Dr. William Allen and graduate student Gareth Farrington presented “A peer-to-peer
system for small group collaboration” at the International Conference on
Web Technologies, Applications and Services in Calgary, Canada.
Larry Buist and
Claudio Lapilli ’04 M.S. published “Application of
a wireless pressure sensing system to coastal wind monitoring,” in Wind
and Structures Journal.
Dr. Phil Chan and Dr. Hyoung-Rae Kim
presented “Personalized
ranking of search results with learned user interest hierarchies from bookmarks” at
the Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in the Web at the 11th ACM SIGKDD International
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Chicago, Ill.
Dr. Anne
Cope, Dr. Chelakara Subramanian, Dr. Jean-Paul Pinelli and Josh Murphree ’04
M.S., presented “Hurricane loss prediction: Model development, results
and validation” at ICOSSAR 2005 in Rome, Italy.
Dr. Carmo D’Cruz
presented two papers at the Portland International Conference on Management
of Engineering and Technology in Oregon. The papers, to be published
in the conference proceedings, are “Florida Tech’s Systems
Engineering Entrepreneurship Program,” with Dr. Muzaffar Shaikh
and Dr. Wade Shaw, and “Space Coast Innovation and Technology Commercialization,” with
Dr. William Arrasmith and Dr. Syed Murshid.
Dr. Fred Ham was invited to
be a plenary speaker at the 12th International Workshop on Systems,
Signals & Image
Processing in Greece. His talk was on the classification of infrasound
events.
Dr. Lee Harris, Dr. Jean-Paul Pinelli
and John Williams made presentations
to media in a hurricane
luncheon workshop on campus in late
July. They
supported the future hurricane coverage of reporters from Florida
Today and the Vero
Beach
Press Journal.
Dr. Ronaldo Menezes, received a $70,000
grant from the Brazilian government
to develop
research in the areas of swarm intelligence
and genetic
algorithms, and
their relation to software engineering, especially to software
testing. The grant funds his stay in
a research institute in Fortaleza,
Brazil,
where
he will work
from now through July 2006. It also funds stipends for three Brazilian
students.
Dr. Debasis Mitra and Dr. Florent
Launay presented “Incrementally
scheduling with qualitative temporal information” at the
18th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications
of Artificial Intelligence in Bari,
Italy.
Dr. Ashok Pandit presented “Factors
affecting long-term performance of
wet retention/detention basins by a
continuous
simulation model” at the
2005 World Water and Environmental Resources Congress, held
in Anchorage, Ala. Chi Hyueon Youn ’04 Ph.D. co-authored
the paper.
Dr. Chelakara Subramanian and Dr.
Jean-Paul Pinelli made two
presentations at the 10th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering,
held in Baton
Rouge, La. They
presented “Deployment of a wireless wind pressure sensing
system during the 2004 hurricane season” (Claudio Lapilli ’04
M.S. was co-author) and “Florida hurricane loss prediction
model: Implementation and validation.”
Dr. Geoffrey
Swain received a $100,000 grant from PPG Industries for
a collaboration with PPG and Florida
Gulf Coast University
on the development,
testing and
evaluation of new boat antifouling coatings.
Dr. Scott Tilley
presented “Program
re-documentation challenges for distributed
systems in 2005 and beyond” at
the Second International Workshop on Software Development
Methodologies for Distribution, held
in Wuxi, China.
College of Engineering
Dean Thomas Waite was one of 15
people appointed by the State of Florida to the Florida
Oceans and
Coastal Council. |
