Venu Govindaraju, UB Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and ICT Chair, has recently been selected for two renewal awards under Hewlett-Packard’s Innovation Research Program. The projects, “Multimodal Command-and-Control By Integrating Two-Handed Gestures and Speech” (Co-PI Jason Corso), and “Intelligent Processing of Hand-Annotated Documents” (Co-PI Srirangaraj Setlur), both involve breakthrough research in the area of immersive interaction. The grants, totaling approximately $250K, fund investigator and graduate student collaborative research with Hewlett-Packard.
Posted June 30, 2009 in ICT
Assistant Professor of CSE and ICT faculty member, Jason Corso, will receive the NSF CAREER award for computer vision research entitled “CAREER: Generalized Image Understanding with Probabilistic Ontologies and Dynamic Adaptive Graph Hierarchies.” Please join us in congratulating Professor Corso in this major accomplishment.
Posted June 10, 2009 in ICT
The Information and Computing Technology Strategic Initiative sponsored “ICT Day,” an event dedicated to academic pursuits related to this Strategic Strength. ICT Day featured lectures throughout the day by both UB faculty and several distinguished external speakers in the areas of Enabling Discovery and Smart Environments. A poster session open to student and faculty participants was also held.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
9:00 - 9:45 am: Breakfast in the Flag Room
9:45 - 10:00 am: Opening Remarks, Venu Govindaraju, Chair of the ICT Faculty Advisory Committee and Alex Cartwright, Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives
Session I
Chair: Bharat Jayaraman, Professor and Chair, Computer Science and Engineering
12:00 - 2:00 pm: Lunch (meet and greet with the Provost) and Poster Session in the Flag Room
Session II
Chair: E. Bruce Pitman, UB Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Mathematics
4:00 - 5:00 pm: Reception in the Flag Room
Posted June 2, 2009 in ICT
