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The Department of Computer Science and Engineering plays an active role in advancing the intellectual frontiers of computer science, creating new computer technology, and applying that technology to meet the needs of today's technological society. It is known for sharing research ideas with the broader community, not only through scholarly publication, but also by creating systems that can be used by others and can serve as models for commercial development. Areas of research include Artificial Intelligence, Computational Science, Computer and Systems Architecture, Media And Machines, Networking and Communication, Software Systems and Computer Engineering.
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Christopher Gill
Assistant Professor Of Computer Science & Engineering
Gill received his doctorate from Washington University. He is widely published and holds research interests in real-time, fault-tolerant, secure, and embedded middleware hybrid static/dynamic resource management, adaptive and reflective distributed systems, distributed object computing, real-time ...
Expertise: middleware, cybersecurity, changing environments, real-time behavior
Direct contact: (314) 935-7538
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cdgill@wustl.edu
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Ronald S. Indeck
DAS Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
Indeck earned his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. His research involves magnetic and optical components and systems, especially in the areas of information technology and security. He is working with extremely high density magnetic recording systems, fast searching of massive databases, ...
Expertise: object verification, public surveillance, magnetic information storage systems, magnetism
Media assistance: (314) 935-5272 / tony_fitzpatrick@wustl.edu
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Joseph O'Sullivan
Professor Of Electrical & Systems Engineering
O'Sullivan received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame. He has published dozens of peer reviewed articles and is active in many international conferences and professional organizations. He conducts research in a wide range of science and technology for security applications, including ...
Expertise: electrical engineering, encryption, sensors, automatic target recognition, cybersecurity
Direct contact: (314) 935-4173
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jao@wustl.edu
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Victor Wickerhauser
Professor of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences
Victor Wickerhauser, Ph.D., professor of mathematics, is an expert in wavelet analysis, a sophisticated kind of harmonic analysis that is integral in analyzing and compressing data — video, sound or photographic, for instance — for a wide range of applications.
Expertise: wavelet analysis, harmonic analysis, compressed data, audio data, video data, fingerprinting analysis
Direct contact: (314) 935-6771
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victor@wustl.edu
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Rudolf Husar
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Husar is the director of Washington University's Center for Air Pollution Impact, Trends and Analysis (CAPITA), the world's largest private library of air pollution literature and computerized statistics. CAPITA spans more than 100 years of American pollution and energy consumption. Using CAPITA data, ...
Expertise: air pollution, clean air, aerosols, fluid mechanics, Monte Carlo Modeling, ozone
Direct contact: (314) 935-6054
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rhusar@me.wustl.edu
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Surgery with less pain, blood
New for kidney cancer: robotic surgery
June 27,
2008 -- Surgery to remove a kidney tumor is no longer a hands-on operation. Sam Bhayani, a urologic surgeon at the school of Medicine, has pioneered robotic surgery for kidney cancer. Instead of standing for hours with his arms raised above the patient, Bhayani sits at a nearby computer console to maneuver joystick-like controls that guide robotic scalpels, scissors and high-resolution cameras.
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Math and science can be fun!
Summer science camp develops the minds of young Einsteins
June 10,
2008 -- If a young Albert Einstein could have picked a summer activity he may have opted to participate in the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp at Washington University in St. Louis, June 16-27. An exciting two-week adventure filled with field trips and science experiments, the summer camp proves that math and science can entice a crew of middle school students and lead them to rewarding opportunities.
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"Dig Czar"
Washington University plays key role in Mars mission
June 9,
2008 --
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Among the many Phoenix Mars Mission workers are Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D., the WUSTL chair of earth and planetary sciences, a computer specialist and four WUSTL students. Their goal is to infer from images and other data the geological history of the landing site and to imply some theories about current and past climate on Mars. Will they find ice?
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Medical Advances -- Through Your iPhone?
BusinessWeek.com
and 30 others
April 30,
2008 -- Researchers are beginning to understand how mobile phones can cut costs, help solve rural health-care problems, and even reduce medical errors.
Of some 30 health-care-related projects at various universities recently funded by Microsoft Research, 17 involve cell phones. One team, at WUSTL, is attempting to take ultrasound readings using a cell phone and a TV.
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Commentary: Let The Markets Regulate Microsoft
Forbes.com
March 12,
2008 -- WUSTL law professor Scott Kieff writes a commentary about regulating Microsoft.
