Prof. Amr El Abbadi appointed EAP Director (May 2002)

Professor Amr El Abbadi in Computer Science was appointed director of the Education Abroad Program (EAP) center in Cairo, Egypt for 2002-2003. He will also teach at the American University in Cairo. EAP offers full-year and short-term programs in a wide range of academic disciplines for sophomore through graduate students at over 140 institutions in 34 countries.

ICDE 2002 Best Paper Award (February 2002)

Doctoral Student Chengyu Sun and Professors Divyakant Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi in Computer Science were awarded "Best Paper Award" at the 18th International Conference on Data Engineering, February 2002 for their paper "Exploring Spatial Datasets with Histograms". This work presents some of the techniques they have been developing as part of their research in the Alexandria Digital Library project and is important in supporting the efficient browsing of large collections of spatial objects, such as maps and satellite images. 

Lin Qiao receives IBM Ph.D. Fellowship ( 2002-2003 )

Lin Qiao received IBM Fellowship for the academic year (2002-03). IBM awards fewer than 30 fellowships every year from a nationwide competition among the graduate students in science and engineering. This award is given to students pursuing the Ph.D. degree in areas of broad interest to IBM, including chemistry, computer science, electrical engineering, material science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, physics and related disciplines, as well as in some of the newer technical fields, such as e-commerce, nanotechnology, computational biology and other computational science areas.