Dr. Haiping Xu, who received his PhD from the CS Department in 2003, has been awarded a UIC Outstanding Thesis Award for 2004. This annual award is given to the most outstanding dissertation in each of the four Graduate Program areas, namely: Behavioral and Social Science; Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences; Fine Arts and Humanities; and Life Sciences. Dr. Xu's PhD dissertation is entitled "A Model-Based Approach for Development of Multi-Agent Software Systems." His PhD advisor was Professor Sol Shatz.