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• UAB CIS Students Continue Success at ACM Mid-Southeast Conference
  Posted on Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
  On November 17th, CIS student research projects were evaluated very favorably at the 2006 ACM Mid-Southeast conference held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
  
  
• CIS Seminar Series (Dec. 1st): a) A Universal (Time-Independent) Security-Meter Design to Quantify Risk and b) A Time-Dependent Stochastic Model to Quantify Lack of Privacy
  Posted on Monday, November 27th, 2006
  One can evaluate risk using a probabilistically accurate estimation scheme in a quantitative security-meter model that will mimic the actual events. An empirical study is presented and verified by Discrete Event and Monte Carlo simulations.
  
  
• CIS Seminar Series (Nov. 29th): Scalable Performance Measurement and Analysis
  Posted on Saturday, November 25th, 2006
  Node counts of high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to rise, achieving good performance for scientific applications on high end systems is growing more challenging due to enormous system scale, increasing architectural complexity, and increa
  
  
• CIS Seminar Series (Nov. 20th): The AMMA Model Engineering Framework
  Posted on Friday, November 17th, 2006
  Traditional software development techniques generally involve programmers writing source code of a system from a specification including models. These models are often drawings that cannot be automatically processed.
  
  
• CIS Seminar Series (Nov. 1st): The Loci Rule-Based Framework for Scalable Multiphysics Simulation
  Posted on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
  In this talk we will present the Loci Framework. The Loci framework is a rule-based simulation system that is used to synthesis multiphysics applications.
  
  
• CIS Seminar Series (Oct. 23th): Visualization of Real-Time, Geospatial Information for Hospitals
  Posted on Monday, October 16th, 2006
  Hospital environments are dynamic, often chaotic environments where information flow is a matter of life and death, and communication is central to providing a high quality of care and an efficient work environment.
  
  
• CIS Seminar Series (Oct. 20th): Anonymity in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  Posted on Monday, October 16th, 2006
  Anonymity issue in mobile ad hoc networks has new semantics including network topology, active routes, and the motion patterns, in addition to traditional identity, message and location privacy.
  
  
• SoftCom Members Have Strong Presence at OOPSLA
  Posted on Monday, October 16th, 2006
  Several of the members of the SoftCom lab will be very active at OOPSLA (Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications), which is the premier conference on object-oriented technology.
  
  
• An Introduction to Alice at Gardendale High School
  Posted on Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
  The Technology Club at Gardendale High School, which is sponsored by faculty member Juanita Vann, has invited Dr. Jeff Gray to conduct a series of talks to the club members.
  
  
• Orientation Seminar for Graduate Students Slides Available
  Posted on Thursday, September 14th, 2006
  On August 23, 2006, an orientation seminar was given by Prof. Johnstone to CIS graduate students. Students who could not make this seminar are asked to please look through the Powerpoint slides for this lecture.
  
  
• Urban Reversi at Sidewalk Film Festival
  Posted on Thursday, September 14th, 2006
  Next weekend, during the Sidewalk Film Festival (September 23rd), the UAB Game Developers Club along with TechBirmingham are going to be running an urban reversi game, and have invited CIS to form a team to compete. Registration to play is free.
  
  
• Department BBQ Announced
  Posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006
  The fall CIS BBQ will be held Wednesday, September 27th and is open to all CIS students, faculty and staff. Please join us for lunch and a fun social event with your fellow CIS members!
  
  
• Microsoft Seminar Series (Sep. 18th): Campus Connection Event at UAB CIS
  Posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006
  Join behind-the-scenes Microsoft experts to gain useful technology insights and see sneak peeks of new products through the Microsoft Campus Connection seminar series.
  
  
• CIS Hosts First K-12 Computer Science Workshop
  Posted on Thursday, September 7th, 2006
  On July 31, the CIS department hosted the first workshop within Alabama focused on issues of teaching computing within K-12. The workshop was attended by 16 participants from 7 different schools.
  
  
• UAB CRA-W (Sep. 8th): Distinguished Lecture Series and Recruitment Events
  Posted on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
  The Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) at UAB will be hosting the 2006 CRA-W (Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research) Distinguished Lecture Series and Recruitment Events.
  
  
• CIS Seminar Series (Sep. 8th): Mining Patterns from Protein Structures
  Posted on Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
  One of the next great frontiers in molecular biology is to understand, and predict protein function.
  
