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October 10, 2009 - CIS Programming Team Gets 2nd Place On October 10th, 2009, UM-Dearborn's programming team, consisting of Luke Duncan, Scott Hoffman and Trevor Tabaka, took 2nd place at the Consortium for Computing Science in Colleges (CCSC) programming contest in Chicago. The team faced off against competition from 14 other colleges in the Midwest and solved six out of seven problems in a four hour time span. The team was coached by Dr. Bruce Elenbogen of the CIS department. This is the first year Dearborn has competed in the event. Dearborn will next compete in the ACM regional competition later this month in Ann Arbor where they will face international competition from about 120 teams including U of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Waterloo.
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September 07, 2009 - Dr. Qiang Zhu Appointed Editor-in-Chief Dr. Qiang Zhu has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (IJCA), effective from January 2010. IJCA is a publication of the International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA). The journal was established in 1994 and is indexed in INSPEC and DBLP.
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September 01, 2009 - Zhiwei Xu Selected as Hewlitt-Packard Innovation Research Award Recipient Dr. Zhiwei Xu was selected as one of 59 professors in the world to receive a 2009 HP Labs Innovation Research Award, a program designed to create opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes around the world to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Dr. Xu, author of the winning proposal, Multi-Objective Optimization in Workforce Structure, will lead UM-D's collaboration project with HP Labs. HP reviewed nearly 300 proposals from more than 140 universities in 29 countries on a range of topics within the eight high-impact research themes at HP Labs - analytics, cloud, content transformation, difital commercial print, immersive interaction, information management, intelligent infrastructure, and sustainability.
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August 21, 2009 - Best Paper Award for Drs. Zhu and Medjahed Professors Qiang Zhu and Brahim Medjahed together with their graduate student, Anshuman Sharma, and Ford collaborator, Henry Huang, have recently won The Wilkes Award 2008 (best paper for 2008) from The Computer Journal by The British Computer Society & Oxford University Press for their paper "The Collective Index: A Technique for Efficient Processing of Progressive Queries" published in Vol. 51, No. 6 of the journal.
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