News
November 20, 2009:
Lulu He Receives Female Graduate Student Scholarship
Please join me in offering congratulations to Lulu He, a PhD student in our department, for being selected as the recipient of a $1000 award. Each year an anonymous donor provides funding for an award to a female graduate student in the CSE department. This year we had five very strong nominations for the award. A selection committee composed of Dr. Edward Allen, Dr. Julia Hodges, and Dr. Susan Bridges reviewed all nominations and selected the winner. I would like to thank the faculty and students that participated in this process and especially thank the selection committee for their work in reviewing all nominations.
November 16, 2009:
Jonathan Harper Selected for a NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) Internship
We are very pleased to announce that one of our Computer Science undergraduate students , Mr. Jonathan Harper, has been competitively selected for a NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) internship for the Spring semester at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The USRP experience is a NASA internship that places qualified undergraduates with outstanding NASA mentors in a challenging working environment. Students from around the country work on a NASA project developed to meet the needs and goals of the NASA Center and Mission Directorate. USRP is one of most highly comprehensive internship programs for undergraduate students within the STEM majors. Mr. Harper joined our department in the Fall of 2008 after having completed his high school degree at MSMS in Columbus. His advisor is Dr. Susan Bridges.
October 20, 2009:
Keqin Wu and Dr. Song Zhang Win Poster Award
Keqin Wu, a CPE Ph.D. student working under the guidance of Dr. Song Zhang, won the best poster award at IEEE Visualization Conferences last week. The title of the poster is "Using a LIC-like FlowVis Technique to Visualize Hurricanes". Authors include Keqin Wu, Song Zhang, Phil Amburn (GRI), and Robert J. Moorhead (GRI). This year, the best poster was selected out of 41 peer-reviewed posters.
October 20, 2009:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar Has Paper Accepted
A paper titled "The Subset Keys and Identity Tickets Key Distribution Scheme" by Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security.
October 12, 2009:
CSE Programming Competition Held Friday, October 9
The departmental programming competition was held on Friday, October 9 and was sponsored by the MSU ACM Student Chapter. A total of 19 undergraduate students participated. Dr. Yogi Dandass organized the event as the CSE programming team coach. He was assisted by Dr. David Dampier, Mr. Kendall Blaylock, and Mr.Dae Glendowne who prepared the Forensics laboratory and equipment for the event. The winners of this competition were: First place: James Belue (Software Engineering) Second place: Shane Fry (Software Engineering) Third place: Aaron Boudreaux (Computer Science) Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who participated.
October 2, 2009:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar Receives Department of Homeland Security Funding
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar has been notified that his Southeast Region Research Initiative proposal titled "Minimal Trustworthy Computing Base for SCADA Security" has been selected for funding by the Department of Homeland Security. This project is valued at slightly over $200,000 for a 2 year period of performance. Congratulations on this important research project.
September 25, 2009:
Dr. Susan Bridges Receives National Science Foundation Funding
Dr. Susan Bridges is a Co-PI on a recent National Science Foundation grant of nearly $452,000 to Mississippi State which is supporting a collaborative student research and mentoring program with Alcorn State and Jackson State Universities, and Tougaloo College. The lead PI is Erdogan Memili, an assistant professor of animal functional genomics in the Animal and Dairy Science Department. Other MSU faculty involved in the project are Attila Karsi and Mark Lawrence of the College of Veterinary Medicine's basic sciences department; and Cetin Yuceer of the Forestry Department.
September 22, 2009:
Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier Receive Department of Justice Funding
Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier have been notified of two large awards today from the Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice. The first is for $2.5M awarded to Dr. Vaughn and Dr. Dampier to sustain the National Forensics Training Center activity and to support graduate work in the forensics research area. The second is a $1.5M grant awarded to Dr. Dampier and Dr. Vaughn to support database activity by Acxiom Corporation (partnered with MSU) and graduate student support in the security and forensics area. Both are one year grants.
September 21, 2009:
Dr. Yogi Dandass Invited to be Visiting Professor
Dr. Yogi Dandass has been invited by Dr. Marc Daumas, Professor and Director of the Department of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France as a visiting professor during the December time frame. This is a wonderful opportunity for Dr. Dandass and a testament to the reputation he is establishing with his FPGA work.
September 21, 2009:
Top 10 Universities Preparing Future Cyber Security Professionals
The web site http://thenewnewinternet.com/2009/09/16/top-10-universities- preparing-future-cyber-security-professionals/ from the "NEW NEW INTERNET" lists MSU as one of the Nation's Top Ten Cyber Security Programs. This is excellent national publicity for our program and helps to attract more students to our program. I believe it will also attract more industrial/government interest. The list of ten is: University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA), University of Maryland (College Park), Mississippi State University, Syracuse University, Oklahoma State University, University of Pittsburgh, West Chester University, Univ of Texas (San Antonio), George Mason University, University of Washington
September 17, 2009:
Elaine Hulitt and Dr. Ray Vaughn have Paper Published in the Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance
Elaine Hulitt and Ray Vaughn published a paper titled "Information System Security Compliance to FISMA Standard: A Quantitative Measure” in the Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Human Aspects of Information Security & Assurance (HAISA 2009) in June 2009 held in Athens, Greece. Elaine is a full time employee with the Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg and a PhD student working with Dr. Vaughn.
September 15, 2009:
Dr. J. Edward Swan Invited to be Program Committee Member for IEEE Virtual Reality 2010
Dr. J. Edward Swan has been invited to be a member of the program committee for IEEE Virtual Reality 2010. Images from a paper by Dr. Chad A. Steed, Dr. J. Edward Swan II, Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly, and Dr. Patrick J. Fitzpatrick accepted for publication at IEEE Visual Analytics Software and Technology 2009 (VAST) has been chosen to appear on the cover of the proceedings for that conference.
September 3, 2009:
Dr. Song Zhang and Keqin Wu Have Paper Accepted
Dr. Song Zhang and one of his PhD students have had a journal publication accepted in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. The title of the article is “Topology-Aware Evenly-Spaced Streamline Placement" authored by Keqin Wu (CPE PhD student), Zhanping Liu (Kitware), Song Zhang (CSE), and Robert Moorhead (ECE).
September 2, 2009:
Dr. Chris Bogen's Paper to be Published in the Journal of Digital Forensics Practice
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Bogen, one of our adjunct professors currently employed at ERDC Vicksburg. Chris was recently informed that a paper based on his PhD work here at MSU has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Digital Forensics Practice. The title of the journal publication is "Structured Forensics Examination Planning with Domain Modeling: A Report of Three Experiment Trials” and is co-authored by members of his committee, Dr. David Dampier, Dr. Ray Vaughn, Dr. Jeff Carver, Dr. Susan Bridges, Dr. Edward Allen, and Dr. Donna Reese.
August 27, 2009:
Computational Biology Team Receives Funding
The research universities in Mississippi (Jackson State, Ole Miss, MSU, and USM) have been notified that their RII EPSCoR proposal “Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems” has been funded for five years at $4M per year. The proposal has three research focus areas--computational chemistry, computational biology, and systems simulation. Dr. Susan Bridges, Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Biology and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering will serve half-time as Science Coordinator for this grant. Members of the computational biology team at MSU includes Yogi Dandass, Malingham Ramkumar, Andy Perkins, Changhe Yuan, and Bindu Nanduri. Congratulations to all associated with this success!
August 24, 2009:
Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier Receive Funding from DOD
We have received a new grant from the DOD to support our Information Assurance Scholarship Program for another year and to support collaborations with the University of South Alabama and the National Defense University. The grant totals $334,484 and is for the period Aug 1, 2009 to Nov 6, 2010. The co-PIs are Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier.
August 26, 2009:
Dr. Nan Niu to Serve as Poster Chair for the 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
Our newest faculty member, Dr. Nan Niu has accepted an invitation to serve as the Posters Chair for the 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'10), which will take place in Sydney, Australia from September 27 to October 1, 2010. Requirements Engineering is his specialty in the area of Software Engineering.
August 17, 2009:
Lulu He has Paper Accepted by the 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM2009)
Congratulations are in order for one of our PhD students, Lulu He. She and her major professor (Dr. Jeffrey Carver now at the University of Alabama) have a paper accepted by the 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM2009). The title of the paper is "Modifiability Measurement from a Task Complexity Perspective: A Feasibility Study".
August 14, 2009:
Dr. Song Zhang and Keqin Wu Have Poster Accepted
Congratulations are in order to Dr. Song Zhang and his co authors Keqin Wu (a student of Dr. Zhang's) and Dr. Phil Amburn from GRI for the acceptance of their reviews poster titled "Using LIC-like FlowVis Technique to Visualize Hurricanes". This was accepted for IEEE Visualization 2009, to be held in Atlantic City, NJ.
August 12, 2009:
Dr. Edward Swan, Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly, and Dr. Chad Steed to Have Paper Published in Cartography and Geographic Information Science
We want to offer congratulations to Dr. Edward Swan, Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly, and Dr. Chad Steed (a graduate of MSU) for the publication of their paper “Tropical Cyclone Trend Analysis using Enhanced Parallel Coordinates and Statistical Analytics.” published in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 36(3), pp. 251-265, Jul. 2009. Also Dr. Steed, Dr. Jankun-Kelly, Dr. Swan, and Dr. Robert Moorhead (ECE) just had a poster abstract accepted for IEEE InfoVis 2009 titled Illustrative Visualization of Hurricane Advisory Information. Congratulations to all for this success and for the interdisciplinary research effort.
August 10, 2009:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar Has Paper Accepted
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar has been informed that his paper "On the Complexity of Probabilistic Key Predistribution Schemes" has been accepted for publication by the Embedded Systems and Communications Security Workshop (ESCS 2009) to be held in Niagara Falls, New York, in September.
July 30, 2009:
Dr. Song Zhang to Have Paper Published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Congratulations are again in order for Dr. Song Zhang. He was notified today that a second paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. It will also be presented at the IEEE Visualization conference in Atlantic City, NJ, October 11-16. The title of the paper is "Volume Illustration of Muscle from Diffusion Tensor Images" and Dr. Zhang is a co-first author.
July 30, 2009:
Dr. Song Zhang Has Paper Accepted at the IEEE Visualization Conferences
Congratulations are in order for Dr. Song Zhang who has received confirmation that his paper titled "A Novel Interface for Interactive Exploration of DTI Fibers" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics and will be presented at the IEEE Visualization conferences, Atlantic city, NJ, during October 11-16. Dr. Zhang is an assistant professor in our department and is first author on the paper.
July 28, 2009:
Kulasekaran Sivakumar and Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar Have Paper Accepted
Kulasekaran Sivakumar and Dr. Mahalingham Ramkumar have been informed that their paper "Private Logical Neighborhoods for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks" has been accepted in the Full Papers track of the 5-th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet 2009). Mr. Sivakumar is a PhD student working under the guidance of Dr. Ramkumar.
July 23, 2009:
Jibonananda Sanyal and Dr. Song Zhang have Paper Accepted for Publication
Congratulations are in order for a CSE PhD student, Jibonananda ("Jibo") Sanyal who works under the direction of Dr. Song Zhang. Jibo is first author on a paper titled: "A User Study to Compare Four Uncertainty Visualization Methods for 1D and 2D Datasets" which was accepted for publication at the IEEE Visualization 2009 conference to be held October 11-16 2009 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The paper is also expected to appear in a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Journal(TVCG). The full list of authors are Jibonananda Sanyal, Dr. Song Zhang, Gargi Bhattacharya, Dr. Phil Amburn, and Dr. Robert J. Moorhead.
July 22, 2009:
Dr. Yoginder Dandass and Rikk Anderson have Paper Accepted
Congratulations are due to Rikk Anderson and Dr. Yoginder Dandass. Their paper titled "A Protocol for Realtime Communication for FPGA Clusters using Multigigabit Transceivers" has been accepted for publication and presentation at the 2009 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems (PDCCS-2009) to be held at Louisville, KY, on Sept 24-26. Rikk Anderson is a PhD student working under the guidance of Dr. Dandass.
July 20, 2009:
Dr. Tommy Morris, Dr. Ray Vaughn, Dr. Yoginder Dandass, and Robert Wesley McGrew Have Paper Accepted
Congratulations are in order for a collaborative paper between ECE and CSE, primarily authored by Dr. Tommy Morris from ECE and Co-authored by Dr. Ray Vaughn, Dr. Yoginder Dandass, and Mr. Robert Wesley McGrew (Phd student in CSE). The paper, titled "Engineering Future Cyber-Physical Energy Systems:Challenges, Research Needs, and Roadmap" has been accepted for publication at the upcoming 2009 North American Power Symposium to be held at Mississippi State University, October 4-6, 2009. The conference is supported by the IEEE Power & Energy Society.
June 26, 2009:
Chris Vance Receives GSEC Certification
Chris Vance, assistant system administrator for the CSE Department, has received GSEC certification from the SANS Institute. The SANS Institute provides training in information security; GSEC provides certification in the essentials of computer security.
June 26, 2009:
Dr. Susan Bridges, Dr. Andy Perkins, and Brandon Malone have Paper Accepted for Publication in BMC Bioinformatics
The following paper has been accepted for publication in BMC Bioinformatics as part of their special issue on MCBIOS2009: Brandon Malone, Andy Perkins, and Susan Bridges. "Integrating phenotype and gene expression data for predicting gene function."
Brandon Malone is a Ph.D. student in computer science studying under the direction of Dr. Bridges. Dr. Perkins and Dr. Bridges are faculty members in the CSE Department.
June 23, 2009:
Jibonananda Sanyal Wins Best Overall Photo Award
Jibonananda Sanyal won the Best Overall Photo award in the student photo contest held at the North Gulf Institute Annual Conference in May in Mobile, AL. Jibonannanda is a Ph.D. student working under the direction of Dr. Song Zhang.
June 22, 2009:
Paper Accepted at the 2009 Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security
The following paper has been accepted at the 2009 Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security to be held in October: T.J. Jankun-Kelly, David Wilson, Andrew S. Stamps, Josh Franck, Jeffery Carver, and J. Edward Swan II, "A Visual Analytic Framework for Exploring Relationships in Textual Contents of Digital Forensics Evidence", 2009 Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security, October, 2009.
David Wilson received his M.S. degree under the direction of Dr. Jankun-Kelly and is now at Microsoft. Andrew Stamps is one of Dr. Jankun-Kelly's current students. Josh Franck is an applied cognitive science student studying under the direction of Dr. Swan. Dr. Carver is a former member of this faculty who is now on the faculty at the University of Alabama.
June 15, 2009:
Chad Steed, Dr. J. Edward Swan, and Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly Have Paper Accepted
The following paper has been accepted to the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology Symposium (VAST) 2009: Chad Steed, J. Edward Swan II, T.J. Jankun-Kelly, and Patrick J. Fitzpatrick. "Guided Analysis of Hurricane Trends Using Statistical Information"
Chad Steed finished his PhD under the direction of Dr. Jankun-Kelly and Dr. Swan last year; he is now at NRL Stennis. Patrick Fitzpatrick is a research scientist with NGI.
June 11, 2009:
Dr. Susan Bridges, Prashanti Manda, and Chamali Thanthiriwatte Have Paper Accepted by BMC Bioinformatics
The paper "Comparing gene annotation enrichment tools for functional modeling of agricultural microarray data" by Bart H. J. van den Berg, Chamali Thanthiriwatte, Prashanti Manda, and Susan Bridges has been accepted by BMC Bioinformatics as part of their special issue on MCBIOS 2009. Bart is a Ph.d. student in the College of Veterinary Medicine, Chamali is an MS student in CSE, and Prashanti is a Ph.D. student in CSE.
June 11, 2009:
Dr. Susan Bridges, Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly, and Andrew Lindeman Have Paper Accepted by BMC Bioinformatics
The paper "Exploratory Visual Analysis of Conserved Domains on Multiple Sequence Alignment" by Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Andrew Lindeman, and Dr. Susan Bridges has been accepted by BMC Bioinformatics as part of their special issue on MCBIOS 2009.
June 9, 2009:
Dr. Andy Perkins has Paper Accepted for the Proceedings of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS)
Dr. Andy Perkins has been informed that the following paper was accepted for the Proceedings of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS), to be published in a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics: Andy D. Perkins and Michael A. Langston,"Threshold Selection in Gene Co-expression Networks Using Spectral Graph Theory Techniques".
Dr. Langston was Dr. Perkins' major professor at the University of Tennessee.
June 2, 2009:
Dr. Susan Bridges Invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the ISIBM International Joint Conferences
Dr. Susan Bridges has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the ISIBM International Joint Conferences on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing to be held in Shanghai China on August 3-6, 2009. http://www.isibm.org/IJCBS/keynotes.html
May 26, 2009:
Dr. Ed Swan to Serve as the Science & Technology Area Chair for the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
Dr. Ed Swan has agreed to serve as the Science & Technology Area Chair for the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2009) to be held in Orlando in October.
May 18, 2009:
Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier Receive Funding from the Department of Justice
Dr. Ray Vaughn (Principal Investigator) and Dr. David Dampier (co-Principal Investigator) have been informed that they have received $2.5M in funding from the Department of Justice for support of their National Forensics Training Program and their collaboration with the State Attorney General's office and the University of Mississippi.
May 16, 2009:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu Has Papers Accepted at IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium and IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing
Dr. Ioana Banicescu has had the following papers accepted: Philip Vardon, Ioana Banicescu, Peter Cleall, Hywel Thomas, and Roger Phiilp, "Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Modelling: A New Parallel Approach," IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009), Rome, Italy, May 25-29, 2009. Philp Vardon is a PhD student at Cardiff University who spent the Spring 2008 semester at HPCC-MSU working with Dr. Banicescu. Dr. Peter Cleall, Dr. Hywel Thomas, Dr. Roger Philip are faculty members at Cardiff University. Ioana Banicescu, Florina Ciorba, and Ricolindo Carino, "Towards the Robustness of Dynamic Loop Scheduling on Large-Scale Heterogeneous Distributed Systems," IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2009), Lisbon, July 30 - June 4, 2009. Florina Ciorba is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at CAVS. Ricolindo Carino is an Assistant Research Professor at CAVS.
May 13, 2009:
Dr. Changhe Yuan, Xiaolu Liu, and Heejin Lim Have Paper Accepted at the 25th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
The following paper has been accepted for presentation at (and publication in the proceedings of) the 25th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-09): Changhe Yuan, Xiaolu Liu, Tsai-Ching Lu, Heejin Lim, "Most Relevant Explanation: Properties, Algorithms, and Evaluations", the 25th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-09), June 18-21, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Yuan is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Xiaolu Liu is a PhD student in Computer Science; Tsai-Ching Lu is a research scientist from HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA; Heejin Lim is an undergraduate student researcher in Computer Science.
May 11, 2009:
Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier have Paper Accepted in the International Journal of Computers and their Applications
Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier have been notified that their paper "Outreach, Teaching and Research Facilitated by a Forensics Training Center in Direct Support of Public Safety and Criminal Justice" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Computers and their Applications (Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2009).
May 4, 2009:
Dr. Chris Bogen and Mr. Preston McAllister Awarded the Achievement Medal for Civilian Service
The Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS, has announced that two of our graduates, Dr. Chris Bogen and Mr. Preston McAllister, have been awarded the Achievement Medal for Civilian Service. Dr. Bogen holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from MSU, having completed his Ph.D. in 2006. Mr. McAllister holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from MSU, having completed his M.S. in 2006.
May 1, 2009:
Ph.D. Students, Brandon Malone and Travis Atkison, have Paper Accepted at Frontiers in Education Conference
Two of our Ph.D. students, Brandon Malone and Travis Atkison, are lead authors on the following paper to be presented at the Frontiers in Education Conference in October. Brandon developed the visualization algorithms as part of his M.S. thesis at Tennessee Tech. After coming to MSU as a Ph.D. student, he worked with Travis to design and conduct experiments to test the effectiveness of the tools in improving student learning in Travis's Data Structures and Analysis of Algorithms class. Professors Kosa and Hadlock are both faculty members at Tennessee Tech. B. Malone, T. Atkison, M. Kosa, and F. Hadlock, "Pedagogically Effective Effortless Algorithm Visualization with a PCIL," Proceedings of Frontiers in Education 39th Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 2009, IEEE.
April 30, 2009:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu Receives Funding from the National Science Foundation
Dr. Ioana Banicescu has just learned that the project "Planning of a Center for Autonomic Computing at MSU" has received funding from the National Science Foundation. As part of this grant, Dr. Banicescu will coordinate with collaborators from the University of Florida, Rutgers, and the University of Arizona to hold a planning grant workshop with potential industry partners at MSU in the fall.
April 29, 2009:
Successful Game Design Demo Night
On April 28, the students in Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly's Game Design class held Game Design Demo Night at the MSU Institute for Neurocognitive Science and Technology, where they demonstrated their games on a display wall to forty-one attendees. According to Dr. Jankun-Kelly, everyone there enjoyed seeing "the exciting and entertaining results of the students' labors. Fun was had by all and congratulations are in order to all the students who pulled it off and made it possible." The students were divided into the following game design teams: Team Adventure: RASS - Steven Bayne, Matt Parson, Jeremy Davis, Joe Maclean, Samuel Dornan; Team Breakout: Plumber Balls - Roberto Orellana, Mike Wilson, Trey Clark, Jeremy Murphy, Layton Smith; Team Pac Man: Wastebasket Warriors - Jesse McConahie, J.B. Little, Christopher Boler, Jared Brock; Team Pong: Mythbusters: The Rise of Buster - Brice McElroy, Adam Jones, Lacy Smith, Daniel Cranford; Team Space Invaders: CSE Fighters - Aaron Boudreaux, Gurjot Singh, Chris Lewis, Vinay Thotakura. Diane Godwin of the Bagley College of Engineering's public relations staff took pictures of the event and posted them at: http://picasaweb.google.com/bagleycollegeofengineering/BestOfGameDesign
April 28, 2009:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar Awarded Funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar has been informed that his project "Trusted Platform Architecture for Single-Core and Many-Core Processors" has been awarded funding from the Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. Ramkumar's work will be done via a subcontract with Polytechnic University of NYU; Dr. Ramkumar's collaborator at Polytechnic University is Dr. Ramesh Karri.
April 27, 2009:
Lorraine Lin Selected as Student Volunteer for SIGGRAPH 2009
Lorraine Lin, a freshman in computer science, has been selected as a student volunteer for SIGGRAPH 2009, the largest conference in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Student volunteers are provided admisstion to the entire SIGGRAPH 2009 program (courses, talks, technical papers, panel sessions, etc.) They also get to work behind the scenes at a large international conference and meet leaders in the graphics field.
