Awards & Honors
Teaching Awards
- Stephen Vavasis: Fiona Ip Li Excellence in
Teaching Award
- Thorsten von Eicken: Abraham Wong Excellence
in Teaching Award
- Praveen Seshadri: Ralph Watts Excellence in
Teaching Award
- Lillian Lee: Stephen Miles Excellence in
Teaching Award
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards
- Rie Ando, Eli Barzilay, Cristian Estan, Indranil
Gupta, Deyu Hu
Research Awards
- Eva Tardos: Guggenheim Fellowship
- Jon Kleinberg: Office of Naval Research Young
Investigator Award
- Bart Selman: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
- Greg Morrisett: NSF Career Award
Other Awards
- Kenneth P. Birman: named Fellow, Association
for Computing Machinery
- David Gries: Honorary degree of Doctor of
Science (D.Sc.) from Miami University
- Juris Hartmanis: Honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters Honoris Causa from the University of
Missouri-Kansas City
- Charles Van Loan: named to Joseph C. Ford
Professorship
- Eva Tardos: Miller Visiting Professorship from UC
- Berkeley
- Cornell's team won the regional competition of
ACM's International Collegiate Programming Contest.
The team members are David Kempe, a first-year PhD student, Erik Dangremond, a senior CS major,
and Mike Smullens, a junior in biology. As regional
winner, the team competed in the World Finals in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April, finishing in
the top third at 18th. Adam Florence, the coach, is
also a CS graduate student.
Graduate Student Awards
- Lynnette Millett: Intel Graduate Fellowship
Undergraduate Student Awards
- 1998-99 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Awards: Pedro
Felzenszwalb, runner-up; David Liben-Nowell, honorable mention
- Merrill Fellowships: Matthew Chiu (advisor:
Brian Smith), David Liben-Nowell (advisor: Jon Kleinberg), Vladimir Livshits (advisor: Ira Wasserman,
Astronomy)
- Churchill Scholar: David Liben-Nowell
- Michael Kassoff: 1999 Microsoft Junior Award
- Abhideep Singh: Frank and Rosa Rhodes Scholarship
- Jonathan E. Marx Memorial Senior Prize: Sally Chu, Ashutosh Agrawal
- Alan S. Marx Memorial Prize for Excellence
Supporting Undergraduate Education: Christopher H. Jeuell
- Recipient of the Computer Science Prize for
Academic Excellence: David Liben-Nowell
- Lockheed Martin Awards for Outstanding
Achievement and Academic Service: Jeremy Kubica,
Matthew Harren, David Feldman,
Ayan Mandal, Aleksey Kliger
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