  
• CIS Seminar Series (Sep. 6th): Mining microarray expression data: a case study with metabolic pathways
  Posted on Monday, August 28th, 2006
  Patterns of co-expression can reveal networks of functionally-related genes and provide deeper understanding of processes involving multiple gene products.
  
  
• Fultondale High School Field Trip Visit to CIS
  Posted on Sunday, August 27th, 2006
  On September 15th, Suellen Edmondson from Fultondale High School will bring several of her Junior and Senior students to UAB. The field trip to the CIS department will be filled with a morning of various talks and computing activities.
  
  
• 2006-07 CS Scholars Announced!
  Posted on Friday, August 25th, 2006
  The department would like to congratulate all winners of the 2006-07 scholarships and awards. Please join us in congratulating them on their achievement. Click for full listing of award winners.
  
  
• BarCampBirmingham coming August 25-26
  Posted on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
  A group of area tech enthusiasts are organizing our very own BarCamp in Birmingham. A BarCamp is a very loosely structured conference, driven by participants.
  
  
• Joyce Iannuzzi Endowed Scholarship for Computer Science Majors
  Posted on Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
  This scholarship was made available through gifts in honor of Mrs. Iannuzzi's long-time employment with the UAB University Computer Center.
  
  
• Alabama Teacher of the Year Visits CIS
  Posted on Friday, June 9th, 2006
  Cameron McKinley, the 2006-2007 Alabama Teacher of the Year, recently visited the CIS Department. Cameron is an elementary school Integrated Technology teacher at Riverchase Elementary School in the Hoover City school system.
  
  
• Assistant Professor Chengcui Zhang Awarded an IBM UIMA Grant
  Posted on Monday, June 5th, 2006
  Assistant Professor Chengcui Zhang has been awarded an UIMA (Unstructured Information Analysis and Search) Grant from IBM for her proposal entitled "imArray - An Integrated Data Management and Data Mining System for Microarray Data Analysis."
  
  
• Second Annual Alabama High School Programming Contest a Big Success!
  Posted on Monday, May 22nd, 2006
  On May 13th, UAB CIS hosted its second state-wide programming contest for high school students, bringing together 40 students from 11 high schools throughout the state for a day filled with various activities.
  
  
• CIS Intern Wins Six Awards at High School Science Fairs
  Posted on Monday, April 17th, 2006
  Jerrod Sutton, a senior at Mountain Brook High School, recently won six awards at area science fairs. Jerrod has been working with Assistant Professor Jeff Gray and will be a freshmen at UAB in the CIS department this fall.
  
  
• Resume Writing Seminar
  Posted on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
  There will be a free resume writing seminar immediately after the CS Jeopardy event on Wednesday April 12th. The seminar will be in the CIS conference room, CH132. Lunch will be provided. Space is limited, click for reservation details.
  
  
• CS Jeopardy - NEW TIME AND ROOM
  Posted on Friday, April 7th, 2006
  Come and watch students and faculty battle it out!
  
  
• CS Cookout and Volleyball Game
  Posted on Monday, April 3rd, 2006
  CS cookout and volleyball game for CS majors, faculty, and staff
  
  
• Wei-bang Chen Wins First Place in AAS Student Research Paper Competition
  Posted on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
  Wei-bang Chen wins the first place in the Student Research Paper Competition Award (Section X, Engineering and Computer Science) in the 83rd Anuual Meeting of Alabama Academy of Science.
  
  
• PhD Candidate Francisco Hernandez Wins Graduate Student Award
  Posted on Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
  Congratulations to Francisco Hernandez for winning the 2006 Samuel B. Barker Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies! This will be awarded at Spring Convocation.
  
  
• CIS Department Receives National Exposure for Outreach Efforts
  Posted on Friday, March 3rd, 2006
  The first issue of Addison-Wesley's "the Loop" contains a feature article on the CIS department's high school outreach efforts.
  
  
• Cybercrime and Computer Forensics
  Posted on Monday, February 27th, 2006
  The ACM, AITP, and CJSO present Cybercrime and Computer Forensics Expert Gary Warner.
  
  
• SoftCom Researchers Author Cover Feature in IEEE Computer
  Posted on Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
  Three SoftCom members from the UAB CIS department have authored an invited paper to appear as the cover feature for the February 2006 issue of IEEE Computer, which is the Computer Society's flagship publication.
  
