The Michigan Tech College of Computing offers a full range of undergraduate and graduate degrees in the Computing disciplines.
Mark Rouleau is the principal investigator on project that has received a $125,709 contract from Florida International University. The project is titled “Collaborative Research: Design and Development of a K-12 STEM Observation Protocol.” This is the first year of a potential four-year project.
Tech Today, March 8, 2019
Published in March 2019
The following ICC members were recognized in the 2019 Research Magazine for receiving National Science Foundation Faculty Career Awards: Sumit Paudyal (“Operation of Distribution Grids in the Context of High-Penetration Distributed Energy Resources and Flexible Loads”), Ye Sun (“System-on-Cloth: A Cloud Manufacturing Framework for Embroidered Wearable Electronics”), and Keith Vertanen (“Technology Assisted Conversations”). Read the full article here.
Keith Vertanen and Scott Kuhl’s research into the development of a mid-air virtual keyboard by mounting a hand-tracking device on a VR headset was featured in the article, “Ready User One.” Read the full article here.
The Research in Brief section included Keith Vertanen’s Alzheimer’s research, “H-STEM Engineering and Health Technologies Complex;” and Robert Pastel’s Keweenaw Time Traveler map and the Copper Country Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure. Read the full article here.
by Michael R. Meyer, Director William G. Jackson CTL
In this week’s showcase, School of Technology Dean Adrienne Minerick would like to recognize Todd Arney, Guy Hembroff and Yu Cai for their collaborative, creative efforts in developing a new course: SAT 4411 Data Center Engineering.
Along with former faculty member Xinli Wang, the three responded in Fall 2014 to a request from the Computer Network and Systems Administration (CNSA) Industrial Advisory Board to provide students with more exposure and practical hands-on experience with virtualization, cloud computing and data center engineering for both physical and virtual data centers.
Topics included in the course during initial planning included data center planning, disaster recovery, virtualization methods and cloud computing services that provide business continuity,
The class was first offered in Spring 2016 and was co-taught by Hembroff, Arney and Wang. The original idea was to devote one third of the class to data centers, one third to virtualization and a third to cloud computing.
Labs included tours of data centers both on and off campus and detailed discussions with data center managers. Students responded positively to seeing the real-world data centers and getting information directly from data center technicians and professionals in several different fields related to data center engineering.
From Tech Today, February 22, 2019
By Garrett Neese, Staff Writer, Daily Mining Gazette, February 11, 2019
HOUGHTON — Michigan Technological University is planning to add a college of computing.
The Tech Senate heard the first public presentation on the college from Daniel Fuhrmann, chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and member of the Data Revolution and Sensing Task Force.
The college idea had come out of a Computing Information Sciences working group last year, which identified a lack of addressing the rise of cybertechnology at Tech, Fuhrmann said.
The objective is to bring computing up to the same level of recognition and visibility as Tech’s engineering, Fuhrmann said.
Published on the Computer Science Depart. Blog, December 18, 2018
By Dan Fuhrmann, published on the ECE Newsblog, August 6, 2018
Timothy C. Havens (ECE), the William and Gloria Jackson Associate Professor of Computer Systems, has been named director of the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems (ICC), effective immediately.
As the Jackson Associate Professor, Havens holds a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science. He is also director of the interdisciplinary master of science program in data science. His technical areas of expertise are machine learning, computational intelligence, data science, and signal and image processing.
Havens was selected to lead the ICC by Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jacqueline Huntoon and Vice President for Research David Reed, following an internal nomination and recommendation process organized by ICC Co-Director and ECE Department Chair Daniel R. Fuhrmann. Havens’ term as ICC director extends through Dec. 31, 2021.
By Kelley Christiansen, published in Michigan Tech News, July 18, 2018
Health monitoring devices—FitBit or Garmin accelerometer watches, apps on cell phones, heart monitors—are becoming ubiquitous, but they have their drawbacks. In some climates, these devices can rub irritatingly against skin. Some are heavy and bulky. So imagine if embroidery on clothing could replace these devices altogether.
Ye Sun, an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, has received an NSF CAREER Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement by early career faculty. The research and development grant is for Sun’s project “System-on-Cloth: A Cloud Manufacturing Framework for Embroidered Wearable Electronics.”
Sun’s project is funded for $500,000 for five years.
Keith Vertanen (HCC) has received a Research Excellence Fund (REF) seed grant from Michigan Tech for his project entitled, “Automatic Speech Recognition using Deep Neural Networks”. This one-year project has a budget of $45,421. This project will create a state-of-the-art speech recognition engine based on deep neural networks. The recognizer will be used to investigate speech-based interactive systems for instrumented physical environments (e.g. cars) and person-centric devices (e.g. augmented reality smartglasses). The recognizer will also be used to investigate the input of Java source code by voice.
Zhenlin Wang (CS/SAS) has received an REU supplement of $15,876 to his NSF award entitled, “CSR:Small: Effective Sampling-Based Miss Ratio Curves: Theory and Practice”. The supplement will support two undergraduate students for one year, offering research experiences in cache modeling for modern multi-core processors and datacenter key-value stores.
The ICC Annual Retreat was held on April 20, 2018. Min Song presented ICC Achievement Awards to five researchers – one from each center – for their outstanding research and honorable contributions to the ICC in 2017-2018. Congratulations to this year’s recipients: Laura Brown (DataS), Yu Cai (CyberS), Keith Vertanen (HCC), Zhaohui Wang (CPS), and Zhenlin Wang (SAS). In addition to the award presentation and dinner, ICC Distinguished Lecturer Indrajit Ray presented his lecture, “APTRON – Active Perception for adapTive Response in cOmplex Networks”.