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CS DepartmentOriginally a division of INENBecame a department in Fall 198340 full-time tenure-track faculty, 5 senior lecturers

One part-time lecturer

Have two programs:Computer ScienceComputer Engineering(joint with ECE)

Research:Core AreasMulti-disciplinary Areas


Tenure-track Faculty Profile

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Faculty Promotions

Associate Professor tenured – Ricardo Gutierrez-OsunaAssociate Professor tenured – John KeyserAssociate Professor tenured – Andreas KlappeneckerAssociate Professor tenured – Rabi MahapatraProfessor – Lawrence RauchwergerProfessor – Frank ShipmanProfessor – Hank Walker


New CS FacultyJin-Xiang Chai, CMU

Graphics

Gabriel Dos Reis, post-doc at TAMU Software

Tracy Hammond, MIT User Interfaces & AI

Scott Schaefer, Rice Graphics


Current Faculty Recruiting

Have 3-4 positionsInformation retrievalSystems SecuritySenior person in systems biology

Have over 280 applicants


Research Areas

Software

Systems

Soft. Engr

Information

Intelligent Systems &Robotics

Foundationsof Computing

Human-CenteredSystems

Security

Humanities Informatics

BrainNetworks

Bioinformatics Computational Science


Multi-disciplinary Activities

Ag & Life SciencesBiochemistry & Biophysics

Amato, Ioerger, SzeEntomology

FurutaPlant Pathology

SzePoultry Science

SzeRangeland Ecology

Furuta

ScienceBiology

Amato, Furuta, Ioerger, Kerne, Keyser, Shipman

ChemistryAmato, Gutierrez

MathAmato, Keyser, Klappenecker,Nelson, Sarin

PhysicsKlappenecker

StatisticsBettati

EngineeringAerospace

Mahapatra, Rauchwerger, Volz, IoergerElectrical and Computer

Bettati, Gutierrez, Klappenecker, Mahapatra, Walker, Sarin

CivilNelson

Mechanical Amato, Bettati, Sarin, Welch

Nuclear Amato, Nelson, Rauchwerger

TEESTCAT

Pooch, G. Williams, Ioerger

ArchitectureViz Lab

Amato, Chen, Gutierrez, Ioerger, Kerne, Keyser, Mahapatra, McCormick

ComputerScience

TAMU LibrariesFurutaKerneLiShipman

Liberal ArtsModern & Classical Lang/CHR

Furuta, Kerne, Li, ShipmanPsychology

Kerne

GeosciencesGeology & Geophysics

Amato

Vet MedicineVet Anatomy & Public Health

Choe, Gutierrez,Keyser , McCormick

Vet PathologyIoerger

Health Science CenterLiu, Lively

TTILiu


Total Enrollment

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Undergraduate Enrollment

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Department Goals

Increase department visibilityFocus on visits, lectures, brochures, awards

Increase multi-disciplinary collaborationsRequires building up the core areas

Increase programs for faculty developmentFocus on environment and resources

Increase programs for student developmentFocus on fellowships/scholarships, REUs, proactive recruitment


Faculty Awards

Haliburton Foundation Professorship – Nancy AmatoAssociation of Former Students College-Level recognition for teaching and research activities – Jianer ChenNSF Career Award, 5-year grant for his work in tele-operated robotics – Dezhen SongLockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award; CoE Faculty Fellow – Hank WalkerInvited speaker to the Third ACM SIGPLAN HOPL Conference, a video event for the Computer History Museum – Bjarne Stroustrup


Student AwardsThe Maroon Team of Andy Echols, Tristan Brown, Matt Monson finished third in the ACM South Central USA Regional Programming Contest Ja-Ryeong Koo, Animesh Pathak, and Youngwoo Ahntook second place at the 27th IEEE Real-Time Systems SymposiumBryan Boyd received Honorable Mention for the prestigious Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2007Lydia Tapia awarded NIH Biophysic Training GrantZeki Melek, second in Student Research Competition at SIGGRAPHShawna Thomas, awarded IBM Research Fellowship