  
• Assistant Professor Chengcui Zhang Wins UAB ADVANCE Junior Faculty Research Awards
  Posted on Thursday, December 8th, 2005
  UAB CIS Assistant Professor Chengcui Zhang has been offered a UAB ADVANCE Junior Faculty Research Award.
  
  
• CIS Students Win Record Number of First Place Awards in Student Regional Research Competition
  Posted on Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
  On November 11th, CIS student research projects were evaluated very favorably at the 2005 ACM MidSoutheast conference held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Our students achieved a record three 1st place finishes by a single school. Click for details.
  
  
• Students from CCL Group have been selected as Student Volunteers at SC|05
  Posted on Monday, October 24th, 2005
  Three students from the CCL Group have been selected as Student Volunteers at Supercomputing 2005.
  
  
• Xin Chen Wins First Place in Student Research Award Competition
  Posted on Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
  CIS graduate student Xin Chen won the first place prize in the Student Research Award Competition at the 82nd Anuual Meeting of Alabama Academy of Science!
  
  
• CIS competes in ACM Southeastern Programming Contest!
  Posted on Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
  On Saturday, October 14, our 2 ACM Programming Teams competed at the ACM Southeastern Programming Contest. Both teams ranked ahead of all other Alabama teams so the Hydras won the informal Alabama state championship!
  
  
• CS Tutoring Schedule is posted
  Posted on Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
  Please see the schedule for Fall 2005 at http://www.cis.uab.edu/students/tutoring.php.
  
  
• Major Field Test Registration Deadline October 17
  Posted on Friday, September 2nd, 2005
  The Major Field Test (MFT) is scheduled at 10:00 am Saturday, November 12. Deadline for registration is October 17. For more information, contact John Faulkner at faulknej@cis.uab.edu.
  
  
• Congratulations to CS scholarship recipients for 2005-06!
  Posted on Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
  Gina Fowler and Bob Robertson were awarded the Joseph Fontana Scholarship. The Computer Science Engineering Math (CSEMS) scholarship was awarded to Johnelton Cobb, Jeff DeGarmo, Anne Irwin, Ben McBride, Jamika Sellers and Shekera Stanley.
  
  
• Softcom Students Have a Strong Presence at Top Conferences
  Posted on Monday, August 15th, 2005
  The doctoral students from the Softcom lab will have a strong presence at two top conferences in software engineering and programming languages this fall.
  
  
• Assistant Professor Jeff Gray Receives NSF Award
  Posted on Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
  UAB CIS Assistant Professor Jeff Gray has been awarded a collaborative NSF grant totaling $377,000 (NSF CSR-SMA-#0509342).
  
  
• Wei Zhao Receives Student Travel Award
  Posted on Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
  Ph. D. Candidate Wei Zhao is one of 3 students world-wide to receive a Student Travel Award to attend the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005).
  
  
• Dr. Bryant re-elected as Chair of ACM Special Interest Group
  Posted on Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
  Dr. Barrett Bryant has been re-elected for a second term as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). Dr. Bryant has served as SIGAPP Chair since July 1, 2003, and his second term will continue until June 30, 2007.
  
  
• Assistant Professor Chengcui Zhang Awarded a Faculty Development Grant
  Posted on Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
  Assistant Professor Chengcui Zhang has been awarded a Faculty Development Grant for her proposal entitled "Information Mining and Management for Intelligent Transportation Systems."
  
  
• First Annual Alabama High School Programming Contest A Huge Success!
  Posted on Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
  The UAB Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) department hosted their first annual high school programming competition on May 7, 2005. Congrats to 1st place Scott Goodfriend (Alabama School of Math and Science) and all of the winners!
  
  
• CIS Department ACM Programming Contest Qualifier
  Posted on Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
  The department is holding the local ACM Programming Contest qualifier on Saturday, May 21st. The results of this qualifier will be used to help determine who represents us at the regional competition in Florida.
  
  
• Fontana Scholarship application deadline extended
  Posted on Sunday, April 10th, 2005
  Applications for the Joseph Fontana scholarship 2005-06 are now being accepted thru April 15, 2005. Applications should be submitted to John Faulkner, Campbell Hall, Room 118. More information can be found at: http://www.cis.uab.edu/undergrad/scholarship
  
  
• Several CIS Students Win Awards at UAB Grad Student Research Day
  Posted on Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
  Ying Liu, Leonard Jowers, Jing Zhang, Suman RoyChoudhury, Yin Liu, Xiaoqing Wu, Vijay Velusamy and Wei Zhao were among the winners at this year's UAB Graduate Student Research Day! Click for more info....
  
