RUTGERS
Office of Media Relations
and Communications


Contact: Joseph Blumberg
732/932-7084, extension 652
E-mail: blumberg@ur.rutgers.edu
 http://ur.rutgers.edu/medrel

April 18, 2001
EDITOR'S NOTE:

MEDIA ADVISORY:
RUTGERS COMPUTER SCIENCE OPEN HOUSE ON APRIL 26;
COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES DIVISION LAUNCH

Rutgers' department of computer science will host the fifth annual
Computer Science Open House Thursday, April 26.  With presentations by
Rutgers faculty, software demonstrations and posters, the department
will share its research with those outside Rutgers, as well as with
colleagues.

The open house will launch Rutgers' new Division of Computer and
Information Sciences, which includes the department and new
interdisciplinary research centers.  Keynote speaker will be Dimitris
Metaxas, who will lead the first of these centers, the Center for
Vision, Medicine and Graphics.  Metaxas, a leading researcher in
computer modeling and simulation, will join the computer science faculty
in July.

Rutgers' computer science department, recently ranked 11th among U.S.
state universities by the National Research Council and in the top 25
overall, comprises 39 full-time members and typically graduates 250
computer science majors and bestows about 35 master's degrees and 10 to
15 doctorates a year.  Researchers are involved in more than 40 projects
funded in part by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the
National Science Foundation and industry.  These bring Rutgers
approximately $4 million annually in external funding.

WHAT: Rutgers' fifth annual Computer Science Open House, featuring
presentations, posters and software demonstrations

WHO: Rutgers computer science researchers
Keynote speaker will be Dimitris Metaxas, leading researcher on
computer modeling and simulation.  He will join Rutgers as director of
its new Center for Vision, Medicine and Graphics in July.

WHEN: Open House will begin 9:30 a.m. Thursday, April 26;
Metaxas will speak at 10:15

WHERE: Auditorium of the CoRE Building, 96 Frelinghuysen Road,
Rutgers' Busch campus, Piscataway

For additional information, contact Maryann Holtsclaw at (732)
445-2768/2380 or by
e-mail at , or Geralyn Colvil at (732) 445-2380 or
colvil@cs.rutgers.edu.
If you plan to send a reporter or a photographer, please contact Joseph
Blumberg at
(732) 932-7084, extension 652, or by e-mail at
.

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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