Dr. Sylvia K. Isler, a CACT alumnus, was selected to receive the 2003 Francis Cabot Lowell Young Alumnae Award. Dr. Isler was a senior software engineer at Mathsoft, Inc. At MathSoft, Dr. Isler developed graphics and image-processing software, and was a lead developer of S-PLUS, MathSoft's computational engine for statistics for Unix Systems. Dr. Isler joined MathSoft as a research scientist in 1996. In 2000 she became the Vice President of Software development for Kodiex Inc. Dr. Isler also worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and was a recipient of the prestigous Bell Laboratories Cooperative Research Fellowship. Dr. Isler earned a BS in computer science for Hampton University in 1989, a MS in computer science in 1993 from the Univerisity of Pennsylvania, and a doctorate in computer science in 1996 from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Award film clip

Ms. Jung-Rim Hyun of the Department of Computer Science is the 2003 awardee of the Professor Charlie Steele Memorial Fund Award. The Professor Charlie Steele Memorial Fund recognizes an outstanding graduate student studying Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or Mathematics. She follows Ms. Miroslava Raspopovic of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is the 2002 awardee. This fund honors of the contributions of Professor Charlie Steele to the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
International graduate students may apply for the 2004 Professor C. Steele Memorial Fund Award

Building a Network of Leaders AT&T and Lucent Technologies, October 28, 2002 - Washington, DC

Abella receives AT&T Labs Mentor Award

Alicia Abella a Speech Software and Technology Researcher at AT&T Labs has been selected to be the 2002 recipent of the Charles Thompson Outstanding Mentor Award. This award is given annually by AT&T Labs to the employee that has demonstrated a sustained positive impact on students in the AT&T Labs Fellowship and Summer Research programs. Dr. Abella joins previous awardees Drs. Larry Greenstein, Pat Wirth, Ken Lyons, David Johnson and Ted Eckberg in this distinction. Dr. Abella has consistently demonstrated her dedication to mentoring and recruiting students as future researchers throughout her career. She was nominated for the award by Janna Shaffer-Hamaker a Computer Science graduate student at Mississippi State University.

NSF Awards Grant for ISET Scholars Program. The National Science Foundation has awarded $400,000 to institute the Information Sciences, Engineering and Technologies Scholars Program (ISET). This award will be used to provide partial support for undergraduate and graduate students to pursue research in information sciences and engineering. In the program Mentoring is used as means to promote scholarship and career development. ISET scholars will be engaged and integrated into research activities at CACT, the Algorithms Laboratory and other research labs at UMass Lowell.

ISET Research Scholars Program
Link to your future with ISET

Mozelle Thompson of the FTC Visit
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission (Sponsored by NSBE and CACT )

Dr. Gururaj Deshpande of Sycamore Visit
Co-Founder and Chairman of Sycamore Networks, Founder and Chairman of Cascade Communications, Co-Founder Coral Network Corporation. (Sponsored by CACT and College of Management)

Dr. James E. West of Bell Labs Visit
Co-inventor of the Electret Microphone, National Academy of Engineering, Fellow ASA, Fellow IEEE, G.R. Stibitz Trophy, National Inventors Hall of Fame. (Sponsored by NSBE)

Center Research Activities

Student Research Profiles

3D Audio

CACT is developing techniques to be used to model acoustical environments. These models when used in conjunction with MP3 coded audio will allow users to create realistic source imaging effects.

Snapshots of Life in CACT