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After a 12 hour long drive, including a few visits to roadside power outlets to recharge the laptop batteries that were necessary for hours of playing Unreal Tournament over a custom built VAN (Van Area Network), 7 UGA CS students, 6 competitors and Maggie Bradley, their coach (chauffeur),

Prof. Amit Sheth has been elected an IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2006. This honor is in recognition for his contributions to information integration and workflow management.

Starting with just 11% acceptance rate at the most prestigious conference in the area, two of three LSDIS papers accepted for the 15th World Wide Web Conference, Edinburg UK (WWW2006) are nominated for best paper and best student paper, respectively.

Congratulations to graduate students Chris Bennett, Fred Maier and Ananda Chowdhury for winning the University's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award! This award is given yearly to the top 10% of TAs at the University.
Congratulations to Semmy Purewal, who won the Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. The award will be given in Association of American Colleges and Universities 2007 Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA, January 2007).