Suman Roychoudhury Doctoral Thesis Defense
Suman Roychoudhury successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "GenaWeave: A Generic Aspect Weaver Framework Based on Model-Driven Program Transformation" on May 19, 2008. The thesis research was conducted under the direction of Dr. Jeff Gray, with supervisory committee members Dr. Puri Bangalore, Dr. Barrett Bryant, Dr. Marjan Mernik, and Dr. Anthony Skjellum.
(Posted: May 19, 2008)
Faizan Javed Doctoral Thesis Defense
Faizan Javed successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Techniques for Context-Free Grammar Induction and Applications" on December 5, 2007. The thesis research was conducted under the direction of Dr. Barrett Bryant, with supervisory committee members Dr. Jeff Gray, Dr. Elliot Lefkowitz, Dr. Marjan Mernik, and Dr. Alan Sprague.
(Posted: December 5, 2007)
Hui Wu Doctoral Thesis Defense
Hui Wu successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Grammar-Driven Generation of Domain-Specific Language Testing Tools Using an Aspect-Oriented Programming Approach" on October 29, 2007. The thesis research was conducted under the direction of Dr. Jeff Gray, with supervisory committee members Dr. Mikhail Auguston, Dr. Barrett Byrant, Dr. Marjan Mernik, Dr. Brian Toone, and Dr. Chengcui Zhang.
(Posted: October 29, 2007)
Yu Sun Competes in Regional Programming Competition
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.
UAB CIS fielded two teams at the contest site at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. Across the Southeast, seventy-six teams gathered from many institutions throughout the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
Through much hard work (and plenty of practicing beforehand), our teams had a very good showing: UAB ranked higher in this competition than any other institutions in Alabama and Mississippi, taking first and third places among these states. The UAB Hydras (Jeff Frees, Eric Frees, and Mike Stueve) attained 17th place in the Southeast, and the UAB Drakes (Walker Haddock, Yu Sun, and Yu Chang) attained 20th place. Also, Michael Phillips competed on an informal pickup team which placed first among such teams at the Mobile site.
(Posted: October 29, 2007)
Large Outreach Effort Funded by NSF
 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just announced funding in the amount of $1,080,000 over three years for a project entitled "UAB-Birmingham Consortium for Advanced Education in Computer Science." The purpose of this effort will be to create a high quality and engaging program that will introduce high school students to concepts in computer science and provide them with a mathematics foundation for IT-related education and careers. Specifically, the CIS Department will be using Alice to introduce fundamental concepts in programming using video games as a motivating context.
The investigators of this project are Dr. Michael Wyss (UAB CORD), Dr. Jeff Gray (Computer and Information Sciences). Dr. John Mayer (Mathematics), Dr. David Radford (Education), and Dr. Alan Shih (Mechanical Engineering).
(Posted: August 29, 2007)
New Softcom Members
Softcom welcomes new Ph.D. students Zekai Demirezen from Turkey and Yu Sun from China.
(Posted: August 22, 2007)
NSF Funds New Research Project in CIS Department
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a research grant (entitled "A Transformational Approach to Clone Refactoring") to the CIS Department in the amount of $239,953. This three year grant will support research into the analysis and refactoring of code clones, which presents a source of maintenance and evolution challenges.
The Principal Investigator on this grant will be Dr. Jeff Gray. Supporting Dr. Gray in this research will be Ph.D. student Robert Tairas. This work will be performed within the SoftCom laboratory.
More information about this grant is available on the NSF Website. An abstract of the research project is provided below.
(Posted: August 9, 2007)
Alex Liu Doctoral Thesis Defense
Shi-Hsi (Alex) Liu successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled "QoSPL: A Quality of Service-driven Software Product Line Engineering Framework for Design and Analysis of Component-based Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems" on August 6, 2007. The thesis research was conducted under the direction of Dr. Barrett Bryant, with supervisory committee members Dr. Jeff Gray, Dr. Marjan Mernik, Dr. Rajeev Raje, and Dr. Chengcui Zhang.
(Posted: August 6, 2007)
Fox6 News Covers Middle School Summer Camp
 Fox6 news reporter Sarah Verser visited the UAB CIS Department to investigate a story as part of her "What's Right with Our Schools" weekly feature. Sarah's story contains interviews with several middle school students. The theme of the story motivates the need for outreach in Alabama to increase the awareness and opportunities in computer science. Specifically, Sarah focused on the middle school summer camp and how Alice is being used as a fun way to teach computer science principles.
The CIS Department offers seven weeks of summer computing camps (five camps for high school students and two camps for middle school students). For more information on all summer camps, please visit the UAB CIS Summer Camps web page. Additional news coverage on the robotics camp for high school students was featured by NBC and ABC - hosting of videos pending permission from those news stations.
During the 7-week 2007 summer camp session, students from 4 different states (California, Kentucky, Mississippi and Alabama) came to UAB to participate in the camp sessions.
The supporters of this camp are the National Science Foundation, MedMined and ComFrame.
To view the news story at the Fox6 website, please click here.
(Posted: August 2, 2007)
Dr. Jeff Gray Featured in UAB Reporter
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.
(Posted: August 1, 2007)
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