KOB TV Channel 4 news recently interviewed Ed Angel about the ARTS Lab, which uses an interdisciplinary approach to bringing science and art together to catalyze the development of New Mexico's media industry. It features prominently in Gov. Bill Richardson's Media Industries Strategic Plan. Download the video clip (31 Meg, MPEG format).
Related links: Ed Angel, ARTS Lab, MISP, Video Clip
CS Department Hires New Professor: Melanie MosesMelanie Moses earned her Bachelor's degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford and recently earned her Doctorate from the Biology department at UNM. The hire accentuates the CS Department's ongoing move toward interdisciplinary work.
Prof. Moses' research focuses on complex systems and computational biology, more specifically on general principles that govern social organization, particularly how the size of a social system influences its efficiency in acquiring energy and information. Her research often uses scaling theory as a modeling tool.
Related links: Melanie Moses' Home Page
Aaron Clauset will speak at the School of Engineering Convocation, taking place this Saturday, December 16th at 10:00 am in the UNM SUB. He was often featured on this page for his research, which focuses on complex systems, statistical learning and social networks, and which has appeared in Physical Review Letters, the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), and the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). He was named Outstanding Graduate Student in Spring 2006, and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.
Related Links: Aaron Clause Home Page, SOE Convocation Page Santa Fe Institute
CS Dept. alumnus Derek Smith recently had his article "Predictability
and Preparedness in Influenza Control" published in prestigious Science magazine. In the timely
paper, Derek argues that mathematical models "...can derive estimates for the
levels of drug stockpiles needed to buy time, how and when to modify vaccines,
whom to target with vaccines and drugs, and when to enforce quarantine
measures." This marks Derek's second Science appearance: his paper "Mapping the
Antigenic and Genetic Evolution of Influenza Virus", a continuation of the
work in his UNM PhD
thesis, graced its pages previously.
Congratulations to Derek!
Related link: Science Magazine
Good news for CS grads looking for a job: MONEY Magazine lists software engineers as having the best job in America, followed by college professors. The ranking weighted salary data and projected growth most strongly, but also considered creativity, stress levels, number of positions and openings, and flexibility in hours and working environments, among other factors.
Related link: Best Jobs in America
Effective July 1st, 2006, Professor Stephanie Forrest will become the CS Dept. chair. Prof. Forrest is widely known for her interdisciplinary research in adaptive systems, focusing on immunology and security. Educated at the University of Michigan, she has been a member of the CS Dept. faculty for 16 years, is currently a part-time researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, and served one year as its Interim Vice President. She received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award early in her career, is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, and a patent holder, among many other accomplishments.
Related link: Stephanie Forrest's home page
Aaron Clauset attended the unclassified part of the Community Wide Predictive Analysis Workshop, held December 5th at the MITRE Corporation, (a sponsor along with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, DOD, and the Defense Intelligence Agency). Clauset presented "Scale Invariance in Global Terrorism" (PDF, 263Kb), which he wrote with Maxwell Young. The report, mentioned in The Economist and Nature, finds that the relationship between the frequency and severity of terrorist attacks is scale-free.
Related links: "Scale Invariance
in Global Terrorism" (PDF, 263Kb); MITRE; Aaron Clauset;
Maxwell Young
As the fall semester gets underway, a freshly updated course textbook list might well prove handy, as should a link to the CS Schedule of Classes over at the Master Scheduler site for Fall 2005. In other news, undergrads should come on down to the the ice cream social on Friday, August 26, 2005 from 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. in FEC 141.
Related links:
Course textbook list
CS Schedule of Classes
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