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".
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."
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.
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.
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.
