NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Reimbursements and Expense Report Training Class
Mark your calendars! On Friday, February 23, Christina Cowan will host a training session for anyone who needs to be trained and certified to process his or her own travel expenses and reimbursements. The class will be held in room 2224 Hamburg Hall from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. read more...

ICES/MechE Seminar: Paul Fischer of Argonne National Laboratory to Speak on
"Spectral Element Methods for Transitional Flows"
On Thursday, February 15, ICES and the department of Mechanical Engineering will co-host a talk by Paul Fischer of Argonne National Laboratory's Mathematics and Computer Science Division. The seminar will take place from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. in Scaife Hall, room 301. read more ...

POLICIES
Terminating Your Employment with ICES
If you are planning to leave ICES and officially end your appointment, it is imperative that you notify the administrative staff. A letter of resignation or an email stating your last day at ICES, any remaining PTO and a forwarding address should be sent to Rhonda Moyer (rm7q@andrew.cmu.edu) as soon as your intentions are known. This allows the administrative office to accurately update your current paycheck, all mailing lists, and office records.

Also, if you occupy office space in Hamburg Hall but do not receive a paycheck through ICES, you must inform the administrative staff if you decide to leave the Institute, University, etc. If possible, email a forwarding address so that your information can be added to our "alumni" mailing list.

For more information on the above procedures, please contact Rhonda Moyer at 8x6410 or via email at rm7q@andrew.cmu.edu.

ICES Press Coverage Policy
Please note, if you are contacted by the media for any press coverage on an ICES, PITA or related project, please notify Dana Hilinski that same day. The ICES administrative office is compiling records of all press coverage that ICES and PITA receive. This information will be presented to various review boards to solidify our prominence at this university.

When speaking to the press, it is imperative that ICES and PITA, if applicable, is mentioned alongside your name. Please emphasize this during all interviews.

If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, please send email to hilinski@andrew.cmu.edu. Members of ICES received a notable amount of press in year 2000, however, many times neither ICES nor PITA received any mention.

HONORS & AWARDS
Eduardo Camponogara, Post-doctoral Student, ICES
Sarosh Talukdar, Professor, ECE

At the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, held January 3-6, 2001, Camponogara and Talukdar were given the Best Paper Award in the Complex Systems Track. Their paper was titled "Network Control as a Distributed, Dynamic Game."

Ramayya Krishnan, Professor, Heinz School

At the 10th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), held in Brisbane, Australia December 9-10, 2000, Krishnan and collaborators were given the Best Paper Award. The paper titled "On Analyzing Interactions in a Software Agent Marketplace" was co-authored by Ashish Arora, Vidyanad Choudhary, Karthik Kannan, Rema Padman and Ramayya Krishnan. A copy of the paper is available at http://ibiza.heinz.cmu.edu/ibiza/.

Dan Siewiorek, Buhl Professor of ECE, SCE, ICES and Director of HCII
Asim Smailagic, Senior Research Engineer, ICES

Siewiorek and Smailagic have been awarded the 2000 Allen Newell Medal for Research Excellence. Each were chosen for "revolutionizing hardware-software co-design through the creation and demonstration of task-specific wearable computers, for the development of a rapid prototyping methodology for such systems, and for demonstrating the military and industrial applications of wearable computers." This award will be presented at the SCS Town Hall meeting on Thursday, February 22, at 4:00 p.m. in room 7500, Wean Hall.

NEW FACES
Boris Kaminsky,
Research Programmer

Boris Kaminsky recently joined ICES in January 2001 as a Research Programmer. He is currently working on developing codes for the Composable Simulation project with Chris Paredis. Before joining ICES, Boris worked for the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute as well as the Mellon Institute as a Research Programmer. He also worked for the University of Pittsburgh in 1994. Boris holds his undergraduate as well as his Ph.D. in Physics ('87) from Ukraine University. Boris grew up in the Ukraine but moved to Pittsburgh soon after graduating. He has extended family here in the United States and is very happy to now have his citizenship here as well. In his free time Boris enjoys spending time with family, reading, and going to Pittsburgh's historical sites. He also enjoys traveling around the country, specifically to the West Coast and New York.

Jana Diesner ,
Visiting Scholar

Jana Diesner joined ICES in December 2000 as a Visiting Scholar. She is currently working with Kathleen Carley on the CASOS Project and is helping to improve an existing software package on text analysis. She will be at Carnegie Mellon until the end of March 2001. Prior to joining ICES, Jana studied business administration and market research in Spain. She received her undergraduate degree from Technical University in Dresden, Germany where she studied Media Sciences and Statistics. Jana would like to pursue her graduate degree when she returns to Germany, but for now she is enjoying her time here in Pittsburgh. In her free time Jana enjoys going to the pool for a swim, hiking, and traveling around Europe and the Unites States.

ICES EVENTS
Annual ICES Holiday Party
The ICES holiday bash 2000 took place on December 15 at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association (PAA) in Oakland.

Click here to see more photos from the ICES Holiday Party

NEWSMAKERS
Pittsburgh Magazine - Tissue Engineering Highlight
January 2001
"A Cellar's Market" by Rich Lord
http://www.pittsburghmag.com/mag/index.html

ORMS Today - CASOS Highlighted
December 2000
"Designing Organizations" by Doug Samuelson
http://www.lionhrtpub.com/orms/orms-12-00/toc.html

L'Usine Nouvelle - Wearable Computers Article
September 2000
"Des vêtements << branchés >> truffés de puces"
Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 (French)

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