2008

• Professor Zhigang Zhu:
  

  Invited speaker:Sensor and Vision Technologies for Protecting New York City at the Conference on Emergency Preparedness, Queens Hospital Center Emergency Management Committee, Wednesday, February 13, 2008.
  
  A panelist on Security Technologies: Prospects, Possibilities, and Problems Panel, at the Conference of Protecting New York from Terrorism and Disaster: Taking Stock, Setting Directions, Looking Forward, Levin Institute of State University of New York, January 10-11, 2008
  
  

• Professor G.S. Bloom:
  

  A plenary speaker:Graceful Banana Trees at the Fourth International Workshop on Graph Labeling - 2008 (Harbin, China, January 7-10, 2008).
  
  Program Committee: The 4th International Workshop on Graph Labeling (IWOGL 2008), Harbin, China, January 7-10, 2008.
  
  

2007

• Professor Zhigang Zhu:
  

  3D Video Mosaics for Surveillance and Inspection, Invited Talk, Stevens Institute of Technology, December 06, 2007.
  
  Dynamic 3D Mosaics with Data Structures, Invited Talk, Department of Computer Science, Mount Holyoke College, November 19, 2007.
  
  Content-Based Dynamic 3D Mosaics for Urban Scene Modeling and Target Detection, Distinguished Seminar Series, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 23, 2007.
  
  Dynamic 3D Mosaics for Urban Scene Modeling and Moving Target Detection, Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ, October 04, 2007.
  
  Prof. Zhigang Zhu and Prof. Thomas S. Huang are the co-editors of a book entitled, Multimodal Surveillance: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems * published by Artech House in July 2007. ( ISBN-10: 1596931841)
  
  

• Professor G.S. Bloom:
  

  Invited Lecture: Progress on Graph Labelings: Old and New Problems at the International Conference on Graph Theory and Information Security 2007 (Bandung, Indonesia,10-13 February, 2007).
  
  Keynote Lecture: Diverse Applications of Numbered Graphs at the International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science (Chennai, India, March 1-3, 2007).
  
  Editorial Board: AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics.
  Co-Guest-Editor: Special Issue on Graph Labelings of the AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics (Editors: S. Arumugam, G. Bloom, M. Miller and J. Ryan)
  
  

• Professor Janos Pach:
  

  A plenary speaker at the Workshop on Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Geometry, University of North Texas, Denton, November 29 - December 1, 2007.
  
  Served as co-chair of the17th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, IBM Hawthorne, New York November 9 - 10, 2007. [further detail]
  
  Professors Peter Brass, Janos Pach and Zhigang Zhu are Program Committee members of ICCIT 2007, 10th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 27 - 29, 2007. [further detail]
  
  

• Professors Peter Brass and Janos Pach:
  

  China Science Press published the facsimile edition of the monograph 'Research Problems in Discrete Geometry' by Professors Peter Brass, William Moser, and Janos Pach, as Volume 28 in its series World Classics in Mathematics. The original edition was published by Springer in 2005.

• Prof. Janos Pach:
  

  Plenary speaker at the following five conferences :
  
  Internat. Conf. on Computational Geometry and Graph Theory - in Honor of J. Akiyama and V. Chvatal on their 60th birthday, Kyoto, Japan: June 11 - 15, 2007.
  13th International Conference on Random Structures and Algorithms, Tel Aviv, Israel: May 28 - June 1, 2007.
  1st Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference, Banff, Canada: May 28 - 31, 2007.
  Computational Geometry Seminar, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany: March 11 - 16, 2007.
  Coloquio de Teoria de Graficas, Ciudad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato : February 26 - March 2, 2007.

  Invited speaker at two different special sessions at AMS Eastern Section Meeting, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey: April 14 - 15, 2007.

  Two papers have been accepted at the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, Gyeongju, South Korea: June 6 - 8, 2007.

• Prof. G.S. Bloom:
  

  Along with Mr. Juntao He, an undergraduate Computer Science student , presented results on Magic Digraphs at the most recent Graph Theory Day (11/18/06) cosponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences and the US Military Academy at West Point
  

  Speaker at the "International Conference on Graph Theory and Information Security" (Bandung, Indonesia,10-13 February, 2007) on "Progress on Graph Labeling: Old and New Problems".
  

  Speaker at the "International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science" (Chennai, India, March 1-3, 2007) on "Diverse Applications of Numbered Graphs".
  

  Visiting Research Professor CIAO (Center for Informatics and Applied Computing) at the University of Ballarat (Australia) from March 5 to June 5, 2007.
  

2006

• Prof. Ravindran and Dr. Kevin Kwiat are the co-chair organizers of a workshop on Information Assurance Middleware for COMmunications (IAMCOM ).The workshop covers a new area of Middleware for Dependable Communications, dealing with generic hardware/software tools and models to control and manage communication infrastructures. It is being held in Bangalore, starting on 12 Janaury , 2007.


