COMPUTER SCIENCE NEWSLETTER Department of Computer Science August 30, 2001
Four New Professors Joining COSC	The Department of Computer Science was very successful in recruiting new faculty members during the previous year. Four professors, all having connections in Europe, will join the faculty in the new academic year.
Yuriy Fofanov Assistant Professor	Dr. Fofanov received his Ph. D. degree in Mathematics and Physics from Kuibyshev (Samara) State University, USSR in 1988. Before joining the Computer Science Department, he was a Senior Scientist of Bioinformatics at Genometrix located in the Woodlands. He has several years of teaching experience at Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA), and several community colleges in the State of Washington. Professor Fofanov taught two courses for us in the summer of 2001. His research interests are: Bioinformatics, Applied Statistics, Mathematical Modeling and Information Theory.
Michael Resch Assistant Professor	Dr. Michael Resch is an Austrian. He received his MS degree in Technical Mathematics from Technical University of Graz, Austria in 1990 and his Ph. D. degree in Engineering Science from University of Stuttgart, Germany in June 2001. Prior to joining the department, he was the head of the High Performance Computing Center at Stuttgart. His research interests include: Parallel and Distributed Systems, Computational Fluid Dynamics. Dr. Resch will start teaching courses in the Spring 2002, however he will make several visits to the Department during the fall semester.
George Zouridakis Associate Professor	Dr. George Zouridakis received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1994. He was an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at UT Medical School in Houston before coming to UH. His research interests are Medical Imaging and Computational Biomedicine. Dr. Zouridakis will start teaching courses in the Spring 2002. He is currently teaching a course on Medical Imaging at Rice University.
Marc Garbey Professor	Dr. Marc Garbey received his Ph. D. at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France in 1984. He is currently with Center for Scientific Parallel Computing, University Claude Bernard Lyon-I, France. His research interest includes Algorithms, Numerical Analysis, Parallel Computation, and Scientific Computing. Professor Garbey will start teaching courses in the Spring 2002, however he will make frequent visits to the Department during the fall semester.
Changes to our Unix Cluster	Here is a summary of changes made on our computer system recently (since the flood in June 2001). Pegasus has been retired. It has been replaced by a new machine Letos. For remote access to your email and files in your home directories, faculty and students may secure shell into Letos.cs.uh.edu. SSH clients are available on many Unix machines around campus, and windows versions are available at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/.