CSCE News
Arkansas Receives $3.3 Million Grant From NSF
“Beyond the critically important goal of helping scientists discover, understand and solve complex problems that affect our lives, this award will enhance undergraduate education, provide training for information-technology workers and support statewide initiatives such as the Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network,” said Dr. Amy Apon, Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Director of the High Performance Computing Center and Principal Investigator for the project.
DNA Computing and Molecular Programming
The 15th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming at the University of Arkansas in June 2009.
Faculty Awards
Dr. Jia Di, Dr. Brajendra Panda and Dr. Craig Thompson were recognized at the College of Engineering's Faculty/Staff meeting on May 4, 2009 -
Dr. Ron Skeith retires
The CSCE Department announces Dr. Skeith's retirement in May 2009, after 44 years of service to the University of Arkansas. Dr. Skeith served as the first Department Head of Computer Systems Engineering in 1985 and was responsible for getting the program ABET accredited in 1989. His dedication to the students was admirable, both academically and professionally. The faculty and staff of the CSCE Department wish him well and hope that he enjoys his well-deserved retirement years.
SeerSuite: Foundations for Scientific and Academic Cyberinfrastructure
Guest Speaker
Thursday, April 23
12:30-1:30 pm
JBHT 239
Outstanding Seniors 2008-2009
The CSCE Department is happy to announce the Outstanding Seniors for 2008-2009:
2009 University of Arkansas High School Programming Contest
The competition will be held on March 7, 2009 and will begin at 9:00 a.m. The contest is sponsored by Acxiom Corp. and hosted by the Computer Science & Computer Engineering department and the University of Arkansas chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
The Empowering Leadership: Computing Scholars of Tomorrow Alliance (EL Alliance)
The alliance is funding scholarships for both undergraduate and graduate minority students to attend the 2009 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference to be held April 1-4 in Portland, Oregon. The deadline for applications is February 28.
Seminar Presentation - John Jacob
Title: "GENI: Overview & Plans"
2009 NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program
The NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program which is administered by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Is officially accepting applications for the 2009 Aeronautics Scholarship Program. It is expected that approximately 20 two-year undergraduate, and 5 two-year with an option of a third year graduate scholarships will be awarded annually to students pursuing aeronautical engineering and related fields such as Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. Total allocated award amounts are up to $40,000 for undergraduates and up to $125,000 for graduates. These funds will go towards tuition and related costs, as well as to provide paid summer internship opportunities at a NASA research center.
Model-driven Synthesis of High Assurance Secure Systems
Abstract: Programming languages research has many techniques for generating efficient, correct implementations from high-level specifications. Recent research on language-based security formulates models of information security in terms of modular, algebraic structures from language semantics. The research described in this talk combines these threads in novel ways to construct high-assurance secure systems in which semantic techniques from programming languages research provide both a mathematical basis for formal verification and a flexible, modular organizing principle for system design and implementation. This methodology is currently being applied in the MU High Assurance Security Kernel Lab to a significant case study in which secure kernels (in this case, separation kernels) with a verified security policy are synthesized from formal models of security rooted in language semantics.
Performance Analysis for Streaming Applications on heterogeneous SoC architectures: Reconfigurable and Multi-cored
Speaker: Jun Zhu
Women in Technology
Women Shaping the Technology World. Money magazine has interesting profiles of 14 women who are shaping the world of technology. Read the article about the women at Google, ebay, and other top tech firms: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0809/gallery.mpw_valleygirls_qs.fortune/index.html
The new Valley Girls. The tech world has a new inner circle. They're young, they're global, they have power marriages and little kids. Read Fortune magazine's article about the women shaping the face of technology today: http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/25/news/newsmakers/sellers_valleygirls.fortune/index.htm
DARPA Grant Received
Dr. Jia Di received $305,326 from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with Drs. Scott Smith and Alan Mantooth in ELEG department to study ultra-low power asynchronous circuit design. Power consumption has become one of the most critical design challenges to digital IC designers. Circuits operating in subthreshold region, i.e., the supply voltage, VDD, is below the transistors' threshold voltages, Vt, are able to achieve very low power consumption. However, reducing VDD causes the delay to increase drastically.
