The Communication Factor
Newsletter of the Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication at Rice University Spring - 2004

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CS and ECE Host Annual Corporate Affiliates Days
Computer Engineering hosted their annual Corporate Affiliates Meetings on October 8th and 9th. These meetings present an opportunity for faculty and graduate students to share their latest research projects with representatives from corporations such as ExxonMobil, Sun Microsystems, Schlumberger, Texas Instruments, and Hewlett Packard.

In addition to attending presentations given by faculty, affiliates were encouraged to interact with graduate students, who showcased their research in poster sessions. Prior to the sessions, poster presenters delivered one-minute advertisements aimed at attracting visitors to their posters. Joe Cavallaro, the Chair of the ECE Affiliates Meeting, included this activity to help students learn to sell their ideas, a skill they’ll need in industry. The Cain Project supported these activities by offering workshops on poster design and giving poster presentations.

According to Keith Cooper, Chair of CS, “The student poster competition is always one of the highlights of the meeting. We are especially proud of the quality of the posters our students presented this year.”

Amarda Shehu, a graduate student in Lydia Kavraki’s Physical and Biological Computing group, won first place in the Computer Science Department’s poster competition. Her poster presents her work on “Principal Component Analysis of the Energy Landscape of the PYP Protein.”

Second place was awarded to Cheryl McCosh, a member of Ken Kennedy’s Scalar Compilers Group, for her poster, “LibGen: Telescoping-Language Technology for library Generation from Matlab.” Supratik Majumder, a member of Vijay Pai’s Computer Engineering Group, claimed third place for his poster on “High Performance MPI Libraries with TCP/IP.” Congratulations to all the presenters!

“The Affiliates meeting is a great opportunity for our students to present their research to a large group of industrial visitors. This often leads to summer internships in research labs and also provides valuable feedback on research directions.” Joe Cavallaro, Professor of ECE

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