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On October 29th, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock sent a message from a computer at UCLA to a Stanford research lab, representing the birth of the ARPANET, the Internet's direct ancestor.

All CIS Majors are encouraged to pick up a 300++ T Shirt in CH 115. The CIS Department is pleased to announce we reached more than 300 majors during fall term 2009.

The CIS department launched their new website on October 25th, 2009.

The average starting salary for CS graduates in summer 2009 is $61,407, according to a new report published by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

President Garrison highlighted Gary Warner's Computer Forensics research earlier this summer in her periodic message to the University.

Computer Forensics student and analyst Brian Tanner was asked for his input about a new Facebook virus circulating the Internet, and helps illuminate how to identify it.

In an address to the National Academy of Science's annual meeting this week, President Obama outlined several new federal initiatives related to scientific research and education.

Three CIS graduate students, Ritu Arora, Zekai Demirezen and Yu Sun, and their PDA Docter project are featured in the Birmingham News. The project aims to use PDAs as mobile medical diagnostic tools for use in poor, rural areas of the world.The three formed a competition team, called Arora Borealis, and are currently national finalists in the Microsoft Imagine Cup.

Congratulations to Richa Tiwari, who won 2nd prize for her research work/presentation on 'Extracting Co-expression Relation between Genes Using Grammatical Parsing' at the 86th annual meeting of The Alabama Academy of Science.

Congratulations to Lin Yang, who won 2nd prize for his presentation 'Canonical View Selection for Tourist Attractions' at the 2009 UAB Graduate Research Days.

Software services added more jobs than any other US high-tech sector last year. And the technology industry in general continued to expand for the fourth year running, despite the slowing economy. According to TechAmerica's annual Cyberstates report, the US technology industry added 77,000 net jobs last year, expanding to 5.9 million workers. That compares with job gains of 79,600 in 2007, 139,000 in 2006, and 87,400 in 2005.

Please join us for the spring 2009 CS Department appreciation lunch for CS scholars and adult returning students. The event will be held on Wednesday, April 8th, 11:30 am in the Henley room located on second floor of Sterne Library.

Robert Smyly and Oliver White, both Seniors at Mountain Brook High School, were awarded 3rd Place Overall/Team at the 2009 Central Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair, held at UAB on March 7, 2009.

A UAB team consisting of Ritu Arora, Yu Sun, and Zekai Demirezen has won the semifinals of the Imagine Cup Software Design Challenge. They will compete in the Finals in Cambridge, MA in early May.

The CIS IT staff has launched a new service called the CIS Account Verification (cisv) tool. This tool allows users to quickly determine the status their CIS accounts using their BlazerID credentials.


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