"Who Wrote this Document?"
Charles Nicholas
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
nicholas@umbc.edu
Virtual World Research Published in RFID Journal
Students at the University of Arkansas, and at neighboring high schools, are employing avant-garde technology to help the health-care industry learn just how RFID can make a difference in the operations of a company or organization. The researchers, under the direction of Craig Thompson, a professor of computer science and computer engineering at the university, hope the technology will provide a modeling and simulation environment that lets organizations test RFID implementations—down to such details as the number of RFID readers and tags, and where to put them—prior to physical deployment. Read the full article (http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/4326/1/1/)
Modeling Health Care Logistics in a Virtual World
Inefficient health care delivery – not patient care but business and support operations, including logistics and supply-chain networks, database- and inventory-management systems and patient-information systems – contributes significantly to rising costs and compromised quality of care and patient safety. To address this problem, University of Arkansas researchers are using Second Life, the popular three-dimensional virtual world in which people work and play online, as a platform for modeling efficient health care delivery. Read the full article at http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/13327.htm
Biocomplexity Seminar
This seminar will explore origins, descriptions, and consequences of complexity in living systems. The goal is to develop models that can be used to better understand biological systems, and to better engineer bio- and abio-systems. Thus, topical areas will include systems biology (study of complex biological mechanisms), synthetic biology (design and build novel biological function), bio-inspired computing (including hardware), and DNA computing and molecular programming (using biological materials for non-biological purposes, such as nanostructure construction). The format of the seminar will be based on discussion of selected papers. The seminar will meet in JBHT 532 on alternating Thursdays at 12:30 pm.
Star of Arkansas
We are pleased to announce that the Star of Arkansas is ranked 339 as one of the fastest supercomputers in the world! The Star of Arkansas has a sustained performance of 10.75Teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) and joins only 33 other academic institutions in the United States on this list. Excluding national labs there are roughly 24 entries on this list from academic institutions in the United States.
Star of Arkansas
The Star of Arkansas was made available for general production use on Wednesday, May 21, 2008.Star is approximately eight times more capable than our first supercomputer, Red Diamond. Up to 93% of the available compute nodes are being utilized by applications from computational researchers from the University of Arkansas and jobs are waiting for resources. Jobs have been submitted by users from four different departments from two colleges on campus. The amount of computing accomplished on the Star of Arkansas during its first five days of production operation exceeds the amount of computing that can be accomplished on Red Diamond during an entire month!
Research Announcement
Acxiom Corporation informed the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department today that they will provide $40K continuation funding in 2008-2009 for two projects started in June 2007. Drs. Wingning Li and Craig Thompson and graduate research assistants Reid Phillips, Wesley Deneke, and Joshua Eno staff the projects. Acxiom is a leader in customer data integration. They use grids of thousands of PCs to process huge data sets for their customers. Each task is specified as a workflow that can take hundreds of files as input and can process the inputs to organize, improve, and augment data quality. The two projects contribute as follows:
NSF Award
Dr. Susan Gauch was recently awarded a $14,580 travel grant from the National Science Foundation. This award will support travel for six students currently enrolled in Ph.D. programs in the USA to present their accepted papers and posters and to attend the Doctoral Consortium at next year's Adaptive Hypermedia Conference. AH2008, http://www.ah2008.org/, will be held in Hannover, Germany, July 28 – August 3, 2008.
Computer Science Receives ABET Accreditation
The BS in Computer Science has received accreditation from ABET's Computer Accreditation Commission.
New Department Head of Computer Science and Computer Engineering Named
Dr. Susan Gauch has accepted the position of Department Head,
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