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This year IBM has made several gifts totaling more than $325,000 to researchers and students in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University.
Through its Shared University Research (SUR) program, IBM has granted $167,000 in IBM blade servers and supporting hardware to the department. Dr. Mladen Vouk, associate vice-provost for information technology and interim head of computer science, was instrumental in securing the grant, which will support a research project entitled “SUR: Next-Generation Computing in Research and Education.”
Vouk, along with Drs. Rada Chirkova and Vincent Freeh, assistant professors of computer science, received IBM faculty awards totaling $110, 000. The gifts will support Vouk’s project “Construction and Testing of Self-healing Network-based Software and Services”; Chirkova’s project, “Database Performance Optimization for WebSphere and Tivoli Products”; and Freeh’s project, “Self-optimizing and Self-configuring Concepts to Power Management for Server Platforms.”
Dr. Edward F. Gehringer, associate professor of computer science, received an Eclipse Innovation Award in the amount of $20,000 for his project, “Distributed Extreme Programming with Eclipse.” IBM gives Eclipse Innovation awards to selected researchers who have used the Eclipse open source code for teaching or research or who have actively promoted the growth of Eclipse users. Dr. Michael Rappa, Distinguished University Professor of Business Management at NC State, also received an Eclipse Innovation Award earlier this year.
In addition to faculty, NC State students received gifts from IBM. One graduate student in computer science received an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship in the amount of $28,400, and two undergraduates, one in computer science and the other in electrical engineering, received Thinkpads for winning IBM’s International Challenge for Eclipse (ICE) plug-in contest. The advisor for the two students in the ICE contest was Dr. Laurie Ann Williams, assistant professor of computer science.
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