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Computer Science Department
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
800 Algoma Blvd
Oshkosh,
WI 54901
TEL: (920) 424-2068
FAX: (920) 424-0045
ROOM: 229
BUILDING: Halsey Science Center
Email: Tom Naps, Chair
Alumni Awards
2001 : Brian Toonen, Class of 1993
Part of the team that received a Gordon Bell Award for high-performance computing in 2001. The award is named after the Digital Equipment vice president. Click here to see the details.
2001 : Brian Paul, Class of 1990
Recipient of the third annual Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation for his ground-breaking work on the Mesa 3D Graphics Library. The award ceremony was held at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris, France on the evening of 1 February 2001. The award was presented by Richard Stallman.
2000 : Ty Van Bui, Class of 1993
Recipient of the Outstanding Young Alumni of the Year award from the UW-Oshkosh Alumni Association.
Ty is a senior business consultant and group leader at Case Corporation, Racine, WI. His Application Processing Team won the Case Outstanding Achievement Award in 1999.
1996: Glenn Highland, class of 1985
Recipient of the MCI Engineering Brilliance Award for designing and implementing the Intelligent Services Network’s Call Park Server platform and patent holder (patent # 5,970,134, October 19, 1999) as chief inventor of the server’s design. Click this link for details: United States Patent 5,970,134.
1996 : Bradford Hansen, Class of 1989
Recipient of the Outstanding Young Alumni of the Year award from the UW-Oshkosh Alumni Association.
Brad was Executive Vice-President and Co-founder of Multicircuits, Oshkosh, WI, a manufacturer of industrial and medical application printed circuit boards.
Faculty Awards
David Furcy
Recipient of UWO Faculty Development Grant to develop instructional visualizations for Special Topics Course on Heuristic Search
Recipient of NSF-sponsored grant to develop instructional visualizations helping students master arrays in introductory Computer Science course
George Georgiev
2003 - 2004 (PI) SUN Microsystems Inc. - AEG Application "Java-Oriented Approach to Image Understanding through Artificial Neural Networks".
2003 - 2004 (PI) University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Research Program, "Brain Modeling and Simulations - Computing and Learning with Spiking Neurons".
2002 - 2003 (PI) University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Undergraduate Student and Faculty Collaborative Research Program grant, "Independent Component Analysis for Image Recognition".
2001-2002 (PI) University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Research Program, "Simulation Analysis of Odor Stimuli Processing in the Mammalian Brain - Nonlinear Modeling of the Olfactory System".
Wing Huen
2006: UWO Faculty Development Grant to upgrade the two courses CompSci 334 Advanced Visual Basic .NET and Computer Science 335 Windows/GUI Programming
2005: UWO Faculty Development Grant to develop computer algorithms in pattern recognition and analysis of bacteria with mass spectrometer in the emerging field of Bioinformatics. A recent paper "Application of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry(MALDI-TOF-MS)-Based Fingerprinting of Escherichia coli to Bacteria Source Tracking" by Thomas J. Siegrist, Phillip D. Anderson, Wing H. Huen, Gregory T. Kleinheinz, Colleen M. McDermott, Todd Sandrin has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Microbiological Methods. Interdisciplinary collaboration between Computer Science and Biology/Microbiology.
Tom Naps
Co-Principal Investigator (with Scott Grissom of Grand Valley State and Myles McNally of Alma), NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (DUE-0341148) ($197,000), "Integrating Algorithm Visualization into Computer Science Education - Full Implementation." Develop, evaluate, and disseminate algorithm visualization resources to support computer science education. (May 2004 - April 2007). More details available.
Co-Principal Investigator (with Scott Grissom of Grand Valley State and Myles McNally of Alma), NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (DUE-126494) ($72,000), "Integrating Algorithm Visualization into Computer Science Education - Pilot Project." Developed and evaluated algorithm visualization resources to support computer science education. (June 2002 - May 2004)
Student Awards
2003-2004 : Jessica Gowey and Orjola Kajo
Co-recipients of a "Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates" award from the Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw). More details on their project are available.
2003 : Jeff Lucas
Recipient of the UW Oshkosh Chancellor's award
2003 : Eric Stephani
Recipient of the UW Oshkosh Student Employee of the Year Award for his work, which includes creating the database for online student housing registration.
2002 : Matthew Dornfeld
Recipient of the UW Oshkosh Student Employee of the Year Award for managing the computer network that serves Novell, Windows, Macintosh, and Linux for the Gruenhagen Conference Center and the 11 residence halls on campus.
1994 : Jennifer Poppy
Recipient of the UW Oshkosh Chancellor's award
1993 : Jenny West
Recipient of the UW Oshkosh Chancellor's award
1992 : Ty Van Bui
Recipient of the UW Oshkosh Chancellor's award