This report summarizes much of the research and teaching activity of the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College between late 1998 and late 2004. The material for this report was collected as part of the final report for NSF Institutional Infrastructure award EIA-9802068, which funded equipment and technical staff during that six-year period. This equipment and staff supported essentially all of the department's research activity during that period.
Indeed, the infrastructure helped to support and encourage collaboration among faculty in the department. In the individual project reports blow, note that many of the projects represent collaborations between two or more faculty. In some cases, the project involved collaboration with colleagues in other departments as diverse as Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, or Sociology.
Furthermore, the faculty in this department has a long tradition of integrating their research and educational activities. We involve countless undergraduate students in our research projects; whether as paid programmers or Senior Thesis students working for credit, these students learn a tremendous amount by working directly with faculty and graduate students. Furthermore, we have offered numerous special-topics courses related directly to the research underway, and created two new permanent courses on Robotics and on Computer Security.
The grant has also helped both existing and new faculty to succeed on a national and international scale. Many have won of prestigious awards and honors. NSF CAREER awards were granted to Hany Farid, Amit Chakrabarti, Sean Smith, and Chris Bailey-Kellogg. Sloan Foundation Fellowships have gone to Daniela Rus, Cliff Stein, Prasad Jayanti, Hany Farid, and Chris Bailey-Kellogg. Bruce Donald received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was appointed to a chaired professorship, the first for our department. Daniela Rus won a MacArthur Fellowship.
Our undergraduate and graduate students have also received honors. LeeAnn Tzeng, a graduate student, was awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship. In 1999 the two CRA Outstanding Undergradate Awards went to Dartmouth students April Rasala and Marty Vona. Since that time seven of our undergraduates have received Honorable Mentions. Since 1999 sixty-nine of our undergraduates graduated with Honors for their undergraduate research. 1
Finally, we are expanding. Last fall we moved into a new addition to our building, which increases our space by about 50%.
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