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Two SEAS faculty receive 2009 IBM Faculty Awards
Computer scientists Matt Welsh and Greg Morrisett honored in worldwide competition to foster collaboration
Cambridge, Mass. - August 3, 2009 - Matt Welsh, Associate Professor of Computer Science, and Greg Morrisett, Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, received 2009 IBM Faculty Awards. The researchers, both at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), each received $20,000 in project support.
Welsh will use the award to fund “Prototyping the Smart City: Environmental and Energy Monitoring with an Urban-Scale Sensor Network.” The work meshes with an existing endeavor called “CitySense,” an ongoing joint experiment Welsh is conducting with BBN Technologies to use a sensor network, deployed throughout Cambridge, Massachusetts, to monitor everything from traffic patterns to weather and environmental conditions.
Morrisett will use the award to fund “Dynamic Tracking of Information Flow.” His goal is to provide automatic tracking of sensitive and/or untrusted information as it flows through a system to prevent the accidental release of confidential information or the accidental endorsement of untrusted information.
The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations; and promote courseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic to IBM.
“IBM said that competition was very fierce this year because of the economy. It was really great that Harvard won two awards,” says Morrisett.
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