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Dr. Krishna Kavi has announced that the University of North Texas has signed
a Memorandum of Understanding with three other area universities to form a
Net-Centric Software Engineering Consortium. The other universities are the
University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at Dallas, and
Southern Methodist University.
Research in new software engineering methodologies is needed. Net-centric
operation is an emerging paradigm and family of tactics, techniques,
procedures, and capabilities that use a networked environment to meet new
and evolving challenges through information integration and adaptive
solutions. Net-centric computing focuses on the network as a way of
integrating diverse resources and services. Its primary goal is to support
dynamic creation of solutions to unanticipated threats and malfunctions.
Applications of net-centric systems range from emergency response systems to
defense systems, medical and healthcare systems, transportation systems, and
other mission- and safety-critical systems.
Now that the four universities have signed this agreement, the group is
working to develop industry membership agreements. They plan to submit a
proposal to the National Science Foundation's CISE (Computer and Information
Science and Engineering) Computer Research Infrastructure program. They
also plan to develop a Industry/University Cooperative Research Center
(I/UCRC). The North Texas Daily published an article about this
collaboration HERE
on February 1, 2007. For more information about this consortium, go to
http://www.csrl.unt.edu/~kavi/NetCentric/.
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Dr. Oh Awarded NSF Grant for EMIS Project |
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Dr. JungHwan Oh, a new faculty member whose research focuses on medical
imaging, was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for $73,708 for his
project, "Endoscopic Multimedia Information." Dr. Oh is the Principal
Investigator along with Wallak Tavanapong and Johnny Wong of Iowa State
University and Piet C. de Groen of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
Dr. Oh said many advances in video technology are being incorporated into
current healthcare practice. Endoscopes are used for a number of formerly
open surgical procedures, including resection of gallbladders, retrieval of
donor kidneys, coronary artery bypass grafting and minimally invasive
neurosurgeries. During an endscopic procedure, a tiny video camera at the
tip of the endoscope produces a video signal inside the human body.
Video data provided during these procedures are not systematically captured
for real-time or post-procedure reviews and analyses. No hardware or
software tools have been developed to capture, analyze, and provide user-
friendly and efficient access to the content on these videos. The aim of
this project is to develop an Endoscopic Multimedia Information System
(EMIS) to capture high quality endoscopy videos, analyze the captured
videos, and provide efficient access to the valuable content of these
videos.
Other support for this project is from the Mayo Clinic, Grow Iowa Values
Fund, Iowa State Research Foundation and the University of Texas at
Arlington. More information about the EMIS project can be found at Dr. Oh's
faculty website: http://www.cse.unt.edu/~jhoh/.
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Dr. Kavi Visits Universities in Taiwan |
Dr. Kavi with Professor Chin-Teng Lin, Dean of College of Computing at National
Chiao-Tung University |
In December 2006, Dr. Krishna Kavi traveled to Taiwan to visit several universities
and make contacts for setting up student exchanges. At National Chiao-Tung
University, Dr. Kavi met with the Dean of the College of Computing and his
former student and host, Dr. Deng-Jyi Chen.
At Fu Jen University, Dr. Kavi signed a Memorandum of Understanding on behalf
of UNT for student exchanges to take place. Dr. Kavi also visited National
Taiwan University, Dong-Hwa University, and TungHai University in Taiwan.
He is exploring internship possibilities for students visiting universities in
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Dr. Mohanty Gives Talks in India |
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In December 2006, Dr. Saraju Mohanty delivered invited talks at two prestigious
institutes in India, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. The title of the talk was "Secure
Digital Camera", an apparatus (system-on-a-chip, SoC) with standard features
of a digital camera and a built-in facility for live, real-time, low-cost,
low-power digital rights management (DRM), a concept introduced by Dr.
Mohanty.
In addition he presented two papers at a conference in VLSI, the
international conference on VLSI design at Bangalore, India. The titles of
his talks were, "Simultaneous Power Fluctuation and Average Power
Minimization during Nano-CMOS Behavioral Synthesis" and "Metrics to Quantify
Steady and Transient Gate Leakage in Nanoscale Transistors: NMOS Vs PMOS
Perspective". These are co-authored by Dr. Mohanty and Dr. Kougianos. These
papers were selected through a double blind review process with acceptance
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UNT to Host the 2007 SW Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Contest |
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The University of North Texas will host the 3rd Southwest Regional
Collegiate Cyber Defense Contest on March 23-25, 2007. In this contest,
student teams will be given pre-configured, running systems, networked into
the contest infrastructure. These systems supply a set of services to the
network, and the goals for each team are to:
- Complete various business/technical tasks ("injects") which are given to
the teams during the contest.
- Keep the services running and available.
- Keep attackers out-a "red team" of attackers will be trying to cause
trouble throughout the contest.
