[Electronic Version]
Computer Science Graduate Student Newletter
Number  1995-03 March 3, 1995
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Funding for Johnson's OS Project

Professor Olin Johnson received additional funding of $184,000
for the OS Project entitled "Multiprocessor, Multiserver,
Microkernel Based Operating Systems for Networked Computer
Servers." The additional funding covers Phase II of the project
and brings the total funding for the year to $303,000. Three
students and one post-doc are being supported by this project.
Drs. Jean Paris and Ridgway Scott are also working on the
project with Dr. Johnson.

In April Dr. Johnson and Dr. Yoonho Park, the post-doc, will
travel to Tokyo to present a report on the project to the NEC
Central Research Laboratory  that sponsors the project. The UH
activity is part of a larger research effort on parallel
processing that involves NEC's Research Lab in Princeton, The
Houston Area Research Center (HARC) and the Central Research Lab
in Tokyo. Information on this project and other High Performance
Computing Projects at UH are available in
http://sina.tcamc.uh.edu which will shortly be connected to the
UH home page.

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Navy's Real-Time Database Grant 

A grant was awarded by a Navy contractor to Professor Stephen
Huang to participate in the research of a Navy Real-Time
Database Management Project.  The first year funding of the
2-year project is $76,534.  Three graduate students have been
selected to work on the project entitled
"Critical-Time/Real-Time Data Base Management."

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Prof. Rusinkiewicz to Chair ICDE 1996

The 12th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
will be held at New Orleans in February 1996.  Professor Marek
Rusinkiewicz was appointed the General Chair of the conference. 
ICDE is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.  In 1994, the
10th ICDE was held in Houston with about 300 attendees from all
over the world.  

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New Undergraduate Advisor Assistant

Ms Sara Chelette is the new Undergraduate Advising Assistant in
the Computer Science Department.  Sara received her B.A. in
Consumer Sciences and Merchandising from the College of
Technology here at the University of Houston.  Previously,she
worked in the Mathematics and Chemistry Departments.  Prior to
that, she worked off campus in retail stores for two years. 
Sara's interests are jewelry and fashion as well as using
computer as a business tool.

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Extended Hours for PC & X-Terminal Labs

Due to popular demand, the department has extended the operating
hours for the PCLab and the X-terminal Lab on the third floor of
PGH building.  On weekdays, the labs will  be open until 10 pm. 
They will be open from 10 am to 4:30 pm on Saturday, and 10 am
to 5 pm on Sunday.

The PC Lab is funded with the computer access fee.  The Lab is
open to all COSC students and other students taking COSC
courses.  According to Dr. J. C. Huang, seven PC mice have been
stolen from the Lab.  All COSC students are asked to help in
protecting the department property.  Unauthorized access to the
facility should be reported to the department.  The X-terminal
Lab is open to all Natural Sciences & Mathematics students.

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Graduate Student Publication

Cukic Bojan presented his paper entitled "The Performance Impact
of False Subpage Sharing in KSR1" at the Fifth Symposium on the
Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation. The Conference was
held in McLean, Virginia on Feb. 6-9, 1995.  The paper was
coauthored by his dissertation advisor, Prof. Farokh Bastani. 

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Department WWW Server Back on Line

The department WWW server is running again after an interruption
of about 2 months.