Eighties

 
New Faculty
Dennis S. Arnon
Francine Berman
Dennis B. Gannon
Thomas P. Murtagh
Jehan-Francois Paris
Lawrence Snyder
Walter F. Tichy
 


Dennis S. Arnon
('
80 photo)

 

Ph.D. Recipients /more info/

> T. Donald Dennis (Advisor: P. J. Denning)
>
Joseph H. Fasel III (Advisor: P. J. Denning)

> Scott N. Woodfield (Advisor: V. Y. Shen)

Science Headlines  
> Janice Brown, a 98-lb. former teacher, makes the first long-distance solar powered flight in the Solar Challenger.
> Voyager I
reaches Saturn, returning data on its 14 moons as well as its more than 1,000 rings.
Photo Collection
       
       
New Faculty
Janice E. Cuny
Bradley J. Lucier
John T. Korb
 
John T. Korb
('88 photo)


Bradley J. Lucier

Ph.D. Recipients /more info/
> Leslie Paul Chew (Advisor: M. J. O'Donnell)
>
Deborah A. Joseph (Advisor: P. R. Young)
> Stephen J. Tolopka (Advisor: H. D. Schwetman)
Science Headlines  
> IBM introduces its first personal computer, running the Microsoft Disk Operating System.
> IBM introduces a complete desktop PC.
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New Faculty
Mikhail J. Atallah
Greg N. Frederickson
Susanne E. Hambrusch


Mikhail J. Atallah

('88 photo)


Greg N. Frederickson

('88 photo)


Susanne E. Hambrusch

('88 photo)

Ph.D. Recipients /more info/

> Jeffrey A. Brumfield (Advisor: P. J. Denning)
>
Eric R. Dittert (Advisor: M. J. O'Donnell)
>
Kye Sherrick Hedlund (Advisor: L. Snyder)

> Ching-Chih Hsiao (Advisor: L. Snyder)
>
Vance E. Waddle (Advisor: A. B. Whinston)
>
William A. Ward, Jr. (Advisor: J. R. Rice)
Science Headlines  
> A permanent artificial heart is implanted in a human for the first time in Dr. Barney B. Clark, 61, at University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City.
> MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) diagnostic machines are introduced in Britain.
> The space shuttle Columbia makes its first mission, deploying two communications satellites (Nov. 16).
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New Faculty
Alberto Apostolico
Walter A. Schnyder
Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr.
 


Alberto Apostolico

('88 photo)

 

Ph.D. Recipients /more info/
> Subhash C. Agrawal (Advisor: P. J. Denning)
>
James D. Arthur (Advisor: D. E. Comer)
> David M. Capka (Advisor: P. R. Young)
>
David Mount (Advisor: C. M. Hoffmann)

> Danny A. Reed (Advisor: H. D. Schwetman)
>
David K. Schrader (Advisor: P. J. Denning)
>
Stephen Thebaut (Advisor: V. Y. Shen)

Science Headlines  
> TIME magazine names the PC "Man of the Year".
Photo Collection
 


John R. Rice
('83 photo)

   
       
New Faculty
Chandrajit Bajaj
Bharat Bhargava
Wayne R. Dyksen
Concettina Guerra
Elias N. Houstis
Rami G. Melham
Piyush Mehrotra

Dan C. Marinescu

Bharat Bhargava

('88 photo)
 


Wayne R. Dyksen

('87 photo)


Concettina Guerra

('88 photo)

 
Elias N. Houstis

('88 photo)

Rami G. Melham

('84 photo)

Piyush Mehrotra

('88 photo)
 
Dan C. Marinescu

('88 photo)
   
Ph.D. Recipients /more info/
> Matthew Bishop (Advisor: D. E. Denning)
>
Andre B. Bondi (Advisor: P. J. Denning)

> Kuo-Cheng Li (Advisor: H. D. Schwetman)
>
Andrew Wang (Advisor: H. E. Dunsmore)

Science Headlines  
> Domain Name System (DNS) is established with network addresses identified by extensions such as .com, .org, and .edu.
Photo Collection

Wayne Zage

Walter Gautschi

Paul McNabb

Georgia Conarroe
 
Kevin Smallwood
   
       
New Faculty
Castos R. Iliopoulos
Michael R. Hannaford 
Chia-Hoang Lee

Ryan D. Stansifer
Wojciech Szpankowski
Vernon J. Rego

Michael R. Hannaford

('88 photo)


 Chia-Hoang Lee

('88 photo)


Ryan D. Stansifer

('88 photo)

