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This timeline is meant to document the history of the SORCER lab
activities.
SORCER remains committed to leading the service-oriented revolution, expanding the boundaries of today's information technology and forecasting and redefining the capabilities of the computer
as the grid of network objects.
| Mar | 2002 |
SORCER Vision presented; FIPER: The Federated S2S Services in Environment, JavaOne, Sun’s 2002 Worldwide Java Developer Conference |
| Aug | SORCER announced at CE2002 | |
| Keynote paper on "Federated P2P Services in CE Environments" presented at CE2002 | ||
| Sept | Subcontract from GE Global Research Center for FIPER Enhancement'02 | |
| Graduate course CS-5331 Network Security offered (students) | ||
| Nov | Successful NIST FIPER Annual Review | |
| The SORCER Lab opens its doors | ||
| Dec | FIPER Enhancements 2002 completed and documented in four research reports | |
| Jan | 2003 | FIPER Enhancements 2002 documented in five technical reports |
| Jan | The lab finds its own home - CP B20 | |
| Course CS-5331 Advanced Network Programming offered | ||
| Course CS-3392 Computer Networks offered | ||
| Subcontract from GE Global Research Center for FIPER Enhancements'03 | ||
| Feb | SORCER Vision Illustrated in 3 Posters | |
| Mar | Ray Kolonay's Visit, FIPER V.5 Requirements Defined | |
| May | SORCER network infrastructure established | |
| July | CS 4000/5331course Java Programming offered | |
| Sept | 25-30 | Mike invited to Bejing Jiatong Uiversity, Beijing, China - FIPER/SORCER |
| Sept | Website
Support for the 11th International Conference on Concurrent
Engineering - Research and Applications, Beijing, China, 26 - 30
July, 2004 - http://www.ce2004.org Course CS5331 Peer-to-Peer Computing offered |
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| Oct | CE 2004 website hosted by the SORCER Lab | |
| Nov | SORCER at SC2003 | |
| Dec | SORCER P2P Computing projects completed | |
| Jan | 2004 | CS 5331 Mobile Computing offered |
| Successful SORCER Proth Pilot with HPCC TTU | ||
| Feb | 2004 Young Engineer Award, Dr. Scott Burton one of the major contributors to FIPER/SORCER | |
| Successful SORCER Demo at WP AFB | ||
| Mar | Document Manager for CE2004 developed | |
| Apr | SORCR network upgraded (DB server and Xserve G5) | |
| Two SORCER assisted GISO-A and GISO-B senior design projects completed | ||
| SORCER Spring04 Party | ||
| May | SORCER BLAST deployed at USDA-ARS, Lubbock, TX | |
| Document Manager deployed by IT TTU with SORCER Lab assistance | ||
| 03 | Thesis defended by Sekhar Soorianarayanan | |
| Mobile Computing projects completed | ||
| SORCER Lab Overview | ||
| June |
Java Communities in Action. June 29, 2004 SGrid - SORCER demo at JavaOne 2004 |
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| July |
Participation at the
11th International
Conference on Concurrent Engineering - Research and Applications,
Beijing, China, 26 - 30 July, 2004 -
http://www.ce2004.org Two SORCER related papers published, Award for Outstanding Service as the Program Chair for Mike Sobolewski |
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| Aug |
Invited talks at Samsung Advanced Institute of
Technology (SAIT) on Grid and Service-Oriented Computing: The
Intergrid Perspective, Seoul, S.
Korea, August 6, 2004 Website Support for the 12th International Conference on Concurrent Engineering - Research and Applications, Renaissance Worthington Hotel - Ft. Worth/Dallas, USA, 25 - 29 July, 2005, http://www.ce2005.org |
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| Sept | 13 | Thesis defended by Mukundan Desikan |
| 14 | Thesis defended by Rama-Krishna Rao Pathangi | |
| Dec | Contributed to Sun's white paper on Build a Compute Grid with Jini™ Technology by Sun Microsystems. | |
| 18 | Sekhar Soorianarayanan, Mukundan Desikan, Rama-Krishna Rao Pathangi graduated | |
| 02 | Thesis defended by Abhijit Rai | |
| 06 | Thesis defended by Sandhya Madireddy | |
| 07 | Thesis Defended by Vivek Khurana | |
| Jan | 2005 | Academic Excellence Grant from Sun Microsystems, 5 new servers and 7 Sun Ray stations for the SORCER lab. |
| CS 5376 Communication Networks offered spring 2005 that includes Service-Oriented Networks (Jini, JXTA, Globus) and SORCER. | ||
| Feb | 25 | SORCER Update, GUG meeting |
| Mar | The Yield Tracker project funded by USDA, Lubbock - funding for two students: Yongjun Rong and Fajin Wang | |
| 09 | Thesis defended by Saurabh Bhatla | |
| 25 | Thesis defended by Ravi-Kiran Malladi-Venkata | |
| 31 | Thesis defended by Kiran Masapari | |
| May | Saurabh Bhatla, Sandhya Madireddy, Kiran Masapari, Abhijit Rai, Ravi-Kiran Malladi-Venkata graduated | |
| Jun | 29 | Thesis defended by Timmayya Ame |
| Jul | 25-29 |
CE2005:
The 12th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering:
