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Dr. Ragib Hasan, an assistant professor in the UAB Department of Computer and Information Sciences, has received a Google Research Award for his proposal entitled "Secure Location Provenance for Moblie Devices".
Submitted by jfrees on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 12:40pm
According to NetworkWorld.com Computer Science majors are on the rise:
"The nation's best undergraduate computer science programs are bracing for a record number of applications this fall, as more high school seniors are lured by plentiful jobs, six-figure starting salaries and a hipster image fostered by the likes of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.
Early admissions are piling up at elite tech schools, including Carnegie Mellon University, Harvey Mudd College and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology - all of whose undergraduate computer science and engineering programs are rated tops by U.S. News & World Report, the de facto college ranking in the United States."
Submitted by samc on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 2:23pm
ACM-W provides support for women in Computer Science at both the graduate and undergraduate levels to attend research conferences. This is the second time one of our graduate students gets this scholarship.
Submitted by solorio on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 10:59am
Six Estonian cyber criminals have been arrested after infecting more than 4 million computers world-wide with their malware. UAB was thanked by the FBI for their support in this investigation at a press conference in Washington DC on November 9, 2011.
Submitted by gar on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 12:28pm
Programming teams from the University of Alabama at Birmingham finished 1st and 2nd at the University of West Florida subregional of the International Collegiate Programming Contest.
Submitted by jfrees on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:45am
Richa Tiwari, a PhD student of the KDDM lab has been awarded a travel grant to attend MediaEval 2011 Workshop in Pisa, Italy. MediEval workshop is an official satellite event of the conference Interspeech 2011 http://www.interspeech2011.org/.
In total, there were three students who have been awarded this travel grant from a worldwide application pool.The travel grant covers her travel costs and also her workshop registration.
Submitted by zhang on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 3:56pm
Gabriela Ramirez, a PhD student member of the NLP lab has been awarded a full CONACyT fellowship to support her graduate studies. As part of this fellowship Gabriela will receive full tuition, health insurance and a stipend.
Congratulations Gaby!
Submitted by solorio on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:44pm
Several media outlets have recently covered a paper written by one of our newest faculty members, Dr. Ragib Hasan. On July 5, 2011 the MIT Technology Review covered Dr. Hasan's paper in a post on their website (www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26962/). The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) also published an article on their "News in Science" section yesterday titled "Modern computers create wasted data" that covers Dr. Hasan's paper.
Submitted by samc on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:49pm
The Master of Science in Computer Forensics and Security Management (MSCFSM) is an interdisciplinary professional/practice graduate program involving faculty from the Departments of Computer & Information Sciences, Justice Sciences, Management, Information Systems, and Quantitative Methods, and Accounting & Finance.
Submitted by samc on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 9:22am
Gary Warner was invited to Spain by BBVA to address a special meeting on fighting organized technology crime at the Center for Research in Technological Risk Management ("Centro de Investigacion para la Gestion Tecnologica del Riesgo") at the University of Rey Juan Carlos.
Submitted by gar on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 10:23am
Gary Warner was one of four witnesses called to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, chaired by Alabama Congressmane Spencer Bachus. The hearing was called "Hacked Off: Helping Law Enforcement Protect Personal Financial Information".
Submitted by gar on Mon, 07/04/2011 - 10:03am
When Keila Fong arrived at Yale, she had never given much thought to computer science. But then last year everyone on campus started talking about the film “The Social Network,” and she began to imagine herself building something and starting a business that maybe, just maybe, could become the next Facebook.
Submitted by samc on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:57am
Recent University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate Holly Williams has received a summer research fellowship at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Williams, who earned a bachelor’s degree in computer and information science, will work with a research mentor on a parallel-computing project that focuses on performance analysis. She is a native of McIntosh, Ala.
Submitted by cisweb on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 3:33pm
Yu Sun, a PhD student in the SoftCom lab, recently participated in the ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering) qualifier for the ACM Student Research Competition. From among over 60 submissions, Yu's work was selected as one of the 16 accepted posters. From the 16 participants, Yu was invited to the finals of the presentation round, where he finished in the top-five.
Submitted by jfrees on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 7:53am
UAB CIS will offer CS 491/591Special Topics in Software Engineering and Information Technology in China. The course will be held at Tsinghua University in Beijing from May 10-27, 2011.
Submitted by cisweb on Wed, 02/23/2011 - 9:28am
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