[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on June 3, 2008 - 9:57am.
On May 29-30, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) organized the first "Outreach Roadshow Worskhop" at Google from support by the National Science Foundation.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on April 1, 2008 - 1:49pm.
Enis Afgan, a student in the CIS CCL lab, was selected to participate in the 2008 IPDPS TCPP Ph.D. Forum, the IEEE's flagship conference in parallel computation.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on March 27, 2008 - 11:25am.
Robert Smyly, a student at Mountain Brook High School, was awarded the Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award at the Central Alabama Regional Science Fair on March 8th, 2008.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on March 21, 2008 - 11:10am.
Lin Yang and Yu Sun recently won awards at UAB Graduate Research Days, held February 28, 2008.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on March 13, 2008 - 5:47pm.
On February 29th, the UAB ACM and the CIS department hosted CIS Jeopardy. This event is a game show style contest in which three teams of students and faculty compete against each other by answering computer science trivia questions.
[STORY] Submitted by
Fran Fabrizio on December 27, 2007 - 1:05pm.
Gary Warner is profiled by IDG for his work in fighting phishing scams and email spammers. Read
the full story at InfoWorld.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on December 14, 2007 - 1:52pm.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on November 27, 2007 - 2:09pm.
Four CIS students presented their research at the ACM MidSoutheast Conference in Gatlinburg, TN. Among these participants, two student presentations were selected to win top awards for their categories. This success also marks the fifth year in a row that a UAB CIS undergraduate placed in the top three for their category.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on October 29, 2007 - 8:11pm.
On October 13th the UAB CIS Competitive Programming teams placed 1st and 3rd at their contest site for the ACM International Computer Programming Competition, beating all other schools in Alabama and Mississippi and producing UAB's best-ever finish in the Southeast region overall.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on October 5, 2007 - 4:46pm.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Computer and Information Sciences department a three year research grant that will support the development of a comprehensive data and information management environment for microarray image analysis and microarray data mining from multi-modalities such as images and literatures.
[STORY] Submitted by
Fran Fabrizio on September 4, 2007 - 3:57pm.
The Department of Computer and Information Sciences is pleased to announce that its Bachelor of Science program has received accreditation from ABET (for more information, please see www.abet.org), the national accreditation organization for Engineering and Computer Science programs at the post-secondary level.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on August 31, 2007 - 12:39pm.
CIS doctoral student Vetria Byrd's research was recently featured in the Spring/Summer 2007 edition of the UAB Arts & Sciences magazine. Within the article "Future Tense: In Their Own Write- Student Stories", Vetria describes her research on microarray image analysis and her experience here in the CIS department.
The 2007 ACM Membership Drive is underway. The UAB Student Chapter of the ACM would like to invite all undergraduate and graduate students to join the group for the coming year. All leadership positions are open and we especially encourage undergraduates to join and run for the offices. Click for more details.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on August 9, 2007 - 4:14pm.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded another research grant to the CIS Department. This three year grant will support research into the analysis and refactoring of code clones, which presents a source of maintenance and evolution challenges.
Jeff Gray was
featured in the July 23, 2007 issue of the UAB Reporter. The article discusses Dr. Gray's recent CAREER award and his work in mentoring young students in computer science.
The UAB Reporter recently profiled Dr. Jeff Gray and discussed his recent CAREER award and outreach efforts.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on April 27, 2007 - 11:15am.
Dr. Jeff Gray has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award, which is presented annually to a selected number of faculty members at universities across the nation.
[STORY] Submitted by cisweb on April 18, 2007 - 11:14am.
Three papers authored by CIS faculty and students won awards in the IEEE Alabama Section 2005-2006 Prize Paper Competition. These winning papers obtained the three highest awards.
