Computer Science Graduate Student Newsletter

1996-05                                     July 1, 1996
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Dr. Loftin Moves from UH-D to UH

Prof. Bowen Loftin has been teaching courses in the COSC for a
few semesters while holding his professorship at UH-Downtown. 
The Computer Science Faculty voted unanimously in a recent
faculty meeting to welcome Dr. Loftin as a regular full-time
member of the department.  

Effective immediately, Dr. Loftin will not be considered as an
outside member of the thesis/dissertation committee.  



COSC's Chief System Administrator

The department's cluster of workstations was managed by a group
of part-time graduate students in the past.  Now we have a
"real" system administrator.  Mr. D. Alex Matei has been working
as our system administrator since early this year.

Alex obtained his M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from
Bucharest Polytechnic Institute in 1974. From 1974-1991 he was
Electronics Design Engineer at FCE Computer Manufacturing
Company, Bucharest. He was a programmer/analyst at Chevron
Chemical at Kingwood between 1992 and 1994. 

In 1994 he became Computer Graphics Lecturer working for UH's
Texas Center for Advanced Molecular Computation (TCAMC) and
Virtual Environment Technology Lab (VETL). At TCAMC he designed
a GUI for the FLACS project. His  research was also devoted to
Scientific Visualization (Polygon Reduction Technique) at VETL.
He became Chief System Administrator in the Department in
January 1996. 


Graduate Student Publication
A paper, entitled "Constructing Stochastic Networks via Beta-RBF
networks'' co-authored by Shengtun Li and his dissertation
advisor Dr. Leiss, has been accepted for presentation by the
1996 International Conference on Neural Networks to be held in
June 1996.  Dr. Li is now an assistant professor in Taiwan.

Several papers by former COSC students have been accepted for
presentation by Conferencia Latinoamerica de Informatica (CLEI)
to be held in Bogota, Columbia this June.  The students are:
Yili Wang ("User Level Parallel File I/O"), Jianyu You
("Firewall Monitoring," and "A Firewall Access Definition
Language"), Fan Chen ("Authentication for Multimedia
Documents").  All of the papers are co-authored with their MS
advisor Dr. Leiss.



Computer Science Graduate Student Newsletter

1996-05                                     July 1, 1996
<>

Dr. Loftin Moves from UH-D to UH

Prof. Bowen Loftin has been teaching courses in the COSC for a
few semesters while holding his professorship at UH-Downtown. 
The Computer Science Faculty voted unanimously in a recent
faculty meeting to welcome Dr. Loftin as a regular full-time
member of the department.  

Effective immediately, Dr. Loftin will not be considered as an
outside member of the thesis/dissertation committee.  



COSC's Chief System Administrator

The department's cluster of workstations was managed by a group
of part-time graduate students in the past.  Now we have a
"real" system administrator.  Mr. D. Alex Matei has been working
as our system administrator since early this year.

Alex obtained his M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from
Bucharest Polytechnic Institute in 1974. From 1974-1991 he was
Electronics Design Engineer at FCE Computer Manufacturing
Company, Bucharest. He was a programmer/analyst at Chevron
Chemical at Kingwood between 1992 and 1994. 

In 1994 he became Computer Graphics Lecturer working for UH's
Texas Center for Advanced Molecular Computation (TCAMC) and
Virtual Environment Technology Lab (VETL). At TCAMC he designed
a GUI for the FLACS project. His  research was also devoted to
Scientific Visualization (Polygon Reduction Technique) at VETL.
He became Chief System Administrator in the Department in
January 1996. 


Graduate Student Publication
A paper, entitled "Constructing Stochastic Networks via Beta-RBF
networks'' co-authored by Shengtun Li and his dissertation
advisor Dr. Leiss, has been accepted for presentation by the
1996 International Conference on Neural Networks to be held in
June 1996.  Dr. Li is now an assistant professor in Taiwan.

Several papers by former COSC students have been accepted for
presentation by Conferencia Latinoamerica de Informatica (CLEI)
to be held in Bogota, Columbia this June.  The students are:
Yili Wang ("User Level Parallel File I/O"), Jianyu You
("Firewall Monitoring," and "A Firewall Access Definition
Language"), Fan Chen ("Authentication for Multimedia
Documents").  All of the papers are co-authored with their MS
advisor Dr. Leiss.