March 30, 2009:
MCBIOS Conference held on Campus
Dr. Susan Bridges was co-program chair (with Dr. Dawn Wilkins of Ole Miss) of the MCBIOS annual meeting held on our campus last month. This is the second consecutive year that Dr. Bridges has been instrumental in seeing that a bioinformatics-related conference was held on our campus, and both have been great successes. Here is some more information about the MCBIOS meeting: The four research universities in Mississippi (Jackson State, Mississippi State, University of Mississippi and University of Southern Mississippi) hosted the Midsouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) annual meeting at the Hunter Henry Center on the campus of Mississippi State on February 20-21. Dr. Dawn Wilkins of Ole Miss and Dr. Susan Bridges of Mississippi State served as co-program chairs. Over 140 faculty and students from ten states in the MidSouth ranging from Colorado to Alabama attended the conference. Dr. Bindu Nanduri and Dr. Andy Perkins were poster co-chairs for MCBIOS and handled the set up and judging of 80 posters. Keynote speakers for the conference were: Howard Cash, President and CEO, Gene Codes Corporation, the company responsible for DNA forensics analysis after 9-11. Laura Elnitski, PhD, Head of the Genomic Functional Analysis Section at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Cathy Wu, PhD, Director of the Protein Information Resource (PIR) and Professor in Departments of Oncology and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Georgetown University Medical Center Awards were given for the best student presentations and posters. The award for the best oral presentation was awarded to Enis Afgan of the University of Alabama Birmingham. Enis's major professor is Dr. Puri Bangalore, one of our alums. Teresa Buza of the College of Veterinary Medicine at MSU won the second place poster award, Prashanti Manda of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering won the third place poster award, and Surya Saha of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering won an Honorable Mention for his poster. Poster presentations involving CSE faculty and students were as follows: "A New Decision Tree Approach For Classifying Fungal Species Based On DNA Denaturation", Jonathan Harper, Biing-Ru Wu, Bruce Horn, Maren Klich. Jonathan is an undergraduate in computer science. "Exploratory Visual Analysis of Conserved Domains on Multiple Sequence Alignments" T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Andrew D. Lindeman, Susan M. Bridges. Andy is an undergraduate in computer science, Dr. Jankun-Kelly and Dr. Bridges are faculty members in CSE. “Predicting Gene Function using an Integrated Similarity Graph,” Brandon Malone. Brandon is a Ph.D. student in computer science. “An empirical comparison of the methods and functions of annotation tools for modeling differential gene expression in agricultural species” Prashanti Manda, Bart H.J. van den Berg, Chamali Thanthiriwatte, Susan Bridges. Prashanti is a Ph.D. student in CSE, Bart is a Ph.D. student in Vet Med, and Chamali is an M.S. student in CSE. "GOModeler- A tool for hypothesis driven interrogation of functional genomics datasets ", Prashanti Manda, Shane C Burgess, McKinnley Freeman, Jonathan Harper, Susan Bridges. Prashanti is a Ph.D. student in CS, McKinnley and Jonathan are undergraduate CS researchers. "Constructing Gene Expression Networks Using Spectral Graph Theory Techniques," Andy D. Perkins, Michael A. Langston. Andy Perkins is a faculty member in CSE and Michael Langston is a faculty member at the University of Tennessee. “Discovering Spatially Related Repeats in Assembled Genomes using Association Rule Mining” Surya Saha, Susan Bridges, Zenaida Magbanua, Daniel G. Peterson. Surya is a Ph.D. student in computer science. "Comparison And Clustering Of Blast Results To Test The Distributed-Genome Hypothesis Using Biopython," Susan Salkeld, Susan M. Bridges, Chelsea Steele, Mark Lawrence. Susan Salkeld is an undergraduate researcher in software engineering. "Prediction of Cell Penetrating Peptides by Machine Learning Classifiers" William S. Sanders, Kenneth O. Willeford, Susan M. Bridges. William (Shane) Sanders is a Ph.D. student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology working with Dr. Bridges. "A Method for Integrating Heterogeneous Data sets using Bipartite Graphs" Chamali L. Thanthiriwatte, Susan M. Bridges, W. Paul Williams. Chamali is an M.S. student in CS
April 17, 2009:
Spirit of State Awards Announced
The Bagley College of Engineering was well represented at today’s Spirit of State Awards induction ceremony. The Spirit of State Award recognizes students who have made exceptional contributions to student life at Mississippi State University. Today’s engineering inductees are: William Cleveland - senior in aerospace and computer engineering, Anna Goblirsch - senior in biological engineering, Jenna Owen - freshman in industrial engineering, Joel Russell - senior in computer engineering, Terrance West - PhD student in electrical engineering.
April 17, 2009:
Computer Science and Engineering Students Initiated into Phi Kappa Phi
The following students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering were recently initiated into Phi Kappa Phi: Pooja Adhikari - Ph.D. student in computer science, Chris Boler - senior in computer science, Sandeep Govind - Master's student in computer science, Nathan Lewis - junior in software engineering, Timothy Pitts - junior in computer engineering, Ryan Rougeau - junior in computer engineering and electrical engineering, Yang Zhang - Ph.D. student in computer science. Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest, largest, and most select all-discipline honor society.
April 15, 2009:
Several Female Students Selected to Attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
We are pleased to announce the selection of the following female students to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, a series of conferences to be held September 30 - October 3 in Tucson, AZ: Lulu He - graduate student in computer science, Tara Pflomm - freshman in computer engineering, and Shelana Nabors - sophomore in computer science and art. Dr. Donna Reese, Associate Dean for Academics, will be attending this conference with these students. Each of the students is required to apply for a scholarship from the conference to help with travel expenses. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Bagley College of Engineering will pay for the travel, hotel room, and conference registration expenses that are not covered by a scholarship.
Congratulations to Lulu, Tara, and Shelana! We expect this to be a very rewarding experience for you!
April 15, 2009:
Dr. David Dampier to be a Member of the Review Panel for the Columbus, MS, Crime Lab
Dr. David Dampier has accepted an invitation to be a member of the review panel for the Columbus, MS, Crime Lab. Other members of this panel include several department heads from MSU and MUW, as well as the district attorney, police chief and city attorney for Columbus.
April 15, 2009:
Dr. David Dampier Accepts Invitation to join the Steering Committee for the American Society of Digital Forensics and eDiscovery
Dr. David Dampier has accepted an invitation to join the Steering Committee for the American Society of Digital Forensics and eDiscovery. This committee sets the long-range goals and strategic vision for this organization.
April 10, 2009:
Software Engineering Senior Project
Each year the students who take the two-semester Software Engineering Senior Project requirement work with a customer to design and develop a project using professional software engineering methodology. This year the students worked with scientists at the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) in Vicksburg. On Thursday, Dr. Thomas Philip took the senior project students to Vicksburg so that they could demonstrate their project for about 10 ITL scientists. According to Dr. Philip, the ITL employees were very pleased with what the students had accomplished and interested in hiring all of them! ITL presented each student with a certificate of appreciation. The students who took CSE 3213 Senior Project I in the fall were Stephen Beeson, Roberto Orellana, Hung Dinh Phan, Susan Salkeld, and Gean Smith. Those currently enrolled in CSE 3223 Senior Project II are Jeremy Murphy, Viet Nguyen, Roberto Orellana, Hung Dinh Phan, and Susan Salkeld.
An additional note from Dr. Philip about this year's SE Senior Project: A word of appreciation should go to Bryan T Robins who has played a key role - as the project manager - in the success of the project. He has put a lot of time and effort in managing and providing technical help to the team. He registered for CSE 7000 under me and did the work for both semesters. I will be sending later on what I learned from this semester's experience for a challenging and successful project for CSE 3213/3223. We should encourage qualified grad students to do what Byran is doing now. That would provde a great experience for the team and also to the manager (student).
April 1, 2009:
Dr. Changhe Yuan and Dr. Eric Hansen have Paper Accepted at the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09)
The following paper was accepted for presentation at (and publication in the proceedings of) the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09): Changhe Yuan, Eric Hansen, "Efficient Computation of Jointree Bounds for Systematic MAP Search", the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), July 11 - 17, Pasadena, California, USA. Dr. Yuan and Dr. Hansen are both faculty members in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
March 30, 2009:
Brandon Malone has Paper Accepted at the ACM Annual Symposium on Computer Science Education
The following paper was accepted for presentation at the ACM Annual Symposium on Computer Science Education: Brandon Malone, Marthy Kosa, and Frank Hadlock, "A PCIL to Assist in Algorithm Visualization," 40th Annual Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 6 2009, ACM. Brandon Malone is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science; Dr. Kosa and Dr. Hadlock are faculty members at Tennessee Tech. This presentation describes work that Brandon conducted at Tennessee Tech while completing his Master's degree and before coming to MSU for his Ph.D. Brandon is now working with Dr. Susan Bridges.
March 30, 2009:
Brandon Malone and Susan Salkeld Present Papers at the Mississippi Academy of Sciences
The following papers were presented at the Mississippi Academy of Sciences meeting on February 26, 2009: Brandon Malone, and Andy Perkins, "Integrating Phenotype and Gene Expression Data for Predicting Gene Function" Brandon Malone is a Ph.D. student in CS and this paper is an extension of a class project in Dr. Perkins' Graph Mining class. Susan M. Salkeld, Susan M. Bridges, Chelsea Steele, Mark L. Lawrence, "A computational investigation of the distributed-genome hypothesis in Listeria" Susan Salkeld is an undergraduate in software engineering and this paper is an extension of work initiated in Dr. Bridges' Computational Biology class. Chelsea Steele is an undergraduate researcher in CVM and Dr. Lawrence is a faculty member in CVM.
March 30, 2009:
Dr. Edward Allen has Book Chapter Accepted for Publication
Dr. Edward Allen has been informed that the following book chapter has been accepted for publication: Edward B. Allen, "Information Theory-Based Measurement of Software," in Information Theory and Statistics of Complex Networks, M. Dehmer and F. Emmert-Streib, eds. Springer. In press.
March 26, 2009:
Dr. David Dampier and April Tanner will have a Book Chapter Published in 2009
Dr. David Dampier and April Tanner have been informed that their book chapter "Concept Mapping for Digital Forensics Investigations" will appear as Chapter 12 in Advances in Digital Forensics V to be published in 2009.
March 24, 2009:
Dr. Edward Allen Presents Paper at the ACM Southeastern Conference
The following paper was presented by Dr. Allen recently at the ACM Southeastern Conference in Clemson, SC: Edward B. Allen, Maheshwar Chandrasekar, and Karolina A. Sarnowska, "C Preprocessor Use in Numerical Tools: An Empirical Analysis," in Proceedings: The 47th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, March 2009, Clemson, South Carolina, Association for Computing Machinery.
Maheshwar Chandrasekar is in the Master's program in computer science. Karolina Sarnowska completed her B.S. degrees in mathematics and computer science at MSU in May 2006.
March 24, 2009:
Chad Steed, Dr. J. Edward Swan II, and Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly have Paper Accepted
The following paper has been accepted for publication in the journal Cartography and Geographic Information Society Journal (vol. 36, no. 3): Chad A. Steed, Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, J. Edward Swan II, and T.J. Jankun-Kelly, "Tropical Cyclone Trend Analysis using Parallel Coordinates Geovisual Analytics"
Chad, who did his Ph.D. work under the direction of Dr. Swan and Dr. Jankun-Kelly, now works with NRL at the Stennis Space Center in the Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy Branch.
March 19, 2009:
Dr. Ray Vaughn Invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the Cyberspace Research Workshop
Dr. Ray Vaughn has accepted an invitation to be a keynote speaker at the Cyberspace Research Workshop to be held June 15 in Shreveport, LA, in conjunction with the Air Force Cyberspace Symposium. The workshop is being hosted by Louisiana Tech and LSU.
March 6, 2009:
Robert Wesley McGrew to Present Poster at Third Annual U.S. Department of Homeland Security Annual University Network Summit
Robert Wesley McGrew has been selected to present a poster at the Third Annual U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Annual University Network Summit March 15-18, 2009 in Washington DC. His poster was invited by DHS (and travel expenses will be reimbursed by DHS) to showcase his work on Control Systems Security and vulnerabilities he discovered in current critical infrastructure software.
February 24, 2009:
Taylor Helsper has Poster Accepted at ACM Southeast Conference
Taylor Helsper has been informed that his poster "Comparison of Graph Pathfinding Algorithms" has been accepted for the ACM Southeast Conference to be held in Clemson, SC, on March 19-21. Taylor's poster resulted from the honors project that he did as part of the requirements for Mr. Travis Atkison's CSE 2383 class in the fall. Taylor is a sophomore in software engineering.
February 18, 2009:
William Cleveland and Andy Lindeman Inducted into the Bagley College of Engineering Student Hall of Fame
Two of the six students being inducted into the Bagley College of Engineering Student Hall of Fame this year are our majors. According to Associate Dean Donna Reese, this award recognizes students who have made contributions to their departments, the college, and MSU during their time here. Congratulations to both of them for this latest honor!
William Cleveland is a senior computer and aerospace engineering double major from Gulfport, MS. William has been highly active in both of his majors, serving as the student chair of IEEE and participating on the team Xipiter UAS team within aerospace. William is also student vice president of Phi Kappa Phi and president of Tau Beta Pi as well as a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of electrical and computer engineers. William has been an active member of the Shackouls Honors College’s student council and the Engineering Student Council. William participated in the Korea Global Leadership Tour and has done research at the NASA Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars Program.
Andy Lindeman is a senior computer science major from Madison, AL. Andy has served as chair of the Shackouls Honors College’s student council during which he worked to bring more service activities into this organization. Andy has been actively involved in research in the Institute for Digital Biology, which led to a poster presentation in a national conference. In addition, Andy was one of two student members on the Academic Integrity Assessment Committee that led the implementation of MSU’s Honor Code. Andy has participated in trips to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to help rebuilding efforts with three different student organizations. Andy is also an active recruiter for MSU with service during Scholars Recognition Day and Breakfast of Champions and through service on the Distinguished Scholars Selection Committee. Andy is also a recipient of the Spirit of State award and has served on the selection committee for this award as well.
February 18, 2009:
Dr. Edward Allen has Paper Accepted at ACM Southeastern Conference
Dr. Ed Allen has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for publication: Edward B. Allen, Maheshwar Chandrasekar, and Karolina A. Sarnowska, "C Preprocessor Use in Numerical Tools: An Empirical Analysis," ACM Southeastern Conference, March 2009, Clemson, South Carolina.
The research was performed while Mr. Chandrasekar was a graduate student and Ms. Sarnowska was an undergraduate student at MSU. Mr. Chandrasekar is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech, and Ms. Sarnowska is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at University of Virginia.
February 13, 2009:
Dr. Ed Swan selected as Distinguished Teacher
Dr. Ed Swan has been selected as one of this year's inductees into the Bagley College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
February 9, 2009:
Travis Atkison has Paper Accepted at ACM Southeast Conference
Travis Atkison, a Ph.D. student in computer science, has had his paper "Applying Randomized Projection to aid Prediction Algorithms in Detecting High-Dimensional Rogue Applications" accepted for the ACM Southeast Conference to be held in Clemson, SC, on March 19-21.
January 30, 2009:
Gursimran Singh Walia has Paper Accepted in Information and Science Technology
Gursimran Singh Walia has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for publication in the journal Information and Science Technology: Gursimran Singh Walia and Jeffrey C. Carver, "A Systematic Literature Review to Identify and Classify Software Requirement Errors". Gursimran is a Ph.D. student in computer science. Dr. Carver was formally on the faculty in the CSE Department and is now at faculty member at the University of Alabama.
January 22, 2009:
Dr. Gene Boggess has Paper Accepted at the 22nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
Dr. Gene Boggess has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for presentation at the 22nd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference and for publication in the conference proceedings: Crossley, S.A., G. Boggess, and T. Salsbury, "Exploring Lexical Network Development in Second Language Learners". This conference will be held May 12-21 in Sanibel Island, FL. Dr. Crossley is on the faculty of the Department of English at MSU. Dr. Salsbury is on the faculty at Washington State University.
January 14, 2009:
Dr. Andy Perkins has Paper Accepted at 7th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
Dr. Andy Perkins has learned that the following paper was accepted for the 7th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications to be held May 10-13, 2009 in Rabat, Morocco: Gary Rogers, Andy Perkins, Charles Phillips, John Eblen, Faisal Abu-Khzam, and Michael Langston, "Using Out-of-Core Techniques to Produce Exact Solutions to the Maximum Clique Problem on Extremely Large Graphs". Faisal Abu-Khzam is an assistant professor in the Division of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. Michael Langston was Dr. Perkins' major advisor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. The remaining authors are current students of Professor Langston.
December 18, 2008:
Dr. Andy Perkins Approved for Funding
Dr. Andy Perkins has been informed that his MSU research initiation proposal for the project "Improved Computational Tools for Next-Generation Sequencing Data Processing and Analysis" has been approved for funding.
December 17, 2008:
Gursimran Singh has Paper Accepted
The following paper has been accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation to be held in Denver, CO, on April 1-4: Singh, Gursimran, and Jeffrey Carver, "Evaluating the Effect of the Number of Naturally Occurring Faults on the Estimates Produced by Capture-Recapture Models". Gursimran is a Ph.D. student who is studying under the direction of former faculty member Dr. Carver.
December 12, 2008:
Dr. Ray Vaughn Accepts Invitation to Participate in Review for the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program
Dr. Ray Vaughn has accepted an invitation to participate in a review of the strategic plan for the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program. This program is comprised of 13 member agencies and a variety of participating units. Collectively, these agencies invest over $3 billion annually in networking and information technology research and development. The strategic plan is intended to guide coordination of those investments.
December 11, 2008:
Dr. Ray Vaughn, Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar, and Dr. Tommy Morris Receive Funding
Dr. Ray Vaughn, Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar, and Dr. Tommy Morris (of the ECE Department) have been awarded funding for additional support a SCADA security project called "Southeast Region Critical Infrastructure Protection Center (CIPC) Initiative Phase II," which continues the work of the CIPC in the area of industrial control system security. The funding is provided by the Department of Homeland Security as part of the SERRI initiative.
December 4, 2008:
Dr. Song Zhang has Paper Accepted at the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2000
Dr. Song Zhang has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2009 to be held in Beijing, China, on April 20-23: Chen, Wei, Song Zhang, Stephen Correla, and David F. Tate, "Visualizing Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data with Merging Ellipsoids" Wei Chen is an associate professor at Zhejiang University, China. Stephen Correia is an assistant professor at Brown Unversity medical school. David F. Tate is an assistant professor at Harvard medical school.
December 4, 2008:
Dr. J. Edward Swan Offers Tutorial at IEEE Virtual Reality
This is the 8th year that Dr. Swan will be offering a tutorial at IEEE Virtual Reality: J. Edward Swan II, Stephen R. Ellis, Bernard D. Adelstein, Joseph L. Gabbard, “Conducting Human-Subject Experiments with Virtual and Augmented Reality”, Tutorial to be presented at IEEE Virtual Reality 2009, Lafayette, LA, March 14–18, 2009. Course Organizer: J. Edward Swan II. Steve Ellis and Bernard Adelstein are Dr. Swan's NASA Ames collaborators. Joe Gabbard is his collaborator at Virginia Tech.
December 1, 2008:
Andy Lindeman Receives an Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award Competition for 2009
Andy Lindeman received an Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Award competition for 2009. CRA is an association of North American academic departments, laboratories, and research centers in the computing field. This award competition recognizes undergraduate students at North American universities who have demonstrated outstanding research potential in computing research. The student’s academic record and service to the community are also factors in the selection. Andy has been involved in bioinformatics research on campus with Dr. Susan Bridges.
November 19, 2008:
April Tanner and Dr. David Dampier have Paper Accepted at Fifth IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics
April Tanner and Dr. David Dampier have been notified that their paper entitled "Improving Digital Forensics Investigations with Concept Mapping" has been accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the Fifth IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics to be held at the National Center for Forensic Science, Orlando, Florida, USA on January 25-28, 2009. Dr. Dampier is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and April Tanner is a PhD candidate working under his direction.
November 16, 2008:
Students Initiated into Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Anas Mahmoud, Lona Smith and Jimmy Pearson were initiated into the highly selective Phi Kappa Phi honor society on Saturday. Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest and largest all-discipline honor society. Anas is a graduate student in computer science. Lona is an undergraduate student in both software engineering and computer science. Jimmy is an undergraduate student in software engineering.
November 14, 2008:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar Has Papers Accepted for Publication
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar has learned that the following papers have been accepted for publication:
1. Brian Gaines, M. Ramkumar, "A Framework for Dual Agent Routing Protocols for MANETs," IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, New Orleans, LA, Nov 2008. (Brian Gaines is a former SFS student who pursued his MS thesis under Dr. Ramkumar's guidance. He is currently with Sandia National Labs.)
2. M. Ramkumar, "Proxy Aided Key Pre-distribution Schemes for Sensor Networks," Workshop on Network Security and Privacy (NSP), IEEE Performance Computing and Communication Conference (IPCCC), Austin, TX, Dec 2008.
November 12, 2008:
Paper Accepted for Publication in the Journal Computers & Geosciences
The following paper has been accepted for publication in the journal Computers & Geosciences: Steed, Chad A., Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Amber N. Yancy, and J. Edward Swan II, "An Interactive Parallel Coordinates Technique Applied to a Tropical Cyclone Climate Analysis"
Chad is a Ph.D. student in computer science who is co-advised by Dr. Jankun-Kelly and Dr. Swan; he works at the Navy Research Lab at the Stennis Space Center. Chad has just had his dissertation accepted by his committee. Dr. Fitzpatrick has an appointment with the Northern Gulf Institute at the HPC. Amber was a Physics MS student who took Dr. Jankun-Kelly's InfoVis class in 2006 that spawned this project; she has since graduated and is now at Clemson University.
November 4, 2008:
Andy Lindeman Receives Harry Charles Fleming Simrall Award
Each year the MSU Association of Retired Faculty (ARP) awards the Harry Charles Fleming Simrall Award to a student in the Bagley College of Engineering who has established an outstanding record in academics, professional leadership, and community service. We are happy to announce that this year's recipient is Andy Lindeman, a senior in computer science.
As a freshman in 2005, Andy was awarded a Distinguished Scholar scholarship. He became involved in research while still a high school student in Huntsville by working at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Andy is now working with Dr. Susan Bridges and Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly in the application of visualization techniques to bioinformatics data. He has presented his work at IEEE InfoVis. He has been active in various campus organizations, with his efforts being recognized by being selected among the first group of students to receive a Spirit of State Award. He has participated in leadership seminars on campus.
Andy's community service efforts have included providing aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, helping to build houses through the Habitat for Humanity, becoming involved in recycling projects, providing service to the Humane Society, and participating in the Adopt-a-Family program at Christmas.
October 31, 2008:
Hardware Donated by Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems is donating hardware to MSU to support Dr. Yogi Dandass' research group. The donation includes a Sun Fire T2000 Server, a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 Server, 8 UltraSPARC T1 processors, 4 UltraSPARC T2 processors, and Solaris 10 and Java Enterprise Systems software, as well as memory, hard drives, power supplies, and ethernet and serial ports. This donation is being made in response to a proposal written by Dr. Dandass.
October 31, 2008:
Funding Received from EWA, Inc.
Drs. Ray Vaughn (PI), T.J. Jankun-Kelly (co-PI), and Edward Allen (co-PI) have received funding from EWA, Inc., to support a classified project involving network intrusion analysis called "Network Attack Characterization Modeling and Simulation Test Center (NACMAST) Phase II".
