Irbis Gallegos has been given a cash award to present a poster at the More Graduate Education at Mountain States Alliance/ Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (MGE@MSA/WAESO) Reseach Conference. The poster is entitled: Discovering Observable Entities From Use-Case Scenarios and was presented last April 21.
 

Leonardo Salayandia will attend the OOPSLA 2006 conference to participate in the Domain-Specific Modeling workshop on October 22. The conference this year will be hosted at Portland, Oregon, and Leonardo will be presenting our work on Workflow-Driven Ontologies and Model-Based Workflows. Leonardo, Dr. Pinheiro, Dr. Gates, and Alvaro Rebellon submitted a paper to this workshop last summer about the on-going work on MBW's.
 

Each year SREB hosts the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, a four-day conference that has become the largest gathering of minority doctoral scholars in the country.
The purpose of the Institute is to provide scholars with the skills necessary to succeed in graduate study and to prepare them for success as faculty members at colleges and universities. In addition, the Institute provides scholars and their faculty mentors with opportunities to share knowledge about research and academia, to meet other scholars and faculty from around the country, and to link to a larger community of scholars and faculty in various academic fields.
The 2006 Institute on Teaching and Mentoring will be held in Miami, Florida, October 26-29, 2006, at the Radisson Hotel.
 

Our very own Omar Ochoa has been selected as an AGEP Scholar! The national goal of the AGEP Program, developed and sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities who enter the professoriate in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.  Omar is the second person in our group to get this fellowship; Irbis Gallegos also is a current recipient of this fellowship. Congratulations to both!  

Dr. Deborah McGuinness will present a talk entitled: "Emerging Semantic Web Trends" at 2pm at the Rubin Center.  

To be held at Indianapolis. Accepting research posters related to Cyberinfrastructure.  

Annual GEON meeting along with Geoinformatics 2006, poster submission deadline is March 24, 2006. The conference was held in Reston VA. Leonardo Salayandia presented the talk entitled: Evaluating BDI Agents to Integrate Resources Over Cyberinfrastructure. Posters were also presented by Leonardo Salayandia, Gilbert Ornelas, Irbis Gallegos, and Nick Del Rio. Professors Gates, Pinheiro, and Kreinovich also assisted the event.
 

Ann Gates is appointed to the NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI), which will comprise twenty-six distinguished members representing the diverse science and engineering community.  

Starting with the Spring 2006 semester, Dr. Paulo Pinheiro joins the faculty at Computer Science. Dr. Pinheiro comes to us from Stanford University, and his area of research is the semantic web. He is now part of our research group, where he will lead our efforts on data provenance and trust.  

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