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- CCIS Welcomes Three New Outstanding Faculty Members
- The College of Computer and Information Science is pleased to announce the addition of three new outstanding faculty members, Peter Desnoyers, Mirek Reidewald and Emanuele Viola.
Dr. Desnoyers received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2008 and joins the College as an assistant professor. His work focuses on operating systems and storage with concentration on storage needs of new and evolving applications. He is currently employed with VMware, Inc. where he is investigating methods of optimizing storage and network transfer of virtual machines.
Dr. Riedewald joins the College as associate professor beginning in the winter semester of 2009. Dr. Riedewald received his PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2002. His research interests lie in databases and data mining with emphasis on designing scalable techniques for data-driven science. He is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Dr. Viola received his PhD from Harvard University in 2006 and will serve as an assistant professor. Dr. Viola works in theoretical computer science, particularly computational complexity and pseudorandomness. He has previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, as well as at Columbia University.
- Professor Tim Bickmore Demonstrates Health Counseling Agents to the Chief of Naval Operations
- A demonstration of one of Professor Bickmore’s animated health counseling agents was given to Admiral Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations, at the Pentagon on July 16th. The demonstration was part of the annual briefing by the CNO’s Strategic Studies Group on innovative and revolutionary concepts for the Navy. One of the areas of focus this year is on telemedicine, and the health counseling agent briefed the Admiral on some of the potential applications of telemedicine and automated health counseling.
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