He is also a research fellow at Stanford University' s Hoover Institution, where he runs the Hoover Project on Commercializing Innovation, which studies the law, economics and politics of innovation.
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Keeping the Fruits of Research Close to Home in St. Louis
The New York Times
Feb. 7,
2007 -- Article on the efforts of WUSTL chancellor emeritus William Danforth and civic leader John Dubinsky to reorient the business climate in St. Louis. St. Louis has great research institutiions like WUSTL, but "we have not done so well with the commercialization of that science."
In 2001, Danforth -- along with a number of other business and civic leaders -- founded the Coalition for Plant and Life Sciences, a nonprofit group. The goal was to jump-start St. Louis' nascent biotechnology industry by providing both new and mature companies with increased access to financing and up-to-date facilities.
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U.S. research making great leap
Philadelphia Inquirer
Nov. 6,
2006 -- Eager to tap into China's pool of dirt-cheap engineers and technical employees who earn $5,000 to $10,000 a year, hundreds of European and U.S. companies have opened research centers throughout China in the last two years.
WUSTL political science professor Andrew Mertha warns that companies should be careful because of the seriouis problem of intellectual property piracy.
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Teenager moves video icons by imagination
United Press International
and 2 others
Oct. 11,
2006 -- A U.S. boy has become the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game using only the signals from his brain to make movements.
WUSTL researchers led by neurological surgery professor Eric Leuthardt and biomedical engineering professor Daniel Moran say the boy's achievement might lead to creation of biomedical devices that can control artificial limbs, enabling the movement of a prosthesis by just thinking about it.
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U.S. to Deploy Proven Technology on Borders
NPR - Morning Edition
Sept. 22,
2006 -- The Department of Homeland Security today awards a multi-billion dollar contract to beef up border security. The anticipated winner is Boeing. Despite the aerospace giant's background, Boeing's border security plan is less high tech than you might expect.
WUSTL computer science professor Robert Pless comments on surveillance technology. He is assistant director of WUSTL's Center for Security Technologies.
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Scribes of the Digital Era
Chronicle of Higher Education
Jan. 26,
2006 -- Article on a library-scanning project that brings public-domain materials online and offers an alternative to Google's model.
Internet Archive, is guiding a mass-digitization project called the Open Content Alliance, which was announced in October and is rapidly gaining partners. The alliance plans to take carefully selected collections of out-of-copyright books from libraries around the world and turn them into e-books that will be available free to scholars and anyone else who wants to view them, print them, or even download them to their own computers.
WUSTL recently joined. Shirley Baker, vice chancellor for information technology and dean of university libraries, comments.
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Astronomers sweep space for the sources of cosmic dust
Science Magazine online
Nov. 1,
2005 -- Article on new observing tools scientists can use to study interstellar dust. Astronomers know that interstellar dust illuminates the erratic deaths of stars, and it traces a direct link from stars to the birth of our solar system — and ultimately, to Earth. WUSTL physicist and cosmochemist Ernst Zinner comments.
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Robot surgeons scrub up
Nature Magazine (UK)
Oct. 28,
2005 -- The creators of robot-assisted surgery hope that the remote-controlled surgeons are a step towards a time when traditional open surgery is a thing of the past.
The devices were invented by a team of engineers and doctors from U. Nebraska Medical Centre, Omaha, and U. Nebraska in Lincoln.
In 2000, surgeons at the WUSTL School of Medicine conducted the first pilot trial of robot-assisted heart surgery, and a wide range of procedures now use mechanized instruments.
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Universities selected for nanotech research
San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
and 10 others
Oct. 4,
2005 -- WUSTL is one of seven university consortia selected by the National Cancer Institute to spearhead research hubs called Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, which will bring together academic laboratories and private firms to develop anti-cancer products.
The research involves the use of molecular-scale nanotechnology devices to detect and destroy tumor cells.
From the Post-Dispatch article -- the WUSTL center will be headed by Samuel Wickline.
In April, WUSTL got another grant, worth $12.5 million, for a separate nanotechnology center headed by chemist Karen Wooley.
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Blunt counters Blagojevich's courting of stem cell researchers
Associated Press
and 4 others
Sept. 15,
2005 -- Missouri Gov. Blunt has shot back at his Illinois counterpart's effort to attract scientists and institutions involved in embryonic stem cell research to Illinois.
