News
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