Kudos

Alan L. Selman, professor of computer science and engineering, recently chaired a National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop in Chicago on research in theory of computing. The workshop report is available at http://www.case.buffalo.edu/~selman/report.

Selman will present a paper co-authored with Lance Fortnow, University of Chicago, and Pavan Aduri, a UB graduate student, at the fifth annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, to be held in July in Tokyo.

William J. Rapaport, associate professor of computer science and engineering, taught a master class, "How to Pass a Turing Test: Syntax Suffices for Understanding Natural Language," to graduate students in the Program in Philosophy, Computers and Cognitive Science, April 23 at the University at Binghamton. He also presented a public lecture, "A Computational Theory of Vocabulary Acquisition," on work done jointly with Karen A. Ehrlich, a 1994 doctoral graduate of the UB Department of Computer Science and now an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Fredonia State College