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A group of southern California companies have joined forces to fund a new
PC lab for ICS students. Leading the effort was Ted Smith, President and
CEO, FileNet Corporation, who made a personal as well as corporate gift.
"Several companies came together to support this important enhancement to
technology education at UCI. Previously, ICS did not have a PC lab for
instruction and local industry needs graduates trained to program Windows
PCs. We were pleased to participate in this mutually beneficial project
for our companies and UCI," Smith said.
Companies which donated funds and equipment included
Artist Graphics, FileNet, Kofax Image Products, Microsoft, PacifiCare,
Printronix, Rainbow Technologies, Rockwell, ViewSonic, Western Digital and
Wonderware. The donations totaled more than $185,000.
Located in the main ICS building, the new lab includes 30 Pentium computers
running on a Windows NT server and one printer. The lab will be used to teach
object-oriented programming concepts in Java and Visual C++.
Daniel D. Gajski, Professor of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine,
with Hsiao-Ping Juan and Smita Bakshi, graduate students of Information and
Computer Science, received the Best Paper Award of the EURO-DAC '96 with
EURO-VHDL '96 conference in the field of Design Automation topics. Hsiao-Ping
Juan presented their paper, "Clock Optimization for High-Performance Pipelined
Design, " in
Geneva, Switzerland on September 19, 1996. The award was given for
outstanding scientific work and professional presentation.
UCI has been admitted to membership in the Association of American Universities, one of the nation's most
prestigious associations of research universities. UCI was one of only two universities in the nation elected
to membership this year, the other was UC Davis.
"The AAU membership demonstrates that our peers at private and public universities agree that UCI has
arrived in the top echelons of American universities," Chancellor Laurel Wilkening said. "While AAU
membership is one of the most recognizable honors among universities, many people outside of universities
may not be familiar with its significance. It is similar to a private company being named to the 'Fortune 60'
list."
AAU membership is by invitation only and is extended to universities deemed to have exceptional quality in
research and graduate education programs. With the admission of UCI and UC Davis, AAU membership
consists of 60 American universities and two Canadian universities.
AAU President Cornelius Pings said membership was extended to UCI and UC Davis following a lengthy
review of prospective new members, which has been under way for more than three years.
"UCI is an exceptional institution that has many outstanding, nationally recognized research and education
programs in a wide variety of areas," Pings said. "UCI has a clear vision for the future and is well positioned
to continue building on its strengths in the years ahead."
Further information available
here.
The
ICS Research Symposium
consists of a 1-day lecture series
given by ICS faculty members on their research as well as
invited talks from industry. Topics covered will include
appication-adaptive architectures, instruction-level parallelism,
embedded systems design, ``beyond JAVA" software environments,
distributed programming, optimization with genetic algorithms,
data mining with massive data sets, and information
discovery on the internet. The symposium will be held on
February 7th from 8am to 5pm in the McDonnell Douglas
Auditorium. Call Wendy Lasher at 714 724 8971 or email
wendy@ics.uci.edu to register.
Professor Daniel Gajski will deliver a keynote address at
the Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, scheduled for
Jan. 28-31 in Chiba, Japan. Gajski's topic will be
"CAD Methodology and Business Models for Future Products."
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