CIS Students Receive Several Awards at ACM Conference
Over 40 students from all over the southeast attended the ACM MidSoutheast conference (ACM's oldest conference now in its 51st year!). The conference was held in Gatlinburg, TN, on November 13, 2009.
The CIS department was represented well by many students who gave presentations:
Undergrad: Robert Cloud
Masters: Walker Haddock
PhD: Song Gao, Soma Halder, Yu Sun, Robert Tairas, and Richa Tiwari
Among the five awards in the graduate category, Softcom members won two of the awards received at the conference banquet:
- Robert Tairas, Second Place
- Yu Sun, Third Place
(Posted: November 17, 2009)
CIS Students Make it to Finals of ACM's Student Research Competition at OOPSLA
 CIS Ph.D. students Yu Sun and Robert Tairas reached the final round of the ACM Student Research Competition at this year's International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2009). Yu's presentation was entitled "Supporting Model Evolution through Demonstration-based Model Transformation." Robert's presentation was entitled "Centralizing Clone Group Representation and Maintenance."
The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research at well-known ACM sponsored and co-sponsored conferences before a panel of judges and attendees.
In addition, at this year's OOPSLA conference, Softcom members were involved in organizing workshops (Jeff Gray), participating in the Doctoral Symposium (Zekai Demirezen and Yu Sun), presenting two posters at the refactoring workshop (Ferosh Jacob and Robert Tairas), conducting two research demonstrations (Robert Tairas and Yu Sun), assisting as Student Volunteers (Zekai Demirezen, Ferosh Jacob, Qichao Liu, Yu Sun, and Robert Tairas), and moderating a panel (Jeff Gray).
(Posted: November 2, 2009)
Softcom Paper to be Presented at MODELS 2009
Yu Sun and Dr. Jeff Gray from Softcom (along with Dr. Jules White from Vanderbilt) will present their paper, entitled "Model Transformation by Demonstration," at the MODELS 2009 conference, which will be held in October 2009 at Denver, Colorado. Their paper was just one of 34 accepted full papers out of 211 submissions (16% acceptance rate). The paper describes a new approach for recording and inferring model transformations that are specified by end-users without the need for using a transformation language. MODELS is the premier research conference in the area of model-driven engineering.
The paper is available at http://www.cis.uab.edu/gray/pubs/models-2009.pdf
(Posted: June 30, 2009)
Softcom members' project "PDA Docter" featured in the Birmingham News
The "PDA Docter" project by CIS graduate student Ritu Arora and Softcom members Zekai Demirezen and Yu Sun is featured in the Birmingham News. The project aims to use PDAs as mobile medical diagnostic tools for use in poor, rural areas of the world. The three formed a competition team, called Arora Borealis, and are currently national finalists in the Microsoft Imagine Cup.
Full story at: http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/04/university_of_alabama_at_birmi_6.html
(Posted: April 22, 2009)
Jing Zhang Doctoral Thesis Defense
Jing Zhang successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Model-Driven Aspect Adaptation to Support Modular Software Evolution" on March 30, 2009. The thesis research was conducted under the direction of Dr. Jeff Gray, with supervisory committee members Dr. Barrett Bryant, Dr. Aniruddha Gokhale, Dr. Marjan Mernik, and Dr. Chengcui Zhang.
(Posted: March 30, 2009)
Softcom Member Presents Talk at University of Alabama Research Colloquium Series
Robert Tairas was invited to present a talk at the University of Alabama Research Colloquium Series on February 13, 2009. His talk was entitled "Maintaining Cloned Software."
(Posted: February 13, 2009)
Softcom Members Attend Alice 3 Beta Testers Workshop
UAB CIS has been invited as one of a handful of international beta testers for the new Alice 3. On January 5-6, 2009, three CIS members including two Softcom members (Dixon Shuttleworth and Jeff Gray) visited Carnegie Mellon University to interact with the Alice 3 team in preparation to assist with the beta testing effort.
Portions of Alice 3 will be used at UAB in future summer camps and offerings of CS 105.
Wanda Dann, the Director of the Alice project, has been announced as a keynote speaker for the 2009 UAB Alice Film Festival.
More information about Alice 3 and the besta testing process is available at:
http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2009/winter/alice-3-software.shtml
(Posted: January 6, 2009)
Dr. Jeff Gray named Alabama Professor of the Year by Carnegie Foundation
Associate Professor Jeff Gray has been named the 2008 Alabama Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and is in Washington, DC to receive the award today.
He was recognized for his efforts in fostering interest in computer science among Alabama middle and high school students. He has been instrumental in designing several innovative outreach programs including summer camps, teaching courses in area high schools, the Alabama high school programming contest and mentoring students for science fair projects, among others.
More on this story can be found in the UAB Press Release and in today's Birmingham News.
More information about Dr. Gray's outreach programs can be found on his web site.
(Posted: November 20, 2008)
Journal of Software and Systems Modeling Names Dr. Jeff Gray as Associate Editor
CIS Associate Professor Jeff Gray will serve as an editor for the Software and Systems Modeling (SoSym) journal, which is published by Springer.
As described in the SoSym charter, SoSym is a "quarterly international journal that focuses on theoretical and practical issues pertaining to the development and application of software and system modeling languages and techniques. The aim of the journal is to publish high-quality works that further understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of modeling languages and techniques, present rigorous analyses of modeling experiences, and present scalable modeling techniques and processes that facilitate rigorous and economical development of software."
(Posted: October 13, 2008)
New Softcom Members
Softcom welcomes new Ph.D. students Hyun Cho from South Korea and Qichao Liu from China.
(Posted: August 29, 2008)
Dr. Jeff Gray to Speak at XO Expo at McWane Center
The "XO Expo" will be held at the McWane Center on August 23rd. The Expo will feature various talks and demonstrations about the XO computers that are being used in the Birmingham City Schools.
Speakers for the event include Chuck Kane (President, One Laptop Per Child), Larry Langford (Birmingham Mayor), Shaundra Daily (MIT Media Lab) and several educators in the community.
Dr. Jeff Gray from the CIS Department will also be one of the speakers at the event. He will discuss current issues of technology education in Alabama.
(Posted: August 15, 2008)
2009 AOSD Conference Organized by Two SoftCom Members
The International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is the flagship research conference (co-sponsored by ACM) that addresses programming language and software engineering issues pertaining to advanced forms of software modularity. The 8th annual AOSD conference will be held during March 2-6, 2009, in Charlottesville, VA, on the campus of the University of Virginia.
The 2009 AOSD conference will be organized by two SoftCom members. Dr. Jeff Gray is serving as Organizing Chair and PhD student Robert Tairas is the webmaster for the conference and also the primary AOSD website.
More details about AOSD.09 can be found at: http://www.aosd.net/2009/
(Posted: August 5, 2008)
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