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Daniel P. Huttenlocher, the John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business at Cornell University, has been named the university's dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science (CIS). He succeeds Robert L. Constable, CIS's founding dean who is currently concluding his second five-year term. (June 2009)

Thorsten Joachims won Best 10-Year paper at ICML 2009, which is given to "a paper published in ICML 1999 the committee feels has had the most significant and lasting impact." (June 2009)

An Honorary Day for Bob Constable is being held under the auspices of the Lynne and William Frankel Center for Computer Science on June 16, 2009 celebrating 10 years as dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell.  The day includes a special seminar on Verification, Distributed Computing, and Computing Sciences (June 2009)

Tarleton Gillespie's book "Wired Shut" has been honored with two awards: The
2009 CITASA book award given by the Communication and Information Technology Division of the American Sociological Association and previously the ICA Outstanding Book Award, given by the International Communication Association.
(June 2009)

Cornell Chronicle of May 15th reports on the recent Johnson School's student-run "Big Red Ventures" investment in Jodange, the start-up for which Claire Cardie is co-founder and chief scientist. (June 2009)

The Yahoo! Student Teaching Award for outstanding accomplishments and contributions as a teaching assistant went to Stephen Purpura, IS graduate student. He was also awarded a Teaching Assistant award for his outstanding contribution to CS 5150 Software Engineering by Professor William Arms. Other Information Science students Ian Sholtys and Benjamin Cole received Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Awards. They provided outstanding support for Dan Cosley's Human-Computer Interaction Design course and Tracy Mitrano's Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet course, respectively. The IS awards celebration will be held in the Fall. (May 2009)

The Google Fellowship recipients for 2009 represent a very select group of amazing students, among the recipients were Nicholas Chen in Human-Computer Interaction from University of Maryland working with Professor Francois Guimbretiere at Cornell University in Information Science. Ryan Peterson, also from Cornell received the Google Fellowship in Distributed Systems. (May 2009)

Corinne 6/19/09