Where in the World is CS Faculty: Dr. Bill Manaris and Students Present at NIME 2016 in Brisbane, Australia

Computing in the Arts (CITA) program director Dr. Bill Manaris and CITA students, Chris Benson and Seth Stoudenmier, presented at the 16th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2016) in Brisbane, Australia on Wednesday, July 13, 2016.  NIME 2016 is the premier academic conference in designing human-computer interfaces and interactions for musical…

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What You Need To Know About CS Graduate Program

• The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Aspen Olmsted as the new Graduate Program Director. • Thank you to Dr. Anthony Leclerc for his dedicated service as Graduate Program Director from 2014 to 2016. • The program is a joint cooperation with The Graduate School of the University of Charleston, South…

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Dr. Brent Munsell’s Research Selected for Publication and Presentation with Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)

Dr. Brent Munsell’s research on “Identifying Relationships in Functional and Structural Connectome Data Using a Hypergraph Learning Method” has been selected for publication in the medical journal, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI).  Munsell will also attend the 19th International Conference, MICCAI 2016, to present the publication in October, in Athens, Greece.   The…

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Professors Receive NSF Award to Investigate Boot Camp vs University Classroom

Congratulations to Dr. James Bowring, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and Dr. Quinn Burke, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, on receiving an award funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their research proposal, “Collaborative Proposal: Boot Camp or University Classroom? Investigating the Effectiveness of Coding Boot Camps in Developing a Diverse Software Development Workforce.” The proposal…

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Dr. Olmsted and Master’s Student Selected “Best Paper” at 2016 Cloud Computing Conference

Professor Aspen Olmsted and master’s student, Gayathri Santhanakrishnan, were selected as “Best Paper” for “Cloud Data Denormalization of Anonymous Transactions.” Selection was based on reviews of the original submission, camera-ready version, and presentation during the 2016 Cloud Computing Conference in Rome, Italy. In the paper, Dr. Olmsted and Santhanakrishnan investigated the problem of representing transaction data in PAAS…

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Where in the World is CS Faculty: Dr. Olmsted Presenting and Panelist at the Cloud Computing 2016

Dr. Aspen Olmsted will be presenting two papers, and serving as a panelist at the Cloud Computing 2016 conference in Rome, Italy from March 20-24, 2016.  The papers were co-authored with masters students in Dr. Olmsted’s Secure Data Engineering Lab.   Gayathri Santhanakrishnan co-authored “Cloud Data De-Normalization: Investigated Data Modeling in the Cloud” and Santoshi Devata co-authored “Non-Functional Requirements…

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Dr. Aspen Olmsted Appointed General Chair for World Congress on Internet Security (WorldCIS) Conference

Dr. Aspen Olmsted was appointed as General Chair for the 2016 World Congress on Internet Security (WorldCIS) Conference. The World Congress on Internet Security (WorldCIS) is Co-Sponsored by the IEEE UK/RI Computer Chapter. The WorldCIS is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of security on the Internet and Computer Networks. The…

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RPM Healthcare and Toptix, LTD Awarded Grants to Dr. Olmsted for Research in #CSatCofC Courses

Dr. Aspen Olmsted was awarded two grants from RPM Healthcare and Toptix, LTD to support student research in CSCI 360, Software Architecture and Design, and CSCI 690, Special Topics: Applied Software Penetration Testing. Students will select research topics from the coursework, propose and test a hypothesis, and deliver a presentation of the results. Each grant…

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Where In The World Is CS Faculty: Dr. Bowring Presents At The University Of Kansas

Dr. Jim Bowring, Assistant Professor and C. Richard Crosby Distinguished Teaching Co-Chair, was a guest speaker for the Geology Colloquium at The University of Kansas, Department of Geology on Thursday, November 19, 2015.   Dr. Bowring presented “Advance Cyberinfrastructure for Geochronology as a Collaborative Endeavor”. Dr. Jim Bowring’s National Science Foundation-funded Cyber Infrastructure Research and Development…

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Dr. Munsell’s Research Published In IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Brent Munsell’s research on “Scalable High Performance Image Registration Framework by Unsupervised Deep Feature Representations Learning” has been selected for publication in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME). As one of the top journals in biomedical engineering, TBME is ranked No. 4 by Google Scholar, according to the H5-index among biomedical technology journals. “This…

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