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1. Assistant Professor Dr. John T. Boyland has received a research grant originating from NASA for a project titled, " Analysis for High Dependability Computing." The grant amount is about $350,000 for the period December 1, 2001 to November 30, 2006. His grant comes via a subcontract from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Boyland and his students at UWM will perform collaborative work with researchers at Carnegie Mellon.
   
   
2. James Radigan ('83, BS) was the recipient of this year's outstanding Computer Science Alumnus Award at the CEAS Alumnus Banquet held at theWyndham Hotel on February 23, 2002. After graduation from UWM, he worked for a number of companies, including Texas Instruments, Hughes Research Laboratories and Intel Corporation. He is currently a Senior Engineer and a Development Lead at the Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. Jim's career is marked by several impressive achievements including many patents.
   
   
3. Mark Iwen, a senior Computer Science major, received an outstanding CEAS student award for academic excellence at the 2002 CEAS Alumnus Banquet. As a double major, Mark is also majoring in Mathematics. Besides maintaining an excellent record in courses, he has worked as undergraduate research assistant under the direction of assistant professor Amol Mali in a National Science Foundation supported research project in Artificial Intelligence.
   
   
4. Dr. Amol Mali has received an NSF grant in 2001 to support his research in AI. His project is titled, "Pruning Techniques for More Expressive Planning." The results of this project are expected to contribute to the design of plans in expressive domains like the Deep Space One Mission of NASA.

   Besides Dr. Mali, other Computer Science faculty who are active in AI research in our program are Dr. Susan McRoy (Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Computational Linguistics) and Dr. Peter Haddawy (Decision Theory, Knowledge Representation and Medical Applications).
   
   

5. Dr. Patrick Schroeder is the newest addition to the Computer Science faculty. Dr. Schroeder comes to us with more than 10 years of industrial experience in software engineering, software testing and quality assurance. He has worked at Baxter Healthcare Corporation and at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In the latter company, Dr. Schroeder's work involved software quality assurance for the international version of AT&T's telephone switching system (5ESS). He also served as the chairman of AT&T's Intelligence Network Data Committee (1990-93) and as the chairman of AT&T's Software Reliability Engineering Users' group (1993-96).

   Dr. Schroeder obtained his PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2001. His addition enhances our substantial strengths in the area of software, already served by Dr. John Boyland, Dr. Ethan Munson and Dr. Adam Webber.
   
   

6. The faculty in software gave short presentations on their current research projects to our Computer Science Industrial Advisory Council in September. Most of these projects have received funding from NSF and other Government agencies.
   
   
7. Our program has hired two full-time lecturers this Fall. Jayson Rock and Robert Sorenson will help us meet our considerable teaching responsibilities. As in previous years, we have also hired several part-time lecturers from local industry.
   
   
8. The growth in our undergraduate student enrollment has continued in 2001. While our graduate student enrollment has been stable at around 100 students, the total undergraduate student enrollment has exceeded 550. In the future we expect growth in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.
   
   
9. The Computer Science Program is engaged in the development of collaborative educational programs with other academic units at UWM, and other institutions including the Medical College of Wisconsin. An example is the planning of a PhD program in Medical Informatics in cooperation with the School of Allied Health, School of Business Administration, School of Information Studies and the Medical College of Wisconsin.
   
   
10. We have initiated the search for several new faculty additions. The planned growth in the faculty is not restricted to any particular area within Computer Science, but would include the area of Medical Informatics. Faculty growth is expected to continue in the foreseeable future as we expand our educational and research programs, as well as industry interactions. We are poised for continued development and growth.