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Amer delivers inaugural lecture Wednesday
5:02 p.m., Oct. 23, 2006--Paul D. Amer, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Computer and information Sciences, will deliver his inaugural lecture, “Innovative Internet Transport Protocols,” at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 25, in 104 Gore Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. A member of the UD faculty since 1979, Amer received a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in mathematics from the State University of New York in Albany and a master's and doctorate in computer and information science from Ohio State University. Amer also is director of UD's Protocol Engineering Laboratory, which researches innovative upper-layer services and protocols to improve Internet performance. Research interests for Amer and his students, include innovative transport layer services and protocols and data compression in multimedia, with a special focus on investigating the Stream Control Transmission Protocol as a general-purpose transport layer protocol offering multihoming and multistreaming services. Research grants include five-year and eight-year grants from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory totaling $9.2 million. The grants have brought together university and industrial partners to collaborate with Army researchers in four general networks, including:
Sabbaticals in France include the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, the Laboratorire d'Automatique et d'Analyse des Systemes and the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Ingenieurs de Constructions Aeronautiques. Awards include a UD Center for Advanced Studies Research Fellowship given annually to four senior faculty members to dedicate one year towards full-time research, as well as the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Scholar Award in recognition of career scholarship excellence and the University-wide Excellence-in-Teaching Award. For more information, call (302) 831-2793. |
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