Summer Undergrad ProgramTotal of 16 undergraduate students engaged in research during Summer 2006

8 REU site grant2 USRG5 DMP1 Visiting student

NSF renewed our grant foranother 3 yearsMany of the students applyfor graduate school at TAMUand other institutions


CS Contest: Interface 2006Problem: design a user interface for playing on-line pokerDate: Saturday, October 7, 2006Lead faculty: Dr. Rick Furuta


Participants41 students registered among 9 teams

Students ranged from Freshman to SeniorsTeams were from Houston, Austin, Brazos Valley and Dallas areas

Awards given to 1st, 2nd, 3rd placesAwards provided by HP and the DepartmentMaterials funded by THECB TWD grant30 volunteers (ugrad and grad Texas A&M CS majors, faculty, CS staff members)


Outcomes

Student exposure to computer science Exposure to range of topics in computer scinece

Student excitement about computer scienceTeacher/sponsor learning by department and industry on trends and expectationsState-wide exposure of future contests by word of mouth, marketing pieces and email campaigns


CS Contest: Games 2007Faculty contact: Dr. John KeyserDate: Saturday, 13 October 2007Students will be given a non-computer game as reference

Task: Extend the game taking into consideration what can be done on the computer

Contact: Kourtney Gruner ([email protected])


IAPGoal: Improve relationships between CS and industryCurrent membership

Gold: Adobe, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, National Instruments, Reynolds & Reynolds, SchlumbergerSilver:, Hitachi Data Systems, Knowledge Based Systems, Inc., Raytheon, Sun MicrosystemsBronze: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, ConocoPhillips, Mehta Family Foundation (NuView, Inc.), Rockwell Collins, StarTech Early Ventures

Awarded 60 IAP scholarships


IAP RelationshipVisits to your company (gold level)Facilitate interactions with students

Faculty liaisonSpeak at different student organization meetingsOrganize information sessionsRésumé database

Participation in coursesUndergrad/grad seminarsReview panel for project coursesProvide project ideas


SeminarsFreshman Seminar (M, 3pm)

Discuss how CS concepts are used in end productsContact: John Keyser ([email protected])

Undergraduate seminars (TTh, 9:35am)Discuss career pathsContact: Lawrence Rauchwerger ([email protected])

Graduate seminars (MW, 4pm)Research talksContact: Lawrence Rauchwerger ([email protected])


Course Project ReviewCPSC 483: Computer Systems Design

Instructor: Dr. Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna ([email protected])Date: May 8, 2007

CPSC 462: Microcomputer SystemsInstructor: Dr. Steve Liu ([email protected])Date: TBD

CPSC 452: Robotics and Spatial IntelligenceInstructor: Dr. Dezhen Song ([email protected])Date: April 25, 2007

CPSC 438: Distributed Objects ProgrammingInstructor: Dr. Salih Yurttas ([email protected])Date: April 25/27/30, 2007


ABET: Help Needed

Requires objective as well as subjective measuresYour help is needed with the objective measures

Requires interviewing studentsQuestions developed in conjunction with ABET committee


CS Student OrganizationsAggie Women in Computer Science (AWICS)

http://awics.cs.tamu.edu/Texas A&M Computing Society (TACS)

Student chapter of ACM and IEEE-CShttp://tacs.cs.tamu.edu/

Texas Aggie Game Developers (TAGD)http://www.gettagd.com/

Upsilon Pi Epsilon Computer Science Honor Societyhttp://upe.cs.tamu.edu/

Computer Science Graduate Student Associationhttp://csgsa.cs.tamu.edu/


Student Activities

Speakers for student organization meetingsParticipate in student activities

Annual banquet (April 19, 2007)AWICS Senior Women’s Workshop (April)

Need a contact for each company

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