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[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on June 5, 2009 - 1:19pm.
The Federal Trade Commission issued a press release yesterday regarding a "Notorious Rogue Internet Service Provider" that was shut down with the aid of researchers at UAB.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on May 1, 2009 - 1:48pm.
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. Highlights of the speech included:
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on April 22, 2009 - 9:01am.
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.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on April 15, 2009 - 9:09am.
The CIS Department will host its first Fulbright Student - Tomaž Lukman, a PhD student from the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tomaž will spend the 2009-2010 academic year collaborating with faculty and students in the SoftCom lab.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on April 14, 2009 - 12:54pm.
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.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on April 7, 2009 - 3:25pm.
Congratulations to Lin Yang, who won 2nd prize for his presentation 'Canonical View Selection for Tourist Attractions' at the 2009 UAB Graduate Research Days.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on April 6, 2009 - 9:06am.
On March 28th, 2009, UAB sent two teams to the BearingPoint Programming Competition: the UAB Drakes (Jeff Frees, Eric Frees, and Patrick Butler) and the UAB Hydras (Yu Chang, Robert Cloud, and Daniel Mondy).
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on April 2, 2009 - 1:55pm.
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.
[STORY] Submitted by Janet Tatum on April 2, 2009 - 10:29am.
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.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on March 16, 2009 - 9:14am.
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.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on March 13, 2009 - 10:05am.
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.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on March 11, 2009 - 10:06am.
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.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on February 26, 2009 - 4:15pm.
The Cookout/Volleyball Game scheduled for Wednesday, March 4th has been canceled. The event will be rescheduled later this semester.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on February 23, 2009 - 3:37pm.
Enis Afgan, a Ph.D. candidate in the Collaborative Computing Lab at UAB Computer and Information Sciences department, won an award for best oral presentation at MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society Conference (MCBIOS 2009) in Starkville, MS for his talk titled: "A framework for efficient execution of bioinformatics applications across the grid".
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on January 6, 2009 - 2:32pm.
UAB CIS has been invited as one of a handful of international beta testers for the new Alice 3.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on December 29, 2008 - 12:11pm.
According to a survey conducted by career website Jobfox, the 25 most recession-proof jobs include several technology-focused career paths.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on December 16, 2008 - 11:22am.
Two students from the UAB Computer and Information Sciences department won awards for their research at the 2008 ACM MidSoutheast conference in Gatlinburg, TN.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on November 26, 2008 - 4:21pm.
Three computer scientists have been named the Professors of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Jeff Gray of the UAB Computer and Information Sciences Department was among the recipients of the award, which is co-sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) with corporate support from TIAA/CREF.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on November 24, 2008 - 9:58am.
On October 25th, 2008, the UAB Drakes (Yu Chang, Dan Mondy, Robert Cloud) and the UAB Hydras (Jeff Frees, Eric Frees, Patrick Butler) both delivered record-breaking performances at the regional ACM Programming Competition.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on November 20, 2008 - 9:47am.
Associate Professor Jeff Gray has been named the 2008 Alabama Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and is in Washington, DC to receive the award today.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on November 19, 2008 - 5:35pm.
Three UAB Computer and Information Sciences students were awarded scholarships to attend the 2008 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference at the Keystone Resort, in Colorado (October 1-4, 2008).
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on October 15, 2008 - 8:23am.
The UAB Blazer BEST Robotics competition was held on October 11th, 2008, at the Bartow Arena. The event brought 23 schools to the UAB campus to participate in various events.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on October 13, 2008 - 8:50am.
CIS Associate Professor Jeff Gray will serve as an editor for the Software and Systems Modeling (SoSym) journal, which is published by Springer
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on September 22, 2008 - 8:35am.
Ritu Arora, Ph.D Candidate in the department of Computer and Information Sciences, has been selected to participate in the SC08 under the Broader Engagement Program.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on September 10, 2008 - 2:15pm.
Lin Yang, 3rd year CIS PhD student, was offered a 3-month summer internship at Google Research Labs and spent the past summer working with the Geo group under the supervision of Dr. Xiaqing (James) Wu, UAB CIS PhD alum and former student of Prof. Johnstone.
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