Spring & Summer 2004





Andrey Chernolutskiy presented a paper



Summer Science Institute 2004 - Robotics



Detroit Free Press Article on LTU Robotics Class for Tech Girl Class Sponsored By AT&T | Photo Album



IGVC 2004 Report
LTU AISSIG (As I See, So I Go) autonomous vehicle traveled 244ft and placed 6th in the international IGVC (Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition) Autonomous Challenge. 27 teams participated in the competition, but only 17 teams were qualified. Virginia Tech was the winner again this year and 2nd place award went to Hosei University in Japan. LTU was the best University in Michigan. Our results outperformed those of Oakland, U of M Dearborn, and Michigan Tech. We also beat so many top-level Universities like University of Colorado, Georgia Tech, University of Wisconsin in the autonomous challenge, which is the main event of IGVC. Since the cost of constructing our robot vehicles was the cheapest (less than $1,000), as far as productivity is concerned, we can say that LTU was the best. Other Universities were spending more than $10,000 for the construction of each vehicle. I would like to thank all the students worked day/night and rainy or sunny. Especially, I would like to thank all the families of IGVC team members. Without their support, we could not have achieved this. Many team members' family came the competition site to support LTU teams. Vincent Chen delayed returning back to Taiwan after graduation in May in order to participate in this competition. Even his father and mother came to the USA to see his robot team! Recently on June 21, Warren Tech Center News and Oakland Center News had an article about this year's IGVC competition. The title of the article was: "Lawrence Tech Is Among Elite". If you want to get a copy of the newspaper, please send an email to chung@ltu.edu For the official results from the organizer (USArmy RDECOM-TARDEC), please go to www.igvc.org and click on results link. For LTU IGVC team home page with many photos, please go to ltu164.ltu.edu/igvc
Chan Jin Chung - IGVC faculty advisor



Robofest 2004 results



Capstone, Individual Project Presentations



The recipients of the Ed Donley Distinguished Graduate awards at Saturday April 24's Alumni Dinner Dance were MCS student, Brandy Shuler. Congratulations!

Senior Project MCS 4833 Presentations in S217

April 21, 2004

     3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.        Call Back System, Rahih Zreik

     4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.        Simulation Interface Box, Dominik Lazarski, Brandy Shuler, Gerald Smyth

     4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.        Call Tracking Application, Armando Hysenaj

     5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.        LTU Connect 5 AI, Adam Grech

April 28, 2004

     3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.        Sutter Kane Music Flash Web Site, Bradley Ream, Erica Stephens

     4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.        Textbook Web Site, Nicole Jackson

     4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.        Residential Management Tool, Laura Wicklund, Kevin Widener

     5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.        Educational Counting Program, Toygenea Canty, Joy Linton
Email Newsletter, 3-4-04



Computer Science Robotics Lab had laptop robot demonstrations during the Dean's Brunch on Feb. 28 in the atrium from early in the morning. Students who helped the event were (from left): Jason Lo (with an AIBO robot), Vincent Chen, Shan Tseng, Andrey Chernolutskiy, Michael Nasers, Mohammad Jallad, and Maurice Tedder. Also Robofest DVD and IGVC 2003 DVD were presented. College of Arts Sciences awarded a gift card for everyone as a small token of appreciation.




It is with the deepest sadness that we report the passing of Professor Gloria Rivkin on February 24, 2004. The funeral for Gloria was held on February 25th.

Gloria taught in Mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences since 1968 when she was first hired as a part-time lecturer. In 1997 Gloria was appointed Director of the Developmental Mathematics Program in acknowledgement of her twenty-five years of devoted service in Basic Studies and retention programs at LTU.

The Department of Mathematics & Computer Science is currently accepting donations to be given to the American Cancer Society as a Memorial Fund for Gloria. Any donations or questions can be directed to the Math & Computer Science Dept. at xt. 3560.



It is with the deepest sadness that I report that Prof. Gloria Rivkin has passed away. I only knew her for a little less than five years, but I will miss her heart of gold and her strong desire to improve the world in which we live and work. I can only imagine how those of you have known her for so many years must feel.
David Bindschadler, Chair of the MCS Dept.




Congratulations to all of the winners and contestants in the first Lawrence Tech Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) programming contest. The contest was held on Feb. 3, 2004 in S302. The winners are [Left to right] Michael A. Haber (3rd Place, $50 gift certificate, CS major), Steven E. Kryskalla (1st Place, $175, Math/CS major), Eric D. Colvin (2nd Place, $75, BSIT major), Maurice Tedder (ACM chair), Jesse Brindle (ACM vice-chair). We also served Subway sandwiches to help fuel the brains of our 10 contestants who worked very hard trying to solve our challenging contest problem prepared by Dr. Chung (ACM advisor). The contest problem called "interval challenges", which was to find (1) the length of the smallest enclosing interval that contains all the given intervals (2) the number of gaps and (3) the total length of the gaps. In addition to our contest participants, ACM faculty adviser Dr. Chan-Jin Chung and ACM Chair and Co-Chair Maurice Tedder and Jesse Brindle were the proctors for the contest. The ACM thanks the LTU Student Government for providing prizes and the Math and Computer Science Department for sponsoring the food for all participants. The next ACM chapter contest is scheduled for 04-05 academic year. Until then, we are ready to represent LTU in the TopCoder collegiate challenge contest in which we compete against other university students from around the world for a $100,000 prize purse. The competition starts February 23, 2004 but register as a TopCoder member now (it's free) to gain access to the practice problems. The topcoder link is: www.topcoder.com Sign up at the following link to join the Ltu ACM and receive the latest announcements and join the mailing list: here.
Maurice Tedder, ACM Chair



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