Dr. Jim Bowring Attending GSA Conference with Four Presenting Students

Dr. Jim Bowring, PhD, and four of his students are traveling to Seattle this week to present at the annual Geological Society of America (GSA) convention. Two of the students will be presenting their papers and the other two will present posters. All four presentations are the result of work done in Dr. Bowring’s CIRDLES.org lab. …

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Dr. X’s Research Selected for Presentation at IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference

The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou’s research on “Raising Flags: Detecting Covert Storage Channels Using Relative Entropy” has been selected for presentation at the IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference.  The conference will be held July 22-24, 2017 in Beijing, China.  Her research was co-authored with Dr. Josephine Chow…

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Dr. Jim Bowring’s Research Selected for Publication in Quaternary Geochronology

The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Jim Bowring’s research, “Data Reporting Standards for Publication of U-series data for Geochronology and Timescale Assessment in the Earth Sciences,” was selected for publication in the science journal, Quaternary Geochronology.   ABSTRACT Uranium-series data provide essential dating and tracer tools for a broad spectrum of…

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Where In The World Is CS Faculty: Dr. Bowring Attending Data Infrastructure Building Blocks Workshop

Dr. Jim Bowring, Associate Professor and C. Richard Crosby Distinguished Teaching Co-Chair, will be attending the 1st National Science Foundation (NSF) Data Infrastructure Building Blocks Workshop (DIBBs17) in Arlington, VA, on January 11-12, 2017. Bowring’s current active project, “Collaborative Research: Cyber-Infrastructure for Interpreting and Archiving U-series Geochronologic Data,” is funded by NSF’s DIBBs program.  An…

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Dr. Munsell’s Research on Autism Detection Selected for Publication in Nature Journal

The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Brent Munsell’s research on “Brain Characteristics in the First Year Predict Early Autism Diagnosis” has been selected for publication in the science journal, Nature.  His research used neuroimaging data acquired at six months and twelve months to predict if a 24 month child will have…

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What Does “hacker” Really Mean?

By Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou What does the word “hacker” really mean? If you search for the definition online, you will find that it is “a person who secretly gets access to a computer system in order to get information, cause damage, etc.: a person who hacks into a computer system” [1]. Today the word hacker…

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New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou

  Kicking off National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the Department of Computer Science is excited to welcome a new faculty member with a specialization in cyber security, Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou.  Dr. X, as she prefers, brings with her a wealth of knowledge and academic experience, along with a $300k NSF grant to integrate cyber security…

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Where In The World Is CS Faculty: Dr. Bowring Presenting At VIII International SHRIMP Workshop in Granada, Spain

Dr. Jim Bowring, Associate Professor and C. Richard Crosby Distinguished Teaching Co-Chair, is a keynote speaker for the Geology Colloquium at the VIII International Sensitive High-Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) Workshop in Granada, Spain on Saturday, September 10, 2016.  Dr. Bowring will present “Advanced Cyber Infrastructure for Geochronology as a Collaborative Endeavor: A Decade of Progress,…

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New $400,000 Collaborative NSF Grant with Spelman College, Data Science eXtension (DSX)

The Department of Computer Science is at the forefront of big data and offers the first undergraduate data science program of its kind.  Dr. Paul Anderson, Assistant Professor and Data Science Program Director, is working to incorporate data science fundamentals in computing curriculum, beyond the College of Charleston.   Led by Primary Investigator Brandeis Marshall at Spelman…

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