Tim Havens (ECE/CS) presented two papers at the IEEE Int. Conference on Fuzzy Systems in Istanbul, Turkey. The first paper was entitled, “Feature and Decision Level Fusion Using Multiple Kernel Learning and Fuzzy Integrals,” authored by ECE PhD student Anthony Pinar and coauthored by Havens and Derek Anderson and Lequn Hu from Mississippi State University. . . .
Twenty school teachers from across Michigan will be at Michigan Tech for a three-day workshop Monday through Wednesday. The workshop, called CS4all, will help teachers learn to integrate computer science and computational thinking into their classrooms. Sponsored by grants from Google, the workshop is the first step toward establishing an online “community of practice” to . . .
Min Song, Chair of Computer Sciences Department and Director of the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems, chaired the 24th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) held in Las Vegas in early August 2015. ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer . . .
Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon (CLS/CS) published “Towards affect-integrated driving behaviour research” in Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science. DOI:10.1080/1463922X.2015.1067934
Soner Onder (CS) has received a $560,000 research and development grant from the National Science Foundation titled, XPS: FULL: FP: Collaborative Research: Sphinx: Combining Data and Instruction Level Parallelism through Demand Driven Execution of Imperative Programs. This is a four year project.
Prof. Charles Wallace was invited to the White House Conference on Aging because of his Breaking Digital Barriers project and the ongoing outreach to research, understand, and help bridge the technology gap experienced by older Americans. Wallace is participating on the Technology and the Future of Aging panel, which begins at 3:50pm July 13, 2015. . . .