October 31, 2008:
Short Article Published in BMC Bioinformatics
A short article written by Surya Saha, Dr. Susan Bridges, Dr. Zenaida Magbanua, and Dr. Daniel Peterson has been published in a supplement to BMC Bioinformatics. This supplement contains highlights from the Fourth International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council Symposium and is a summary of a presentation by Surya. Surya is a Ph.D. student in computer science studying under the direction of Dr. Bridges. Dr. Magbanua is a postdoctoral associate in Plant and Soil Sciences. Dr. Peterson is an associate professor in Plant and Soil Sciences.
October 29, 2008:
Daniel Cranford, Russell Winstead, and Blake Wall were inducted into the Society of Scholars this week. All three are seniors in computer science. Daniel is from Ridgeland, MS; Russell is from Hattiesburg, MS; and Blake is from Brookhaven, MS.
The Society of Scholars models its membership criteria after Phi Beta Kappa, making it among the most stringent of honorary societies. Because the requirements are geared more toward liberal arts than technical fields (e.g., the requirement of a foreign language), we are always especially pleased to see some of our students satisfying the Society's criteria in both breadth and depth. At each of its induction ceremonies, the Society asks a faculty member of the student's choosing to introduce that student. Dr. Gene Boggess had the honor of being invited to introduce both Daniel and Russell. He was pleased to report that the CSE Department had the most new inductees of any department.
October 24, 2008:
Jibonananda Sanyal, Dr. Phil Amburn, Dr. Song Zhang, Dr. Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, and Dr. Robert Moorhead won the best poster award at IEEE Visualization 2008 in Columbus, OH, for their poster entitled "Applying Immersive Visualization Techniques to Analyze Model Outputs: A Case Study of Hurricane Lili".
Jibo Sanyal is a Ph.D. student in computer science. Dr. Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Amburn and Dr. Fitzpatrick are Associate Research Professors with the MSU Geosystems Research Institute. Dr. Moorhead is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
October 20, 2008:
CS Scholarship for Female Graduate Student:
Each year for a number of years now, through the generosity of an anonymous donor, we have been able to award a scholarship to a female student working toward a graduate degree in computer science. We had several well-qualified applicants for this scholarship this year. We are pleased to announce that Xiaolu Liu has been selected as this year's recipient.
October 10, 2008:
Dr. Ray Vaughn has learned that the following paper has been accepted for publication in the Telecommunication Systems Journal:
"Information System Security Compliance to FISMA Standard: A Quantitative Measure" by Elaine Hulitt and Ray Vaughn
Ms. Hulitt is employed at the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, MS, and is a Ph.D. student in computer science studying under the direction of Dr. Vaughn.
October 10, 2008:
EWA Government Systems, Inc. Contract Awarded
EWA Government Systems, Inc., has awarded a contract for "Phase II of the Network Attack Characterization Modeling and Simulation(NACMAST) Center for the Army Research Laboratory (ARL)" to Dr. Ray Vaughn (principal investigator), Dr. Edward Allen (co-principal investigator), and Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly (co-principal investigator).
Congratulations!
October 6, 2008:
The CSE Department is sponsoring two teams at the ACM Southeast Regional Programming Competition to be held at the University of South Alabama on October 24-25.
Dr. Yoginder Dandass will travel with the teams as their faculty sponsor. The students selected for the teams are:MSU Maroon Team: Thomas Donaldson, William Panlener, and Daniel Cranford
MSU White Team: James Belue, Shane Fry, and Brice McElroy
Congratulations and good luck!
October 6, 2008:
Local Programming Competition Held
The CSE Department held a local programming competition recently under the direction of Dr. Yoginder Dandass. The participants were given 4 problems to solve in 3.25 hours. The first- and second-place winners solved 3 of the 4 problems, and the third-place winner solved two. The winners, who received gift cards from Wal-Mart, were Daniel Cranford, 1st place; Daniel Wilson, 2nd place; and William Panlener, 3rd place.
Congratulations!
September 30, 2008:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu has learned that the following article has been published in The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 41-63:
"Dynamic Load Balancing with Adaptive Factoring Methods in Scientific Applicatons" by Ricolindo Carino and Ioana Banicescu.
Dr. Carino is an Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Advanced Vechicular Systems.
September 15, 2008:
Dr. David Dampier and Dr. Ray Vaughn have learned that they are going to be funded by the Department of justice to work on a project called "Knowledge-Based Data Integration and Intelligence Project".
September 11, 2008:
Dr. David Dampier aqnd Dr. Ray Vaughn have been notified that their proposal "Renewal and Enhancement of the Scholarship for Service Program" has been funded by the National Science Foundation. This funding will allow continuation of the Cyber Corps Scholarship program, providing support for 20 students over the next four years.
September 10, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted for the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISCV 08) to be held December 1-3 in Las Vegas, NV:
"User Experience of Hurricane Visualization in an Immersive 3D Environment" by Jibonananda Sanyal, Phil Amburn, Song Zhang, Jamie Dyer, Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, and Robert J. Moorhead.
Jibonananda Sanyal is a Ph.D. student in computer science who works at the GeoResources Institute at the High Performance Computing Collaboratory. Dr. Phil Amburn is an Associate Research Professor with the GeoResources Institute. Dr. Song Zhang is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Jamie Dyer is an Assisant Professor in Geosciences. Dr. Patrick Fitzpatrick is an Associate Research Professor with the GeoResources Institute. Dr. Robert Moorhead is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
September 2, 2008:
Dr. David Dampier and Jansen Cohoon have been notified that their paper "Educating Tomorrow's Digital Forensics Examiners" has been published in the July 2008 issue of Innovations 2008, A Journal of the International Network for Engineering Education and Research, pp. 273-282.
August 26, 2008:
Gursimran S. Walia (a Ph.D. student in computer science studying under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Carver) and Dr. Carver have been notified that their paper "The Effect of the Number of Defects on Estimates Produced by Capture-Recapture Models" has been accepted for the 19th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'08) to be held at Microsoft’s Conference Center in Seattle/Redmond, Washington, on November 11-14. Also, the paper has been awarded a student travel grant to allow Gursimran to attend the conference and present the paper at the conference.
August 26, 2008:
Travis Atkison, a Ph.D. student in computer science, has been invited to speak at the University of Alabama's Computer Science Department Research Colloquium Series on 24 October. He will be describing his research work involving detection of malicious intent in executable code.
August 19, 2008:
Dr. Changhe Yuan has learned this his project "A Framework for Explanation in Bayesian Networks" has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
August 19, 2008:
Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier have been informed that their paper titled "A Discovery Learning Approach to Information Assurance Education" has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Forty Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40), to be held in Waikoloa, Hawaii, January 5-8, 2009.
July 30, 2008:
Ms. Elaine Hulitt, a computer science Ph.D student employed by the Army Engineer Research and Development Center has learned that her paper "Information System Security Compliance to FISMA Standard: A Quantitative Measure" has been accepted for presentation at the 2008 International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information, to be held October 20-22, 2008 in Wisla, Poland. Dr. Vaughn, her dissertation director and major professor, is her co-author.
IMCSIT is organized in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society (Poland Chapter), the Institute of Innovation and Information Society, the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Science, and the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, by the Polish Information Processing Society.
July 21, 2008:
Surya Saha, a Ph.D. student in computer science studying under the direction of Dr. Susan Bridges, won the best presentation award at the Student Council Presentations at ISMB 2008. ISMB is the premier computational biology conference each year and is currently underway in Toronto. The ISBM Student Council gave 3 awards for posters and their top award for best presentation. The other award winners were from Columbia University and from Cambridge, UK. Co-authors on the presentation were Dan Peterson and Zenaida Magbauna of Plant and Soil Sciences and Susan Bridges of CSE.
July 17, 2008:
Drs. Ray Vaughn and David Dampier have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for the project "CI-TEAM Implementation Project - A Digital Forensics Cyberinfrastructure Workforce Training Initiative for America's Veterans". This is a collaborative effort with Auburn University and Tuskegee University, with MSU serving as the lead institution. It will involve working with Veterans' hospitals and training disabled and transitioning veterans in digital forensics tools and techniques.
July 1, 2008:
Congratulations to one of our graduates, Dr. Cary Butler, for his recent promotion to Senior Scientific Technical Manager, one of only 40 such positions in the Department of Defense. After receiving his degree in computer science from MSU, Dr. Butler earned his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University. He is now the Technical Director for Computer Science and Informatics in the Information Technology Laboratory at the Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS. He also serves as an adjunct member of our faculty.
June 24, 2008:
Dr. Song Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has had the following papers accepted for publication:
1) Cagatay Demiralp, Gregory Shakhnarovich, Song Zhang, and David H. Laidlaw, "A slicing-based coherence measure for clusters of DTI integral curves," 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), September 2008, New York.
Demiralp Cagatay is a Ph.D. student at Brown University. Dr. Shakhnarovich is an assistant professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Dr. Laidlaw is a professor at Brown.
2) Stephen Correia, Stephanie Y. Lee, Thom Voorn, David F. Tate, Robert H. Paul, Song Zhang, Stephen P. Salloway, Paul F. Malloy, and David H. Laidlaw, "Quantitative tractography metrics of white matter integrity in diffusion-tensor MRI", NeuroImage, 2008.
Stephen Correia, Robert Paul, and Stephen Salloway are with the Brown University medical school. Stephanie Lee, David Laidlaw, and David Tate are with Brown University. Thom Voorn is with Vrije Universitet in the Netherlands. David Tate is with Boston University. Robert Paul is with the University of Missouri.
June 19, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted for the OCEANS '08 conference to be held September 15-18 in Quebec City, Canada:
Jibonananda Sanyal, Phil Amburn, Song Zhang, Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, and Robert J. Moorhead, "3D Immersive Visualization of Mesoscale Model Outputs Simulating Hurricane Lili's (2002) Rapid Weakening"
Jibonananda Sanyal is a Ph.D. student in computer science working under the direction of Dr. Zhang. Dr. Amburn and Dr. Fitzpatrick are associate research professors at the GeoResources Institute (GRI) on campus. Dr. Moorhead is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
June 18, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted for publication in the journal Proteomics:
Brahmananda Reddy Chitteti, Feng Tan, Hana Mujahid, Bryce G. Magee, Susan M. Bridges, and Zhaohua Peng, "Comparative analysis of proteome differential regulation during cell dedifferentiation in Arabidopsis"
BR Chetteti, Feng Tan, and Hana Mujahid are students in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Bryce Magee is a Research Assistant with the Institute for Digital Biology (IDB); Susan Bridges is a faculty member in CSE and a co-director of the IDB; and Zhaohua Peng is a faculty member in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and an IDB fellow.
June 16, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted for the 5th International Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security (VezSec 2008) to be held September 15 in Cambridge, MA:
T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Josh Franck, David Wilson, Jeffrey Carver, David Dampier and Edward Swan, "Show Me How You See: Lessons from Studying Computer Forensics Experts for Visualization"
Josh is a Ph.D. student in psychology. David completed his M.S. degree in computer science under the direction of Dr. Jankun-Kelly and is now employed at Microsoft. Drs. Jankun-Kelly, Carver, Dampier, and Swan are faculty members in the CSE Department.
May 27, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Bacteriology:
"Genome sequence of the chemolithoautotrophic bacterium Oligotropha carboxidovorans OM5" by Debarati Paul, Susan Bridges, Shane C. Burgess, Yoginder Dandass, and Mark L. Lawrence
This work was supported by a grant from the MSU Sustainable Energy Research Center and reports the genome sequence of a bacteria that has the potential to be used in biofuel production.
Debarati Paul is a post doctoral fellow in Veterinary Medicine, Susan Bridges and Yogi Dandass are faculty members in CSE, and Shane Burgess and Mark Lawrence are faculty members in Veterinary Medicine.
May 23, 2008:
Swalm-JSU Engineering Scholarships, made available through donations from MSU alumnus Dave Swalm, are awarded each year to students who graduated from Jackson State University and are now in a graduate program in the Bagley College of Engineering. Of the three scholarship recipients for 2008-09, two of those recipients are in the computer science Ph.D. program - Rikk Anderson and Chevonne Dancer.
May 20, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering:
Jeffrey C. Carver, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Alan Page, "The Impact of Educational Background on the Effectiveness of Requirements Inspections: An Empirical Study"
Dr. Carver is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Nachiappan Nagappan and Alan Page are with Microsoft Research.
May 20, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted for presentation at the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2008) to be held July 1-5 in Krakow, Poland:
"Investigating a Dynamic Loop Scheduling with Reinforcement Learning Approach to Load Balancing in scientific Applications" by Mahbubur Rashid, Ioana Banicescu and Ricolindo Carino
Mahbubur Rashid is a Ph.D. student in computer science. Ricolindo Carino is an Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems.
May 15, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted for presentation at the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics to be held June 29 – July 2 in Orlando, FL:
Amrithanshu Thakur, Rayford Vaughn, and Valentine Anantharaj, “Handling Undiscovered Vulnerabilities Using a Provenance Network”
Amit first wrote this paper as part of Dr. Edward Allen’s class on Secure Coding in the Spring 2007 semester. Dr. Vaughn later helped him to refine the paper for this conference. Amrithanshu is a Master’s student in computer science working under the direction of Dr. Thomas Philip. Valentine Anantharaj is a Research Associate at the GeoResources Institute.
May 12, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted to the Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization:
Adam Jones, J. Edward Swan II, Gurjot Singh, Eric Kolstad, Stephen R. Ellis, "The Effects of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Motion Parallax on Egocentric Depth Perception"
Dr. Swan is an Associate Professor in the CSE Department. Adam Jones is a Ph.D. student in computer science. Gurjot Singh is enrolled in both the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in computer science. Eric Kolstad is in the computational engineering Ph.D. program. Stephen Ellis is Dr. Swan's collaborator at NASA Ames.
May 6, 2008:
The Bagley College of Engineering had its annual picnic and awards ceremony today. CSE faculty members won the awards for outstanding papers in both categories (instruction and research):
Dr. Ed Swan won the Outstanding Research Paper Award for:
J. Edward Swan II, Adam Jones, Eric Kolstad, Mark Livingston, and Harvey Smallman, "Egocentric Depth Judgments in Optical, See-Through Augmented Reality," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 13, No. 3, May/June 2007.
Dr. Jeff Carver, Ms. Lisa Henderson, Dr. Julia Hodges, and Dr. Donna Reese won the Outstanding Instructional Paper Award for:
Jeffrey Carver, Lisa Henderson, Lulu He, Julia Hodges, and Donna Reese, "Increased Retention of Early Computer Science and Software Engineering Students using Pair Programming," Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training, Dublin, Ireland, July 2007.
Special congratulations go to Dr. Donna Reese, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Associate Dean for Academics and Administration, for winning the Career Achievement Award.
Two of the co-authors on these papers are our own Ph.D. students. Adam Jones is working under the direction of Dr. Swan, and Lulu He is working under the direction of Dr. Carver. As is always the case, faculty members can do much better work when they have highly capable students to work with.
The other co-authors of Dr. Swan's paper are his research collaborators.
May 1, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted to the International Conference in Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'08)to be held October 9-10 in Germany:
Gursimran S. Walia and Jeffrey C. Carver, "Evaluation of Capture-Recapture Models for Estimating Abundance of Naturally- Occurring Defects"
Gursimran is a Ph.D. student in computer science studying under the direction of Dr. Carver.
April 23, 2008:
Some of our own faculty and graduate students were recognized at the Graduate Student Association (GSA) awards banquet last night:
1st place poster at the GSA Symposium in Physical Sciences was awarded to Surya Saha:
Saha S, Bridges S, Magbanua Z, Peterson DG (2008) Data mining of spatial relationships among dispersed repetitive regions. 6th Annual Graduate Student Association Research Symposium, Mississippi State University, MS.
3rd place oral presentation at the GSA Symposium in Physical Sciences was awarded to Chamali Thanthiriwatte. The title of her talk was:
An Empirical Comparison of Annotation Tools in Agricultural Species
Her collaborators on the project were Prashanti Manda (CSE Ph.D. student) and Bart van der Burg (Vet Med Ph.D. student).
One of our M.S. students, Amitanshu Thakur, was awarded the top M.S. RA award. He works for the GeoResources Insitute on campus
April 23, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'08) to be held July 14-27 in Las Vegas:
Wesley Holland and Yoginder S. Dandass, "Optimizing Pipelining in HDL Generated Automatically from C Source Codes"
Wesley received his B.S. degree in computer engineering in 2007 and is now enrolled in the computer engineering M.S. program. Dr. Dandass is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
April 21, 2008:
Dr. Thomas Philip has been appointed to the Board of the International Society for Computer Applications and is serving as its treasurer.
April 21, 2008:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly has had his paper "Using Visualization Process Graphs to Improve Visualization Exploration" accepted for the International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW) to be held June 17-18, 2008,in Salt Lake City.
April 21, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the 12th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics to be held in Orlando on June 29 - July 2:
Wes Riley, David Dampier, and Ray Vaughn, "A Role Based Security Focus to the IEEE CONOPS and Software Requirements Specification"
Wes Riley is an M.S. student studying under Dr. Dampier. The paper was written for the Software Requirements class taught by Dr. Vaughn in the Spring 2007 semester.
April 10, 2008:
Congratulations to the following students for completing all requirements for award of the Information Assurance Professional Certificate this spring:
Craig McRae
David Wilson
Christopher Logan Aube
James Sakalaukus
Matthew Kolb
Terrence Shannon
Leon Terry Bullen, Jr.
Sivakumar Ayeegoundanpalayam Kulasekaran
April 9, 2008:
Dr. Ed Swan has learned that the following paper has been accepted for publication:
Joel P. Martin, J. Edward Swan II, Robert J. Moorhead II, Zhanping Liu, Shangshu Cai, "Results of a User Study on 2D Hurricane Visualization",Computer Graphics Forum: The International Journal of the Eurographics Association (Special Issue of EuroVis 2008), Volume 27,Number 3 (to appear).
This paper is part of Joel Martin's thesis for a Master's degree in computer engineering. The other authors are Dr. Swan's collaborators at the MSU High Performance Computing Collaboratory.
April 9, 2008:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly and Dr. J. Edward Swan II have received funding from the Schillig Special Teaching Project on campus to support their proposal "Game Technology for Increasing Interest in Computer Science".
April 7, 2008:
The following paper has been accepted for publication in the BMC Bioinformatics journal:
Yoginder S. Dandass, Susan M. Bridges, Shane C. Burgess, and Mark Lawrence, "Accelerating String Set Matching in FPGA Hardware for Bioinformatics Research"
Dr. Dandass and Dr. Bridges are CSE faculty members. Dr. Burgess and Dr. Lawrence are both affiliated with the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine.
April 2, 2008:
In the fall semester, MSU will offer some first-year seminars to allow first-year students to take special topics courses in various areas of interest. Faculty members from across the campus were encouraged to submit proposals for these special 1-hour seminar courses. I am pleased to announce that Mr. Joe Crumpton submitted a proposal for a course on Digital Image Manipulation, and his proposal has been accepted as one of the seminars to be offered this fall. You can read about this course as well as the others here
April 2, 2008:
Mr. Joe Crumpton has been selected to attend a workshop about Media Computation this summer at Georgia Tech. The workshop, sponsored by an NSF CCLI grant, will introduce faculty to teaching with the Media Computation approach. It will include an introduction to computing in Python and Java using an approach that emphasizes relevance and creativity. More information is available here.
April 2, 2008:
Dr. Changhe Yuan has learned that the following paper has been accepted for oral presentation at the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08) to be held July 13 - 17 in Chicago, Illinois:
Changhe Yuan, Tsai-Ching Lu, "A General Framework for Generating Multivariate Explanations in Bayesian Networks," AAAI-08, Chicago, Illinois, July 2008.
Dr. Changhe Yuan is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Tsai-Ching Lu is a research scientist at HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA.
March 31, 2008:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar has learned that the following two papers have been accepted for publication in the IEEE SPAWN workshop to be conducted in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM (World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks) in Newport Beach, CA, June 23-27, 2008:
K.A.Sivakumar and M. Ramkumar, "Improving the Resiliency of Ariadne," IEEE SPAWN 2008, June 2008.
M. Ramkumar, "On the Scalability of a 'non-scalable' key distribution scheme," IEEE SPAWN 2008, June 2008.
Sivakumar is Dr. Ramkumar's Ph.D. student.
March 26, 2008:
Dr. Song Zhang has been informed that the following papers have been accepted for publication:
Chen, Wei, Song Zhang, Stephen Correia, and David S. Ebert. "Abstractive representation and exploration of hierarchically clustered diffusion tensor fiber tracts," Computer Graphics Forum (Special Issue of Eurovis 2008), 27(3):To appear, 2008. The Eurovis conference will be held May 26-28, Netherland.
Wei Chen is an associate professor at Zhejiang University, China. Shephen Correia is an assistant professor at Brown Medical School. David S. Ebert is a professor at Purdue.
Zhang, Song, John Crow, Robert Cooper, Ronald McLaughlin, Shane Burgess, Ali Borazjani, Jun Liao. "Detection of Myocardial Fiber Disruption in Artificial Lesions with 3D DT-MRI Tract Models", Summer Bioengineering Conference 2008, June 25-29, 2008, in Marco Island, Florida.
John Crow and Shane Burgess are with CVM Basic Sciences. Robert Cooper and Ronald McLaughlin are with CVM Clinical Science. Jun Liao and Ali Borazjani are with the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.
March 26, 2008:
The following chapter co-authored by Dr. Jankun-Kelly will be in publication some time in 2008:
Helen C. Purchase, Natalia Andrienko, T.J. Jankun-Kelly, and Matthew Ward, "Theoretical Foundations of Information Visualization" in Information Visualization - Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives, Andreas Kerren, John T. Stasko, Jean-Daniel Fekete, and Chris North (Eds.). Volume 4950 of LNCS State-of-the-Art Survey, Springer, 2008.
Dr. Purchase is with the Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK.
Dr. Andrienko is with the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis & Information Systems (FhG IAIS), Germany.
Dr. Ward is with the Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA.
March 24, 2008:
Dr. Jeffrey Carver has been informed that the following papers have been accepted for an IEEE Software special issue focused on Developing Scientific Software:
Kendall, R., Carver, J., Fisher, D., Henderson, D., Mark, A., Post, D., Rhoades, C. and Squires, S. "Development of a Weather Forecasting Code: A Case Study." To appear in IEEE Software, July/August 2008.
Basili, V., Carver, J., Cruzes, D., Hochstein, L., Hollingsworth, J., Shull, F. and Zelkowitz, M. "Understanding the High Performance Computing Community: A Software Engineer's Perspective." To appear in IEEE Software, July/August 2008.
Dr. Carver's co-authors are research collaborators from various institutions.
March 24, 2008:
A book chapter authored by Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar titled "Key Distribution Schemes for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks" has been accepted for inclusion in the upcoming book "Security in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks".
