Computer Science Graduate Student Newletter
Number  1995-02 February 15, 1995
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New Lecturer Join COSC

The Department of Computer Science welcomes a new lecturer this
semester.  Dr. Mircea Draghicescu is teaching COSC 4310
(Languages and Compilers) this Spring.  He is currently an NSF
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Texas Center for Advanced
Molecular Computation at UH.

Dr. Draghicescu received his B.S. degree in Computer Science
from the University of Bucharest, Romania in 1978.  He completed
his Computer Science Ph.D. degree at Pennsylvania State
University in 1990.  He taught at the University of
Massachusetts at Boston and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
between 1990 and 1993. 

Dr. Draghicescu's areas of interests include programming
languages, functional and logic programming, parallel
programming, and scientific computation.  He can be reached at
mircea@sina.tcamc.uh.edu.

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Ph.D. Qualifying Examination Results

The results of the Fall 1994 qualifying examinations is now
available.  Mr. Chien-Chi Lin and Mr. Terry Clark successfully
completed the qualifying process and became Ph.D. candidates. 
They deserve our congratulations.

Fall  1994      Excl    Pass    Marg    Fail    Poor    Total 
AI              0       2       3       1       0       6 
Comp.Arch.      1       3       2       2       0       8 
Num. Ana.       2       1       0       1       1       5
Theory          0       0       0       3       0       3 
Summary         3       6       5       7       1       22 

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Fellowships for New Graduate Students

A scholarship for students who will begin their graduate studies
at the University of Houston in Fall 1995 was announced
recently.  The Stella Ehrhardt Fellowship/Cullen Graduate
Scholarship will provide a $6,000 scholarship to each selected
students in addition to any other graduate support (e. g. TA,
RA).  The main criterion for the selection is academic
excellence.  The deadline is March 10, 1995.  Please contact Dr.
Stephen Huang for information.

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Tentative Summer and Fall Courses

According to a memo from Dr. J. C. Huang, the following courses
will be offered in the summer: 1410, 2320, 2410, 3330, 3340,
3410, 3480, 4310, 4330, 4360, and 4380.  No graduate level
courses are scheduled at this time.

For the Fall 1995, the following graduate courses will be
offered: 6364, 6365, 6366, 6368, 6369, 6372, 6377, 6384, 6385,
6397, 7371, and 7376.  This is a tentative schedule and is
subject to change.

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Graduate Student Publication

The following is a list of recent publications of Dr. Christoph
Eick and his graduate students:

C. Eick and Ema Toto, "Evaluation and Enhancement of Bayesian
Rule-Sets in a Genetic Algorithm Environment for Classification
Tasks," Proceedings of the 8th Int. Symposium. on Methodologies
for Intelligence Systems, Charlotte, October 1994.

C. Eick, Yeong-joon Kim, and Nicola Secomandi, "Enhancing
Diversity for a Senetic Algorithm Learning Environment for
Classification Tasks," Proceedings of Int. Conference. on Tools
with Artificial Intelligence, New Orleans, Nov. 1994.

Yeong-Joon Kim and C. Eick, "Multi-rule-set Decision making
Schemes for a Genetic Algorithm Learning Environment for
Classification Tasks," to appear in Proceedings of the 4th
Conference on Evolutionary Programming, San Diego, March 1995.