New Research Grants and Awards
  • Dr. Bruce Childers and Dr. Mary Lou Soffa received a grant for research on Continuous Compilation to explore new techniques for optimizing long running software applications. The grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation.


  • Dr. Janyce Wiebe, in collaboration with Dr. Ellen Riloff, received a grant for research in improving subjectivity analysis to achieve high-precision information extraction. The grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation from September 2002 to August 2005 in the amount of $239,000.

  • Dr. Janyce Wiebe received a grant for research in answering questions from multiple perspectives. The grant was awarded by the Advanced Research and Development Activity Agency from May 2002 to December 2003 in the amount of $138,000.

  • Dr. Bruce Childers received an IBM Faculty Partnership Award for academic year 2001-2002.

  • Dr. Daniel Mossé, in conjunction with five other universities, received an ITR medium grant for $4,978,000. Money from this grant will go to research in software structures for very large systems to support the Tevatron at Fermi Labs.

  • Dr. Rami Melhem and Dr. Daniel Mossé received a grant for research in security of wired and mobile networks, working to avoid Denial of Service attacks.

  • Dr. Kirk Pruhs and Dr. Panos Chrysanthis received a grant titled "Middleware support for multicast data dissemination." The grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (award ANIR-0123705) from the Network Centric Middleware Services Program and runs from October 2001 to October 2004 in the amount of $541,000.

  • Dr. Kirk Pruhs received a grant from the United States Air Force titled "Dynamic spectrum allocation algorithms." The grant runs from October 2001 to October 2002 in the amount of $100,000.

  • Dr. Kirk Pruhs received a National Science Foundation (award CCR-0098752) grant from the Theory of Computing Program titled "Algorithmic problems in next generation networks." The grant runs from July 2001 to July 2004 in the amount of $230,000.

  • An extension was given for the PAC/C DARPA grant for another 8 months.

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