  
• Alabama IEEE Awards Two CIS Authors with a Best Paper Prize
  Posted on Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
  The Alabama IEEE awarded two separate "Best Paper of the Year" prizes to papers that were authored by CIS members Jeff Gray and Suman Roychoudhury.
  
  
• Major Field Test (MFT) Date announced for CS405, CS440, CS442 Students
  Posted on Monday, March 7th, 2005
  The Major Field Test (MFT) is scheduled for Saturday, April 16, 10 am - 12:00 noon in CH 145. CS majors currently enrolled in CS 405, CS 440, and CS 442 should take the MFT. Click for registration information.
  
  
• UAB CIS Outreach Effort at Birmingham Parent's Fair
  Posted on Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
  The department recently participated in the Birmingham Parent's Fair. Students and faculty from the SoftCom lab were on hand to demonstrate the robotics projects that are a part of a summer internship for high school students.
  
  
• 2005 CS Summer Camp Announced
  Posted on Friday, February 18th, 2005
  Computer Science Camp 2005 has been announced: June 27 to July 1, 2005. The camp is designed to introduce high school students to computer science at a deeper level than they may have seen before. It is taught by two professors in our department. For
  
  
• Assistant Professor Jeff Gray Awarded an IBM Eclipse Innovation Grant
  Posted on Monday, February 14th, 2005
  UAB CIS Assistant Professor Jeff Gray has been awarded an Eclipse Innovation Grant (EIG) from IBM for his proposal entitled "Grammar-Driven Domain-Specific Language Tools."
  
  
• Department to host programming contest for Alabama High School students
  Posted on Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
  The inaugural Alabama High School Programming Contest has been announced! On Saturday, May 7th, 2005, high school students from around the state will assemble in CIS for the first installment of this annual event.
  
  
• CS Department Back to School Lunch
  Posted on Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
  You are invited to attend the CS Department Back to School Lunch on Wednesday, January 26th from 11:00 -1:00.
  
  
• Joseph Fontana Scholarship 2005-06
  Posted on Thursday, January 6th, 2005
  Applications for the Joseph Fontana scholarship 2005-06 are being accepted thru March 31, 2005. Applications should be submitted to John Faulkner, Campbell Hall, Room 118.
  
  
• New Masters Degree Specializations Announced
  Posted on Thursday, December 16th, 2004
  Two new master's specializations are available: Parallel and Distributed Computing and Software Engineering.
  
  
• CIS Seniors honored for Outstanding Undergraduate Award
  Posted on Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
  CIS Seniors Matthew Curry and Najaf Shah have been selected for Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award for 2005!
  
  
• UAB Receives Three Awards at ACM Midsoutheast
  Posted on Monday, November 22nd, 2004
  Four UAB students (Enis Afgan, Xin Chen, Matthew Curry, and Victoria Davis) recently presented their research at the ACM Midsoutheast conference. Our students were awarded with three honors!
  
  
• Assistant Professor Chengcui Zhang Wins UAB Junior Faculty Award
  Posted on Friday, November 5th, 2004
  UAB CIS Assistant Professor Chengcui Zhang has been offered a UAB ADVANCE Junior Faculty Research Award for her research entitled "Object-based Image Data Mining Using Multiple Instance Learning and Relevance Feedback".
  
  
• CIS has their best-ever performance at ACM programming contest
  Posted on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
  CIS sent three teams to the ACM Southeast US Programming Contest, which was held October 23 in Melbourne, Florida. Our teams fought valiantly and until the end, collectively achieving the best performance in UAB
  
  
• Assistant Professor Jeff Gray Contributes Chapter to New Book
  Posted on Monday, October 25th, 2004
  Dr. Gray contributed a chapter entitled "Two-Level Aspect Weaving to Support Evolution in Model-Driven Synthesis" to the new book "Aspect-Oriented Software Development" that was published this month by Addison-Wesley.
  
  
• CIS students visit Honda Manufacturing of Alabama
  Posted on Monday, October 25th, 2004
  On Friday, Oct 22nd, CIS students visited Honda Manufacturing of America's assembly plant in Lincoln, AL, site of production for Honda Odyssey and Pilot vehicles as well as Honda's largest engine. Students got a first-hand look at the IT operation at th
  
  
• CIS PhD student Vijay Velusamy awarded NSF Student Travel Grant
  Posted on Monday, October 25th, 2004
  Vijay has been awarded an NSF Student Travel Grant to present his work entitled "Communication Strategies for Private-IP-Enabled Interoperable Message Passing across Grid Environments" at the BroadNets 2004 conference in San Jose, October 25-29, 2004.
  
