The Future of Computing 2008
Student Project Competition
Computer and Information Sciences Department
29 March 2008
Best Undergraduate Project Awards:
Gold award of $2,000 Sponsored by InternU
Thomas Milewski: ImageMax: Digital Asset Management
Silver award of $1,000 Sponsored by Reed Technology & Information Services
Zachary Parness: Interactive Generation Of Realistic 3D Terrain Using Height Maps
Bronze award of $500 Presented in memory of Henri Wiesel (CIS Dept.)
Henry Paradiz, Eric Zhivalyuk, Brandon Lis: Artician - A Social Network for Creative Professionals
Best Graduate Project Awards:
Gold award of $2,000 Sponsored by Stryker Orthopaedics
Debasish Das, Vladan Radosavljevic, Qiang Lou, Haidong Shi, Kosta Ristovski: Predicting Aerosol Density for Climate Modeling Using Data Mining Techniques
Silver award of $1,000
Nagesh Adluru, Xingwei Yang, ChengEn Lu: Contour Grouping Using Part Similarity
Bronze award of $500
Uros Midic: Automated generation of handwriting samples with application to CAPTCHA
Special Awards:
Social Relevance Award of $500 Sponsored by Methodist Home for Children
Debasish Das, Vladan Radosavljevic, Qiang Lou, Haidong Shi, Kosta Ristovski: Predicting Aerosol Density for Climate Modeling Using Data Mining Techniques
Most Popular Project Award of $500 Sponsored by the Temple University Student Chapter of the ACM
Nagesh Adluru, Xingwei Yang, ChengEn Lu: Contour Grouping Using Part Similarity
The CIS Department Mourns the Loss of Professor Henri Wiesel
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J. Henri Wiesel, Instructor in the Computer and Information Sciences Department, passed away suddenly Friday, March 21. |
Henri Wiesel first came to Temple as a CIS faculty member in the Fall of 2001. He brought with him a deep love for teaching and for Temple students, as well as 15 years of experience in teaching computer applications, databases, and Microsoft tools technologies. Henri also had over 30 years of experience in computer applications development. Soon after his arrival at Temple, Henri began working on the development of courses for the new CIS Information Science and Technology undergraduate program. He developed and taught courses on web application development, scripting, and e-commerce site development.
Henri made learning a joy for his students, preparing them technically and professionally, and imbuing them with an unparalleled sense of enthusiasm and curiosity for the field. Henri’s students were open to exploring new ways of doing things and attacking challenging projects. This is attributable to his teaching style and to his strong belief in his students, whom he admired and adored. Henri’s concern for the technical and professional development of his students was widely evident, and affirmed semester after semester in his evaluations and in the student demand for his elective courses.
It is difficult to imagine our department without Henri. Before our eyes will always be his characteristic smile and the laughs that punctuated his speech. He contributed a great deal to the CIS community, especially to the well being of his students, large numbers of whom have remained in loyal contact with Henri long after graduation. We will all miss him both personally and professionally. As time goes by, we know that the joy of his memory will always be there to fill the profound void that has been left.
New CIS Ph.D. Program Approved
The Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University is pleased to announce the approval of a new, streamlined Ph.D. program. This program allows the well-prepared, research-oriented student to go from a bachelor’s degree to a doctorate in four years. For students with a relevant master's degree, it is possible to obtain a Ph.D. in even less time. Research begins in the first year of the program, and students begin publishing no later than the second year. At the end of the four years, students will have both a Ph.D. and a fair number of publications, which will be a great advantage as they pursue employment possibilities. more...
The ISTZORAN Group is the Winner at a Worldwide, Biannual Competition of Protein Disorder Prediction
A meeting to evaluate the results of prediction experiments at CASP7 was held on Nov. 26-30, 2006 in Pacific Grove, California. The predictor of intrinsically disordered protein regions developed by the ISTZORAN group has been rated as the best model. An older version of this model was the best model at CASP6 (Gaeta, Italy, Dec. 4-8., 2004).
The members of the ISTZORAN group are: Zoran Obradovic, Keith Dunker, Kang Peng, Predrag Radivojac and Slobodan Vucetic. Prof. Obradovic and Prof. Vucetic are faculty members of the Temple University Center for Information Science and Technology and the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. Dr. Peng was their Ph.D. student when this work was performed (he graduated in summer 2006) and is now a research associate at Indiana University. Prof. Radivojac, a 2003 Ph.D. graduate from Computer and Information Sciences at Temple, is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Informatics. Prof. Dunker is Director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Indiana University School of Medicine. ... more
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