[CS/ISE Seminar] Thursday, Dec. 6th, 2007, 10:30 AM, ST2 430A: The Wireless Networks Program at the National Science Foundation

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*    Date: Dec. 6th, 2007 (Thursday)
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*    Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 noon
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*    Venue: ST2 430A
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*    Speaker: Dr. Jie Wu
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Title: The Wireless Networks Program at the National Science
Foundation

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Dr. Jie Wu
Program Director
CISE/CNS/NeTS
National Science Foundation

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Bio:
Jie Wu is a Distinguished Professor in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
at Florida Atlantic University and a Program
Director at the US National Science Foundation.
He has published more than 400 papers in
various journals and conference proceedings.
His research interests include mobile computing,
routing protocols, fault-tolerant computing, and
interconnection networks. He served as program
vice chair for the 2000 International Conference
on Parallel Processing (ICPP), program vice chair for the 2001 and 2008
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS),
and general chair for the 2008 IEEE International Parallel and
Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). He is a program cochair for the IEEE
First International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems
(MASS '04). He was a coguest editor of a special issue in Computer on ad
hoc networks. He was also an editor of several special issues of the
Journal of Parallel and Distributing Computing (JPDC) and IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). He is the
author of the text Distributed System Design (CRC, 1998) and is the
editor of the text Handbook on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of
Sensor, Ad Hoc Wireless, and Peer-to-Peer Networks (Auerbach, 2005).
He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel
and Distributed Systems and is currently on the editorial board of
several international journals. He is a recipient of the 1996-1997, 2001-2002,
and 2006-2007 Researcher of the Year Awards at Florida Atlantic University.
He served as an IEEE Computer Society distinguished visitor and is the
chairman of IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing
(TCDP).