| 2009 CCI 8-Hour Start up Competition |
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The 8-hour Start-Up Competition is an innovative approach to connect students with prospective employers in the Charlotte area. It is designed to demonstrate students' ability to take on a challenging real-world problem by building a working prototype of a web application that solves the problem in 8 hours. Students must also present to a panel of judges, comprised of faculty and industry affiliates, to convince them that their project should be funded. Students can either use Microsoft .NET, Java or LAMP to construct the prototype. Criteria include: functionality, security, and usability. A working lunch will be provided during the competition. Prizes are being sponsored by CCI and industry partners.
The Competition will be held Friday, November 13th from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. in Woodward Hall, Room 154 All CCI students are encouraged to participate. Go to the following link for more information.
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| Dr. Ehab Al-Shaer Joins the Department |
Prof. Al-Shaer is the Director of the Network Assurability and Cyber Defense Research Center (NACDeC). Dr. Al-Shaer's primary research areas are network security, security management, fault diagnosis, and network assurability. Prof. Al-Shaer received his MSc and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Northeastern University (Boston, MA) and Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) in 1998 and 1994 respectively.* *Prof. Al-Shaer edited/co-edited more than 10 books and book chapters, and published about 90 refereed journals and conferences papers in his area. He has been a Co-Editor of number of books, Guest Editor for number of journals, invited speaker, tutorial presenter and panelist in many conferences and industrial seminars. Prof. Al-Shaer is the General Chair of the 16^th ACM Computer and Communication 2009-2010 and NSF Workshop in Assurable and Usable Security Configuration, August 2008. Prof. Al-Shaer also served as a Workshop Chair and Program Co-chair for number of well-established conferences/workshops in his area including POLICY’08, IM’07, ANM-INFOCOM’08, CCS-SafeConfig 09, MMNS’01, and E2EMON 04-05. He also served as a member in the technical program and organization committees for many IEEE and ACM conferences including INFOCOM, ICNP, IM/NOMS, ICDCS, GLOBECOM, ICC, MMNS DSOM, and E2EMON. He was awarded the Best Paper Awards at the IEEE IM 2003 and POLICY 2008, and received a NASA fellowship in 1997. Prof. Al-Shaer also received funding awards from NSF, Cisco, Intel, Sun Microsystems. **
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| New grants |
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Celine Latulipe, David Wilson, and Sybil Huskey received an NSF grant “Dance.Draw: Embodiment as Input for Collaborative, Creative Expression.” The project will explore ways to allow dancers to create information with their movements in real-time and study how to involve the audience in the interaction loop. |
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Brent Hoon Kang received NSF grants to study behavior of malicious botnets. |
Xintao Wu received an NSF grant to look at new ways of generating testing data for databases. |
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| College of Computing and Informatics Starts the Honors Program in Fall 2008 |
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The goal of the Honors Program in Computing and Informatics is to identify creative, imaginative, and exceptional undergraduate CCI students and develop their potential through encouragement, opportunity, and recognition. Benefits of the program include smaller classes and a more challenging curriculum.
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