Blunt said in a letter to life sciences companies that he opposes the "prohibition and criminalization" of stem cell research. The letters were sent to U. Missouri, WUSTL and the KC Stowers Institute for Medical Research, among others.
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New method developed to find exoplanets
United Press International, RedNova.com (TX)
and 3 others
Sept. 8,
2005 -- Astronomers looking for earth-like planets in other solar systems — exoplanets — now have a new field guide thanks to WUSTL earth and planetary scientists Bruce Fegley and Laura Schaefer.
The research was presented during this week's annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in Cambridge, England.
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Your PC is also playing FBI role!
India Times, Portsmouth Herald News (NH)
and 18 others
Aug. 19,
2005 -- With uncanny accuracy, computers predict behavior by sifting through mountains of data about customers collected by businesses. Called predictive analytics, this automated crystal-ball gazing has become a $2.3 billion industry in the United States.
WUSTL marketing professor Amar Cheema comments.
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Notebook
New Republic
July 26,
2005 -- The Pentagon has been using the latest in lie-detection technology: "voice stress analysis." It's based on the idea that a person, when fibbing, emits a certain frequency perceptible only to the keenest of auditory instruments--like the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer. WUSTL psychologist Mitchell Sommers, who conducted a study on voice-stress analysis, recently told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "It's beyond my imagination why anyone would buy one of these devices."
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Hewlett-Packard to Lay Off 14,500 in Turnaround Effort
The New York Times, Los Angeles Times
and 3 others
July 20,
2005 -- Hewlett-Packard announced that it will lay off 14,500 workers, or nearly 10 percent of its staff, over the next 18 months as part of a revamping plan that the company's executives hope will turn around the struggling fortunes of the giant computer and printer maker.
WUSTL business strategy professor Todd Zenger comments.
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Video gamers may have quicker eyes
PC Magazine online
and 17 others
July 8,
2005 -- Researchers found that gamers who devote much of their free time to Grand Theft Auto and Super Mario may be able to scan their environment and spot the target of their search more quickly than non-gamers can.
Gamers' brains don't appear to have any specialized search strategy, they're just faster, explained lead study author Alan Castel, a post-doctorate fellow in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Young techies reboot careers as work goes elsewhere
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
and 1 others
July 6,
2005 -- Article on the future of high tech jobs iin America and how some college students are rebooting their career goals which reflects a subtle but potentially significant industry shift. WUSTL engineering career services director Amanda Matheu comments.
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Mapping life on Earth could predict finding it on Mars
Universe Today Online
and 2 others
May 12,
2005 -- WUSTL geologist Carrine Blank is developing techniques that will help understand how early life developed and diverged here on Earth, to help predict where and what form it might take on Mars. Carrine Blank has traced the genetic relationships between different classes of bacteria, and determined when they broke away from each other to evolve into distinct organisms. These patterns of divergence have happened in several places on Earth, so it's possible they happened on Mars too.
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St. Louis waits for Bio-Belt to bloom
Chicago Tribune
and 12 others
May 2,
2005 -- Article on the outlook for bioscience hotspots focuses on St. Louis.
For years this fading industrial center has poured a fortune into the genetic engineering of plants, ignoring critics of the controversial technology and enduring a long stretch with little to show for its investment.
Now, finally, St. Louis is starting to see a payoff, putting some welcome distance between itself and the many other cities trying to hit it big in biotech.
Comments from John Biggs, Roger Beachy, Peter Raven, and WUSTL chancellor Mark Wrighton.
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Brain Power: Mind Control of External Devices
Associated Press Online, LiveScience.com (New York)
and 25 others
March 17,
2005 -- New coverage on this topic -- Researchers and volunteers around the world are taking early steps toward a complex but straightforward technological goal: to use electrical signals from the brain as instructions to computers and other machines, allowing paralyzed people to communicate, move around and control their environment literally without moving a muscle.
Most dramatically, that could help "locked-in" patients - those who've lost all muscle movement because of conditions like Lou Gehrig's disease or brainstem strokes.
Article mentions research at WUSTL, where surgeons placed tiny electrodes on the surface of the brains of four people recently, they achieved accuracies of 74 percent to 100 percent with just three to 24 minutes of training.
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