Kathy Hosseini
University of Maryland, University College
Field: Computer and Information Science
I have a student position at National Library of Medicine and I am working with Dr. Hauser to improve the C++ coding on the MARS database in order to make it more useful. Although I have just started, I expect to learn a lot in this project which involves C++ Programming along with SQL. I am also working under the supervision of Mr. Glenn Ford to organize and categorize MARS journals and do some C++ programming in order to make the journals more readable. I hope to get a lot of experience working with the wonderful people in NLM.

Daniel Krainak
Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
For my second summer at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), I will be continuing work with Rodney Long. We are fortunate to be joined by Dr. Sameer Antini and DJ Lee. Our work centers around developing a content-based image retrieval system, specifically for a vertebral spine x-ray image database. I will be working closely with Rodney Long using Matlab to develop the graphical user interface for querying the database as well as designing the database structure and method of retrieval. I hope to learn more about shape representations, shape matching algorithms, databases, vertebral morphometry, and most importantly, how physiological and anatomical features may be represented mathematically. The programming languages I may use this summer include Matlab, MySQL, Perl, and perhaps Java. The ones I do not know now, I hope to learn soon. I enjoyed working at NLM last summer and thank the people at NLM (especially Dr. George Thoma and Rodney Long) for allowing me to come back this summer.

Daniel Smith
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Field: Information Systems
I have a student summer position at the National Library of Medicine. At CEB, I work under the direction of Glenn Ford. I'm currently working on testing various Optical Character Recognition programs for errors and bugs. I will also be working on developing and building web pages. I hope to contribute as much as I can, as well as learn a whole lot this summer. I'd like to thank the people of CEB for giving me this great opportunity.

Karen Steely
University of Maryland University College
Field: CMIS
I am a year-round student employee earning credit towards a degree in computer management and information science at University of Maryland University College. My projects include building and maintaining this Web site and digital photography. Recently, I've had the opportunity to work with Glenn Pearson who is developing a multimedia kiosk installation using Macromedia Director.

Scott Straughan
Hello, I am a student employee at the National Library of Medicine working as a programmer. I am a senior at University of Maryland University College majoring in Computer and Information Science. This year I have been working on the MARS project with Dr. Susan Hauser to improve the lexicon system. This project allows me to practice using C++ to connect to a database. My latest project that I recently started work on is a browser for the WebMARS data. I have had a chance to gain knowledge working with C++ and SQL. I already have learned a lot working here and it will be great help when I graduate.

Bobvala Tengen
A junior at Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., I am part of the SciMaTech Academy. This summer I worked under the direction of Mike Gill to create CCTL: CEB's Computer Telephone Lan Inventory. The goal of this project is to have a centralized location of CEB's technical information. I gained experience with networks, databases, and HTML forms.

Isonguyo Udoka
I am a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, seeking a BS in Computer Science. I work with Mike Gill and my job entails creating a web template to be used to display varying information pertaining to the daily, monthly and yearly performance of the network here at CEB pulled from MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher). The goal is to be able to document network performance stats in order to optimize network throughput.