  
• The grad student team wins CS Jeopardy!
  Posted on Wednesday, October 6th, 2004
  Today the graduate student team took top prize in the CIS department's 1st Annual CS Jeopardy tournament! Highlight photos of the event have been posted.
  
  
• CS JEOPARDY
  Posted on Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
  This Wednesday at 11AM in CH445! Sponsored by ACM! Faculty, student and mixed teams compete for the title of CS Jeopardy Champions!
  
  
• CS Tutoring - New Schedule Posted
  Posted on Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
  Tutoring is now operational and is available Monday-Thursday for CS201, CS250 and CS302. Please see the CS Tutoring link in the Student Life section of the web site for the latest times.
  
  
• UAB IS CLOSED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
  Posted on Wednesday, September 15th, 2004
  UAB CLOSED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY DUE TO HURRICANE IVAN. MORE INFO AT WWW.UAB.EDU.
  
  
• CS Majors Welcome Back to School Lunch
  Posted on Friday, September 3rd, 2004
  CS Majors Welcome Back to School Lunch
  
  
• ACM Programming Contest Qualifier
  Posted on Saturday, August 21st, 2004
  The ACM Programming Contest Qualifier will be September4th from 1-4pm. Please click for full details.
  
  
• Three students selected for SDSC Summer Computing Institute
  Posted on Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
  Three CIS PhD students have been selected to attend the 2004 SDSC Summer Computing Institute. Click for full details.
  
  
• BlazerIDs Now Required By UAB
  Posted on Thursday, July 1st, 2004
  Today is the deadline for having a BlazerID with a valid forwarding address. Please read this important announcement about your BlazerID.
  
  
• Dr. Rob Bisseling to Speak at CIS
  Posted on Friday, June 25th, 2004
  Dr. Rob Bisseling from the Dept. of Mathematics at Utrecht University in The Netherlands will present two talks at CIS on July 1st. Please refer to the event calendar for times and locations.
  
  
• Dr. Sen from Microsoft to Speak at CIS
  Posted on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
  Just announced, Dr. Sen will present "Common Language Infrastructure, .NET and the Shared Source" tomorrow afternoon in CH430.
  
  
• CIS welcomes newest faculty member, Dr. Chengcui Zhang
  Posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2004
  Dr. Zhang will join CIS as an Assistant Professor beginning in the Fall 2004 semester. She comes to UAB from Florida Int'l University and has authored/co-authored more than 30 papers in her interest areas of databases and data mining.
  
  
• Lab Upgrades Are Complete
  Posted on Monday, May 10th, 2004
  The computers in CH145 and CH430 have been replaced, completing the upgrade that began with the installation of LCD monitors over Spring Break. Click for full details.
  
  
• Undergrad Lab Closed Until June 2nd
  Posted on Thursday, May 6th, 2004
  The Undergrad lab will be closed from Friday, May 7th at 6pm until June 2nd. The summer hours starting June 2nd will be noon - 8pm Fri-Tues and noon-10pm Wed-Thurs.
  
  
• CIS hosts medical software training for doctors from around the country
  Posted on Wednesday, May 5th, 2004
  The CIS department teamed up with Dr. Gilbert Ritchie, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Administrative Director of Anesthesia Services for UAB Hospital, to conduct a training course on data mining with CompuRecord. Click for full details.
  
  
• Undergrad Dwayne T. Turner selected for scholarship
  Posted on Monday, May 3rd, 2004
  Dwayne T. Turner, a CIS undergraduate, has been selected as one of the undergraduate scholars for the 2004/2005 ALABAMA SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM undergraduate scholarship. Click for full details.
  
  
• Four CIS students inducted into Phi Kappa Phi
  Posted on Monday, May 3rd, 2004
  Four CIS students were recently inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Click for full details.
  
  
• PhD student Ms. Wei Zhao to intern with IBM Research Division
  Posted on Tuesday, April 27th, 2004
  CIS Ph. D. student Ms. Wei Zhao has been selected as a student intern in IBM Research Division's Business Informatics Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Click for full details.
  
