Drs. Jean Mayo, Ching-Kuang Shene and Chaoli Wang of MTU and Dr. Steven Carr of Western Michigan University, have been awarded $199,164 from the National Science Foundation to develop materials to educate students on modern access control models and systems. Educating students in this area is important for keeping the nation’s computer resources secure. Access . . .
A paper (entitled “On the Complexity of Adding Convergence”) by Alex Klinkhamer and Dr. Ali Ebnenasir received the best paper award at FSEN 2013 (http://fsen.ir/2013/). This is not an easy conference to get in to. This year’s acceptance rate was 26% amongst 65 submissions from 30 countries. Since Alex could not make it to the . . .
Computer Science Ph.D. student Leo C. Ureel II is the recipient of the 2013 Michigan Tech Student Leadership Award, in the “Exceptional Community Service Project” category, for his work with the Breaking Digital Barriers project. Leo has been a key figure in organizing and fundraising for this effort, which brings Michigan Tech students together with . . .
BonzAI Brawl 2013 was a great success with over 170 participants which included faculty, Michigan Tech students, Northern Michigan University students, alumni, and people from local industry. This year, participants implemented Java programs which gave artificial intelligence to farmhand characters. The farmhands rounded up ducks and eggs for money while avoiding slipping on mud. After . . .
Computer Science Assistant Professor Chaoli Wang, former CS undergraduate student John Reese, former CS MS student Huan Zhang, CS PhD student Jun Tao, and Physics Professor Robert Nemiroff will receive a Best Paper Award for their paper, “iMap: A stable layout for navigating large image collections with embedded search”, at the IS&T/SPIE Conference on Visualization . . .
Poplar Gene Expression Data Analysis Pipeline
Thursday, December 13 4pm
Fisher 325
MS Defense: Xiang Li