecture
• Shapiro and students finalists in Invention of the Year awards
• Horiuchi, Ghose, Coriale receive ISR awards

April 2004

• Gupta, Ghodssi, Shapiro part of $3 million micro air vehicles MURI
• Ghodssi receives NSF grant for InP-based MEMS-tunable optical filters and switches
• Clark School of Engineering ranked 16 in "America's Best Graduate Schools"
• Honda Visiting Scientist Morimichi Nishigaki gives seminar
• Zhang receives 2004 Poole and Kent Outstanding Teaching Award
• Undergrad Jennifer Roberts wins two prestigious awards
• Alumnis Jie Chen named Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
• Adomaitis mentors Gemstone 'ChemSense' student group
• CSHCN Industrial Advisory Board meeting held on April 20
• Schneiderman applauds efforts to increase federal government web site usability
• NSF CAREER awards honor ISR faculty

March 2004

• Harper, paper selected for presentation at conference
• El-Gamal, recipient of 2004 NSF CAREER Award
• Shamma, Fritz receive $1.25 million NIH grant
• Horiuchi, Krishnaprasad receive $286,000 AFOSR grant
• NSF's Lynn Preston named 'Engineer of the Year 2003'
• Space Systems Laboratory's Ranger robot is proposed to NASA
• Leonard is Principal Investigator
• Davis, receives a $291,047 DURIP

February 2004

• Ljung, named Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering
• Corson and Park have been issued US Patent #6,667,957
• Congratulations to Michael Fu
• Congratulations to Kaye Brubaker
• Morgan, recipient of ARCS Scholarship
• Moss and Horiuchi receive five year $1.6 million grant
• Hendler, quoted in Innovations Report and The Washington Post
• Moss, Horiuchi win $1.6 million NIH grant
• Gupta, Shapiro, and Goldsman associated with three MIPS awards
• New Toshiba visiting scientist arrives at ISR

January 2004

• Akin PI for NASA ASTEP award
• New visiting scientist arrives at ISR
• Akin, Principal Investigator for NASA award

December 2003

• ISR faculty showcase research to Honeywell Labs delegation
• Chua on campus as Distinguished Lecturer
• Shneiderman is guest commentator on The Kojo Nnamdi Show
• Min Wu's research featured in Technology Review
• Hendler interviewed on WTOP Radio
• Shneiderman featured on Government Computer News web site

November 2003

• ISR welcomes engineers from Africa
• Moss, Horiuchi lead Neuroscience Symposium
• S. Raghavan wins second place in paper competition
• Douglas Smith is Fall 2003 Distinguished Lecturer
• Hideo Mizusawa is new ISR visiting scientist
• Shneiderman federal government develop user-friendly web site guide
• Four representatives from Honda travel to ISR
• Milner and DARPA featured in Esquire Magazine

October 2003

• Graduate student Marcel Pruessner receives ARCS Scholarship
• Soon Cho awarded Outstanding Paper Award
• Mingyan Liu wins CAREER Award
• Temporary Clark School clean room opens
• Ball hosts Collaborative Decision Making project
• Toshiba becomes an ISR Sustaining Partner
• Ephremides gives invited talks at Ivy League schools
• Anandalingam featured on CBS's The Morning Show
• Shneiderman's Treemaps impress British media
• K.J. Ray Liu elected Member-at-Large of IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors
• Corson and Park are issued US Patent 6,628,643
• Saswati Sarkar wins NSF CAREER Award
• Marcel Pruessner receives ARCS scholarship
• Davis, Smolyaninov granted US Patent #6,633,711
• Sun Microsystems incoporates Shneiderman's Treemap software

September 2003

• Engineering Design and Pro/ENGINEER by Guangming Zhang now in fifth edition
• Cukier wins CAREER Award
• ISR welcomes new Senior Research Scientist
• Abed co-PI of a new NSF SGER grant
• Milner is PI for $1.2 million NSF award
• $1.2 million NSF grant for optical wireless sensor networks
• Espy-Wilson receives Honda Initiation grant
• Internetnews.com interviews Hendler about Semantic Web
• Barua is co-principal investigator for five-year, $700K NSF grant
• Leonard conducts underwater robotics research

August 2003

• Cindy Moss's bat research features on NPR
• Liu, Milner, Baras participating in MIPS awards
• Baras receives ARL Certificate of Appreciation
• ISR says goodbye to two Visiting Scientists
• Ephremides appointed Cynthia Kim Professor
• WMAL Interviews Armand Makowski
• Davis receives NSF grant for nanofabricated, all-optical devices

July 2003

• Wu and Liu receive one-year DDET award
• ISR welcomes Liu, Sandborn, Shapiro and Vorontsov to faculty
• Morimichi Nishigaki, new Visiting Scientist from Honda
• Lovell now ISR joint appointment, Cohen joins ISR faculty
• Wu and Liu are PIs for AFRL anti-collusion fingerprinting

June 2003

• Morimichi Nishigaki arrives; new Honda visiting scientist

May 2003

April 2003

• Carol Espy-Wilson receives NSF grant for acoustic-phonetic knowledge and speech recognition.

March 2003

• Rubloff, Takeuchi are PIs for new NSF international materials institute

February 2003

January 2003