Dr. Dennis Kafura is the department head of computer science. 
Msr is the abbreviation for Microsoft Research which has been recently in the news regarding the wooing of its employee Dr. Kai Lee by Google.
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CS 2204 is a computer science course taught by Dr. Alexey V. Onufriev.
The same Alexey whatsisname is also teaching GBCB 5874.  His office number is 540-231-4237.
These Russians for some reason seem to have names that end on  
"ev", "ov" or "in".  
Examples are politicians Michael Gorbachev and Nikita S. Krustchev,  the famous writers Anton P. Chekhov and Vladimir Nabokov, 
and the first man to fly to 
Space Mr. Yuri A. Gagarin. Smirnoff is yet another one like that, where "off" 
is actually pronounced the same as "ov". 
Apparently, Mr. Smirnoff came from Russia 
orgininally. But that does not mean that the vodka that carries his name is 
any good. In fact, it is one of the worst. A good vodka must come directly
from Russia.   
Of course all rules have exceptions: there are some bad vodkas currently made in Russia.  
Because of this, 
the price of gasoline has skyrocketed. In some areas it is more than $2.50, 
we are off to a good start!
Mr. George W. Bush is our president. He probably makes $200000.00 as his annual salary.  
Many states, such as TX, VA, NY have volunteered to take in students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. One such university is Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, or Virginia Tech, for short.
Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, VA 24061. 
Following the demise of chief justice Mr. William Rehnquist, Mr. John G. Roberts has been nominated by the president to the U.S. supreme court.
He was originally supposed to be the replacement for Ms. Sandra O. Connor.
Once named to the bench, Supreme court justices can serve as long as they desire.
On Sunday, Sep 18, 2005, the NY times reported that business owners have started to return to New Orleans.

When the credit card companies show advertisements, they cookup the credit card numbers. similarly, we can cookup SSN numbers such as 123-45-6789 and 234-56-7890.
Another such cookedup number is 987-65-4321. You can check your balance
online, and sometimes offline.  Your balance is typically formatted with 2 decimal places, unlike $400.9999.