to work on a wiki engine used worldwide, and to construct a
server that allowed other students to do CGI programming
at CCIS. Langworth now works at Google.
for graduating students in May 2006.
graduate Database Management Systems course he taught. Wang
developed the software for the course, which has been used by
several instructors. He now works for Microsoft Corporation.
In the past year, Yilmaz has published five papers in premier
refereed conferences and her efforts were central to a successful
National Science Foundation grant proposal. One paper proposed
an efficient model for assessing search engine performance
that is so novel and important that it may be adopted by the
National Institute of Standards and Technology.
work in the area of approximation algorithms. His work appeared
in STOC 2005 and SODA 2006; the SODA paper was coauthored
Lin joins Akamai Technologies as a senior software engineer.
award for his role as the elected graduate student representative
on the Faculty Hiring Committee. Graduate student input has
been a critical component of hiring decisions, and Herman's
contributions in making sure these students' opinions are heard
has been appreciated by all those concerned.
research positions across the country.
Verizon Technological Organization
Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
Mapping with PBNJ and Nmap" at the LinuxWorld Conference
and Expo in San Francisco this August. His presentation
focused on network mapping and scanning, and included a
discussion of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the tools
currently available. Abraham also elaborated on PBNJ, a
network scanning tool he developed and introduced in 2005,
in services on groups of networked machines by storing that
information in a database. Last spring, Abraham extended
PBNJ's capabilities during a research-oriented directed study
with Professor Guevara Noubir.
adviser, Professor Gene Cooperman, at two highly competitive
conferences this year: the Proceedings of the 2006 International
and Applications, and the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Interna-
research and papers are primarily concerned with the software
for checkpointing, which enables users who run scientific
applications to force the running program to save its entire
state every day and, in the event of a crash, to later restart the
program from the middle, based on its saved state.
Biological Knowledge Laboratory, where they focus their research
on diagram understanding. Guthrie's first major accomplishment
was building a prototype of an interactive Diagram Understanding
System Inspector (DUSI). He is president of Northeastern
University's Gamma Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the
international honor society for the computing and information
disciplines, which sponsors RALPH, the Research Activity
Leaders' Presentation Hour. Guthrie presented a RALPH talk
about his DUSI system in November 2005. A video of this
at www.ccs.neu.edu/home/futrelle/students/Guthrie.
for graduating students in May 2006.
his innovative and intensive one-day workshop on Microsoft
Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005. Using knowledge and
together a program that offered dynamic teaching methods
and hands-on projects to more than 20 students.
ship for his leadership in the college throughout his entire
CCIS career. He was involved in Crew, the student Volunteer
Systems Group, and eventually became leader of that group,
focusing on how technology can improve communication.