Points are awarded or deducted for each of the goals, and the winner is the
team that has the most points at the end of the 3-day contest. For more
details about the contest, please go to: http://www.cics.unt.edu/ccdc/. The
winner of this regional contest will receive an invitation to compete in the
national contest to be held April 13-15, 2007 in San Antonio, TX.
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LIT Research Group News |
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The members of the Language and Information Technology group are working on
various research projects in natural language processing. Here are their
most recent achievements:
Kino Coursey's work on integrating machine learning techniques with
common-sense knowledge bases has been accepted at the Intelligent User Interfaces
(IUI) workshop on Common Sense. Kino will attend the IUI conference in
Hawaii to present his work.
Andras Csomai's work on unsupervised methods for building back-of-the-book
indexes is described in a paper that has been recently accepted for
publication by the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society. Andras
will present the paper in May in Key West.
Rada Mihalcea's work on a method that integrates the Wikipedia resource into
a system for automatic word sense disambiguation is described in a paper
accepted for publication by the North American Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics. Rada will present the paper in Rochester in
April.
Rada Mihalcea will also present her research (joint work with Stephen
Pulman) on modeling features of verbal humor at the International Conference
on Intelligent Text Processing in February in Mexico City. The paper
received one of the three "best paper" awards given by the conference.
Also noteworthy is the grant that Rada Mihalcea received from the "Hispanic
and Global Studies Initiative Fund" for the project "Babylon: UNT-Mexico
Collaboration for Research on Languages with Scarce Resources". This was a
competitive grant application process, with only 10 out of 38 applications
being recommended for funding. The funds will be used to support a student
exchange between the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the
University of North Texas and the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in
Mexico City, and will contribute toward developing a research collaboration
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CSE Invites Students to Graduate Studies Open House on February 21 |
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Have you been thinking about continuing your education by attending graduate
school? Juniors and seniors are invited to attend the Graduate Studies Open
House hosted by the Graduate Program of the Computer Science and Engineering
Department on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. in Room F223 at the
UNT Research Park.
The CSE Department offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and an
M.S. degree in Computer Engineering. Take advantage of this opportunity to
find out more about getting your graduate degree in Computer Science and
Engineering here at UNT.
If you cannot attend, but would like more information about our graduate
degree programs, please check our website HERE.
If you have further questions, please contact Dr. Armin Mikler, Graduate Studies
Coordinator, at mikler@cse.unt.edu.
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IEEE Computer Society to Meet on February 9 |
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The UNT Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society will meet from 11:30-1:00 p.m.
on Friday, February 9, in Room F223 at the Research Park. We will discuss
the selection of new officers and plans for the Spring semester and summer
months. There are a number of field trips, speakers and other opportunities
available to the chapter. Pizza and drinks will be provided.
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Students Invited to Meetings for Robotics Society and Amateur Radio
Club on February 16 |
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During the Fall semester a number of students expressed interest in forming
a Robotics Society and an Amateur Radio Club. David Keathly, CSE
Undergraduate Advisor, has volunteered to assist in the formation of these
two organizations as faculty sponsor as long as sufficient student interest
is maintained to make the clubs viable and that students actively
participate in the organization and management of the groups.
The Robotics Society would investigate concepts in robotics, participate in
competitions, and assist as judges, coaches and mentors for middle and high
school competitions. There are a number of local, national and international
robotics competitions every year including Robocup, RescueBot and others in
which teams from the organization can compete.
The Amateur Radio club would assist members in obtaining Amateur Radio
licenses, work with other area clubs and build a Ham Radio "shack" with
equipment available to all licensed members. There are a number of contests
sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), as well as emergency
preparedness activities in which members can participate.
A meeting for these organizations will be held on Friday, February 16, in
Room F260 at the Research Park. The Robotics Society will meet from 11-12
p.m. and the Amateur Radio group from 12-1 p.m.. All interested parties
should plan to attend. We will discuss what it takes to officially form an
organization, select officers and discuss plans for the remainder of the
semester.
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CSEagle Ambassadors to host Freshman Mixer |
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The CSEagle Ambassadors will host a freshman mixer and seminar open to all
first year female students in Computer Science and Computer Engineering,
including new and first year transfer students on Friday, February 23. The
event will be held in Room F223 at the Research Park from 11:30-1:30 p.m.
and lunch will be provided. David Keathly will present a short seminar
entitled "The Tao and Zen of Java" (by request), followed by discussion of
the mentoring program available to all first year female students and a
"meet and greet" period for new students and mentors to get to know one
another. We will also discuss other activities and opportunities for the
Spring and Summer semesters and National Engineers Week.
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Nominations for Awards Due February 9 |
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Applications for the 'Fessor Graham Award and Alton Thibodeaux Award are now
available. Paper copies are available in the SGA Office (Union 216B) or
download the PDF file at http://www.unt.edu/sga.