March 20, 2008:
Several MSU students participated in the Midsouth Computational Biology Society (MCBIOS 2008) meetings in Oklahoma City on February 23-24. There were 140 registrants and 68 posters submitted. Student talk winners included computer science graduate student Nan Wang, who received 2nd place. William (Shane) Sanders, a Ph.D. student in molecular biology who works with Dr. Susan Bridges in bioinformatics research, received 3rd place. Prashanti Manda, a computer science graduate student, received an honorable mention for her poster that was co-authored by Chamali Thanthiriwatte (computer science graduate student) and Bart van den Berg (a Ph.D. student in the College of Veterinary Medicine).
MCBIOS 2009 will be held at Mississippi State University and will be sponsored by the four research universities in Mississippi.
March 20, 2008:
Bill Michaels, a software engineering major, will be presenting a research project at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) student conference to be held May 31 - April 1. Bill is a member of a 3-person design team that will be presenting the work they have done on a high altitude autonomous glider project. One of the students modified the glider airframe and created the flight calculations. Another created the software that receives the radio transmissions from the glider and records/displays them. Bill designed the circuit and software that controls the on-board guidance and radio.
March 6, 2008:
Wes Riley and Dr. Dave Dampier have been informed that their paper entitled "Forensic Hard Drive Imaging: A Time-Analysis Comparison Between the ICS Image MASSter SOLO III and the Logicube Talon" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Digital Forensics Practice. Wes Riley is a graduate student in computer science working under the direction of Dr. Dampier.
March 6, 2008:
Dr. Rayford Vaughn has accepted an invitation to be a member of the Editorial Board for a new journal called the International Journal of Computer and Internet Security.
March 6, 2008:
Dr. Ioana Banicesu has accepted an invitation to serve on the Advanced Grant Evaluation Panel of the European Research Council (ERC) from 2008 until 2013. According to its web site, the ERC is the "first pan-European funding agency for frontier research in all fields of knowledge".
February 26, 2008:
Dr. Song Zhang has been notified that the following paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics:
Zhang, Song, Stephen Correia, and David H. Laidlaw, "Identifying white-matter fiber bundles in DTI data using an automated proximity-based fiber-clustering method"
Dr. Correia is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Brown University School of Medicine. Dr. Laidlaw is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.
February 25, 2008:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for presentation at the Graphics Interface 2008 Conference to be held May 28-30 in Windsor, Canada:
Johnson, Donald W., and T.J. Jankun-Kelly, "A Scalability Study of Web-Native Information Visualization"
Donald Johnson is a Ph.D. student in computer science studying under the direction of Dr. Jankun-Kelly.
February 25, 2008:
Dr. Susan Bridges has learned that her project "Experimental Annotation of the Chicken Genome" has been selected for funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her colleagues who will be working with her on this project are Dr. Shane Burgess and Dr. Fiona McCarthy of the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine.
February 20, 2008:
In a ceremony held in Jackson yesterday, Dr. Rayford Vaughn was recognized as MSU's nominee for the state's annual HEADWAE award. HEADWARE (Higher Education Appreciation Day, Working for Academic Excellence) was established in 1987 to honor academically talented students and faculty members of Mississippi's higher education institutions who have made outstanding contributions in promoting academic excellence. The Appreciation Day, hosted by the Legislature each February in Jackson, is the Legislature's way of saying "thank you" to these students and faculty for their commitment to the future of Mississippi. An outstanding student and faculty member from each of Mississippi's 36 public and private universities and colleges received special recognition from the Mississippi Legislature yesterday during the 21st Annual HEADWAE program.
February 19, 2008:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly has accepted an invitation to serve on the International Program Committee for the IEEE Visualization 2008 Conference to be held October 19-24 in Columbus, OH.
February 18, 2008:
Dr. David Dampier and Jansen Cohoon have had their paper entitled "BUILDING AN EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR ENGINEERS IN DIGITAL FORENSICS" accepted for the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, in June 2008. Dr. Dampier is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Jansen Cohoon is a PhD student in the department.
February 15, 2008:
Marc Parisi, a computer science graduate student and one of the students in the DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program, has had a paper accepted in the student paper category at the ACM Southeast Regional Conference to be held at Auburn University on March 28-29. The title of his paper is "Customized File Systems: An Investigator's Approach".
February 14, 2008:
Dr. Ray Vaughn has a paper accepted at the 6th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (EISTA 2008) to be held in Orlando, FL, from June 29 through July 2: "A University-based Forensics Training Center as a Regional Outreach, Education, and Research Activity".
February 8, 2008:
Russ Ward, assistant systems administrator for the department, has recently completed the Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) Certified Forensics Analyst certification from the SANS Institute. As an affiliate of SANS, GIAC offers certification to IT security professionals in a number of key areas within computer, network, and software security. According to the GIAC web site, Certified Forensics Analysts "have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to handle advanced incident handling scenarios, conduct formal incident investigations, and carry out forensic investigation of networks and hosts."
February 5, 2008:
Congratulations to Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly for his selection as one of this year's inductees into the Bagley College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Teachers!
January 31, 2008:
Dr. Susan Bridges has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for publication in the journal Nucleic Acids Research:
Saha, Surya, Susan Bridges, Zenaida V. Magbanua, and Daniel G. Peterson, "Empirical comparison of ab initio repeat finding programs"
Surya Saha is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science under the direction of Dr. Bridges, Dr. Magbanua is a Post Doc in Plant and Soil Sciences, and Dr. Peterson is a faculty member in Plant and Soil Sciences.
January 25, 2008:
Travis Atkison, a Ph.D. student in computer science, has learned that his paper titled "Using an Information Retrieval Technique to Discover Malicious Software" has been accepted for the 5th Symposium on Risk Management and Cyber-Informatics (RMCI 2008) to be held in Orlando, FL, on June 29 - July 2.
January 22, 2008:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar and Dr. Edward B. Allen have learned that a paper they have coauthored with others has been accepted for publication in the journal Proteomics:
Nanduri, B., P. Shah, M. Ramkumar, E.B. Allen, E. Swiatlo, S.C. Burgess, and M.L. Lawrence, "Quantitative analysis of Streptococcus Pneumoniae TIGR4 response to in vitro iron restriction by 2-D LC ESI MS/MS"
Nanduri, Burgess, and Lawrence are with the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine. Shah is with the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Swiatlo is with the Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Jackson, MS.
January 18, 2008:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu has learned that the following paper has been accepted for the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium to be held in Miami on April 14-19:
Chaube, Rohit, Ioana Banicescu, and Ricolindo Carino, "Parallel Implementation of Three Scientific Applications Using LB_Migrate"
Rohit Chaube is a graduate student in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Ricolindo Carino is an Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems.
January 17, 2008:
Dr. Jeffrey Carver has been notified that the following paper was accepted for the 13th International Conference on Engineering Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2008) to be held March 31 - April 4 in Belfast, North Ireland:
Mendoca, M., Maldonado, J., Oliveira, M., Carver, J., Fabbri, S., Shull, F., Travassos, G., Hohn, E., and Basili, V. "A Framework for Software Engineering Experimental Replications"
Dr. Carver's co-authors are colleagues from Brazil, the Fraunhofer Center-Maryland, and the University of Maryland.
January 15, 2008:
Wesley McGrew, a computer science graduate student, and Dr. Rayford Vaughn have a book chapter in Advances in Digital Forensics III recently published by Springer.
McGrew, R. and Vaughn, R., "Using Search Engines to Acquire Network Forensic Evidence", Craiger, P. and Shenoi, S. (Ed.), Advances in Digital Forensics III, Chapter 17, Springer, ISBN 13: 978-0-387-73741-6, pp 247-254.
January 4, 2008:
Dr. Jeffrey Carver has been notified that the following paper has been accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal:
Shull, Forrest, Jeffrey Carver, Sira Vegas, and Natalia Juristo, "The Role of Replications in Empirical Software Engineering"
Forrest Shull is a Scientist at the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering. Sira Vegas and Natalia Juristo are faculty memberw at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.
January 4, 2008:
Dr. Susan Bridges has learned that the following paper has been accepted for publication in Tropical Plant Biology:
"Computational Approaches and Tools Used in iIentification of Dispersed Repetitive DNA Sequences" by Surya Saha, Susan Bridges, Zenaida V. Magbanua, and Daniel G. Peterson
Surya Saha is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science studying under the direction of Dr. Bridges. Zenaida Magbanua is a research associate in Plant and Soil Sciences and Daniel Peterson is a faculty member in Plant and Soil Sciences.
January 3, 2008:
The paper "Gene Ontology Annotation Quality Analysis in Model Eukaryotes" by Teresia Buza, Fiona McCarthy, Nan Wang, Susan Bridges, and Shane Burgess has been accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research.
Teresia Buza is a Ph.D. student in Veterinary Medicine; Fiona McCarthy and Shane Burgess are faculty members in Veterinary Medicine; and Nan Wang is a Ph.D. student in computer science studying under the direction of Dr. Bridges.
January 3, 2008:
The paper "Usability Engineering for Augmented Reality: Emplying User-based Studies to Inform Design" by Joseph L. Gabbard and J. Edward Swan II has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Gabbard is Dr. Swan's long-time collaborator at Virginia Tech.
January 3, 2008:
Russ Ward has earned the GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst certification. GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) provides various types of certification to validate the skills of computer security professionals. GIAC Certified Intrusion Analysts, according to the GIAC web site, "have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to configure and monitor intrusion detection systems, and to read, interpret, and analyze network traffic and related log files."
December 18, 2007:
Dr. Jeffrey Carver has learned that a workshop he is organizing with some of his colleagues from various organizations in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Germany has been accepted at the 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering. The name of the workshop is "SE-CSE08: 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering".
December 14, 2007:
Four members of the CSE faculty have been named to the Honors Faculty on campus:
Dr. Gene Boggess
Mr. Joe Crumpton
Dr. Thomas Philip
Dr. Song Zhang
This designation formally recognizes faculty members who have contributed to the Honors College on campus. They will be recognized at events such as commencement, faculty convocations, the annual Honors awards ceremony, etc.
A $10M gift from Bobby and Judy Shackouls in 2006 transformed MSU's honors program into the Shackouls Honors College. In August 2006, the classrooms and offices of the Honors College moved into Griffis Hall, a new residence hall, thus creating a unique learning community. On January 25, the Honors faculty will be recognized at a medallion ceremony in Griffis Hall. Judy and Bobby Shackouls will present them with their Honors medallions.
December 12, 2007:
The following paper has been accepted at the 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering:
Walie, Gursimran, Jeffrey Carver, and Nachiappan Nagappan, "The Effect of the Number of Inspectors on the Defect Estimates Produced by Capture-Recapture Models"
Gursimran Walia is a Ph.D. student working under the direction of Dr. Carver. Nachiappan Nagappan works at Microsoft. The conference will be held in Leipzig, Germany, in May 2008.
November 29, 2007:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly has accepted the invitation to serve on the Program Committee for the 2008 IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis 2008) to take place in Columbus, Ohio during the week of October 19, 2008. This will be his second year to serve on this conference's Program Committee.
November 15, 2007:
Dr. Jeff Carver had the following report published in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (September 2007, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 38-43):
"Post-Workshop Report for the Third International Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance Computing Applications (SE-HPC 07)"
This is a report from a one-day workshop that Dr. Carver chaired at the International Conference on Software Engineering held in May 2007 in Minneapolis, MN.
November 7, 2007:
The following presentations were given at the 2007 Meeting on Genome Informatics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, November 1-5, 2007:
Surya Saha, Daniel G. Peterson, and Susan M. Bridges, "Targeted Data Mining of Spatial Proximity Relationships of Repetitive Regions in Genomes"
William S. Sanders, Nan Wang, Susan M. Bridges, Shane C. Burgess, "Prospecting for New Genes in the Chicken Genome using Proteomics"
Surya Saha is a Ph.D. in computer science working with Dr. Bridges. Dr. Daniel Peterson is a faculty member in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences. Shane Sanders is a Ph.D. student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology working with Dr. Bridges. Nan Wang is a Ph.D. student in computer science working with Dr. Bridges. Dr. Shane Burgess is a faculty member in the Vet School, co-director of the Institute for Digital Biology, and director of the LSBI.
November 6, 2007:
Amrit'anshu Thakur, a graduate student in the M.S. program in computer science, has had the paper "On the Same Page: Building Stakeholder Consensus on Requirements" accepted for publication in Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal. This paper was originally written as an assignment in Dr. Vaughn's CSE8273 Requirements Engineering class during the Spring 2007 semester. It was accepted at the 2nd International Conference on Design Principles and Practices (to be held in January 2008) and was one of the conference papers selected for publication in the journal.
November 6, 2007:
Congratulations to Sherry Thomas for being one of the co-authors on the following technical report produced as a result of her work as a summer intern at Sandia National Laboratories: Duggan, David P., Sherry R. Thomas, Cynthia K.K. Veitch, and Laura Woodard, "Categorizing Threat: Building and Using a Generic Threat Matrix," Sandia Report SAND2007-5791, printed September 2007.
Sherry is a Cyber Corps Scholarship for Service student and a senior majoring in computer science.
October 29, 2007:
The Mississippi Association of Colleges will honor an outstanding student and outstanding faculty member from each associated institution in Jackson on February 19, 2008. Dr. Ray Vaughn will be MSU's nomination for outstanding faculty member this year.
October 22, 2007:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly has accepted the position co-chair of the Birds-of-a-Feather session for the 2008 IEEE InfoVis and Vis Conferences to be held in Columbus, OH, in October 2008.
October 11, 2007:
Ms. Lulu He, Dr. Jeff Carver, and Dr. Ray Vaughn have had the paper "Using Inspections to Teach Requirements Validation" accepted for publication in CrossTalk, the Journal of Defense Software Engineering. It is likely to appear in the January 2008 issue.
The paper is based on experiments conducted in Dr. Vaughn's CSE8273 Requirements Engineering class during the Fall 2005 semester. Lulu He is a graduate student working under the direction of Dr. Carver.
October 3, 2007:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu has learned that the following paper has been published:
Carino, Ricolindo L., and Ioana Banicescu, "A Tool for a Two-Level Dynamic Load Balancing Strategy in Scientific Applications," Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Vol. 8 (3), pp. 249-261.
Dr. Carino is an Assistant Research Professor at MSU's Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems.
October 3, 2007:
Dr. Yoginder Dandass has learned that his paper on "Using FPGAs to Parallelize Dictionary Attacks for Password Cracking" will be presented at and published in the proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences to be held in Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii, in January 2008.
October 2, 2007:
Traci Nixon, a sophomore software engineering major, has been selected as the 2007-08 recipient of the Hilton Hotels Corporation Information Technology Award, a one-year scholarship. This scholarship is awarded each year to a student in the CSE Department who is in good academic standing and displays leadership qualities. Traci will be formally presented with this award on October 26 when Ms. Lashell Vaughn, Vice President of Brand Support Services and Franchise Systems for Hilton, will be on campus.
October 2, 2007:
Jonathan Pittman, a Master's student in computer science and a Cyber Corps scholarship student, has obtained a Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) as a Secure Software Programmer (GSSP certification). This certification is the result of successful completion of training provided by the SANS Institute. In this training, individuals must demonstrate knowledge of common security flaws in Java and C programs and how to avoid them. Jonathan is among the first to receive this certification.
October 2, 2007:
Dr. Thomas Philip has been selected as Program Chair for the 23rd ISCA International Conference on Computers and Their Applications to be held in Cancun, Mexico, in April 2008.
September 13, 2007:
Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier are the principal investigators for the project "Mississippi Electronic Crime Program" which has just received $1,000,000 in funding from the National Institute of Justice for January - December 2008. This project brings together the limited computer crime investigation expertise within the State, consolidates and shares current tools and processes, and continues the training of state and local law enforcement officials in modern tactical digital forensic techniques necessary for combating the documented growing incidence of computer based crime. Major deliverables include no-cost technical short courses for state and local law enforcement officials, building local police digital forensic laboratories, and support for the Mississippi Cyber Crime Fusion Center.
August 31, 2007:
Dr. Yoginder Dandass, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for publication in the Computers in Education Journal of the ASEE:
"Yoginder S. Dandass, Teaching Application Implementation on FPGAs to Computer Science and Software Engineering Students"
August 28, 2007:
Dr. Ray Vaughn has accepted an invitation to give a seminar at Mississippi Valley State University in October. He will talk to an undergraduate seminar class about the computer security program at Mississippi State University.
August 28, 2007:
Russ Ward and Kendall Blaylock received the AccessData Certified Examiner (ACE) certification recently. This certification represents proficiency in the use of such AccessData products as the Forensic Tookit and the Password Recovery Toolkit. Individuals who receive this certification must also have completed certain AccessData training courses and have at least 6 months of forensic examination experience.
Russ Ward is the Assistant System Administrator for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Kendall Blaylock is the Computer Forensics Lab Administrator for the department.
August 22, 2007:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been notified that the paper titled "Trustworthy Computing Under Resource Constraints with the DOWN Policy" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Secure and Dependable Computing.
August 20, 2007:
Dr. Wei Li and Dr. Rayford Vaughn have had their paper "Efficient Update on Exploitation Graphs for Vulnerability Analysis" accepted for presentation at the 20th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE 2007) and publication in the conference proceedings. The conference will be held on November 7-9, 2007, in San Francisco. Dr. Li received his Ph.D. from MSU under Dr. Vaughn's direction and is now a faculty member at NOVA Southeast in Florida.
August 16, 2007:
Dr. J. Edward Swan II, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been informed that the National Science Foundation is funding his project "Human-Centered Computing: Egocentric Depth Perception in Augmented Reality". Although Dr. Swan is the sole principal investigator on the NSF grant, his work will be a collaborative effort with Stephen R. Ellis and Bernard D. Adelstein at NASA Ames.
August 13, 2007:
Dr. Rayford Vaughn (principal investigator) and Dr. David Dampier (co-principal investigator) have learned that their proposal "Department of Defense Renewal and Growth of the Information Assurance Scholarship Program: A Proposal from Mississippi State University" has been funded. This represents a continuation of the highly successful information assurance scholarship program in our department. Later, I will send out an announcement with the names of the continuing and new scholarship students for this year.
August 13, 2007:
Springer has just published "Human-Centered Visualization Environments" (ISBN: 978-3-540-71948-9), edited by Andreas Kerren, Achim Ebert, and Joerg Meyer. This book is the result of the GI-Dagstuhl Research Seminar held in March 2006. Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, contributed to the chapter "Interacting with Visualizations" (pp. 77-161). His co-authors are Wim Fikkert (PhD student at U. of Twente, Netherlands), Marcos D'Ambros (PhD Student at U. of Lugano, Switzerland), and Torsten Bierz (U. of Kaiserslautern, Germany).
August 9, 2007:
Two students, Joe Buza and Andy Lindeman, who have been working on research projects with the Institute for Digital Biology this summer (funded by the NSF EPSCoR program and under the direction of Dr. Susan Bridges) presented posters at the Research Symposium held in conjunction with the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF REU) programs at MSU on July 27.
The poster presentations were as follows:
"Prospecting for New Genes" by Joe Joram Buza, William S. Sanders, Juliet Tang, Allen Shack, Susan Bridges, and Shane Burgess.
"Effective Display of Conserved Domains on a Multiple Sequence Alignment", by Andrew D. Lindeman, Susan M. Bridges, and T.J. Jankun-Kelly.
Joe Buza graduated from the Mississippi School for Math and Science in May and is an entering freshman at MSU. Andy Lindeman will be a junior and is majoring in computer science at MSU.
August 2, 2007:
The following posters have been accepted for presentation:
1. "Practical Applications of Parallel Coordinates to Hurricane Trend Analysis" by Chad Steed, Patrick Fitzpatrick, T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Amber Yancey, and J. Edward Swan II, IEEE Visualization 2007.
Chad Steed is a computer science PhD student currently working at the Stennis Space Center. Pat Fitzpatrick is part of the Northern Gulf Institute. Amber Yancey is a PhD student in physics. Dr. Swan is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
2. "Effective Display of Conserved Domains on a Multiple Sequence Alignment" by Andrew Lindeman, Susan Bridges, and T.J. Jankun-Kelly, IEEE Information Visualization 2007.
Andy Lindeman is an undergraduate is a senior in computer science. Dr. Bridges is a professor and Dr. Jankun-Kelly is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
The IEEE Visualization and IEEE Information Visualization Conferences will be held October 28 - November 1 in Sacramento, CA.
August 1, 2007:
The poster "Visualization Techniques for Improving Public Understanding of Catastrophic Events" has been accepted for IEEE Visualization 2007 to be held October 28 - November 1 in Sacramento, CA. The authors of the poster are Mahnas (Jean) Mohammadi-Aragh, a research associate at MSU's GeoResources Institute (GRI); Derek Irby, a GRI research associate; Dr. Song Zhang, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering; and Dr. Robert J. Moorhead, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
July 26, 2007:
The following paper has been accepted at the 18th International Conference on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2007) to be held on November 5-9 in Trollhataan, Sweden.
"Requirement Error Abstraction and Classification: A Control Group Replicated Study," Gursimran Singh Walia, Jeffrey C. Carver, and Thomas Philip
Walia is a Ph.D. student in computer science. Dr. Carver is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Dr. Philip is a professor.
July 2, 2007:
Byron Williams has had a paper accepted at the 2nd International Doctoral Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (IDoESE 2007), which will take place in Madrid, Spain, on September 19, 2007. This symposium is part of the Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Conference. The doctoral symposium is intended to provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students to present their work and plans to the more senior members of the community and receive valuable feedback.
Byron is a Ph.D. student in computer science. He is studying under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Carver.
June 18, 2007:
Travis Atkison, a Ph.D. student in computer science who is studying under the direction of Dr. Rayford Vaughn, has been informed that he received a patent for previous work with the Department of Defense.
June 12, 2007:
Dr. Susan Bridges has learned that the university has selected her proposal for funding a conference on "Avian Genome Conference and CO Annotation Jamboree" from among the many proposals received for such conferences. Dr. Bridges' proposal was done in collaboration with her colleagues in the Institute for Digital Biology. She will provide more details regarding the hosting of this conference at MSU as the plans proceed.
June 6, 2007:
Dr. Susan Bridges, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for publication in a special issue of the journal BMC Bioinformatics based on papers originally presented at MCBIOS 2007 (Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society):
Susan M. Bridges, G. Bryce Magee, Nan Wang, W. Paul Williams, Shane C. Burgess, Bindu Nanduri, "ProtQuant: A Tool for the Label-Free Quantification of MudPIT Proteomics Data"
Bryce Magee is a Research Associate and M.S. student in CSE, Nan Wang is a Research Associate and Ph.D. student in CSE, Paul Williams is a supervisory research geneticist with the USDA-ARS, and Shane Burgess and Bindu Nanduri are faculty members in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
June 5, 2007:
Dr. Changhe Yuan has accepted an invitation to serve on the Program Committee for the Uncertain Reasoning (UR) Special Track at the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS'2008) to be held May 15-17, 2008, in Coconut Grove, Florida.