• Prof. Anshel , Dr. Iris Anshel, and Dr. Dorian Goldfeld, who are the cofounders of SecureRF Corp., a Westport, Conn.-based company, have introduced a secure RFID (radio frequency identification) tag solution, called the Algebraic Eraser . Their security solution employs an algorithm based on infinite group theory and works on quick iterations of small numbers. (October 21, 2006)


• Prof. Gertner's article ranked third in the list of TOP25 Hottest Articles - downloaded during April, May and June, 2006 - from the journal Information Fusion (October 20, 2006)


• Prof. Grossberg was awarded $110,000 for 2006 to develop algorithms for Robust Compression of Remotely Sensed Data from NOAA-NESDIS. (October 18, 2006)


• Prof. Gladkova and Prof. Grossberg are Co-PI's on the $12.5 million grant awarded to the NOAA-CREST over the next 5 years. (October 18, 2006)


• Prof. Grossberg is also a Co-PI on the $12.5 million grant awarded to create the NOAA Interdisciplinary Scientific Environmental Technology (ISET) Cooperative Science Center (CSC) over the next 5 years. (October 18, 2006)


• Prof. Baumslag joined the Editorial Board of Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics published by the European Mathematical Society. (October 04, 2006)


• Prof. Zhu joined the Editor Board of Machine Vision and Applications Journal , Springer, as an Associate Editor.
  


• Prof. Zhu is Co-Guest Editor, with Prof. Takeo Kanade (Carnegie Mellon University) of the Special Issue on Modeling and Representations of Large-Scale 3D Scenes , of the International Journal of Computer Vision , Springer , to appear late 2007.
  


• Prof. Pach joined the Editorial Board of International Journal of Computer Mathematics published by Taylor & Francis.
  


• Prof. Pach gave together with Prof Micha Sharir (Tel Aviv University) a series of ten lectures on 'Combinatorial and Computational Geometry: Trends and Topics for the Future' at a satellite conference of the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Alcala (Spain), August 31 to September 5, 2006.
  


• Prof. Pach is co-organizer of the Conference on Topological Graph Theory and Crossing Numbers at the Banff International Research Center , October 21 to October 26, 2006.
  


• Prof. Brass , Prof. Pach , and Prof. Zhu are members of the program committee of the ICCIT'2006 (9th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology ) at Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 21 to 23, 2006.
  


• Prof. Wolberg was awarded a grant for "Feature-Based Data Fusion for 3D Photography" by the Department of Energy. This is a 3-year grant for $556,694.
  


• Prof. Wolberg was awarded a grant, together with Prof. Ionnis Stamos (Hunter College, CUNY) for a " Visualization Toolkit for 3D Photography ".This is a one-year $40,000 CUNY Collaborative Research Grant.
  


• Prof. Mowshowitz: will present a talk on "Technology as excuse for questionable ethics" at the Ethicsbot Workshop("Ethics of human interaction with robotic, bionic, and AI systems: concepts and policies")in Naples, Italy, October 17-18, 2006.
  


• NY Post recognizes successful CS student: In an article titled `Best & Brightest fuel CCNY revival', the NY Post chose graduating senior James H. Faghmous, president of our ACM student chapter, to illustrate the claim of City College as the "poor man's Harvard".
  

• Prof. Mowshowitz: Appointed to the ACM Awards Committee as member (and next year chair) of the subcommittee on special ACM awards for finalists in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The Fair was held this year in Indianapolis. Next year it will be in Albequerque.
  

• Prof. Mowshowitz: Participating in the International Technology Alliance, a major 10 year and $100 million R&D effort, jointly sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.K. Ministry of Defence. The project meeting will be held in Cambridge, UK June 12-14, 2006.
  

• Prof. Mowshowitz: PI on a Partnership for Innovation sub-grant (under CISDD's grant from NSF). The business partner is Kamida, a New York City based company in the location-based messaging arena. The project is a six-month effort to develop software to enhance Kamida's service, and he will be supervising a CSc graduate student hired to build the software.

• Prof. Zhu received grant: The Air Force Research Lab has awarded a grant to Professors Zhu (PI), Wolberg, and Haralick, for the study of Dynamic Pushbroom Stereo Mosaics for 3D and Moving Target Extraction. [further detail]

• Prof. McCracken to participate in an NSF workshop Nov. 3 and 4, on "Integrative Computing Education & Research (ICER): Preparing IT Graduates for 2010 and Beyond." [further detail]

• Prof. Levin received grant : The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a grant to Professors Esther Levin ( PI ) , Izidor Gertner and Jie Wei to study the use of LSA in computing word sense frequencies.

• Professor Pach has edited two books : The proceedings of Graph Drawing 2004 ,which took place at the City College of New York September 2004 , has been published by Springer Verlag. Cambridge University Press has published the conference volume of the MSRI Special Semester on Discrete and Computational Geometry, co-organized by Pach at Berkeley in the Fall of 2003,

2005

• Prof. Mowshowitz guest editor: The october 2005 issue of the Communications of the ACM, dedicated to `The Digital Society', was guest-edited by Mowshowitz and Turoff

• Prof. Brass and Prof. Pach publish monograph: The book `Research Problems in Discrete Geometry' by Brass, Moser, and Pach, appeared with Springer. This book summarizes the state of more than 500 open problems in discrete geometry, giving thus the definitive survey of the topic.

• Prof. Gertner cover figure: as member of the IEEE Working Group for Standards on Ultrawideband Radar, he appeared on the cover of the recent IEEE Magazine on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

• McCracken Named Teacher Of The Year