  
• PhD student Changlin Sun selected for internship at Field Diagnostics Services
  Posted on Tuesday, April 27th, 2004
  Changlin Sun, a Ph. D. student in Computer Science and Information Sciences, will do a summer internship at Field Diagnostics Services. Click for full details.
  
  
• CIS undergrads Najaf Shah and Ehab ElBahesh win 2nd place at ACM Southeast
  Posted on Monday, April 19th, 2004
  Najaf Shah and Ehab ElBahesh, two CIS department undergraduates, won 2nd place in the student paper competition with their paper entitled 'A System for Topic-Based Clustering of News Articles'. Click for further details.
  
  
• CIS has 6 UAB Graduate Student Research Day winners!
  Posted on Wednesday, April 14th, 2004
  Congratulations to all of our students who participated in this event! Click the headline to see the full list of winners.
  
  
• CIS graduate student Vetria Byrd selected for VCU Summer Institute
  Posted on Wednesday, April 14th, 2004
  CIS graduate student Vetria Byrd will be one of twelve students from various universities to take part in Virginia Commonwealth University’s 2004-2005 Bioinformatics/Bioengineering Summer Institute, June 6th to August 13th. Click for further details.
  
  
• CIS Discussion Forum now open
  Posted on Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
  The CIS Discussion Forum is now available. Several classes now have forums, in addition to the CIS Lounge. Please see the Forum Announcements area for further information on how to access the various areas of the Discussion Forum.
  
  
• Yin Liu wins Alabama Academy of Science contest
  Posted on Monday, March 29th, 2004
  CIS graduate student Yin Liu won the contest for best paper in the Engineering and Computer Science section of the Alabama Academy of Science. Her paper was titled "Scalable linear algebra library and benchmark".
  
  
• Undergraduate Lab Hours Extended
  Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2004
  The undergraduate lab will be opening two hours earlier, at 8am, on Sunday mornings. The lab is now open 8am - 10pm every day of the week. These hours are in effect for the rest of the semester (excluding the closure for Spring Break 3/21 - 3/27).
  
  
• Course Schedules Through Fall 2004 Now Online
  Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2004
  The course schedules for the summer and fall semesters are now online and available in the Courses and Schedules area of the web site.
  
  
• Accenture and Fontana Scholarships For Undergraduates
  Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2004
  Information sheets and application forms are now available for the Accenture and Joseph M. Fontana Scholarships for CIS undergraduate students. The deadline for applications is May 31, 2004.
  
  
• MSDN Academic Alliance Now Available
  Posted on Friday, February 20th, 2004
  The department now has a subscription to the MSDN Academic Alliance program. This program entitles our faculty and students to many Microsoft products for instructional and research purposes. MSDNAA Program Page.
  
  
• New CIS web site launches
  Posted on Thursday, February 19th, 2004
  The CIS department launched their new web site today. Many new features are available, including an events calendar, an improved What's New section, new content areas and an all-new look. Click for full details.
  
  
• Dr. Robert Hyatt and Crafty win computer chess tournament
  Posted on Wednesday, February 4th, 2004
  This past weekend, Dr. Hyatt's chess playing program Crafty participated in and won an internet-based computer chess championship tournament.
  
  
• Seminars
  Posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2004
  View Seminars that are being held at the UAB Department of Computer and Information Science
  
  
• Computer Competency Exam
  Posted on Friday, January 23rd, 2004
  The annual Schedule for the Computer Technologies Competency Examinations is now avaliable.
  
  
• Computer Science Student Camp
  Posted on Tuesday, January 20th, 2004
  If you are interested in OpenGL, an advanced computer graphics language then fill out the attached registration form.
  
  
• Continuing Education Certificate in Bioinformatics
  Posted on Wednesday, September 31st, 2003
  Earn your degree in Bioinformatics
  
  
• Java Programming for High School Teachers
  Posted on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003
  A workshop is designed for high school teachers with no programming language background as well as those who are interested in the transition from C++ to Java as the new AP computer science language.
  
  
• Scholars and Adult Returning Students Recognized
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  On Wednesday, CIS sponsored a lunch for departmental scholars, adult returning students and faculty. Students enjoyed interaction with faculty and fellow students outside the classroom. CIS appreciates the dedication and success of its scholars and adult
  
  
• Scholars and Adult Returning Students Recognized
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  On Wednesday, CIS sponsored a lunch for departmental scholars, adult returning students and faculty. Students enjoyed interaction with faculty and fellow students outside the classroom. CIS appreciates the dedication and success of its scholars and adult