CRA
Outstanding Undergraduate Award Program:
The Computing
Reasearch Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award program
recognizes undergraduate students who show outstanding research
potential in an area of computing research. The Hunter College
Computer Science Department nominated three students all of
whom won an honorable mention. The competition was fierce; including
students from top universities from around the nation. More
here.
Congratulations to our students who received Honorable Mention:
Marius Leordeanu
Anton Morozov
Tiziana Ligorio
Microsoft
Mindshare Zealot of the Year winner:
"Mindshare
is Microsoft's program to support PC User Groups in the United
States and help build their enthusiasm about Microsoft technology...In
the fall of 2002, Mindshare and Microsoft's Tablet PC team sponsored
The User Group Zealot of the Year contest to recognize members
of Mindshare-registered User Groups who are leaders in pushing
the technology envelope."
Sam Wagner was selected as one of four lucky winners after review
of his essay. Sam has been running an information website on
mobile computing for several years. He is also a computer science
major at Hunter College.
Recipient
of an NSF-CAREER Research Award (2003-2008):
Ioannis Stamos, Assistant Professor, is working in Computer
Vision and Computer Graphics. His current research interests
are in the broad area of photorealistic 3-D model acquisition
and the utilization of dense range 3-D data. He has been working
on range image segmentation, 3-D modeling and range to image
registration algorithms. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer
Science Department of Columbia University in 2001, his M.Sc.
and M.Phil. from the same department, and his B.S. from the
University of Patras (Department of Computer Engineering), Greece.
