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2009 News

• Dr. Jie Wang gave a talk titled "Large-Scale Network Dynamics: A New Frontier" on September 16 at Computer Science Department..
• The 2009 International Conferences on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA) was held in Hyatt Regency Boston in Boston from August 16-18, 2009.
• Nan Li and Dr. Guanling Chen won the Best Paper Award at the Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2009) for their paper titled "Multi-Layer Friendship Modeling for Location-Based Mobile Social Networks"..
• Stanley Barr defended his doctoral thesis "Constructing Underwater Sensor Based Barriers Using Distributed".
• CNIS held 2009 Annual Colloquia to celebrate the new year.

2008 News

• Dr. Wang was recently awarded $150K by NSF to study Reliable Spatial-Temporal Coverage with Minimum Cost in Wireless Sensor Network Deployments.
• Wei Li defended his doctoral thesis "An Efficient Query System for High-Dimensional Spatio-Temporal Data".
• Mr. Wei Li (PhD candidate), Dr. Cindy Chen, and Dr. Jie Wang were awarded the Best Paper Award at the 4th International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'08), held on July 14-17, 2008, for their paper titled "PCS: an efficient clustering method for high-dimensional data".
• Zhijun Yu defended his doctoral thesis "Fault-Tolerant Sensor Coverage for Achieving Desired Coverage Lifetime with Minimum Cost".

2007 News

• November 2007: Prabhu Govindaswamy defended his master thesis "Early Results on Sensor-Integrated Camera Surveillance".
• September 2007: Chunyan Du defended her master thesis "A study on wireless network security".
• September 2007: Dr. Y. Luo, K. Chandra, G. Chen, and J. Wang received a two-year award ($150K) from National Science Foundation (NSF) to build a programmable infrastructure using network processors.
• September 2007: Dr. B. Liu received a three-year award ($150K) from National Science Foundation (NSF) to study cooperative wireless networks.
• July 2007: CNIS director Dr. Jie Wang became Chair of the Department of Computer Science.
• May 2007: Dr.. G. Chen received third year funding ($80K) from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to continue developing an intrusion detection system for securing enterprise wireless LANs. For more information, see MAP project.
• May 2007: Dr. L. Xu was awarded a highly competitive HP Technology for Teaching award. Funded amount: $68,000.
• April 2007: Dr. L. Xu won the best paper award in the CCSCNE07 conference (Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (Northeastern Region) for his paper titled "RobotStudio: a Universal IDE for Teaching Undergraduate Computer System Courses".
• April 2007: Sean Casey defended his MS thesis.

2006 News

• November 2006: Ning Zhong defended his doctoral thesis.
• July 2006: Jing Tan obtained his MS degree and joined Big Band Networks in Marlborough, MA as a project leader.
• June 2006: Jie Lu defended his doctoral thesis.
• April 2006: Ning Zhong was awarded Preofessor Charlie Steele Memorial Scholarship and Elmer C. Mathhews Scholarship.

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