Professor Michael J. Black receiving the Commendation and Chief's Award from Colonel Henry W. Stanley, Chief of Police, at the Henrico County Division of Police Spring Awards Ceremony, Henrico County Virginia, April 19, 2007.

On April 19, 2007, Michael Black, Professor of Computer Science, and his class, CS296-4 Topics in Computer Vision, received commendations from the Henrico County Division of Police, Henrico County Virginia, for their work on analyzing and enhancing surveillance video of a homicide crime scene. The class spent the spring of 2006 developing new computer vision algorithms to analyze video sequences from the unsolved case. In ...

Professor Philip Klein has been selected to receive Brown University's Philip J. Bray Award for Teaching Excellence in the Physical Sciences. One such award is given each year to a current faculty member who is recognized as an exceptional undergraduate teacher.

Ph.D. student Glencora Borradaile has been awarded a National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship. (NSERC is the Canadian equivalent of NSF.) The fellowship is tenurable at any Canadian institution for two years.

Glencora's thesis research concerns designing theoretically efficient algorithms for optimization problems in planar graphs. She has worked with Philip Klein in giving a simple algorithm for finding the maximum st-flow in a directed planar graph. She has given invited talks on this result at The University of Waterloo, NYU, IBM Watson, CMU and Dartmouth. In collaboration with Philip Klein and Claire Mathieu, she ...