COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT NEWS
- Department Opens Search for Tenure Track Faculty
- UNCG computer science students finish strong at area competition
- Book Published
- New Department Head Joins UNCG
- Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007
- Award for Best IMUAI Journal Article
- International Conference on Interdisciplinary Mathematical & Statistical Techniques
- Algorithmic Combinatorics on Words
- Guest Lecturing in Tarragona, Spain
- Agreement For IT Security Development and Licensing
- Computer Scientists and Database Administrators Job Outlook Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 Edition, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Department Opens Search for Tenure Track Faculty
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) seeks applications for an open rank position in the Department of Computer Science. Our preference is for a full professor, although exceptional candidates at other levels will be considered. Preferred research areas are those that build in our existing areas of strength, which include artificial intelligence, databases and data mining, foundations of computer science, human-computer interaction, networking, and security. We are particularly interested in candidates that can pursue interdisciplinary research and applications in the natural and life sciences. Experience mentoring graduate students at all levels is a plus.
Click here for full job announcement.
UNCG computer science students finish strong at area competition
UNCG computer science students finish strong at the Spring 2008 Triad Programming Contest. The contest was held Saturday, April 5th on the North Carolina A&T State University campus. The event provides a forum for computer science students to test their programming skills against students from nearby colleges and universities.
UNCG entered three out of the fourteen total teams that participated, placing second, fifth and sixth overall. Congratulations to Logan Cain, Chris Holmes and Adam Petaccia for their strong second place finish. Other teams include Bobby Morrow and Alexy Bogaevsky (5th place) and Sam Tyler, Lance Everhart, and Zach Morgan (6th place). Students interested in competing in future programming events should contact Lydia K Fritz at lkfritz@uncg.edu.
Book Published
F. Blanchet-Sadri, ALGORITHMIC COMBINATORICS ON PARTIAL WORDS, Chapman & Hall/ CRC Press (2007).
New Department Head Joins UNCG
The beginning of the 2007-2008 academic year sees the arrival of the Computer Science Department's first regular department head. Dr. Steve Tate comes to UNCG from the University of North Texas, where he was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Director of the Center for Information and Computer Security. Since the establishment of the UNCG Department of Computer Science in July 2006 it has been led by Dr. Bob Miller as Interim Head, who led the search that resulted in the hiring of Dr. Tate. According to Tate, "The Department could not have had a better start than to have Bob Miller at the helm. Dr. Miller has a long and distinguished history with UNCG, having been the founding Dean of the College of Arts and Science, and having had a hand in many initiatives that make UNCG the great institution that it is now. I am very fortunate to be inheriting a department that was started on the right track by such an experienced and knowledgeable person."
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007
Dr. Shan Suthaharan from the department attended the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2007, held July 15-17 in Redmond, WA. Dr. Suthaharan was invited to the eighth annual Microsoft Faculty Summit, along with 400 influential thought leaders from academia, government, and Microsoft to exchange views regarding the present and future challenges met by the computing community, as well as the opportunities that arise for research and development.
Click this link if you would like to learn more about the issues discussed in this year's conference.
Award for Best IMUAI Journal Article
The following paper co-authored by Nancy Green received the 2006 James Chen Award for Best UMUAI Journal Article: "A Model of Perceptual Task Effort for Bar Charts and its Role in Recognizing Intention," by S. Elzer, N. Green, S. Carberry, and James Hoffman. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 16(1):1-30, March 2006.
UNCG Establishes New Computer Science Department
Recognizing the unique needs of a fast-growing, rapidly evolving field, UNCG establishes a Computer Science Department. Effective July 1, 2006 two separate departments were formed – a Department of Mathematics and Statistics and a Department of Computer Science.
“As computer science matured as a separate discipline, it diverged more and more from mathematics,” Dr. Timothy Johnston, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said. “And as our computer science division grew and its research base strengthened, it became clear that we should move to establish a separate department.”
Click here for more details on the departmental split of Mathematical Sciences.
International Conference on Interdisciplinary Mathematical & Statistical Techniques
Several faculty members from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and from the Department of Computer Science are involved in this important international conference to be held in Portugal during September 1-4, 2006. Sat Gupta is Co-Chair of the conference. Francine Blanchet-Sadri is one of the plenary speakers and is also organizing and chairing a session on Semigroups and Languages. Jan Rychtar is organizing and chairing two sessions on Undergraduate Research in Interdisciplinary Mathematics.
This is an annual conference and typically draws about 300 delegates from all over the world. For more information please visit the conference website at http://scra2006.southalabama.edu/
Algorithmic Combinatorics on Words
The three-year “Research Experiences for
Undergraduates (REU)” project entitled Algorithmic Combinatorics
on Words continues in its second year this summer. The project involves students
in research at the crossroads between Mathematics and Computer Science. Professor
Francine Blanchet-Sadri
directs this National Science Foundation REU Program.
A first objective of this interdisciplinary project is to investigate challenging problems
related in particular to coding, primitivity testing, and computing periods in partial words,
or strings that may contain a number of “do not know” symbols. Research in combinatorics
on partial words has the potential for impacts in numerous areas, notably in molecular biology,
nano-technology, and DNA computing.
Two types of research opportunities will be provided:
1. computer related research, with students writing programs to perform
experiments on partial words and implementing algorithms
2. combinatorics related research, with students investigating properties
on partial words to generate conjectures
Click here for further details and student application form.
Applications for the Summer 2006 program are welcome until March 1, 2006.
Guest Lecturing in Tarragona, Spain
Professor Francine Blanchet-Sadri of the UNCG Computer Science department will be lecturing on May 12-13, 2006 in Tarragona, Spain. These 10-hour invited lectures relate to a postgraduate course of the 5th International Ph.D. School in Formal Languages and Applications.
Agreement For IT Security Development and Licensing
UNCG, Live Cargo Inc. Sign Agreement For IT Security Development and Licensing - Unique and proprietary key generation algorithm developed by Dr. Shan Suthaharan, of the UNCG Computer Science department. Click here for full story.