Spring 2000

May 2000

  • Mr. Lawrence Stackpoole who received Leadership award from RoboFest 2000, received the WDIV Outstanding Teacher Award on May 17, 2000. He is a teacher at Amelia Earhart Middle School in Detroit.

  • Here are

    pictures from the 2000 LTU Commencement exercises at Cobo Arena, Sunday, May 21. Congratulations!

  • Prof. John Stock is now officially retired and sent a message to thank the members of the MCS department for the great lunch at the Flying Fish Restaurant. He felt it was a fitting closure to his many years of service and was honored to receive such generous gifts of departure from his colleague. Please see photos from retirement lunch for John Stock on May 15.

  • Five MCS faculty members were participating in the 2000 Intel ISEF (International Science and Engineering Fair) as Judges on May 9 and 10. Here are some pictures of the event.

  • Prof. Sverdlik, formerly of LTU/MCS, together with Prof. Favro, is giving a class, "Recursion, Replication, and Reproduction, in Uppsala, Sweden from June 5 to July 28, 2000. For more information, check out here.

  • Dr. Arlinghaus and his wife, Dr. Sandra Arlinghaus, are publishing a book. Details will be here soon.

  • Prof. Roy W. Schenkel published the following two books. Please visit www.mightywords.com and type "schenkel" in QuickSearch to download his books.. 

    • Introductory Matrix Algebra for Engineering and Science Students; Roy W. Schenkel, 12/1998; $10.00; 177 pages

    • Ordinary Differential Equations for Engineering and Science Students; Roy W. Schenkel, 03/2000; $10.00; 341 pages

  • Sofia Subonj, who took  a Spring 2000 Java Programming class, passed the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 platform examination for the first trial. She was awarded $25 gift certificate from the instructor, Dr. Chung. Congratulations!

  • Senior Project Pages from Fall 1999 to Spring 2000 have been created by Dr. Dong at http://www3.ltu.edu/~acdong/Teaching/2000.Spring/mcs4833/html/

  • Carson Reinke became the new LTU ACM Chair. The outgoing Chair is Carolyn Begle. For more info about ACM, please click here.

A MCS student, Dr. Chambers,  Senator Abraham (from left)

Prof. Emeritus John Stock

 

 

April 2000

RoboFest 2000 ended successfully on Saturday, April 15. The registered number of teams as of March 15 was 46 and the actual number of teams that participated was 36. 109 team members came to the LTU gym together with coaches and mentors. 48 official volunteers were helping the event. About 300+ spectators were watching autonomous robots playing Robo Race, Robo Firefighter, and Robo Tag. Please visit www.robofest.net for more info.

 

 

Before April 2000

Students from Dr. Chung's Java Programming class, M. Frederick and N. Kopp, won 5th place from 1999 Quest for Java Contest organized by ACM and Sponsored by IBM. They were awarded cash prizes. Here are their Applets [Both requires (IE4 or above) or Netscape 4.5 (or above)]: 

April 24, 1999 College of Arts and Sciences Open House Breakfast meeting

 Is anyone interested in designing MCS Department logo in GIF(or JPEG) file for this newsletter? Dr. Chung is awarding $25 gift certificate if submitted and selected by Sep. 30. Also he is looking for voluntary writers as well as proof readers for this newsletter. Please send an email to chung@ltu.edu, if you are interested in these positions.

 


 

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