May 29, 2007:
Dr. Susan Bridges has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2007) to be held in Las Vegas, NV, on August 13-15:
M. Hossain, S. Bridges, Y. Wang, and J. Hodges, "Extracting partitional clusters from heterogeneous datasets using mutual entropy"
Mahmood Hossain completed his Ph.D. in computer science at MSU under the direction of Dr. Bridges in 2006 and is currently a faculty member at Fairmont State University in West Virginia. Dr. Hodges is department head and a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MSU. Yong Wang completed his Ph.D. in computer science at MSU under the direction of Dr. Hodges in 2005 and is employed by TechExcel in California.
May 29, 2007:
Dr. Susan Bridges has learned that the following paper has been accepted for publication in a special issue of the journal BMC Bioinformatics based on papers originally presented at MCBIOS 2007 (Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society):
William S. Sanders, Susan M. Bridges, Fiona M. McCarthy, Bindu Nanduri, and Shane C. Burgess, "Prediction of peptides observable by mass spectrometry applied at the experimental set level"
Shane Sanders is a Ph.D. student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology working under the direction of Dr. Bridges in the area of computational biology. Shane has undergraduate degrees in both computer science and biochemistry and molecular biology. Fiona McCarthy, Bindu Nanduri, and Shane Burgess are faculty members in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
May 29, 2007:
Gary Weasel, a computer engineering major from Southaven, MS, has been selected to receive a Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship. The IASP scholarship provide students financial assistance that provides tuition, fees, book costs, and stipends in exchange for a service obligation for internships as well as employment by the Department of Defense as a civilian employee or a member of the Armed Forces.
May 7, 2007:
Dusty Majure, who received his Master's degree in computer science from MSU in May 2006, has received an achievement award at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). Dusty was one of the DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program students while in our program.
May 7, 2007:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for the 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE ICCCN 2007) to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, in August:
K.A. Sivakumar and M. Ramkumar, "Safeguarding Mutable Fields in AODV Route Discovery Process"
Sivakumar is a computer science Ph.D. student studying under the direction of Dr. Ramkumar.
May 7, 2007:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has had his paper on "A Family of Efficient Key Predistribution Schemes for Pairwise Authentication" accepted for the 8th IEEE Information Assurance Workshop (IAW-2007) to be held in West Point, NY in June.
April 27, 2007:
Chevonne Dancer has been selected to receive a $17,000 Mississippi Space Grant Consortium (MSSGC) Fellowship beginning this fall. MSSGC was established in 1991 by an award from NASA to the state's four universities (later extended to colleges and community colleges in the state). Its mission is to enhance and support aerospace science and technology activities in the state and to promote a strong base in science, math, and technology at the pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate levels in the state's educational institutions.
Chevonne is a Ph.D. student in computer science who is studying under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Carver and Dr. Edward Swan.
April 24, 2007:
Congratulations to our Systems and Network administrator, Ms. Keri Chisolm,for receiving "GIAC Windows Security Administrators Certification". This certification is recognition of Ms.Keri's knowledge and skills in securing and auditing Windows systems. Congratulations to Ms.Keri for having successfully completed another systems administration professional training course.
April 24, 2007:
Dr. Changhe Yuan has been informed that the following papers have been accepted for presentation:
Yuan, Changhe, and Tsai-Ching Lu, "Finding Explanations in Bayesian Networks," 18th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, May 2007.
Xie, Kui, and Changhe Yuan, "Using Artificial Intelligence to Promote Students' Motivation in Asynchronous Online Discussion," Annual Conference of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Anaheim, CA, October 2007.
Dr. Yuan is a member of the faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Xie is a member of the faculty in the College of Education. Dr. Tsai-Ching Lu is a research staff member at HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA.
April 24, 2007:
Dr.Ray Vaughn has been named a "William L. Giles Distinguished Professor". This distinction is awarded only to those MSU faculty members who have established a record of outstanding scholarship in research, teaching, and service and who have attained a reputation of national or international stature. The professorships are named for Dr. William L. Giles, who was the university's 13th president.
April 17, 2007:
Due to the efforts of Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier, MSU has been re-designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education for the academic years 2007-2012. All schools receiving this 5-year designation will be recognized at an award dinner during the annual conference of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education on June 5 at Boston University. The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security jointly sponsor the program that recognizes those universities that meet stringent requirements in information assurance education. Students attending schools with this designation are eligible to apply for scholarships through the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program and the Federal Cyber Service Scholarship for Service Program. Many MSU students have benefited from these scholarship programs since MSU was first named a CAEIAE.
April 16, 2007:
Researchers with the Institute for Digital Biology (IDB), co-directed by Dr. Susan Bridges of this department and Dr. Shane Burgess of the College of Veterinary Medicine, have received some good news recently.
First, this group presented two papers at the annual international chicken genomics conference: The Chick As A Model Organism: Genes, Development And Function, Barcelona, Spain, April 11 - 14, 2007. There were only 12 papers selected for oral presentation of the 600 submitted. One of these papers described the chicken functional genomics database maintained by MSU as part of AgBase (www.agbase.msstate.edu) and the other concerned an international consortium that includes MSU that is proposing a model organism database. The titles and the authors of the papers are:
"ChickGO@AgBase: An Update and Primer," Shane Burgess, Susan Bridges, Fiona McCarthy, Nan Wang
"BirdBase: Proposal For a Bird Model Organism Database," Parker Antin, Shane Burgess, Carl Schmidt, Susan Bridges, Fiona McCarthy, Raj Ladher, Guojun Sheng, Lincoln Stein, Jerry Dodgson, Olivier Tassy, and Olivier Pourquie
Fiona McCarthy and Nan Wang are affiliated with MSU. The other authors are collaborators from the University of Arizona, the University of Delaware, Riken Institute in Kobe Japan, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, the Howard Hughes Medical Center, and Michigan State University.
There were 600 submissions for this conference, with a total of only 12 papers being accepted.
The second piece of good news for the IDB is that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has invited the group to submit a proposal for funding of an Avian Model Organism Database.
April 13, 2007:
Computer science Ph.D. students Peter Lamborn, Travis Atkison, and Byron Williams have been informed that they will receive Bagley fellowships for the 2006-07 academic year. James and Jean Bagley endowed these fellowships for Ph.D. students in the Bagley College of Engineering in order to enable the college to expand its research capabilities and strengthen its national reputation. Recipients must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The fellowships provide supplemental stipends in addition to the stipend provided by an assistantship. They also include an annual book allowance as well as a development award to be used for attending conferences, workshops, special training, etc.
April 11, 2007:
MSU provides special funds each year through the Schillig Special Teaching Project to allow faculty on campus to pursue innovative ways to improve instruction. CSE faculty members Jeffrey Carver, Lisa Henderson, Julia Hodges, Donna Reese, and Andrew Watkins have been informed that their project "Improvement of Introductory Programming Courses Using Pair Programming" has been selected for funding through this special project. This method of teaching programming has been incorporated into our introductory programming courses over the last year or so. The funding provided by the Schillig project will allow us to bring a world-renowned expert to our campus to conduct a workshop on the effective use of pair programming and will also allow some of the instructional faculty from this department to visit another university at which this approach has been successfully used.
April 10, 2007:
Dr. Song Zhang, an assistant professor in the CSE Department, is one of the authors of this recently published journal paper:
Robert H. Paul, David H. Laidlaw, David F. Tate, Stephanie Lee, Karin Hoth, John Gunstad, Song Zhang, Jeffrey Lawrence, and Tim Flanigan, "Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Outcome of HIV-associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy," Journal of Integrative Neurocience, 6(1):1-14, March 2007.
Robert H. Paul is with the University of Missouri. David Laidlaw and Stephanie Lee are with Brown University. David F. Tate is with the Harvard Medical School. Karin Hoth, Jeffrey Lawrence, and Tim Flanigan are with the Brown Medical School. John Gunstad is with Kent State University.
April 5, 2007:
Dr. Changhe Yuan has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for both oral and poster presentations at the 22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) to be held in July 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
Changhe Yuan, Marek J. Druzdzel, "A New Look at Evidence Pre-propagated Importance Sampling and Its Generalization to Hybrid Bayesian Networks"
Dr. Yuan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Marek J. Druzdzel is a faculty member in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.
April 4, 2007:
The following paper has been accepted for the 2007 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN '07) to be held in June in Las Vegas: Thotakura, Vinay, Ray Vaughn, and Mahalingam Ramkumar, "Covert Channels in Ad-Hoc Networks"
Vinay Thotakura is a computer science graduate student studying under the direction of Dr. Ramkumar. The original version of this paper was written as part of the requirements for Dr. Vaughn's CSE 6243 Information and Computer Security class last fall.
April 4, 2007:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for presentation at the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2007) to be held in Hagenberg, Austria, in July:
Chaube, Rohit, Ricolindo Carino, and Ioana Banicescu, "The Effectiveness of a Dynamic Load Balancing Library for Scientific Applications"
Rohit Chaube is a Master's student in computer engineering. Dr. Carino is an Assistant Research Professor at MSU's Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems. Dr. Banicescu is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
April 3, 2007:
Bryan Robbins has been notified that a paper he wrote for CSE6243 Information and Computer Security, "The Case for Functional Security Requirements: Deriving a Framework for Functional Security Requirements Engineering," has been accepted for presentation at the 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP07) in June in Las Vegas. This class was taught by Dr. Ray Vaughn. Bryan is a Master's degree student in computer science working under the direction of Dr. Jeff Carver.
March 30, 2007:
MSU's team took third place in the recent Southeast Region Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Congratulations to the team members for doing so well in their first year of competition! Team members were:
Robert Wesley McGrew (Team Captain)
Jonathan Pittman (CS Grad Student)
Michael King (CS Undergrad)
Paul Cleveland (CS Undergrad)
Sherry Thomas (SE Undergrad)
Will McKeon (CS Undergrad)
Daniel Cranford (CS Undergrad)
Also, thanks to Dr. Rayford Vaughn for organizing the team and serving as the faculty sponsor. Congratulations to all of you!
The final ranking for the teams: 1. Louisville (will now advance to the national competition)
2. UNC Charlotte
3. Mississippi State
4. Southern Poly
5. Mercer
6. University of South Carolina
7. UNC Wilmington
8. Kennesaw State
9. South Florida
According to the 2007 Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition web site, the first of these national competitions was initiated in 2006 by the University of Texas at San Antonio and was sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. Four regional events were held, with each of the regional champions plus a team made up of members from five U.S. military academies competed at the national level.
The purpose of this event is to "elevate the quality of information assurance education and to better prepare our students for the information security industry." Teams are scored on: completion of business injects protecting systems against (red team) attacks ability to keep services available
March 26, 2007:
Wesley Holland, a senior in computer engineering, has just learned that he has been awarded a 3-year Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. After graduating in May, Wesley plans to enter the Master's degree program in computer engineering with Dr. Yoginder Dandass of our department as his advisor. Wesley plans to focus on embedded systems and digital design. After completing his Master's degree, he plans to use the remainder of the NSF fellowship to pursue a Ph.D., with a long-term goal of having a design-related job in industry and perhaps teaching at the university level later.
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship is one of the most prestigious graduate fellowships available. In addition to paying tuition, it pays a stipend of $30,000 per year. According to Wesley, literally hundreds of man-hours were spent on applying for this fellowship, with more than half of them invested by others who were helping him with his application. Wesley said, "I could not have done this without the countless hours spent by Dr. Yogi Dandass suggesting and refining my project idea. Also, I couldn't have done it without the recommendations and proof-reading of Ashley Ringer, Dr. Jim Harden, Dr. Nick Younan, Dr. Julie Baca, Dr. John Boyle, Dr. Nancy McCarley, Dr. Bob Reese, Dr. Justin Davis, Dr. Susan Bridges, Laura Ringer, and Susan Ringer. Thank you all SOOOO much!"
March 20, 2007:
Dr. Ray Vaughn has been informed that the computer security courseware at MSU has been certified as meeting four national training standards: Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals, NSTISSI No. 4011 Systems Administrators (SA), CNSSI No. 4013 Entry Level Information Systems Security Officers, CNSSI No. 4014 Intermediate Level Risk Analysts, CNSSI No. 4016 Entry Level
Meeting these standards is the basis for our Information Assurance Professional Certificate program and is a prerequisite for continued certification as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency.
Thanks to Dr. Vaughn for taking the lead on getting our courseware certified for these four national training standards.
March 20, 2007:
The following book chapter has been accepted for publication in the book Computational Methods of Feature Selection to be published by Chapman and Hall/CRC Press:
"An Ensemble Method for Identifying Robust Features for Biomarker Identification" by Diana Chan, Susan Bridges, and Shane Burgess
The book chapter is based on Diana's M.S. thesis. Diana completed her M.S. in 2006 under the direction of Dr. Bridges and continues to work in the area of bioinformatics in her position as an information analyst at St. Jude's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. Dr. Bridges and Dr. Burgess are co-directors of MSU's Institute for Digital Biology. Dr. Burgess is a faculty member in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
March 20, 2007:
The following paper has been accepted for presentation at the First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement to be held in Madrid, Spain, in September:
Krystle Lemon, Edward B. Allen, Jeffrey C. Carver, and Gary L. Bradshaw, "An Empirical Study of the Effects of Gestalt Principles on Diagram Understandability"
Krystle Lemon is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Drs. Allen and Carver are faculty members in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Dr. Bradshaw is a professor in the Department of Psychology.
March 19, 2007:
Byron Williams and Dr. Jeffrey Carver have been informed that their paper "Characterizing Software Architecture Changes: An Initial Study" has been accepted for presentation at the 2007 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement to be held in Madrid, Spain, on September 20-21. Byron is a Ph.D. student in computer science working under the direction of Dr. Carver.
March 13, 2007:
Dr. Changhe Yuan and Dr. Marek J. Druzdzel have been informed that their paper "Improving Importance Sampling by Adaptive Split-Rejection Control in Bayesian Networks" has been accepted for presentation at (and publication in the proceedings of) The 20th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence to be held on May 28-30, 2007, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Dr. Yuan is a member of the faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Marek J. Druzdzel was Dr. Yuan's dissertation advisor in the School of Information Sciences at University of Pittsburgh.
March 1, 2007:
Dr. Jeffrey Carver, Ms. Lisa Henderson, Ms. Lulu He, Dr. Julia Hodges, and Dr. Donna Reese have been informed that their paper "Increased Retention of Early CS/SE Students using Pair Programming" has been accepted for presentation at (and publication in the proceedings of) the 20th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2007) to be held in Dublin, Ireland, in July.
Dr. Carver (Assistant Professor), Ms. Henderson (Instructor), Dr. Hodges (Professor and Department Head), and Dr. Reese (Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering) are members of the faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Ms. He is a graduate student studying under the direction of Dr. Carver.
February 16, 2007:
Dr. Ray Vaughn's paper that was presented at the 3rd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications (CITSA 2006) in July 2006, "A Position on Effective Peer Reviews - Rationale, Qualification, Process, and Policy" has been selected for publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
February 13, 2007:
Four students working with Dr. Susan Bridges presented posters at the MCBIOS (MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society) meeting Feb. 1-3 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Shane Sanders won second place in the student poster presentation competition. Dr. Bridges was elected to the Board of Directors of MCBIOS. Mississippi will host MCBIOS in 2009.
Poster presentations:
William S. Sanders, Susan A. Bridges, Fiona McCarthy, and Shane C. Burgess, PepFly: A Tool for the Prediction of Peptides Observed by Mass Spectra
Chamali L. Thanthiriwatte, Dusan Kunec, Susan M. Bridges ,Bindu Nanduri and Shane Burgess, DecoyPepFilter: A Tool for Validation of Peptide Identifications from Mass Spectrometry
Surya Saha, Susan Bridges Zenaida Magbanua and Daniel G. Peterson. Empirical Evaluation of Ab Initio Repeat Finders
G. Bryce Magee, Bindu Nanduri, Susan M. Bridges, Shane Burgess, and W. Paul Williams, ProtQuant: A Tool for the Label-Free Quantification of Shotgun Proteomics Data
William (Shane) Sanders is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Surya Saha is a Ph.D. student in CSE. Zenaida Magbanua and Daniel Peterson are faculty members in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences. Chamali Thanthiriwatte is an MS student in CSE. Bryce Magee is an MS student in CSE. Dusan Kunec is a Ph.D. student in Veterinary Medicine. Bindu Nanduri, Fiona McCarthy, and Shane Burgess are faculty members in Veterinary Medicine. Paul Williams is Supervisory Research Geneticist for the USDA ARS.
February 8, 2007:
Dr. Ray Vaughn has been invited to be a University of Texas - Tyler College of engineering and Computer Science Chautauqua Program speaker on February 13. The title of Dr. Vaughn's talk will be "A Look at the Center for Computer Security Research at Mississippi State University: Research, Teaching, and Service".
February 7, 2007:
Dr. Ed Luke, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has learned that the following paper has been accepted for publication in the journal Computers and Fluids:
E. Luke and P. Cinnella, "Numerical Simulations of Mixtures of Fluids Using Upwind Algorithms".
His co-author, Dr. Cinnella, is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at MSU.
February 6, 2007:
Dr. Song Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has had two abstracts accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine to be held in May in Berlin, Germany.
Zhang, Song, and David Laidlaw, "Template-Based Automatic DTI Fiber Bundle Labeling"
Clayden, Jon, Song Zhang, Stephen Sorreia, and David Laidlaw, "Fine-Grained Comparison of Anisotropy Differences between Groups of White Matter Tracts"
Jon Clayden is a Ph.D. student in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Stephen Correia is an assistant professor at Brown Medical School. David Laidlaw is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University.
January 30, 2007:
Christopher Waters, Jonathan Howell, and Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly have been informed that their paper "CluVis: Dual-Domain Visual Exploration of Cluster/Network Metadata (Special Session on Computer Security)" has been accepted for publication and presentation at the ACM Southeast 2007 Conference to be held March 23-24 in Winston-Salem, NC.
Chris and Jonathan are Master of Science students in Computer Science. Dr.Jankun-Kelly is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
January 30, 2007:
Byron Williams, a Ph.D. student in computer science, was awarded 1st Place in the 2007 Alliance for Graduate Education in Mississippi (AGEM) Research Presentation Competition in the Computer & Information Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering Division. The presentation was based on NSF-funded research conducted under the advisement of Dr. Jeffrey Carver entitled "Characterizing Software Architecture Changes: An Initial Study". AGEM holds an annual research symposium with over 400 in attendance in support of its mission of tripling the number of doctoral students from underrepresented groups receiving Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
January 23, 2007:
Dr. Edward Allen has accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of Software Quality Journal, published by Springer. The SQJ publishes papers on research and practice directed towards improving and assessing software quality.
January 22, 2007:
Dr. Jeffrey Carver has accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of the Software Quality Journal (http://www.springer/journal/11219), published by Springer.
The Software Quality Journal publishes papers on research and practice directed towards improving and assessing software quality. Quality software is a software that is reliable and easy to use, maintain, adapt, test, etc.
The journal publishes articles on software product and process quality evaluation and improvement. Such articles may involve software metrics, testing, verification and inspections, reliability, maintainability, quality models, reuse, etc. The SQJ publishes both analytical and empirical studies.
January 22, 2007:
Dr. Changhe Yuan has accepted an invitation to be a member of the program committee for the Thirteenth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems & International Workshop on Distance Education Technologies. This conference will be held in San Francisco from September 6-8.
January 22, 2007:
Dr. Jeff Carver has accepted an invitation to speak to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama on January 26,2007.
January 9, 2007:
The following article was published in the September issue of the Journal of Digital Forensic Practice:
McRae, C., McGrew, R. and Vaughn, R., "Honey Tokens and Web Bugs: Developing Reactive Techniques for Investigating Phishing Scams," Journal of Digital Forensic Practice 1 (03), September 2006, pp. 193-199.
Craig McRae is an M.S. student in computer science; (Robert) Wesley McGrew is a computer science Ph.D. student. Dr. Ray Vaughn is a Billie Ball Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
January 9, 2007:
Russ Ward and Wesley McGrew have been certified by the SANS organization as Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) Certified Incident Handlers (GCIH). This certification is difficult to achieve and involves taking two exams from the SANS organization (an internationally recognized Security Training Organization). GIAC Certified Incident Handlers (GCIHs) have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to manage incidents; to understand common attack techniques and tools; and to defend against and/or respond to such attacks when they occur.
Russ is the assistant systems administrator for this department, and Wesley is a Ph.D. student in computer science.
January 5, 2007:
Dr. Ed Swan has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for IEEE Virtual Reality 2007 to be held in Alexandria, VA, on March 25-29 and will be published in the proceedings:
Joseph L. Gabbard, J. Edward Swan II, Deborah Hix, Si-Jung Kim, Greg Fitch, "Active Text Drawing Styles for Outdoor Augmented Reality: A User-Based Study and Design Implications", (to appear in) Technical Papers, Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, March 25-29.
Dr. Swan's co-authors on this paper are his collaborators at Virginia Tech.
January 3, 2007:
Dr. Song Zhang gave a talk on "Visualizing Brain Neural Fiber Structures with Diffusion Imaging" in the State Key Lab of CAD&CG at Zhejiang University, HangZhou, China, on December 22. He also talked to faculty members there about potential collaborations and student exchanges.
December 18, 2006:
Dr. Jeffrey Carver has been notified that the following paper was accepted for the 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering (Experience Track):
Carver, J., Kendall, R., Squires, S. and Post, D. "Software Development Environments for Scientific and Engineering Software: A Series of Case Studies"
This paper was written with Dr. Carver's colleagues from the Software Engineering Institute, SUN Microsystems, and the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Office.
December 18, 2006:
Dr. Song Zhang gave a talk on "Scientific Visualization and some Applications in Medicine and Physics" at Nankai University, in Tianjin, China last week.
December 11, 2006:
Dr. Song Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, is one of the authors of the following journal paper:
Simon, Jack H., Song Zhang, David H. Laidlaw, David E. Miller, Mark Brown, John Corboy, and Jeffrey Bennett, "Identification of Fibers at Risk for Degeneration by Diffusion Tractography in Patients at High Risk for MS after a Clinically Isolated Syndrome," Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, November 2006.
Simon, Miller, Brown, Corboy and Bennett are with the University of Colorado, Denver. Laidlaw is with Brown University.
November 29, 2006:
Robert Wesley McGrew (Ph.D. student in computer science) and Dr. Ray Vaughn have been notified that their paper titled "GooSweep: Mining Search Engines to Acquire Network Forensic Evidence" has been accepted for presentation at the Third IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics to be held at the National Center for Forensic Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida on January 29-31, 2007. They were also notified that this paper has been selected for publication as a book chapter in the book Advances in Digital Forensics III (Springer, 2007) to be published in May 2007.
November 28, 2006:
A workshop proposed by Dr. Jeff Carver has been accepted for the 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering. The name of the workshop is SE-HPC 2007: The Third International Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance Computing (HPC) Applications.
November 27, 2006:
The following panel has been accepted for presentation at IEEE Virtual Reality 2007:
"Spatial Perception in Immersive Virtual Environments: New Theories and Current Controversies."
