Recent News and Awards:
The
Chronicle of Higher Education has ranked UCLA within the
top 10 on its 2007 "Top Research Universities Faculty
Scholarly Productivity Index" for the field of computer
science. The productivity of faculty members is measured
and judged on as many as five factors, depending on the most
important variables in the given discipline: e.g., books
published, journal publications, citations of journal articles,
federal grant dollars awarded, and honors and awards.
On November
1, 2007, the White House announced this year's Presidential EarlyCareer
Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Professor Eddie
Kohler is one of the two young faculty members
from UCLA's Henry Samueli
School of Engineering to receive this award and one of the 20 young
researchers to be recognized with this award by the National Science
Foundation (other federal agencies also make awards). The PECASE
award is considered the country's highest honor for engineers and
scientists who are in the early part of their careers. It recognizes
the recipient's potential for leadership across the frontiers of
scientific knowledge during the 21st century.
Professor Demetri
Terzopoulos is the inaugural recipient of the "IEEE
PAMI-TC Computer Vision Significant Researcher Award." This
award was presented at the October 2007 International Conference
on Computer Vision (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) for "pioneering
and sustained research on Deformable Models and their applications." Demetri's
acceptance speech was addressed to over 750 conference attendees.
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