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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
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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
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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
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Current Faculty Recruiting
Have 3-4 positionsInformation retrievalSystems SecuritySenior person in systems biology
Have over 280 applicants
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Research Areas
Software
Systems
Soft. Engr
Information
Intelligent Systems &Robotics
Foundationsof Computing
Human-CenteredSystems
Security
Humanities Informatics
BrainNetworks
Bioinformatics Computational Science
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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
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Total Enrollment
1212 1113 967809 677 596 606
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158155
145115 121
115129
131163
196208 200
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Undergraduate Enrollment
272 241 212 196 185 212
212 186 143 127 102 117
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173 124 122 117
364348
281230
187 160
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CS Contest: Interface 2006Problem: design a user interface for playing on-line pokerDate: Saturday, October 7, 2006Lead faculty: Dr. Rick Furuta
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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)
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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
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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])
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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
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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
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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])
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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
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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
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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/
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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