Dr. Ed Swan is one of the presenters of this panel. His co-presenters are Dennis Proffitt (University of Virginia), William B. Thompson (University of Utah), Victoria Interrante (University of Minnesota), and Joseph Kearney (University of Iowa).
VR 2007 will be held March 10-14 in Charlotte, NC.
November 16, 2006:
Kendra Carr has been selected as the recipient of this year's Hilton Hotels Corporation Information Technology Award, which is a one-year scholarship award. Kendra is a freshman computer science major from Meridian, MS.
The Hilton Hotels Corporation awards this one-year scholarship each year to a student in the CSE Department who is in good standing academically and displays leadership qualities. Kendra will be formally presented with this award on campus by Ms. Lashell Vaughn, Vice President of Brand Support Services and Franchise Systems for Hilton Hotels Corporation.
Ms.Vaughn,who is a graduate of this department, is also a member of the department's Advisory Board.
November 14, 2006:
Dr. Jeff Carver had two invited papers published in the CTWatch Journal:
"Observations about Software Development for High End Computing," by Carver, J., Hochstein, L., Kendall, R., Nakamura, T.,Zelkowitz, M. Basili, V. and Post, D. Published in CTWatch Quarterly, November 2006, pp. 33-38.
"Experiments to Understand HPC Time to Development," by Hochstein, L., Nakamura, T., Basili, V., Asgari, S., Zelkowitz, M., Hollingsworth, J., Shull, F., Carver, J., Voelp, M., Zazworka, N., and Johnson, P. Published in CTWatch Quarterly,November 2006, pp. 24-32.
These papers were published as part of the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems project with Dr. Carver's colleagues from the University of Maryland, the Fraunhofer Center, the University of Nebraska, the DOD HPC Modernization Office, the SEI, and the University of Hawaii.
November 10, 2006:
The article "Challenges of Internet Development in Vietnam: A General Perspective" by Duy Le, Ray Vaughn, and Yoginder Dandass has been accepted by CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, for publication in January 2007. This article was initially written by Duy Le as a research paper in Dr. Vaughn's Fall 2005 Information and Computer Security course while Mr. Le was a student here. The paper was then modified and expanded by Mr. Le, Dr. Vaughn, and Dr. Dandass as a journal article.
Mr. Le is currently a PhD student at William and Mary University.
November 7, 2006:
Dr. Susan Bridges of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is one of three researchers from MSU who have been invited by the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium to attend the next GO Consortium Meeting to represent AgBase. Dr.Bridges is a co-director of MSU's Institute for Digital Biology, through which the AgBase database was developed and has since been recognized as an international resource in bioinformatics research.
The other invited attendees from MSU are Dr. Shane Burgess and Dr. Fiona McCarthy of the MSU Vet School. Dr. Burgess is also the other co-director of IDB.
The MSU group is one of only 15 groups worldwide that were invited to attend this international genomics meeting. The other institutes are Cambridge University, Berkeley University, Stanford University, Caltech,Northwestern University, Cornell University, the University of Oregon, the European Bioinformatics Institute, The Institute for Genomic Research, the Jackson Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and AstraZeneca Incorporated.
November 6, 2006:
Dr. Song Zhang is a co-author on the following paper which has been accepted for publication by Physical Review E, a premier journal in the area of liquid crystals: "A.C. Callan-Jones, Robert A. Pelcovits, V.A. Slavin, Song Zhang, D.H. Laidlaw, and G.B. Loriot, "Simulation and Visualization of Topological Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals"
The other authors are colleagues of Dr. Zhang from Brown University. Callan-Jones and Pelcovits are in the Physics Department. Slavin and Laidlaw are in the Computer Science Department. Loriot is with the Center for Computation and Visualization.
November 3, 2006:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly was the organizer of the following panel at IEEE Visualization 2006; it won the Best Panel Award at the conference: T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Robert Kosara, Gordon Kindlmann, Chris North, Colin Ware, and E. Wes Bethel, "Panel: Is There Science in Visualization?"
The panels were judged on attendance, the quality of presentation, the interaction with the audience, and the potential for impact on the field. There were about 97 attendees at this panel.
October 30, 2006:
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering took two teams to the ACM Regional Collegiate Programming Contest for the Southeastern USA region on Saturday, October 28,2006.
Teams :
MSU Maroon Team: Shane Fry, Jacob McIntosh, Burns Smith
MSU White Team: Aaron Boudreaux, Matthew Davis, Brian Thomas
Alternate: Jeffrey Lorens Team Coach: Dr. Yoginder Dandass
There were 2 sites for this year's regional programming competition -The University of South Alabama and Georgia Southern University. The MSU teams competed at South Alabama, with the White Team taking first place and the Maroon Team taking second place among 16 teams. Both sites combined had a total of 69 teams from 13 institutions, with the two MSU teams taking 15th and 16th place. The MSU teams finished higher than the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ole Miss, and Auburn University.
October 27, 2006:
Dr. Yoginder Dandass has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for publication:
R J Vickery, A Cedilnik, J P Martin, Y Dandass, T Atkison, R J Moorhead, J Clarke, and P Adams, "Web-based Secure High Performance Remote Visualization," Journal of Physics: Computer Series 46, SciDAC 2006, pp. 545-549.
Dr. Dandass is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Travis Atkison is a Ph.D. student in computer science.
October 24, 2006:
The October 2 issue of ComputerWorld (vol. 40, No. 4) included a quote from Wesley McGrew, one of our graduate students. An article on the front page, "IT Risks Rise On USB Drives," states that there has already been a security problem with insiders stealing large quantities of data on USB memory sticks, and the problem has gotten worse with the U3 memory sticks. Wesley is quoted in the last paragraph:
"In one sense, the threat is not new," said Robert Wesley McGrew, a research student in computer security at Mississippi State University in Starkville. "For example, the ability to install malicious code on removable systems via CD-ROMs has existed for several years," he said. "What makes the U3 threat dangerous, though, is the fact that the devices can retrieve and store data," he added.
October 24, 2006:
John West, a graduate of MSU and a member of the Advisory Board for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has a feature article in the October 9 issue of ComputerWorld, which is available here. In his article on "Leading From Day One," Mr. West provides advice on leadership and career management for young technology professionals. In his article, he states "If you work in IT, you should know that your ability to work well with others is at least as important as your technical acumen."
Mr. West is currently the Deputy Director (Acting) of the Information Technology Laboratory at the U.S. Army Engineer and Research Development Center in Vicksburg, MS. He is also the author of the book The Only Trait of a Leader (www.onlytraitofaleader.com).
October 23, 2006:
Dr. Susan Bridges, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been informed that the project "Ontology Annotations, Tools and Educational Resources for Chicken and Cow Research" will be funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program. This project will receive $1,000,000 in funding from the USDA NRI over the next 3 years. Only about 10% of the proposals to this highly competitive program receive funding. This project is a part of the work being done by the new Institute for Digital Biology for which Dr. Bridges is the co-director.
The other principal investigators for this project are Dr. Fiona McCarthy and Dr. Shane Burgess of the College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Burgess is also the other co-director of the Institute for Digital Biology.
October 19, 2006:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly and Dr. Ed Swan were a part of the grand opening celebration for the MSU Institute for Neurocognitive Science and Technology this week. They discussed the upcoming high-resolution display wall as well as some of the perceptual research being done. Dr. Jankun-Kelly and Dr. Swan were assisted by students Adam Jones, Eric Kolstad, Matthew Morris, and Chris Waters.
October 19, 2006:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly gave the following invited talk at the University of Mississippi: "Combining Scientific and Information Visualization for Nematic Liquid Crystal Alignment Visualization"
October 18, 2006:
Dr. Jeff Carver has accepted an invitation to serve as the Workshops Chair on the organizing committee for the 2007 Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T).
October 18, 2006:
Dr. Ray Vaughn was invited to write the article "Leadership by Example: A Perspective on the Influence of Barry Boehm" for the Journal of Systems and Software. The article will appear in late 2006 or early 2007.
October 18, 2006:
Dr. Jeff Carver has been notified that the following article has been accepted for publication in the December 2006 issue of CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering: Carver, J., Shull, F., and Rus, I. "Finding and Fixing Problems Early: A Perspective-Based Approach to Requirements and Design Inspections" The co-authors are scientists at the Fruanhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering in College Park, Maryland.
October 17, 2006:
Dr. Edward Allen has learned that the following paper has been accepted for publication in the Software Quality Journal: Edward B. Allen, Sampath Gottipati, and Rajiv Govindarajan, "Measuring Size, Complexity, and Coupling of Hypergraph Abstractions of Software: An Information-Theory Approach".
The article includes material from the MSU master's theses of Sampath Gottipati (2003) and Rajiv Govindarajan (2004) under the direction of Dr. Allen.
October 13, 2006:
Dr. Song Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has learned that the project "Northern Gulf of Mexico Cooperative Institute: Visualization Techniques for Improving Public Understanding of Catastrophic Events" will receive funding from NOAA beginning October 1. Dr. Zhang is the co-principal investigator for this project; the principal investigator is Dr. Robert Moorhead of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
October 9, 2006:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly has been informed that the proposal "Assured Strategic Communications During Natural and Willful Disasters" has been selected for funding by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Southeast Region Research Initiative (SERRI), a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The principal investigator (PI) on this project is Dr. Lori Bruce of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Jankun-Kelly is a co-PI. This project will be done through the MSU GeoResources Institute.
October 9, 2006:
Dr. Wei Li (a 2005 PhD graduate of CSE), Dr. Rayford Vaughn, and Dr.Yoginder Dandass have been notified that their paper "An Approach to Model Network Exploitations Using Exploitation Graphs" will appear in the August issue of the journal "Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International". This work describes the use of exploitation graphs developed by Dr. Li in the domain of high performance computing.
Dr. Li received his Ph.D. in computer science from MSU in 2005. Dr.Vaughn is the Billie Ball Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr.Dandass is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
October 9, 2006:
Dr. Ray Vaughn has accepted an invitation to speak to the Scholarship for Service students at George Washington University on October 31. He will be telling them about the research efforts ongoing in the Center for Computer Security Research.
October 4, 2006:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly has been informed that the proposal "Assured Strategic Communications During Natural and Willful Disasters" has been selected for funding by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Southeast Region Research Initiative (SERRI), a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The principal investigator (PI) on this project is Dr. Lori Bruce of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Jankun-Kelly is a co-PI. This project will be done through the MSU GeoResources Institute.
October 4, 2006:
Dr. Donna Reese, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Associate Dean for Academics and Administration, and Dr. Julia Hodges, Professor and Department Head of Computer Science and Engineering, have been named Senior Members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
October 3, 2006:
Dr. Ray Vaughn has been informed that his proposal on "Southeast Region Critical Infrastructure Protection Center Initiative" has been selected for funding by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Southeast Region Research Initiative (SERRI), a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This effort will create a Critical Infrastructure Protection Center (CIPC) at MSU and will be an expansion of the existing Center for Computer Security Research (CCSR) and its Forensics Training Center. Teaming with the CCSR in this effort are the Forensics Training Center (directed by Dr. David Dampier) and the Institute for Digital Biology (co-directed by Dr.Susan Bridges, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Dr. Shane Burgess of the College of Veterinary Medicine).
September 29, 2006:
The following paper has been accepted for publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
J. Edward Swan II, Adam Jones, Eric Kolstad, Mark A. Livingston, Harvey S. Smallman, "Egocentric Depth Judgments in Optical, See-Through Augmented Reality"
Dr. Swan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Adam Jones is a MS student in CSE; Eric Kolstad is a PhD student in computational engineering. They are both working with Dr. Swan and ran the experiment that is reported in this paper this past summer at the MSU Institute for Neurocognitive Science and Technology. Mark Livingston is a colleague of Dr. Swan at NRL, and Harvey Smallman was one of Dr. Swan's collaborators on some related NRL projects.
September 29, 2006:
Dr. Susan Bridges, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been informed that the AgBase database system (and all of its associated information and tools) has been accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research, which is a premier journal for genomic biology. AgBase, which has become well known as a national resource for researchers working in the area of genomics and proteomics, was developed by scientists associated with the Institute for Digital Biology, of which Dr. Bridges is the co-director along with Dr. Shane Burgess of the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine. "AgBase: A Unified Resource for Functional Analysis in Agriculture" by Fiona M. McCarthy, Susan M. Bridges, Nan Wang, G. Bryce Magee, W. Paul Williams, Dawn S. Luthe, and Shane C. Burgess
Dr. McCarthy and Dr. Burgess are affiliated with the Department of Basic Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Ms. Wang and Mr. Magee are research associates with the Institute for Digital Biology and work under the direction of Dr. Bridges in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Williams is affiliated with the USDA ARS Corn Host Plant Resistance Research Unit. Dr. Luthe was affiliated with the MSU Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology until recently.
September 26, 2006:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has learned that the project "CT-ISG: Empirically-based Visualization for Computer Security and Forensics" will be funded for 3 years by the National Science Foundation's CyberTrust program. The funding will begin on October 1, 2006. Dr. Jankun-Kelly will serve as the principal investigator (PI) for this project. The co-PIs are Dr. Jeff Carver, Assistant Professor; Dr. Ed Swan, Associate Professor; and Dr. Dave Dampier, Associate Professor.
September 25, 2006:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar has accepted an invitation to join the new Communications and Informations Security Technical Committee, which was founded this year by the IEEE Communications Society. This invitation is in recognition of Dr. Ramkumar's activity in the communications security area.
September 25, 2006:
Dr. Ed Swan has accepted an invitation to serve on the International Program Committee for the IEEE Virtual Reality 2007 Conference to be held March 10-14 in Charlotte, NC
September 20, 2006:
Dr. Tomasz Haupt has learned that his paper "Grid-Based System for Product Design Optimization" has been accepted for e-Science 2006 to be held in Amsterdam. Dr. Haupt is a research engineer with the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems and holds a graduate faculty appointment in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
September 19, 2006:
Dr. Changhe Yuan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,has been notified that the following paper has been accepted for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007) to be held January 6-12 in Hyderabad, India.
Xiaoxun Sun, Marek J. Druzdzel, and Changhe Yuan, "Dynamic Weighting A* Search-Based MAP Algorithm for Bayesian Networks".
September 8, 2006:
The Center for Computer Security Research has received an award of $2,468,070 from the Department of Justice to continue its efforts in the training of local and state law enforcement officers through its Forensics Training Center. The principal investigator on this grant is Dr. Rayford Vaughn; Dr. David Dampier is the co-principal investigator.
The funding includes a subcontract with the University of Mississippi, the State Attorney's General Office, and Jackson State University. It will also support the Cyber Crime Fusion Center, a collaboration among federal, state, and local agencies in Jackson, MS, for investigating cyber crime.
This new grant will allow the CCSR/FTC to begin to support regional forensics laboratories within the State of Mississippi with equipment grants to specific locations. They will also begin training for attorneys and judges through their collaboration with the National Center for Justice and Rule of Law at the University of Mississippi.
September 8, 2006:
Ms. Yan Chen, a graduate student in Computer Engineering, has had a paper accepted by the ISCA 19th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2006) to be held November 13-15, 2006, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The paper was initially written in Dr. Rayford Vaughn's CSE 6243 Information and Computer Security Class during the Spring 2006 semester and refined over the summer. Ms. Chen is working under the direction of Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar.
"Security Concerns with Mobile IPv6" by Yan Chen, R Vaughn, and M Ramkumar
September 6, 2006:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, along with some of his colleagues, has had the following papers accepted for publication:
M. Ramkumar and N. Memon, "Secure collaborations over message boards," Int. Jnl of Security and Networks (to be published in Oct 2006)
H. T. Sencar, M. Ramkumar, A,N. Akansu, and A. Sukerkar, "Improved utilization of embedding distortion in scalar quantization based data hiding techniques," accepted for publication, Elsevier Signal Processing Journal.
September 5, 2006:
Dr. Susan Bridges, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has learned that the following paper has been accepted for publication in the journal BMC Bioinformatics:
"AgBase: A functional genomics resource for agriculture" Fiona M.McCarthy, Nan Wang,G. Bryce Magee, Bindu Nanduri, Mark L. Lawrence, Evelyn B. Camon, Daniel G. Barrell,David P. Hill, Mary E. Dolan, W. Paul Williams, Dawn S. Luthe, Susan Bridges, Shane Burgess.
Dr. McCarthy, Dr. Nanduri, Dr. Lawrence, and Dr. Burgess are faculty members in the Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, MSU. Nan Wang, and Bryce Magee are Research Assistants in Computer Science and Engineering and were responsible for implementing AgBase. Dr. Camon is a scientist with the European Bioinformatics Institute, and Drs. Hill and Dolan are scientists with Mouse Genome Informatics at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Dr. Williams is a USDA scientist and Dr. Luthe is a former member of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at MSU and is now at Penn State.
August 31, 2006:
Dr. Ray Vaughn has just learned that the National Security Agency has agreed to provide funding that will allow the Department of Computer Science and Engineering to purchase a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) lab for its computer security work. According to Dr. Vaughn, this will be the first SCADA Systems Security Lab in the southeast region and will allow the computer security program to address problems involving critical infrastructure issues.
August 22, 2006:
Dr. Susan Bridges, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and co-director of the MSU Institute for Digital Biology (IDB), has learned that she has been invited to the Gene Ontotology Consortium User's Meeting in Seattle, WA, on September 10. Also invited to attend are Dr. Shane Burgess, co-director of IDB and Associate Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine Basic Science Department, and Dr. Fiona McCarthy, biocurator for IDB and Assistant Research Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine Basic Science Department.
The Gene Ontoloty (GO) is a controlled vocabulary that is the standard method worldwide for specifying the function of proteins. AgBase is a database housed at Mississippi State University and sponsored by the MSU Institute for Digital Biology that specializes in providing GO annotations for proteins from agricultural species. AgBase is designated as a GO Associate. Dr. McCarthy and Dr. Bridges will give presentations on AgBase at the GO User's Meeting.
August 21, 2006:
Dr. Gene Boggess is a co-author on the following paper accepted for publication in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture:
Zhai, Yushun, J. Alex Thomasson, Julian E. Boggess III,and Ruixiu Sui, "Soil Texture Classification with Artificial Neural Networks Operating on Remote Sensing Data"
Dr. Boggess is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at MSU. Yushun Zhai works for Intergraph in Huntsville, AL. Alex Thomasson and Ruixiu Sui are in the Department of Biological and Agriculture Engineering at Texas A&M University.
August 17, 2006:
Dr. Yoginder Dandass has been informed that his paper on "Hardware-assisted Scanning for Signature Patterns in Image File Fragments" has been accepted for presentation at the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40) to be held in Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii, on January 3-6, 2007. His paper will also be published in the conference proceedings.
August 17, 2006:
Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier have learned that their proposal for the DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program has received funding from the National Security Agency. This continuation of the information assurance scholarship program in this department is possible because of MSU's designation by the National Security Agency as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. For more information on this scholarship program, see http://www.security.cse.msstate.edu/scholarships.shtml.
August 16, 2006:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu has accepted an invitation to serve on the program committee for the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2007 to be held March 26-30 in Long Beach, CA.
August 9, 2006:
Three computer science Ph.D. students are receiving Bagley fellowships this year:
Travis Atkison
Peter Lamborn
Byron Williams
These fellowships were endowed by Jean and James Bagley to help the Bagley College of Engineering expand its research capabilities. Recipients must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The fellowships provide stipends that are supplements to graduate assistantships.
August 9, 2006:
The Bagley College of Engineering, with funding provided by the Hearin Foundation (Jackson, MS), recognizes outstanding faculty in the college as Hearin Eminent Scholars. This award includes an annual stipend and is in recognition of excellence in teaching, research, and service. This year the college has chosen 5 new Hearin Eminent Scholars, two of whom are from this department - Dr. Edward Allen and Dr. Eric Hansen. These individuals join 10 other faculty members already carrying that distinction, of which two are from this department - Dr. Ioana Banicescu and Dr. Susan Bridges.
August 7, 2006:
Dr. Mahalingam Ramkumar's article on "Broadcast Authentication with Preferred Verifiers" has been published in Volume 4 Number 2 of the International Journal of Network Security. For more information about this journal, see http://ijns.nchu.edu.tw/.
July 26, 2006:
Dr. David Dampier has been asked by the FBI to serve as a delegate to the National/International Infragard Congress to be held August 21-24 in Washington, DC. This means that Dr. Dampier will be the only voting member of the Infragard National Member Alliance from Mississippi and thus will be representing the Mississippi chapter on national issues.
July 24, 2006:
Congratulations to the two most recent recipients of the Scholarships for Service (SFS), Jonathan Pittman and Amanda Knotts.
Jonathan recently completed a B.S. degree in computer science and is now entering our M.S. program; he is from Jackson, MS. Amanda is a computer science major from Ellisville, MS.
The SFS scholarship program is administered by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. It is a part of the Cyber Corps Scholarship program and requires that students who receive these scholarships be placed in a computer security-related job in the Federal Government or the Department of Defense following graduation. MSU's scholarship program is administered by Dr. Ray Vaughn.
Other recent recipients of the Cyber Corps scholarships were announced in the online newsletter now available here.
July 13, 2006:
Dr. Ray Vaughn has been invited to be a Plenary Keynote speaker for the 3rd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications (CITSA 2006). This conference will be held jointly with the 4th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT '06) July 20-23 in Orlando, Florida.
Dr. Vaughn has had a paper accepted at this conference, as have two of computer science students - Jim Stinson and Steve Medders.
July 12, 2006:
The following paper has been accepted as a short paper at the 2006 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering:
Lemon, K., Allen, E., Carver, J., and Bradshaw, G., "Gestalt Principles Applied to Software Engineering Diagrams: An Initial Study"
Krystle Lemon is a Ph.D. student studying under the direction of Dr. Edward Allen. Dr. Allen and Dr. Jeffrey Carver are professors in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Dr. Gary Bradshaw is a professor in the Department of Psychology at MSU.
July 12, 2006:
Dr. Jeff Carver has been notified that the following paper was accepted as a short paper at the 2006 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering:
Maldonado, J., Fabbri, S., Mendonca, M., Doria, E., Martimiano, L., Carver, J., Shull, F., and Basili, V., "Comparing Code Reading and Testing Criteria: A Replication of Experimental Studies"
The first 5 authors are Dr. Carver's colleagues from Brazil. Shull is a colleague from the Fruanhofer Center for Empirical Software Engineering. Basili is a colleague from the University of Maryland.
July 11, 2006:
Dr. Mahalingam has received notification that the following papers have been accepted:
K.A. Sivakumar and M. Ramkumar, "On the Effect of One-way Links on Route Discovery in DSR," IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks 2006, Arlington, VA, Oct 2006.
M. Ramkumar, "I-HARPS: An Efficient Key Predistribution Scheme for Mobile Computing Applications," IEEE Globecom, San Francisco, CA, Nov 2006.
M. Ramkumar, "On the Feasibility of Very Low Complexity Trust Modules Using PKPS Synergies," IEEE Globecom, San Francisco, CA, Nov 2006.
M. Ramkumar, "Broadcast Encryption with Probabilistic Key Distribution and Applications," Journal of Computers, to appear in issue 3 in 2006.
