References for 
Jungkee (Jake) Kim
Kang-Seok Kim
Sangmi Lee
Sangyoon Oh

This is a letter of reference for 4 students who seeking admission
at FSU for the PhD in computer science. Each of them has a masters degree
from Syracuse University and has been admitted to the PhD program in
Computer Science at Syracuse University. Each of them has passed
the "NPAC's hurdle" (independent study) and been funded by NPAC to work on our
research programs. Each of them has taken GRE and scored more than 1100
on sum of Verbal+Quantitative. All these students have taken and passed well
our "Internetics" courses and so have good skills in Java CORBA and similar 
internet technologies.

They have been working in the general area, I would now call collaborative
portals or the design and construction of distributed Object Web Systems
to support applications -- in their case either computing systems or
education. Their research is less advanced than their two colleagues Han-ku Lee
and Sang Lim -- partly because I am not bringing this activity fully to FSU
but some key participants have chosen to remain at Syracuse. Thus I have
decided to change some of my work as I move it to FSU. However this area is
in fact my major research thrust and will interact at FSU with both ODDL and
the FSU applications in this work. This is summarized in an invited talk I will
deliver in England this April:
http://www.new-npac.org/users/fox/documents/pajavaapril00/

1) Jungkee (Jake) Kim has built several interesting systems for our
   DoD sponsors which link databases to the Object Web. One of
   these linked Java visualization with a database of web access material.
   I expect his research to focus on our new approaches to web-based education
   built around a repository of shareable course objects. He has
   good skills in Java and Oracle databases where he had the bad luck
   to work on a project cancelled by DoD due to internal issues (within
   DoD) and not for problems at our end. This naturally has delayed his Ph.D. 
   progress

2) Kang-Seok Kim started on our computing portal activities but is now
   working with Oh on our new effort in "hand-held" devices and their
   integration into education and computing. He is the least experienced
   of the 7 students transferring but I expect him to perform well

3) Sangmi Lee was working on our collaborative software TangoInteractive ( a
   difficult assignment involving Java support for collaborating clients
   separated by a firewall) but as this is now owned by a commercial spin-off
   in Syracuse, I switched her this semester to designing interactive
   educational systems in our new portal framework. She has shown good
   performance on difficult problems and has produced some nice Java
   denmonstrations this semester.

4) Sangyoon Oh is in a similar situation to Sangmi Lee and I switched him from
   TangoInteractive work to our "hand held" project. Oh did excellent work for
   Tango projects in integrating asynchronous messages (mail) with this
   synchronous project. He was the first student on the "hand-held" project
   and has been helping us design the architecture of this system in light of
   the rapidly changing scene with new technologies like WAP to enable
   interoperable linkage of hand  held clients to conventional distributed
   systems.

All these students have made promising starts and have started on their Ph.D.
topic. I give them all strong recommendations to FSU and expect them to be
very successful