of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) received the
ACM for the 20032004 academic year.
This is the second year the ACM has
earned national recognition; last year,
the group took top honors for Best Web
Site. To earn the most recent prize, the
chapter organized gaming events, com-
petitions, and lectures on topics such as
aspect-oriented programming, the evolu-
tion of WLAN, and entrepreneurship.
Wednesdays during lunch. "We are
lucky enough to be in the technology-
driven city of Boston," the students told
the judges in their application for the
award: "We have an enormous amount
of talented and well-known professionals
who are the lead innovators in their field
and our speaker series has featured such
speakers from industry and academia."
The series usually attracts between forty
and sixty-five people, including under-
graduates, graduate students, and faculty
from CCIS and other disciplines.
Workshop Series for peers "with general
programming knowledge, open minds,
workshops meet once a week for two
hours and run for four to six weeks.
The series is now in its third year. CCIS
recently agreed to provide funding so
that student volunteers can be paid for
their work.
groups across campus, including the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) student chapter,
the Electronic Gamerz, Chess Club,
Multimedia Club, Crew (CCIS's volunteer
systems group), and others. Events include
a chess tournament, electronic gaming
board game night, LAN party, and
community social outing. In the fall, Geek
Week is used for student recruiting; in
the spring it is a celebration of a nearly
completed year.
and monthly dinners for smaller groups
of faculty and students.
programming," says CCIS Dean Larry
Finkelstein. "They truly deserve this
honor from the national organization,
and I'm very happy for them."
mathematics, is now an MS/PhD candidate at MIT. Malioutov
had an extraordinary academic career at Northeastern, includ-
ing work at the London School of Economics (LSE), the British
Parliament, and Cambridge University. He completed a sociol-
ogy honors project shipping computers to disadvantaged
Nicaraguan children in his junior year. At the LSE, he took
classes in public policy and wrote a dissertation on energy pol-
icy, interning for a member of Parliament. As a research assis-
tant in Parliament, he researched defense policy for the Office
of the Shadow Secretary of Defense. Malioutov was also a visit-
ing research scientist at the Imperial College in London in
the Blackett Laboratory of high-energy physics, representing
Northeastern Professor Gene Cooperman's parallel computing
group. As a Junior Speech Scientist at BBN Technologies, a
subsidiary of Verizon, he conducted research on speech recog-
nition, English language modeling, and statistical natural lan-
guage processing. At the Cambridge University International
Summer School, he took classes in international politics,
philosophy, history of mathematics, and science. At MIT,
Malioutov is in the speech and language systems group in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
in San Diego last summer on his experiences organizing CCIS's
Capture the Flag contests. Dougherty has made a significant
contribution to the annual event as a senior member of the
Crew, the college's volunteer systems group. The goal of the
contest is for participants to defend their machines and ser-
vices while simultaneously attacking the other machines on a
closed network. To help students do well in this contest and
broaden their security education, the Crew runs a series of
short classes on securing different operating systems and net-
works before the contest begins. Dougherty has been one of
the primary organizers, architects, and administrators of the
contest, and has co-taught one of the short classes and several
of the general technical lectures given at crew meetings.
determining the capacity of the Internet to carry data. Chen's
solution was developed in collaboration with others, most notably
world-renowned mathematician Laszlo Lovasz, and appears
in a series of two papers in the ACM Symposium on Theory
earned the 20032004 Best Activities Award from the national organization for events like
Geek Week, the spring barbecue, and the popular Speaker Series.