July 6, 2006:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly has been invited to be a program committee member for the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Visualization to be held 5-7 February, 2007, in Sydney, Australia.
July 6, 2006:
Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier have had a paper accepted at the E-Crime and Computer Evidence Conference to be held September 12-14 in Nottingham, UK. The title of the paper is "Forensic Training Center - An Academic/Government Partnership".
June 30, 2006:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly is the organizer of a panel that will be presented at IEEE Visualization 2006 in Baltimore on October 29 - November 3. Joining Dr. Jankun-Kelly on the panel, which is entitled "Is There Science in Visualization?," will be Robert Kosara (UNC Charlotte), Gordon Kindlmann (Harvard Medical School), Chris North (Virginia Tech), Colin War (U. New Hampshire), and E. Wes Bethel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).
June 30, 2006:
Dr. Ed Swan is one of the authors of a paper to appear in the Journal of Multimedia:
Greg Schmidt, Dennis G. Brown, Erik B. Tomlin, J. Edward Swan II, Yohan Baillot, "Probabilistic Algorithms, Integration, and Empirical Evaluation for Disambiguating Multiple Selections in Frustum-Based Pointing"
The co-authors are Dr. Swan's colleagues from the Naval Research Laboratory.The paper is an invited extension to a paper that appeared in the Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces this past March.
June 28, 2006:
Dr. Ed Swan and Dr. Jeff Carver have received notification from the National Security Agency that NSA will provide mentoring support for their research in the area of Software Component Time-Domain Visualization. This project, which is currently being funded by the Center for Computer Security Research, has been assigned a point of contact within NSA and may receive mentoring and guidance from NSA in several forms such as the provision of software for analysis.
June 28, 2006:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly has learned that the following paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics: Jankun-Kelly, T.J., Kwan-Liu Ma, and Micahel Gertz, "A Model and Framework for Visualization Exploration"
Kwan-Liu Ma and Michael Gertz are Dr. Jankun-Kelly's colleagues at the University of California, Davis.
June 6, 2006:
Dr. Mark Lawrence (PI) , Dr. Shane Burgess (Co-PI), and Dr. Susan Bridges (Co-PI) have been notified that their proposal entitled "Listeria Monocytogenes Response to Phagocytosis: A Comparative Functional Genomics Approach" has been selected for funding by the CSREES, USDA National Research Initiative (NRI) Competitive Grants Program. Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Burgess are faculty members in the Department of Basic Science in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Bridges is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
June 5, 2006:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly has had two papers, each co-authored with recent CSE M.S. graduate Ketan Mehta, accepted to the IEEE Visualization conference to take place in Baltimore, MD, in October.
T.J. Jankun-Kelly and Ketan Mehta, "Superellipsoid-based, Real Symmetric Traceless Tensor Glyphs Motivated by Nematic Liquid Crystal Alignment Visualization"
Ketan Mehta and T.J. Jankun-Kelly, "Visualizing Defects in 3D Unstructured Models of Nematic Liquid Crystals"
The first paper was fully accepted; the second is conditionally accepted pending minor revisions.
The Visualization conference papers will be published as a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
June 5, 2006:
Dr. Edward Allen had the following poster accepted for presentation at the 54th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry held in Seattle, WA, in May:
B. Nanduri, Burgess, S.C. and Allen, E.B. "Software applications for integration and analysis of mass spectroscopy data"
This poster reports on the collaboration between biologists in the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Fall 2005 CSE 4214/6214 Introduction to Software Engineering class. The class developed tools for the biologists to use. The Spring 2006 CSE 4214/6214 class continued the collaboration.
June 2, 2006:
Dr. Ray Vaughn has been notified that his paper entitled "A Position on Effective Peer Reviews-Rationale, Qualification, Process, and Policy" has been accepted for presentation at the First International Symposium on Knowledge Communication and Peer Reviewing (KCPR 2006). This symposium is included as a Focus Symposium in the 3rd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications (CITSA 2006) to be held in Orlando, FL, on July 20-23, 2006.
May 30, 2006:
Dr. Jeff Carver, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been named a Visiting Scientist with the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
May 24, 2006:
Mr. Cesar Monroy has had his paper on "Keeping an Educational Network Healthy: Differentiating Malicious and Naïve Students on an Educational Network Environment" accepted for presentation at the 2006 International Conference on Security and Management to be held June 26-29 in Las Vegas, NV. Mr. Monroy is an employee of MSU's Information Technology Services and took Dr. Ray Vaughn's security class last spring. His paper address the current initiatives of ITS to "quanrantine" students who misuse university network assets.
May 17, 2006:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, is one of the authors of the following paper accepted for publication in Lecture Notes in Computer Science:
Carino, Ricolindo L., Ioana Banicescu, and Wenzhong Gao, "Dynamic Load Balancing with MatlabMPI"
The paper is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11758525_58.
May 8, 2006:
Dr. David Dampier and Dr. Ray Vaughn have been appointed "Affiliate Professors of Computer Information Systems" at the University of Alaska Anchorage. This appointment was made to facilitate their teaching a 5-week semester course in computer security and forensics from May 22, 2006 through June 26, 2006. This work is funded by the National Security Agency and the National Science Foundation as a Center for Computer Security Research outreach activity.
May 8, 2006:
Lulu He (a Ph.D. student in computer science) and Dr. Jeff Carver have had their paper "PBR vs. Checklist: A Replication in the N-Fold Inspection Context" accepted at the ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 21-22.
May 8, 2006:
Dr. Jeff Carver, with co-authors Dr. Gregg Rothermel of the University of Nebraska and Marc Fisher (a Ph.D. student at Nebraska), has had the paper "An Empirical Evaluation of a Testing and Debugging Methodology for Excel" accepted at the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering" to be held in September in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
May 8, 2006:
Gursimran Singh Walia and Dr. Jeff Carver have had their paper "Requirement Error Abstraction and Classification: An Empirical Study" accepted at the ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 21-22.
May 8, 2006:
Karolina Sarnowska has received a $2,000 scholarship from Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's largest and oldest honor society, to continue her computer science studies in the Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia this fall. Only 160 of these scholarships were awarded nationwide this year. Karolina is completing a B.S. degree in computer science, B.S. degree in mathematics, and minors in business and German this semester. This summer, Karolina will be in Seattle/Redmond working at Microsoft.
May 4, 2006:
The following students have been awarded CCSR full ride Cyber Corps Scholarships beginning in Academic year 2006-2007. These scholarships are highly competitive, require the student to focus their study in the area of computer security, and service to the Federal Government or Department of Defense upon graduation in a security related job. Congratulations to each student on this achievement! This year's awardees represent the departments of CSE and ECE in the Bagley College of Engineering and the MIS Department in the College of Business.
There are two scholarship programs (the Information Assurance Scholarship Program administered by the DOD and the Scholarship for Service Program administered by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Personnel Management). Each scholarship pays full tuition, books and supplies, fees, and a monthly stipend to the student.
IASP Awardees:
Mr. Terry Bullen (MS Student ECE)
Mr. Mr. Murrell Taylor Clark III (Undergraduate CSE)
Mr. Wesley Huang (MS Student ECE - 2d year award)
Mr. Antwan Foster (MS Student CSE - 4th year award)
SFS Awardees:
Michael Stewart (Undergraduate Student CSE)
Michael King (Undergraduate Student CSE)
Elizabeth Dana (Undergraduate Student MIS)
Christopher Aube' (Undergraduate Student CSE)
Laura Hall (Graduate Student ECE - starts Jan 2007)
Chamel Young (Graduate Student CSE)
Brian Sanders (Graduate Student MIS)
May 1, 2006:
Dr. Banicescu, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, is co-author of the following paper, which has been accepted for publication and presentation at the 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing to be held in Timisoara, Romania on July 6-9: Carino, Ricolindao, and Ioana Banicescu, "A Dynamic Load Balancing Tool for Dummies"
Dr. Carino is an Assistant Research Professor at the MSU Center for Computational Sciences.
April 26, 2006:
Jansen Cohoon, a student in the M.S. program in computer science, was named the Teaching Assistant of the Year at the Master's level by the Office of Graduate Studies and the MSU Graduate Student Association. Jansen served as one of the graduate teaching assistants for CSE 3324 Distributed Client/Server Programming this year, working under the supervision of the course instructor, Mr. Mahmood Hossain.
April 26, 2006:
The MSU Institute for Neurocognitive Science and Technology held a Research Forum on April 13 at which students could display posters describing their research. Of the 22 posters, 7 were done by students in the CSE Department. They were:
Christopher Waters, Illustrative Techniques Applied to Information Visualization. Faculty Sponsor: Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly
Adam Jones and Eric Kolstad, Egocentric Depth Perception in Augmented Reality. Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Ed Swan
Matthew Morris, User Interaction and Navigation on a Large-Scale Display. Faculty Sponsor: Dr. T. J. Jankun-Kelly
Ketan Mehta, Evaluation of Tensor Glyph Shape. Faculty Sponsor: Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly
Diana Chan, An Ensemble Method for Identifying Robust Features for Biomarker Identification. Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Susan Bridges. Other Faculty: Dr. Shane Burgess
Krystle Lemon, Mental Models of Software Engineering Diagrams. Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Edward Allen. Other Faculty: Dr. Jeffrey Carver and Dr. Gary Bradshaw.
Nan Wang, A Proteogenomic Mapping Pipeline for Structural Annotation of Genomes. Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Susan Bridges. Other Faculty: Dr. Fiona McCarthy, Dr. Shane Burgess, Dr. Bindumadhavi Nanduri, and Dr. Mark Lawrence.
Nan Wang won the award for best poster by a Ph.D. student.
April 25, 2006:
On Saturday April 22, The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) hosted a programming competition sponsored by CSE and Bearing Point. Bearing Point is a global consulting company with a local office in Hattiesburg, MS. Two teams from Mississippi State University and two teams from the University of South Alabama participated. In the competition, each team composed of up to three undergraduate students was given a set of eight problems to solve as quickly as possible within 4 hours and 15 minutes. The two MSU teams ranked first and second in the event.
1st place: (MSU Maroon(ACM)) Jacob McIntosh, Harry Lam, and Brian Thomas
2nd place: (MSU ECE) Matthew Knight and Russell Winsted
3rd place: (USA) Rebecca Boone, Zach Jorgensen, and Josh Wheeler
Bearing Point provided three Sony Play Station Portables, three iPod Nanos, and three $50 Amazon.com gift certificates that were awarded to the top three teams. Bearing Point also provided t-shirts, books, and other promotional material to all participants.
April 11, 2006:
Dr. Donna Reese, who is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Associate Dean for Academics and Administration in the Bagley College of Engineering, has won the 2006 Outstanding Executive/Administrative/Managerial Woman Award, an annual award that is presented by the MSU President's Commission on the Status of Women. There will be an award reception for the winners from each category on Wednesday, April 12, from 3:00 until 5:00 in the Grisham Room of the library.
April 4, 2006:
The following paper has been accepted for the 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, part of the 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence to be held in Vancouver July 16-21:
Le Xu, Mo-Yuen Chow, Jon Timmis, Leroy S. Taylor, and Andrew Watkins, "On the Investigation of Artificial Immune Systems on Imbalanced Data Classification for Power Distribution System Fault Cause Identification"
Le Xu is a doctoral student and Mo-Yuen Chow is professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University.
Jon Timmis is a Reader in the Department of Electronics and the Department of Computer Science at the University of York.
Leroy Taylor is with Duke Energy, Distribution Standard in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Andrew Watkins is a research scientist with the MSU GeoResources Institute and a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
April 4, 2006:
The following paper has been accepted for the 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERT '06) to be held June 26-29 in Las Vegas, Nevada:
Williams, Byron J., Jeffrey Carver, and Ray Vaughn, "Change Risk Assessment: Understanding Risks Involved in Changing Software Requirements"
Byron Williams is currently working toward a Master of Science degree in computer science under the direction of Dr. Carver, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The paper was written as part of the requirements for CSE 8273 Software Requirements Engineering, which was taught by Dr. Vaughn, the Billie J. Ball Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
April 4, 2006:
The following paper has been accepted for the 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'06) to be held June 26-29, 2006, in Las Vegas, Nevada:
Scogin, Allison, "The Factors of Software Systems that Contribute to Requirements Elicitation"
Allison Scogin is currently working toward a Master of Science degree in computer science. This paper was written as part of the requirements for CSE 8273 Software Requirements Engineering, which was taught last fall by Dr. Ray Vaughn, the Billie J. Ball Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
April 4, 2006:
Congratulations to Craig McRae, who had his picture on the front page of Sunday's edition of the Starkville Daily News for helping with the St. Andrews food distribution. Craig is a graduate student working in the area of information security with Dr. Ray Vaughn and is a full-time Air Force employee from Eglin AFB in Florida. It's wonderful to see students participating in such worthwhile activities!
April 3, 2006:
J. Edward Swan II, Mark A. Livingston, Harvey S. Smallman, Dennis Brown, Yohan Baillot, Joseph L. Gabbard, Deborah Hix, "A Perceptual Matching Technique for Depth Judgments in Optical, See-Through Augmented Reality", Technical Papers, Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, March 25-29, pages 19-26.
Of 27 papers at the conference, one paper was named "best paper" and two others, including this one, were given honorable mention.
Dr. Swan is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His co-authors are his collaborators at the Naval Research Laboratory and Virginia Tech.
March 29, 2006:
Mr. James Stinson was recently notified that his paper titled "Requirements Engineering in Secure Software Systems Factors that Influence Requirements Risk Analysis and Risk Management" has been accepted for presentation at the 3rd Symposium on Risk Management and Cyber-Informatics (RMCI 2006) included as a Focus Symposium in the 10th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2006) to be held in Orlando, FL, on July 16-19, 2006. Mr. Stinson wrote this paper for Dr. Vaughn's CSE 8273 class on Requirements Engineering during the Fall 2005 semester. He is a PhD student in the CSE department and an employee of the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center at Vicksburg.
March 29, 2006:
Stephen Medders' paper "Architectural Inspection for Computer Security Requirements" has been accepted for presentation at the 10th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2006) to be held in Orlando, FL, on July 16-19. Stephen, who wrote the paper while enrolled in Dr. Ray Vaughn's class on computer security (CSE 4243) last fall, is now enrolled in the computer science graduate program.
March 27, 2006:
The following paper has been accepted for the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Science Conference to be held July 8-12:
Bugde, Amit C., and Yoginder S. Dandass, "Comparison of Genetic Representation Schemes for Scheduling Soft Real-Time Parallel Applications"
Amit Bugde is a Master's student in computer science. Dr. Dandass is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
March 24, 2006:
Dr. Ed Swan has learned that his proposal to the NASA Mississippi Space Grant Consortium has been funded. This will allow him to spend his summer working at NASA Ames, will support one of his students this fall, and will provide an opportunity for him to build on his collaborations with NASA scientists. The title of the project is "Vibration-Stabilizing Information Displays during Launch with Augmented Reality Technology". His co-PI is Stephen R. Ellis of NASA Ames.
March 24, 2006:
Dr. T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been invited to serve on the program committee for VizSec 2006, which is to be held in conjunction with the ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference to be held in Alexandria, VA, on October 30 - November 3, 2006.
March 22, 2006:
Dr. Jeff Carver, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been awarded a stipend to attend the 1st Academy on Software Engineering Education Training as part of the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training. The conference will be held in Turtle Bay, Hawaii, in April.
February 15, 2006:
Dr. Ray Vaughn, Billie J. Ball Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Dr. David Dampier, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, have been informed that their proposal for a minitrack on "Digital Forensics - State of the Science and Foundational Research Activity" has been accepted for the Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences. The minitrack will be a part of the Software Technology Track of the conference, which will January 3-6, 2007, in Waikoloa, Hawaii.
February 14, 2006:
The following paper has been accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing to be held in Atlanta on May 10-12:
Hossain, Mahmood, Susan Bridges, Yong Wang, and Julia Hodges, "An Ensemble Approch for Generating Partitional Clusters from Multiple Cluster Hierarchies"
Mr. Hossain is an instructor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and is currently completing the requirements for a Ph.D. in computer science under the direction of Dr. Bridges. Dr. Bridges and Dr. Hodges are Professors of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Wang recently completed his Ph.D. in computer science under the direction of Dr. Hodges.
February 14, 2006:
The following article has been published in Cluster Computing (Volume 8, Number 4, pp. 313-321):
Carino, Ricolindo L., and Ioana Banicescu, "A Load Balancing Tool for Distributed Parallel Loops"
Dr. Carino is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Computational Sciences. Dr. Banicescu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
February 7, 2006:
The following article has been published in the Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2005, pp. 522-527:
Wu, Dongfeng, Xiaoqin Wu, Ioana Banicescu, and Ricolindo Carino, "Simulation Procedure in Periodic Cancer Screening Trials"
Dr. Wu is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics. Xiaoqin Wu is a PhD student in Mathematics and Statistics. Dr. Banicescu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Carino is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Computational Sciences at the ERC.
February 7, 2006:
Dr. Rayford Vaughn, Billie J. Ball Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has accepted an invitation to speak at the INFORMS International Conference to be held in Hong Kong on June 25-28 in conjunction with the Hong Kong Operational Research Society and the Operations Research Society of China. INFORMS is the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Dr. Vaughn will speak to the conference attendees about the information assurance program at Mississippi State University.
February 7, 2006:
The following paper has been accepted for the Fourth International Workshop on Computer Algebra Systems and Applications, which is a part of the International Conference on Computatioanl Science to be held may 28-31 at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom:
Carino, Ricolindo L., Ioana Banicescu, and Wenzhong Gao, "Dynamic Load Balancing with MatlabMPI"
Dr. Carino is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Computational Sciences at the ERC. Dr. Banicescu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Mr. Gao is currently an unclassified graduate student at MSU.
February 3, 2006:
The paper "Dynamic Memory Management in the Loci Framework" by Yang Zhang and Ed Luke has been accepted for publicaton in a special issue of the journal Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience.
Yang Zhang is a Ph.D. student in computational engineering working under the direction of Dr. Luke, who is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
February 3, 2006:
The paper "An Ensemble Method for Identifying Robust Features for Biomarker Identification" by Diana Chan, Susan Bridges, and Shane Burgess has been accepted for presentation at the International Workshop on Feature Selection for Data Mining: Interfacing Machine Learning and Statistics and publication in the workshop proceedings. The workshop will be held April 22, 2006, in Bethesda, MD.
Diana Chan is working toward a Master of Science degree in computer science under the direction of Dr. Bridges, who is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Burgess is an Associate PRofessor in the Basic Science Department of the College of Veterinary Medicine.
February 3, 2006:
Dr. Jeff Carver, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, coordinated an effort to have our department accepted into the International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERTN). ISERN's memberhip consist of software engineers from academia and industry worldwide. Its purpose is to encourage collaboration and the exchange of ideas among its members. It was initially created by:
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan) Universtat Kaiserslautern (Germany) Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland School of Information Systems, University of New South Wales Laboratory for Computer Science, University of Roma at Tor Vergata (Italy) VTT Electronics (Finland)
Dr. Carver attended meetings of ISERN and made presentations to the group regarding what the CSE Department could contribute. To be accepted into the group requires a 2/3 vote of the members.
Congratulations to Dr. Carver for bringing this most recent honor to our department!
February 1, 2006:
The GeoResources Institute recently received a $6.4M award from NASA to develop a Rapid Prototyping Capability to establish and evolve Applied Sciences Systems Engineering Capacity. Dr. Tomasz Haupt is one of the faculty members involved in this project. Dr. Haupt, who is an Associate Research Professor at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, also has an appointment on the faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
February 1, 2006:
Dr. Edward Allen has been notified that the following paper has been accepted for presentation at and publication in the proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation Software Security to be held April 2-6, 2006, in Huntsville, AL:
Allen, Edward B., and Chevonne Thomas, "Modeling Software Security Requirements for Certification: A Case Study of Requirements based on the Common Criteria"
This symposium is part of the 2006 Spring Simulation Multiconference.
Dr. Allen is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Chevonne Thomas is enrolled in both the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in computer science.
January 31, 2006:
Dr. Wei Li and Dr. Rayford Vaughn have been notified that their paper "Cluster Security Research involving the Modeling of Network Exploitations Using Exploitation Graphs" has been accepted for Cluster-Sec'06, the Second International Workshop on Cluster Security to be held May 16-19 in Singapore. The workshop is part of the Sixth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid).
Dr. Li recently completed his Ph.D. in computer science under the direction of Dr. Vaughn, who is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
January 24, 2006:
Click here for a picture of the cover of the new book Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and System Security: Managerial and Technical Issues to be published in February 2006. The authors are Dr. Merrill Warkentin, Professor of Management and Information Systems, and Dr. Rayford Vaughn, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
January 24, 2006:
Dr. Yoginder Dandass has learned that the following paper has been accepted for the 44th ACM Southeast Conference to be held in Melbourne, FL, on March 10-12, 2006:
Kondi, Sirish A., and Yoginder S. Dandass, "Scanning Workstation Memory for Malicious Codes using Dedicated Coprocessors"
Sirish Kondi is a Ph.D. student in computer science. Dr. Dandass is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
January 24, 2006:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu is co-author of the following paper accepted for the 7th PDSEC at the 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium to be held April 25-29, 2006, on Rhodes Island, Greece:
Carino, Ricolondo, Ioana Banicescu, Hyeona Lim, Neil Williams, and Kim Sengjai, "Simulation of a Hybrid Model for Image Denoising"
January 17, 2006:
Dr. Thomas Philip, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been selected as the Program Chair for the 19th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE) to be held at the Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas on November 13-15, 2006.
January 12, 2006:
The following article has been accepted for publication in a special issue of Electronic Transactions of Numerical Analysis:
Banicescu, Ioana, and Ricolindo Carino, "Addressing the Stochastic Nature of Scientific Computations via Dynamic Loop Scheduling"
Dr. Banicescu is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Ricolindo Carino is an assistant research professor at the Center for Computations Sciences (ERC).
January 12, 2006:
The following paper has been accepted for presentation at (and published in the proceedings of) the High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC 2006) of the 2006 Spring Simulation Multiconference to be held on April 2-6 in Huntsville, AL:
Ghafoor, Sheikh, Tomasz A. Haupt, Mahbubur Rashid, and Nisreen Ammari, "Impact of Malleable Jobs on System and Application Performance"Sheikh Ghafoor and Mahbubur Rashid are Ph.D. students in computer science. Nisreen Ammari is a Ph.D. student in computational engineernig. Dr. Haupt is an Associate Research Professor in the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems.
January 11, 2006:
The following paper has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 1st IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2006:
Schmidt, Greg, Dennis G. Brown, Erik B. Tomlin, J. Edward Swan II, and Yohan Baillot, "Toward Disambiguating Multiple Selections for Frustum-Based Pointing"
Dr. Swan is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The other authors are his former colleagues at the Naval Research Laboratory.
