Noubir has received the
National Science Foundation
(CAREER) Award, the foundation's
most prestigious award for early career
development activities.
integrate research and education in their
institutions, building a foundation for
future contributions to research and
education. Noubir received the five-year,
$400,000 grant for his proposal, "Cross-
layer protocols for robust and scalable
heterogenous wireless networks."
various air interfaces with a wide variety
of capabilities and constraints," Noubir
wrote in the proposal. "It will empower
people through a digital environment
context and sensitive to their needs."
resources and concerns about security
among heterogenous devices. The com-
plexity of these issues increases with the
devices that compose it.
in making them co-operate with one
another, Noubir says. Through the
CAREER award, he is working to
develop cross-layer communication
protocols and resource-management
strategies that accommodate variations
in network environments and
enable robust, scalable, and secure
communication.
scientist at the Real-Time Software and
Networking Group at the Swiss Center
for Electronics and Micro-technology.
His research centers on designing and
prototyping secure and resource-aware
network protocols and applications for
wireless networks.
our discipline permeates every aspect
of our lives, career opportunities for
computer and information scientists
become more intriguing and more
numerous than ever before.
of high school students entering the
profession is of critical importance to
for every technical discipline. At the College of Computer and
Information Science, we are faced with a dual challenge: How
do we continue to attract top students, and how do we best
prepare them for the opportunities they will encounter? In this
issue of the CCIS Network, we introduce you to some of the
key programs we have implemented to address these issues.
often during the middle school years. To capture their attention
during this pivotal phase of intellectual development, we have
launched a collaboration with Citizen Schools, a network of
urban after-school enrichment programs. With Citizen Schools,
we are developing a middle school computer science curricu-
lum based on Trustee Professor Matthias Felleisen's popular
TeachScheme! curriculum for high school and college students.
The program, designed to excite young people about the possi-
bilities of computing, is featured on page 1 of this newsletter.
'89, provided crucial funding for an outreach program that
brought three Indian Institute of Technology undergraduates
to campus for a two-month research internship. The goal of
the program, which we hope to expand in future years, is to
create a pipeline to our PhD programs for students from the top
Indian universities while simultaneously generating goodwill.
Read more about it on page 6.
enable motivated students to graduate with a deep knowledge
of computing as well as content expertise in fields such as
business, the sciences (biology, mathematics, and physics),
cognitive psychology and the digital arts (multimedia and
music technology). CCIS now offers nine dual majors. Some
59 upperclass students have enrolled in existing dual majors,
and more are expected to take advantage of the new offerings.
On page 3 of this issue, we feature the Human-Computer
Interaction Lab, which recently attracted several significant
grants and moved into larger facilities this fall.
outstanding academic options, CCIS is poised to educate the
next generation of leaders in our expanding field.