Research and Applications Next Generation Concurrent Engineering:
Smart and Concurrent Integration of Product Data, Services, and
Control Strategies Renaissance Worthington Hotel - Ft. Worth/Dallas, USA, 25 - 29 July, 2005 - supported by the SORCER lab, three papers presented (see publications) |
| Aug | 01 | Thesis defended by Manu Ravichandran |
| The Yield Tracker project (six months) funded by Professor Steve Maas, USDA, Lubbock completed successfully (Yongjun Rong, Fajin Wang) | ||
| 29 | Course CS-5331 Design Patterns offered | |
| Timmayya Kalappa Ame graduated | ||
| Oct | Two Sun Ray VLANs (Linux/Solaris) with 6 stations on new 2Gbps network - secure access with smart cards | |
| Nov | 02 | Manu's Pizza Farewell Party |
| Dec | The Yield Tracker project for USDA, Lubbock - extended, funding for Vijay Akkineni | |
| 17 | Manu M. Ravichandran and Vivek Khurana graduated | |
| Jan |
11, 2006 |
CS-4000-1/5331-2 Spring 2006, Object-Oriented Programming in Java offered |
| Feb | 23 | COE Research Open House - SORECER research activities including SILENUS, SGrid, Yield Tracker projects demonstrated |
| 25 | SORCER Lab members assist TCEA High School Programming Contest - Judges | |
| April | 07 | SORCER Metacomputing concepts defined |
| May | 11 | Thesis defended by Yongjun Rong (dinner) |
| Jun | 26 | AF Research Lab, WP AFB, Michael Alger - Internship, Mike Sobolewski - ASEE Faculty Fellow 2006 AF SFFP (9 weeks) |
| Aug | 12 | Yongjun Rong graduated |
| Fall 06 | CS 5376 Communication Networks offered, includes Service-Oriented Networks (Jini, JXTA, Globus) and SORCER. | |
| Fall 06 |
CS4311 Senior Project Design offered - 4 SORCER related projects | |
| Sept | 04-07 | Mike invited to BeiHnag Uiversity, Beijing, China - FIPER/SORCER |
| 17 | Manu and Mukundan - home coming | |
| Oct | 26 | Thesis defended by Michael Angelo A. Alger (dinner) |
| 27 | Dissertation defended by Max Berger | |
| Dec | 07 |
Presentations at TTU Grid Users Group
Meeting: - SILENUS: SORCER Federated File System - Max Berger - BitTorrent in SILENUS - Adam Turner |
| 12-20 | Mike invited to Jiaotong Uiversity, Beijing, China - FIPER/SORCER | |
| 15 | Max Berger graduated | |
| Jan | 10, 2007 | CS4311 Senior Project Design offered - 2 SORCER related projects |
| Feb | 22 | Research Open House - SORCER Research Group, Thank you letter |
| 24 | SORCER Lab members assist TCEA High School Programming Contest - Judges | |
| Mar | 05 | TTU University Day - presenting CS/SORCER |
| 05 | Mike selected as a ASEE Faculty Fellow for 2007 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program at AFRL/VA WPAFB, OH. Chris Hard as his research assistant. | |
| 28 | Thesis defended by Adam Turner (dinner) | |
| April | 17 |
Mike signed three international collaborative
agreements: 1. With the Computer Research Institute of Korolev Samara State Aerospace University, Samara, Russia and the School of Mathematics and Information Technologies of Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russia 2. 720 Laboratory, BeiHang University, Beijing, China 3. Intelligent Engineering Laboratory, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing China |
| 25 | Thesis defended by Daniela Inclezan (dinner) | |
| Thesis defended by Fajin Wang (dinner) | ||
| May | 16-24 | Mike invited by Samara State Aerospace University and Ulyanovsk State University |
| 22 | Mike awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Computer Science at Ulyanovsk State University, May 22, 2007 | |
| June | 6-7 | Daniela [paper] and Max [paper] presented papers at 2nd Annual Symposium on Information Assurance |
| June Aug |
24 24 |
SORCER related research at AFRL/VA WPAFB, OH. Mike as an ASEE Faculty Fellow for 2007 Air Force Summer Faculty and Chris Hard as his research assistant. |
| Aug | 27 | Fall 2007 SORCER related courses offered: CS4392 and CS5376 |
| Aug | 28- Nov 1 |
Dr. Wensheng Xu from Beijing Jiaotong University, a Visiting Scholar for 2 months at SORCER Lab (SCoD project) |
| Sept | 3-7 | Professor JT Deng's (BeiHang University, China) visit to SORCER Lab and Palo Duro Canyon - SCoD project coordination |
| Sept | 19-24 | Professor John Cha's (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) visit to SORCER Lab - CoSEA project coordination |
| Oct | 15- 21 | The Russian Delegation visit to SORCER Lab and TTU |
| Nov | 20 | Li Guo from BeiHang University, Beijing, China, a visiting Scholar for 1 year at SORCER Lab (CoSEA project) |
| Jan | 2008 | CS3365 Software Engineering offered for SORCERadepts |
| Jan | 11 | Thesis defended by Adam Thomas-Murphy (dinner) |
| March | 26 | Thesis defended by Daniel Kerr |
| Apr | 18 |
Seminar for Mechanical Engineering, TTU Metacomputing in Concurrent Engineering [ Abstract] |
| April | 30 | Thesis defended by Chris Hard |
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