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

Fall Semester 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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