Below are the descriptions of each award:
'Fessor Graham Award
Named for the late Professor Floyd Graham, this award
is presented to a faculty member for outstanding and unselfish service to
students. The 'Fessor Graham Award is the highest honor given by the student
body. A student committee selects the 'Fessor Graham recipient and an
additional five Honor Professor award recipients. Professors will be judged
on teaching excellence, outstanding and unselfish service, publications and
scholarly work, and length of service to the university and community.
Alton Thibodeaux Award
The Alton Thibodeaux Award is presented to a member
of the University of North Texas community who exemplifies work and
dedication to promoting diversity and multiculturalism. The award was
inspired by Alton Thibodeaux who served in many capacities for the
University of North Texas including administrator and advisor. Applicants
will be judged on their involvement and dedication to diversity at UNT. The
recipient will be selected by a committee of students, faculty, and staff
members.
The deadline for nominations is February 9, 2007 by 5 p.m. If you have any
questions, please contact Sasha Moreno, Student Body Vice President, at
smoreno@unt.edu or call (940) 565-3850.
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B. Craig Raupe Travel Grants for Students Due February 6 |
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Student Government offers scholarships between $50 and $250 each semester to
students attending conferences related to their field of study. This
scholarship is open to both UNT graduate and undergraduate students. This
is a competitive scholarship, and applications must be completed in order to
be considered by the selection committee. Raupe Scholarship Applications for
Spring 2007 are available HERE and are due Tuesday, February 6, 2007.
Applications are also available in the SGA office in the UNT Union,
Room 216B.
Due to new University restrictions related to Financial Aid and
Scholarships, the Spring Raupe scholarships can only be paid to students who
will be enrolled in either Fall or Summer following the Spring semester in
which they are awarded. Recipients during the Spring will have their
scholarship posted to their university account in the next following
semester they are enrolled.
If you have an questions about this grant, please contact Trey Connolly,
Director of Student Affairs, at tconnolly@unt.edu
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College of Engineering News |
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PACCAR Foundation Gives $1.5 Million to UNT College of Engineering |
From L to R, UNT President Gretchen M. Bataille, PACCAR Vice President and Peterbilt
General Manager Dan Sobic, Provost Howard Johnson, Dean Oscar Garcia |
PACCAR, Inc., parent company of Peterbilt Motors Company based in Denton,
has announced a $1.5 million donation to the UNT College of Engineering
through the PACCAR Foundation.
This gift will create permanent endowments to
establish the PACCAR Technology Institute at the UNT Research Park and the
PACCAR Professorship in the UNT College of Engineering. Approximately $1
million will endow multidisciplinary research at the new institute. The
rest of the donation will endow the PACCAR Professorship for a full-time,
tenured engineering professor. For more information about this gift, please
see this UNT press release HERE.
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National Engineers Week 2007 to be held at Research Park
February 19-23 |
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The UNT College of Engineering has announced plans for its annual
Engineering Week to recruit students and promote the college. There are many
exciting events taking place including guest speakers, contests, open
houses, free food, and much more.
The College of Engineering will have a guest speaker to kick off Engineering
Week either on Monday or Tuesday of that week. The second annual no-limit
Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament will be held Tuesday, February 20, at 6 p.m.
in the atrium of Research Park. There will be 50 seats, with prizes for the
winner and runners-up. The tournament was a big success last year, and
brought some potential Engineering majors to Research Park for the first
time. The tournament is open to UNT students of any major.
On Wednesday, February 21, the College of Engineering will host a free
buffet lunch for students, faculty, and alumni in the atrium of Research
Park. On Thursday, February 22, the College of Engineering will sponsor a
career fair. The XBOX 360 tournament will be held from 11-2 pm in F204 on
Friday, February 23. There will be a signup sheet outside Dr. Akl's office
at F229. Prizes will include XBOX 360 games. Pizza will be provided for the
participants.
In addition, you may have a guest speaker serving as a "Professor for a Day"
in one of your classes during that week. The ACM and IEEE Computer Society
are planning to sponsor contests and other activities. For an updated
schedule of events, please check the CSE Engineering Week information page
at http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rakl/eweek.htm.
More details will be added daily. ↑
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The CSE Student Email Newsletter was assembled and produced by
Genene Murphy and Don Retzlaff. It is a publication of the
UNT Computer Science and Engineering Department. Contact the department
at newsletter@cse.unt.edu.
http://www.cse.unt.edu UNT
Computer Science and Engineering Department - February 2007
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The UNT Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery will meet from
1:00-2:30 p.m. on Monday, February 5, in Room F223 at the Research Park. We
will be discussing plans for the Spring semester including travel to
programming contests, speakers, conducting our high school contest, and the
UIL competitions as well as plans for National Engineers Week. We will also
be making plans to elect new officers. Pizza and drinks will be available.