   
Wojciech Szpankowski

('88 photo)

Vernon J. Rego

('88 photo)
Ph.D. Recipients /more info/

> Stephan V. Bechtolsheim (Advisor: D. B. Gannon)
> Yeou-Huei Hwang (Advisor: D. B. Gannon)
> Alejandro A. Kapauan (Advisor: D. B. Gannon)
> Teemu Tapani Kerola (Advisor: H. D. Schwetman)

> Jairo Panetta (Advisor: D. B. Gannon)
>
Larry Lee Peterson (Advisor: D. E. Comer)
>
Tze-Jie Yu (Advisor: H. E. Dunsmore)
Science Headlines  
> Researchers at IBM develop the scanning tunneling microscope, which can visualize images on an atomic scale.
>
The first two 'in-the-wild' PC computer viruses are released.
Photo Collection
 


Grad Student Cookout

   
       
New Faculty
Prasun Dewan
S. Rao Kosaraju

Prasun Dewan

('88 photo)

S. Rao Kosaraju

('88 photo)
 
Ph.D. Recipients /more info/
> Ralph E. Droms  (Advisor: D. E. Comer)
>
Christopher A. Kent (Advisor: D. E. Comer)

>
Atte Juhani Kortekangas (Advisor: A. B. Whinston)
> Shuh-Shen James Pan (Advisor: A. B. Whinston)
>
Calvin J. Ribbens (Advisor: J. R. Rice)
>
Zuwang Ruan (Advisor: W. F. Tichy)
Science Headlines  
> SERC (Software Engineering Research Center) began operation in October.
> Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager make the first nonstop flight around the world without refueling.  The Voyager flew around the world from Edwards AFB, California, returning in 216 hours, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds.
Photo Collection
       
       
New Faculty
Richard A. DeMillo
Aditya P. Mathur
Eugene H. Spafford

Richard A. DeMillo

('88 photo)

Eugene H. Spafford

('88 photo)
 
Ph.D. Recipients /more info/
> Michael T. Goodrich (Advisor: M. J. Atallah)
>
Ravi Janardan (Advisor: G. N. Frederickson)
 
> Balachander Krishnamurthy (Advisor: J. T. Korb)
> Cristina Ruggieri (Advisor: T. P. Murtagh)
Science Headlines  
> Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand make the first transatlantic hot-air balloon flight.  2,790 miles from Sugarloaf Mountain, Maine, to Ireland Virgin Atlantic Flyer.
Photo Collection
 


Early Xinu Lab

   
       
New Faculty
Shreeram S. Abhyankar
Ahmed Elmagarmid
 

Ahmed Elmagarmid

('88 photo)
 

 

Ph.D. Recipients /more info/

> Parthasarathy Bhasker (Advisor: A. B. Whinston)
>
Robert L. Brown (Advisor: D. E. Comer and P. J. Denning)
>
Christina C. Christara (Advisor: E. N. Houstis)
>
Myung-Soo Kim (Advisor: C. Bajaj)

> Pei-Jyun Leu (Advisor: B. Bhargava)
>
Thomas Narten (Advisor: D. E. Comer)
>
Mahesh Kumar Rathi (Advisor: S. D. Conte)
>
Gregory E. Shannon (Advisor: G. N. Frederickson)
>
Craig E. Wills (Advisor: J. T. Korb)
Science Headlines  
> NASA scientist James Hansen warns congress of the dangers of the global warming and the greenhouse effect.
>
The Morris Internet Worm suddenly makes the general public aware there are security concerns in
distributed computing.
Photo Collection

Ying Wang

William Gorman

Douglas Comer

Dan Trinkle
 
Cal Ribbens

Chris Comer
 
       
New Faculty
       
Ph.D. Recipients /more info/
> John Paul Bonomo (Advisor: W. R. Dyksen)
>
Dah Jyh Guan (Advisor: G. N. Frederickson)
>
Ajay Kumar Gupta (Advisor: S. E. Hambrusch)
 
> Susan Hatcher Rodger (Advisor: G. N. Frederickson)
>
Rajendra Shivaram Yavatkar (Advisor: D. E. Comer)
Science Headlines  
> The first effort to index the Internet is created by Peter Deutsch at McGill University in Montreal, who devises Archie, an archive of FTP sites.  Another indexing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server), is developed by Brewster Kahle of Thinking Machines Corp. Tim Berners-Lee of CERN develops a new technique for distributing information on the Internet, which eventually is called the World Wide Web.
Photo Collection
 
Early Graphics Laboratory
   
       


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