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Prof. Olson and the students Zach Daily, John Malayny, and Rob Szkutak have the paper "Project CASSI: A Social-Graph Based Tool for Classroom Behavior Analysis and Optimization" accepted to the 2013 International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2013, https://sites.google.com/a/iis.memphis.edu/edm-2013-conference/) in Memphis. |
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The University Student Research and Creativity Exposition was held on May 2, 2013. The department presented 18 projects developed by 19 students: A Study of Rubik’s Cube and Its Implementation A Study of Rubik’s Cube and Its Implementation
Some memorable moments. |
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The paper "Lossless Compression of Dithered Images" of Dr. Ziya Arnavut and the former double major in Computer Science and Computer Information Systems Basar Koc was accepted for publication in IEEE Photonics Journal. |
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On April 11-13, 2013, the CS Programming Team participated in the CCSC North East programming contest led by Dr. Singh. Prof. Olson mentored two student works accepted for presentation at student poster session at CCSCNE.
Pictured from left to right: The CS Team and its mentor Dr. Gurmukh Singh, Nicholas Freville, Jeff Swift, Patrick Hodge. Zach Daily presents his poster. |
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On March 26, 2013, members of the Silver Creek Cub Scout Pack 252 visited the department of Computer and Information Sciences. The scouts earned the Computer Belt Loop and Computer Academic Pin by completing a series of required activities and had the chance to get acquainted with SUNY Fredonia computer facilities. The activities the scouts did under the guidance of Prof. Greg Cole can be found at http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Cub_Scout_Computers. Pictured from left to right at the front line: David Sheldon, Jeffrey Brown, Faith Sheldon, Nico Crino, and in the back Mr. Greg Cole, and Trevor Cole.
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On March 22, 2013, Ms. Amy Leclair, SUNY Fredonia Coordinator of Advising and Liberal Arts, gave an advising workshop to the department advisors. "According to the National Study of Student Engagement in 2005, the quality of academic advising is the single, most powerful predictor of satisfaction with the campus environment at 4-year colleges," Ms. Leclair said. She considered various topics, including advising students with academic difficulties and international students. The department understands that advising is a team effort and takes undergraduate student advising very seriously. Faculty were excited to learn new information and how to handle some special cases.
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On March 8, 2013, Dr. Daisuke Hara gave a talk at a join department seminar and CS Club meeting entitled "A Probabilistic Approach to the Syllable Formation of Japanese Sign Language." Dr. Hara is a professor at Toyota Technological Institute - Japan. He got his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago under the mentorship of the famous professor John A. Goldsmith. He is the author of several publications in the field of linguistics.
The talk was attended by Drs. Barneva, Singh, Profs. Olson, Szocki, and several students.
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On March 2, 2013, faculty and students of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences participated in the first Science Day organized by the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Barneva presented the programs and Dr. Zubairi gave a talk on Cyber Security. The President of the CS Club, Rob Szkutak, spoke about student experience on campus and about his research. Nick Freville presented his work with Blender on infinite cities for the purposes of game development.
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Dr. Singh has his work "Developmental Education through Digital Technologies and Techniques in Natural Sciences" accepted as a poster presentation at the 22nd Annual Conference on Instruction & Technology (CIT 2013) to be held May 21-24, 2013 on the campus of SUNY IT, Utica, NY. He has been awarded a scholarship by the SUNY Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching & Technology (FACT2) and the CIT Planning Committee, toward the conference registration. |
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Dr. Barneva served as invited speaker at the 15th International Conference "Humans and Computers" held on February 11-12, 2013 at the University of Shizuoka, Japan. The conference attracted participants from three continents - America, Asia, and Europe. There were two sessions in satellite sites – at the University of Aizu, Japan and Düsseldorf University of Applied Science, Germany. Dr. Barneva's talk was on Space and Time Efficient Algorithms in Imaging Sciences. Currently, due to the expansion of digital image acquisition, there exist large databases and digital warehouses of images in medicine, security, geosciences, astronomy, metallurgy, and many other fields. In order to take maximal advantage of these huge databases, time- and space-efficient algorithms are required. She considered some examples of such algorithms in imaging sciences. More information can be found in the Campus Report.
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Prof. Mendez received a grant from Carnahan Jackson Foundation to develop free textbook for the students in the courses Web Programming I and II. The grantor's desire is to save students money on textbooks purchase and make the courses more affordable. Prof. Mendez is with the department since 2008 and he has been teaching the courses on web programming very successfully in a traditional classroom or online. |
