News
Faculty Honors
CIS graduate student William Killian is one of Three doctoral students awarded the University of Delaware Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Award. Each recipient of the award receives $1,500.
Up in the cloud
Gosia Steinder, PhD 2003, has been named an IBM Fellow for her work including on an early version of cloud computing called Oceano. She began this work while a PhD student of Professor Adarsh Sethi and interning summers at IBM.
Cybersecurity grants
The University of Delaware Cybersecurity Initiative has awarded six grants to support research projects addressing a range of security issues. Half of these projects involve CIS Faculty, and concern a cyber scholars program (Novocin), security education using social robots (Shen), and bio-cybersecurity(Wu).
Getting from here to there
Intelligent transportation systems enable people to make smart travel choices, whether it’s selecting an alternate route to avoid a minor traffic backup or figuring out the safest evacuation path during a hurricane.
Inspiring computer scientists
Lori Pollock is determined to challenge the perception that software engineers merely interact with their programming environment on their computers.
Better Coding
University of Delaware junior Zachary Senzer and senior Ryan Serva recently presented a research paper, “Automatically Mining Negative Code Examples from Software Developer Question and Answer Forums,” at the Fourth International Workshop on Software Mining in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Innovation Fellows
Jason Bamford, Zachary Jones, Ashutosh Khandha and Nadia Kiamilev recently completed training to join Epicenter’s University Innovation Fellows, a national program that empowers student leaders to increase campus engagement with innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity and design thinking.
Estuary games
Maggie Pletta, an environmental educator, wants children to learn about estuaries, bodies of water found where rivers meet the sea. Knowing kids learn from computer games Pletta partnered with UD professor Terry Harvey to provide a suite of computer games to incorporate into her work with the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve.
DelHack
UD hackathon taps students’ creativity under pressure. Among the top winners at the recent hackathon as a web app that tracks restaurant traffic, a glove that allows control of computer cursors, and a digital classroom enabling educators to crowdsource knowledge through open classrooms.
University of Delaware junior Zachary Senzer and senior Ryan Serva recently presented a research paper, “Automatically Mining Negative Code Examples from Software Developer Question and Answer Forums,” at the Fourth International Workshop on Software Mining in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Code Fun
Mel Jurist wants all kids to love engineering as much as she does, but she knows that’s a tall order.
Computer science honors
Professor Taufer is just one of 49 computing professionals this year to be named a distinguished scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s leading association of computing professionals.
Data science innovation
The ability to access, analyze and draw insights from massive amounts of data already drives innovation in areas ranging from medicine to manufacturing, leading to greater efficiency and a higher quality of life.