Computer Science Graduate Student Newsletter

1996-01                                     January 29, 1996

TA's Commitment to Department

It has always been the policy of the department that teaching 
assistants are not allowed to accept other employment without 
the consent of the department.  In addition, once they have 
accepted the appointment, teaching assistants are committed to 
serve until the end of the semester.  

There have been several resignations in the first weeks of this 
semester.  Dr. J. C. Huang, COSC Chairman, has decided that he 
will not tolerate this type of irresponsible behavior from our 
TA's any longer.  From now on, he will sign the COOP Approval 
Form only on Dec. 15 and May 15, and only if the TA has done 
an acceptable job for the department. 


Scholarship News

Several scholarships are available for UH students at the 
beginning of the semester.  The names of the scholarships and 
their application due dates are listed below: (1) Women's 
Interest Network Scholarship (Feb. 15), (2) Texas Space Grant 
Consortium Fellowship (Feb. 21), and (3) International 
Education Fee Scholarship (Mar. 1).  Please contact Ms. Amanda 
Vaughan for more information and the application forms.


Fall Qualifying Examination Result

Fall 1995       Excl    Pass    Marg    Fail    Poor    Total
AI              1       3       0       0       0       4
Comp. Arch.     0       2       0       1       0       3
Num. Anal.      1       3       0       2       0       6
Theory          0       0       0       0       0       0
Summary         2       8       0       3       0       13

The results of the qualifying examinations given at the end of 
last semester are available now.  Three graduate students 
completed the qualifying examination process and became Ph.D. 
candidates without further review by the faculty.  They are: 
Gyorgy Hernadi, Sarah Hwang, and Wei-Min Jeng.  We congratulate 
these students for their achievements.  

The faculty will review the progress of other Ph.D. students 
during their first Faculty meeting scheduled on February 6.  
The number of Computer Science Ph. D. candidates produced for 
the last few semesters are given in the following table. 

Semester        F93     S94     F94     S95     F95*
#Students       1       3       2       2       4


Summer 96 Courses

The Department will offer one graduate course in the coming 
summer session.  COSC 7360 Advanced Operating System will be 
taught by Dr. J.-F. Paris.  Two other faculty members, Dr. 
Willis King and Dr. K. H. Cheng will also teach summer courses 
at the undergarduate level. 


Phi Kappa Phi Nomination

Three graduate students were nominated for the Phi Kappa Phi 
Honor Society by the Department last December.  Zhengsheng 
Yang, Ridhdhish D. Amin and Maciej Brodowicz were selected 
for their high GPA's in their Computer Science courses.



Student Publication

Lien-dai Diane Nguyen's paper entitled "An Imprecise Real-Time 
Image Magnification Algorithm,'' co-authored with his project 
advisor Dr. Albert M. K. Cheng, has been accepted for 
presentation and publication by the 1996 International 
Conference on Multimedia Systems.