January 9, 2006:
Dr. Thomas Philip, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has learned that the following paper has been accepted for presentation at the ISCA 21st International Conference on Computers and their Applications (CATA-2006) to be held March 23-25 in Seattle, WA:
Shivakumar, Lokesh, and Thomas Philip, "A Bird's Eye view of Certain Elements of Science of Design Applicable to Software Systems"
Lokesh is a Ph.D. student in computer engineering.
January 9, 2006:
Dr. Jeff Carver and Ms. Lisa Henderson have been informed that the following paper has been accepted for the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training Conference:
"Viope as a Tool for Teaching Introductory Programming: An Empirical Investigation"
January 9, 2006:
Ms. Lashell Vaughn has been named a 2006 Distinguished Fellow of Engineering for the Bagley College of Engineering. Each year the college selects about 10 of its most accomplished graduates to be named Distinguished Fellow. Ms. Vaughn is a 1982 graduate of MSU, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science. She earned a Master of Science degree in information systems and telecommunications from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, in 1991. She began her career with Holiday Inns in 1983 and has 22 years of experience in the technological side of the hospitality industry. Ms. Vaughn is currently Vice-President of Hilton Information Technology Services and serves on the Advisory Board for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. We are honored to have her as one of our graduates.
January 9, 2006:
Each year, the Office of Research at MSU sponsors a Research Initiation Program to which new faculty may apply for funds that will help them to establish their research programs. These faculty members must compete with other talented faculty members for the funding available through this program; fewer than one third of the proposals were chosen this year. I am pleased to announce that two CSE faculty members are among those whose projects were selected for support.
Dr. Jeff Carver's project on "Improving Software Security through Error Abstraction" is being funded.
Dr. Ed Swan's project on "Depth Perception in Augmented Reality" is being funded.
December 9, 2005:
Dr. Jeff Carver, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, is a co-author of a paper that won the award for Best Paper by a Student-Led Author recently at Supercomputing 2005.
Hochstein, Lorin, Jeffrey Carver, Forrest Shull, Sima Asgari, Victor Basili, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, and Marv Zelkowitz, "HPC Programmer Productivity: A Cast Study of Novice HPC Programmers".
Lorin Hochstein is a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland. The other co-authors are faculty members and research staff at the University of Maryland who collaborate with Dr. Carver on research.
November 21, 2005:
Dr. Ed Swan, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has learned that the following paper has been accepted for the IEEE Virtual Reality conference to be held March 25-29 in Alexandria, VA:
J. Edward Swan II, Mark A. Livingston, Harvey S. Smallman, Dennis Brown, Yohan Baillot, Joseph L. Gabbard, Deborah Hix, "A Perceptual Matching Technique for Depth Judgments in Optical, See-Through Augmented Reality"
Dr. Swan wrote this paper with colleagues from the Naval Research Laboratory and Virginia Tech.
November 15, 2005:
Dr. Ray Vaughn (principal investigator) and Dr. David Dampier (co-principal investigator) have learned that their project "The Cyber Crime Center Initiative" is being funded by a $2.5M appropriation from Congress. This grant to the Center for Computer Security Research (CCSR) at MSU provides continued funding for a collaborative effort with Jackson State University, the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, and the FBI office serving the State of Mississippi. The Cyber Crime Center consists of a Forensics Training Center located on the MSU campus and a Mississippi Cyber Crime Task Force located in Jackson, MS. It provides support for training state and local law enforcement officials in counter-computer crime techniques, especially in the area of computer forensics.
November 15, 2005:
Karolina Sarnowska, a computer science and mathematics major, has been named the recipient of this year's Harry Charles Fleming Simrall Award for Engineering Excellence. This award, which honors the later Dr. Harry Simrall, former Dean of Engineering, is presented each year by the MSU Association of Retired Faculty to a student in the Bagley College of Engineering who has established an outstanding academic record and has demonstrated excellent leadership skills. Karolina has been active in the student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, which she currently serves as president. She has also served on the Engineering Student Council and is currently its vice-president. Karolina also serves as a Bagley Colege of Engineering Ambassador as well as a Computer Science and Engineering Ambassador. Karolina is a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon and was named this year's Outstanding Senior in computer science.
October 20, 2005:
The following article has been accepted for publication in the Electronic Transaction of Numerical Analysis - Special Issue on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (an issue dedicated to Alan George, an international recognized authority on research on numerical analysis):
Banicescu, Ioana, and Ricolindo Carino, "Addressing the Stochastic Nature of Scientific Computations via Dynamic Loop Scheduling"
Ioana Banicescu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engienering. Ricolindo Carino is an Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Computational Sciences - ERC.
October 20, 2005:
One of our alumni has contributed funds for a scholarship for a female graduate student in computer science. I am pleased to announce that Diana Chan has been selected as this year's recipient of this scholarship. Diana is currently working toward a Master of Science degree in computer science with a minor in statistics. She is working under the direction of Dr. Susan Bridges on the application of statistical and machine learning techniques to the identification of biomarkers in order to effectively classify bioinformatics data.
October 20, 2005:
The following paper has been accepted for the IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Acquistiion from Distributed, Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous Data and Knowledge Sources:
Hossain, Mahmood, Susan Bridges, Yong Wang, and Julia Hodges, "Combining Document Clusters Generated from Syntactic and Semantic Feature Sets Using Tree Combination Methods"
Mahmood Hossain is a Ph.D. student in computer science (working under the direction of Susan Bridges) and an instructor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). Dr. Bridges and Dr. Hodges are professors in the CSE Department. Dr. Wang completed his Ph.D. in computer science at MSU in August 2005 under the direction of Dr. Hodges.
October 14, 2005:
The following paper has been accepted for the 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Empirical Software Engienering to be held at Noosa Heads, Australia, on November 17-18:
Carver, Jeff, and Krystle Lemon, "Architecture Reading Techniques: A Feasibility Study"
Dr. Carver is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Krystle Lemon is a Ph.D. student in computer science.
October 12, 2005:
Byron Williams, an M.S. student in computer science, won the Bulldog Toastmasters' 2005 Showcase competition. Five members of the MSU chapter of Toastmasters International competed by preparing and delivering 15-minute presentations, and Byron's presentation was judged as the best. Byron is also serving as membership vice-president for the Bulldog Toastmasters.
An article about this award is available online here
September 21, 2005:
Robert Elliott, a Ph.D. student in the computer science, has been selected to be a member of the Southern Regional Education Board - Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoraite (SREB-AGEP) Doctoral Scholars Program for 2005-06. This program is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and is part of the Compact for Faculty Diversity, a nationwide initiative aimed at increasing the number of college faculty members from underrepresented groups. As part of his participation in this program, Robert will attend the 12th Annual Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute on Teaching and Mentoring on October 27-30 in Arlington, VA. Additional information about the SREB-AGEP Doctoral Scholars Program is available at www.sreb.org.
September 20, 2005:
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is pleased to announce its first class of student ambassadors who will help with student recruiting and other functions:
Karolina Sarnowska
Nathan Stokes
Kimberly Petty
BrianThomas
Josh Mabry
Amanda Knotts
Justin Head
Their first official function will be to help with Engineering Day, which will be held on campus this Saturday from 3:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Thanks to each of these students for agreeing to work with the department in this capacity.
September 16, 2005:
Yong Wang and Julia Hodges have been informed that their paper "Document Clustering with Semantic Analysis" has been accepted for presentation at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39) to be held in Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii on January 4-7, 2006.
Dr. Wang completed his Ph.D. in computer science in August 2005 under the direction of Dr. Hodges, who is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
September 9, 2005:
Dr. Jeff Carver has learned that the following paper has been accepted for the Empirical Software Engineering Latin American Workshop (ESELAW 2005) to be held at the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering:
"In-vitro Experimental Studies: An Approach Based on Genetic Algorithms"
Other authors of this paper are Rogerio Garcia, a visiting student from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil; and Jose Carolos Maldonado and Maria Cristina Ferreira do Oliveira from the University of Sao Paulo.
September 9, 2005:
Dr. David Dampier has been asked to serve on the program committee for the 9th World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology to be held in San Diego in June 2006.
September 9, 2005:
Dr. Ray Vaughn has agreed to serve as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Information Security Security (JISSec).
Dr. Vaughn has also agreed, at the invitation of the National Security Agency, to serve on the Program Committee for the International Colloquium on Information Systems Security Education (CISSE).
September 9, 2005:
Dear Engineering Faculty and Staff:
I am pleased to announce our four newest Hearin Eminent Scholars for the Bagley College of Engineering: Dr. Ioana Banicescu (CSE), Dr. Susan Bridges (CSE), Dr. Alan Greenwood (IE), and Dr. Rudy Rogers (ChE). The Hearin Eminent Scholar awards are made possible by a grant through the Hearin Foundation, which has been a very strong supporter of the Bagley College of Engineering for over a decade. In addition to the title of Hearin Eminent Scholar, awardees also receive an annual cash award in recognition of continuing excellence in research, teaching, and service.
These awards were made following nominations from Department Heads. Nominations included five-year averages demonstrating superior performance in the three main areas of faculty responsibility: research (external research grants, journal publications, graduate student supervision), teaching (student evaluation scores), and external service (leadership in national organizations). The final decision on the awards was made by the Dean of Engineering. A total of 10 faculty members are currently recognized as Hearin Eminent Scholars within the Bagley College of Engineering. In addition to the four new Hearin Eminent Scholars, six current faculty members also hold the title of Hearin Eminent Scholar: Dr. Louay Chamra (ME), Dr. Steve Daniewicz (ME), Dr. James Newman, Jr. (ASE), Dr. Nicholas Younan (ECE), Dr. Joe Picone (ECE), and Dr. Joe Thompson (ASE).
Please join me in congratulating Ioana, Susan, Alan, and Rudy on their accomplishments and recognition as Hearin Eminent Scholars! We will have a reception in their honor in the near future.
Regards,
Kirk.
August 31, 2005:
Dr. Susan Bridges, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has learned that the following presentation:
McCartyy, F.M., N. Wang, S.M. Bridges, and S.C. Burgess, "ChickGo Takes Flight"
and the following poster:
Bridges, S.M., F.M. McCarthy, D.S. Luthe, N. Wang, B. Nanduri, and S.C. Burgess, AgBase: Targeted Gene Ontology Annotation Database for Agriculture"
will be presented at the Fifth Annual Gene Ontology Users Meeting to be held September 14-15 in Bergen, Norway. Among the co-authors along with Dr. Bridges is Nan Wang, a Master's student in computer science.
August 22, 2005:
Zhen Liu and Dr. Susan Bridges have been notified that their poster entitled "Combining Static Analysis and Dynamic Learning to Build Context Sensitive Models of Program Behavior" has been accepted for presentation at the Eighth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, RAID 2005, to be held in Seattle, Washington on September 7 - 9.
August 22, 2005:
Ambareen Siraj, a PhD student in the CSE Department, has been informed that her poster session titled "A Cognitive Modeling Approach for Intelligent Alert Fusion in an Intrusion Detection Environment" has been accepted for presentation at the Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) 2005 Symposium. She will also present a talk to the attendees prior to the poster presentation.
August 22, 2005:
Dr. Ray Vaughn and Dr. David Dampier have learned that the National Science Foundation is funding their proposal "Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) - A Federal Cyber Service Training and Education Initiative". This award will provide continued funding for our highly successful scholarship program in the computer security area for an additional four years.
For more information about the Scholarship for Service program at MSU, see www.security.cse.msstate.edu/scholarships.shtml. Dr. Vaughn serves as the director of this program.
August 22, 2005:
Jaderick Pabico and Mahbubur Rashid, both of whom are Ph.D. students in computer science working with Dr. Ioana Banicescu's research group, have had their presentation on "Quantum Trajectories with Dynamic Loop Scheduling and Reinforcement Learning" accepted for poster presentation at the IEEE Confrence on Cluster Computing to be held in Boston on September 26-30. Their presentation will also appear as an extended abstract in the conference proceedings.
August 22, 2005:
Wei Li successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in computer science at MSU this summer and will officially graduate in December 2005.
August 22, 2005:
Dr. Rayford Vaughn and Dr. Wei Li have just learned that their paper on "Modeling and Simulating System Exploitations through Exploitation Graphs for Security Engineering" has been accepted for presentation at the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Dr. Vaughn and Mr. Robert Wesley McGrew have learned that their paper on "Experiences with Honeypot Systems: Development, Deployment, and Analysis" has also been accepted at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
This conference will be held in January 2006.
Dr. Vaughn is a Billie J. Ball Professor of Engineering, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the director of the Center for Computer Security Research.
Wesley McGrew is currently enrolled in the computer science Ph.D. program.
August 5, 2005:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, is one of the authors of the following journal paper:
Banicescu, Ioana, Ricolindo Carino, Jaderick Pabico, and Mahadevan Balasubramaniam, "Design and Implementation of a Novel Dynamic Load Balancing Library for Cluster Computing," Parallel Computing Journal, Vol. 31, No. 7, pp. 736-756.
Jaderick Pabico is a Ph.D. student in computer science. Mahadevan Balasubramaniam is a Ph.D. student at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Carino is an assistant research professor at the Center for Computational Sciences at the ERC.
August 5, 2005:
Dr. Jeff Carver, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been informed that the following paper has been accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering:
Shull, Forrest, Jeffrey Carver, Lorin Hochstein, and Victor Basili, "Empirical Study Design in the Area of High Performance Computing (HPC)"
This conference will be held on November 17-18, 2005, in Noosa Heads, Australia.
Forrest Shull is a Scientist at the Fraunhofer Center - Maryland, Lorin Hochstein is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, and Victor Basili is a professor at the University of Maryland.
August 4, 2005:
Chris Bogen and Dr. Dave Dampier have been notified that their paper entitled, "A Software Engineering Modeling Approach to Computer Forensics Examination Planning," has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of and presentation at the First International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering SADFE-2005 to be held in Taipei, Taiwan, on November 7-10, 2005.
Chris Bogen is a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science and Engineering Department and an employee at the Engineering Research Development Center in Vicksburg, MS. Dr. Dampier is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, the department's undergraduate coordinator, and director of the MSU Forensics Training Center.
August 4, 2005:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu, an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has learned that the following paper has been accepted for publication in the Scientific Programming journal:
Banicescu, Ioana, and Ricolindo Carino, "Vector Nonlinear Time-Series Analysis of Gamma-Ray Burst Datasets on Heterogeneous Clusters"
Her co-author, Dr. Carino, is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Computational Sciences at the ERC.
August 4, 2005:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu, an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, is one of the authors of a paper that has been accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the IEEE CLUSTER 2005 conference to be held in Boston, MA, on September 26-30:
Carino, Ricolindo, and Ioana Banicescu, "A Framework for Statistical Analysis of Datasets on Heterogeneous Clusters"
Dr. Carino is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Computational Sciences at the ERC.
August 4, 2005:
Dean Kirk Schulz of the Bagley College of Engineering has announced the appointment of five faculty in the college to endowed professorships. We are most pleased that one of those five is Dr. Rayford Vaughn of this department.
August 4, 2005:
Drs. Ray Vaughn, David Dampier, and Yoginder Dandass have received funding from the National Science foundation as a supplement to existing funding to allow them to collaborate in the area of computer forensics with researchers from Japan.
July 26, 2005:
Drs. Ray Vaughn and David Dampier have been notified by the National Security Agency that they have been awarded a one-year grant under the Information Assurance Scholarship Program. This grant will be used not only to fund scholarships for computer security students, but also to fund capacity building initiatives and a partnership managed by Dr. Dampier with the National Defense University.
July 19, 2005:
Dr. Jeff Carver has been notified that the following paper has been accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering - An International Journal:
Carver, J., F. Shull, and V. Basili, V. "Can Observational Techniques Help Novices Overcome the Software Inspection Learning Curve? An Empirical Investigation"
This paper reports on work that Dr. Carver has done with colleagues from the University of Maryland and the Fraunhofer Center.
July 19, 2005:
Today Dr. Rayford Vaughn was elected by the PI's on the National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarship for Service program to be the PI representative on the Interagency Coordinating Committee (ICC). The ICC is a high level government organization that oversees the Cyber Corps program for the US and consists of representatives from the White House, the Office of Personnel Management, the National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and many others. Dr. Vaughn is the first elected University PI to represent the many PIs across the country participating in this program.
July 19, 2005:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu has learned that the following paper has been accepted for presentation at and publication in the proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing to be held in Boston on September 27-30:
Banicescu, Ioana, and Ricolindo Carino, "A Framework for Statistical Analysis of Datasets on Heterogeneous Clusters"
Dr. Banicescu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Dr. Carino is an Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Computational Sciences at the ERC.
July 19, 2005:
Drs. T.J. Jankun-Kelly and J. Edward Swan II have been notified that their project "Acquisition of a Display wall for Human Systems Research and Biological Imaging" has been funded by the National Science Foundation. This grant will be used to construct a room-sized display in order to study the perceptual and cognitive aspects of such displays and to design appropriate user interfaces and interactions methods for them. To be housed in the Institute for Neurocognitive Science and Technology (INST), the equipment will contribute to provide graduates hands-on training in its use, capabilities, and limitations. The research training and outreach efforts utilizing the wall will educate students and the community in the technology and benefit the ongoing research efforts at the university.
Dr. Jankun-Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Dr. Swan is an Associate Professor.
July 12, 2005:
Dr. Jeff Carver has learned that a paper he co-authored with colleagues from universities in Maryland and Brazil has been accepted for publication in Empirical Software Engineering - An International Journal.
Maldonado, J., J. Carver, F. Shull, S. Fabbri, E. Doria, L. Martimiano, M. Mendonca, and V. Basili, "Perspective-Based Reading: A Replicated Experiment Focused on Individual Reviewer Effectiveness"
Dr. Carver is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
July 6, 2005:
Dr. Susan Bridges has been approved as a senior member of IEEE. Fewer than 8% of IEEE's members hold this grade of membership, which is a recognition of significant professional technical accomplishments.
July 6, 2005:
Dr. Jeff Carver, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been informed that the following paper has been accepted at SuperComputing 2005:
Lorin Hochstein, Jeff Carver, Forrest Shull, Sima Asgari, Victor Basili, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, and Marv Zelkowitz, "HPC Programmer Productivity: A Case Study of Novice HPC Programmers"
Dr. Carver's co-authors are project collaborators from the University of Maryland and the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering.
July 6, 2005:
Chris Bogen and Dr. David Dampier have been notified that their paper entitled "Preparing for Large-Scale Investigations with Case Domain Modeling" has been accepted for the 2005 Digital Forensics Research Workshop to be held in New Orleans on August 17-19, 2005.
Chris is a Ph.D. student in computer science. Dr. Dampier is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
June 28, 2005:
Dr. Ioana Banicescu, an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been named a senior member of IEEE. Fewer than 8% of IEEE's members hold this grade of membership. Senior members must have at least 10 years of experience, having shown significant professional accomplishments during at least 5 of those years.
June 28, 2005:
Dr. Donna Reese has been named a senior member of IEEE. Senior member status is reserved for those IEEE members who have been in professional practice for at least 10 years and have shown significant performance over at least 5 of those years. Dr. Reese is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Associate Dean of Engineering for Academics and Administration.
June 21, 2005:
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been awarded almost $1M in funding from the Department of Justice to establish a regional Cyber Crime Center at MSU and in Jackson, MS to support the training of state and local law enforcement officials in counter-computer crime techniques, particularly in the area of computer forensics. Dr. Ray Vaughn, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, is the Principal Investigator for this project and Dr. David Dampier, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, is the co-Principal Investigator. This effort represents a collaboration among the Center for Computer Security Research in the CSE Department, the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Mississippi, Jackson State University, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offices serving the State of Mississippi.
June 14, 2005:
Last night, Dr. Ray Vaughn was named the Academic of the Year at the 9th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE). Each year, CISSE recognizes an individual from government and an individual from academia who have made significant contributions within the computer security community. Dr. Vaughn spearheaded the successful effort to have MSU designated a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and coordinates a large computer security scholarship program that is a result of this designation.
June 14, 2005:
The paper "Automatic Selection of Loop Scheduling Algorithms Using Reinforcement Learning" by Sumithra Dhandayuthapani, Ioana Banicescu, Ricolindo Carino, Eric Hansen, Jaderick Pabico and Mahbubur Rashid has been accepted for presentation and publication in the Proceedings of the Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments to be held in conjunction with the IEEE 14th High Performance Distributed Computing Symposium on 24-27 July, 2005 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Sumithra Dhandayuthapani is an M.S. graduate of the CSE Department. Ricolindo Carino is an Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Computational Sciences - ERC. Ioana Banicescu and Eric Hansen are Associate Professors in the CSE Department. Jaderick Pabico and Mahbubur Rashid are Ph.D. students in the CSE dept.
June 7, 2005:
German Florez-Larrahondo, Susan Bridges, and Ray Vaughn have been notified that their paper "Efficient Modeling of Discrete Events for Anomaly Detection using Hidden Markov Models" has been accepted as a Student Paper for presentation at the 8th Information Security Conference (ISC'2005) to be held in Singapore on September 20-23.
German is a Ph.D. student in computer science who works under the direction of Dr. Bridges. He recently successfully defended his dissertation. Dr. Bridges and Dr. Vaughn are both Professors of Computer Science and Engineering.
May 31, 2005:
Surya Saha, Susan Bridges, and Dan Peterson have had their poster on "Advantages of Network-Based Approaches for the Phylogenetic Analysis of Intragenomic Repeat Regions" accepted for presentation as one of the Public Library of Science Computational Biology Late Breaking Posters at the annual meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology. This meeting will be held June 25-29 in Detroit.
Surya is a Ph.D. student in computer science. Dr. Bridges is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineeinig. Dr. Peterson is an assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences.
May 31, 2005:
Dr. Jeff Carver, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has had a paper accepted for presentation at and publication in the proceedings of the Joint 10th European Software Engineering Conference and 13th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2005).
L. Hochstein, V. Basili, M. Zelkowitz, J. Hollingsworth, and J. Carver, "Combining Self-Reported and Automatic Data to Improve Effort Measurement"
Dr. Carver's co-authors on this paper are his research colleagues from the University of Maryland and Fraunhofer Center.
May 24, 2005:
Dr. Edward Allen, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Dr. Julia Hodges, Professor and Head of Computer Science and Engineering, have been named Senior Members of IEEE. Fewer than 8% of IEEE's members hold this grade of membership, which, according to IEEE, is "a recognition of significant professional technical accomplishments".
May 24, 2005:
MSU will be initiating some multidisciplinary learning communities in the upcoming academic year. The Provost's Office called for proposals for such learning communities from across the campus. One of the proposals selected for support for the Spring 2006 semester is the "Learning Community for Functional Genomics and Systems Biology" that will be coordinated by Dr. Shane Burgess of the MSU Vet School, Dr. Susan Bridges of CSE, and Dr. Dawn Luthe of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.
This learning community is the only one among those for the Spring 2006 semester that will be a research-oriented learning community. It will explore the use of computational techniques for analyzing and understanding the function and expression of genes. Interested students should contact Dr. Bridges at bridges@cse.msstate.edu.
Congratulations to Dr. Bridges for being among those whose learning community proposals have been selected for support in 2005-06!
