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Archive – October 2006

Eli Upfal Receives Yahoo! Research Alliance Gift

Professor Eli Upfal and Michael Mitzenmacher, professor of computer science at Harvard, have been awarded a $100,000 Yahoo! Research Alliance gift for their research in “Algorithms and Modeling for Large-Scale Web Applications.” The funding will assist in the development of a theoretically well-founded framework for the design and analysis of …

Krishnamurthi's Flapjax Receives Press in eWeek, InfoWorld

Associate Professor Shriram Krishnamurthi and his team of developers have created a new programming language for developing Web applications. Known as Flapjax, the technology was released under the BSD open-source license this week. Designed as an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) offshoot, Flapjax runs on traditional Web browsers and requires …

Philip Klein Awarded NSF Theoretical Foundations Research Grant

Philip Klein has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The funding will support Klein's research on algorithms for solving optimization problems on planar graphs - graphs that can be drawn on the plane with no crossings. Such graphs are necessary in image processing and road map …

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