Computer Science Ph.D. students Jay McCarthy and Warren Schudy recently received awards from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

Jay received a NSF Fellowship and placed in the top 6th percentile of awardees. His proposed plan of research is to create a programming language that eases the development of correct and richly featured Web applications. This language will be amenable to analysis to help guarantee various kinds of safety properties. Jay's award is worth approximately $120,000 over three years.

Warren received a NSF Honorable Mention for his proposal concerning automatic tuning of combinatorial ...

Professor Pascal Van Hentenryck received a Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) award for "Adaptive and Robust Resource Allocation and Scheduling". The funding will support research on developing novel computer applications, based on mathematical modeling, for fast and efficient decision making.

Of the 103 projects submitted, twenty-five were competitively selected. This is the first DEPSCoR award for Brown and Rhode Island, which is designed to expand research opportunities in states that have traditionally received the least funding in federal support for university research.

The list of projects selected for fiscal 2006 DEPSCoR funding can be found ...