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• The paper "To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks," by Panos Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay Jain, and Luis Gravano, received the "Best Paper" Award at the SIGMOD 2006 Conference. SIGMOD is a premier database and data management research conference; SIGMOD 2006 received 446 research paper submissions, out of which 58 (or 13%) were accepted for publication.

• James Gardner has been awarded a Google Summer of Code 2006. He will be enhancing the Planetmath Auto-linker. More details can be found at planetmath.org.

• Dr. Eugene Agichtein will join the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, starting Fall 2006. His research interest includes information management and retrieval, and text mining and information extraction. Dr. Agichtein received his PhD in 2005 from Columbia, and is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft.

• Li Xiong is a co-organizer of the Healthcare Information and Knowledge Management Workshop, co-located with the Conference of Information and Knowledge Management in Washington D.C. For more information, visit the HIKM webpage .

• Kim Gernert and James Lu have received funding from the university to design a new, introductory graduate course on Computational and Life Sciences.

• Johnny Healey won the best student paper award at the 2006 ACM Southeast Conference for his paper "Yaccscript: A Platform for Intersecting High-Level Languages". A picture of the award presentation is here.