News Archive

• CS Alumni update Congrats to Andrew Sutton!
  
• Spring 2013 Research Incentive Awards The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce Research Incentive awards for Academic Year 2013-2014.
  
• Colleges want tech programs computing with more students
  
• CS Colloquium 4/17/2013 "Mining Complex Graphs and Networks"
  
• CS Colloquium 3/22/2013 "Mining Genomic Data for Cancer Biomarker Prediction"
  
• "Kent Hack Enough" hackathon summary from the weekend of March 9th
  
• Summer 2013 Research Experience in Ecology Terrestrial-aquatic linkages in urban impacted ecosystems, Apply by March 25th
  
• CS Colloquium 3/1/2013 "Bayesian Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning"
  
• Kent State Students Generate Huge Buzz With Social Media “Cleanup†App Three Kent State University students recently developed a Web application to help those looking to clean up their acts – virtually speaking. Computer science majors Camden Fullmer, Daniel Gur and David Steinberg created FaceWash – now known as SimpleWash – in a weekend “hackathon,†a programming competition at the University of Pennsylvania that was held Jan. 18 – 20.
  
• Facewash: CS Student Hackathon Creation is Spreading Across the World
  
• CS Colloquium 2/1/2013 "The Weakening and Delayed Effects of Long Tail Distributions in Big Data Access"
  
• CS Colloquium 12/05/2012 "Tire Modeling at Goodyear"
  
• hacKSU Meeting - Oct. 4th, 2012
  
• CS Colloquium 10/12/2012 "Efficiently Analyzing Large-Scale Molecular Simulation Data with Performance Guarantees"
  
• Kent State Sponsoring Crain's Cleveland Breakfast on 21 June: "Bridging Three Generations of Talent" On Thursday 21 June, Kent State University will be the sponsor of a Crain's Cleveland Breakfast on the topic "Bridging Three Generations of Talent". Dr. Robert A. Walker, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the School of Digital Sciences, will be one of the panelists.
  
• Sciences Research Activity Since June 2011, faculty research activities in the sciences have included many publications, grant awards, and invited presentations which have contributed to the research mission at KSU. Recent sciences research includes work by Maxim Dzero & Carmen Almasan, Songping Huang & Soumitra Basu, Laura Leff, Jonathan Maletic, Marilyn Norconk, and Alison Smith.
  
• Department of Computer Science: Achievements June 2011-April 2012 Recent research activity conducted by Department of Computer Science faculty members between June 2011 and April 2012 includes five new grants.
  
• CS Colloquium 4/20/2012 "Mining High-Throughput Biological Data"
  
• Prof. Khan Awarded $1.25 Million Research Contract for Building Research & Education Cyber Infrastructure in Bangladesh An international partnership involving Kent State will help build the Bangladesh Research and Education Network.
  
• Naser Madi wins KSU Business Concept Award
  
• CS Colloquium 3/14/2012 "Big Data in Health Care: The Next Frontier in Clinical Research, Study Trial"
  
• Notice of CS Course Number Changes The Department of Computer Science has renumbered a block of courses.
  
• Faculty from DSCI, CS, and MIS Participate in ACM's Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Kent State University was amply represented at this year's ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2012), with representatives from the School of Digital Sciences, the Department of Computer Science, and the Department of Management and Information Systems in attendance. ACM's premier conference on computer science education, SIGCSE 2012 was held in Raleigh NC and attracted almost 1300 attendees.
  
• CS Colloquium 3/9/2012 "Modeling and Computation for Large-scale Air Traffic Flow Optimization"
  
• Jeff Bailey Celebrates 20 Years of Service
  
• IT/IS Career Expo 3/1/12 - Have a Blast & Change the World Thursday 1 March, 10:00-11:30am and 12:30-2:00pm, Kent Student Center Ballroom (2nd floor). Come explore the exciting careers in information systems, computer science, and information technology. Sponsored by CIS in conjunction with DSCI and CS.
  
• CS Colloquium 2/27/2012 "Continuous Process Improvement in Healthcare Delivery: A Systems Approach"
  
• Prof. Jonathan I. Maletic awarded grant from ABB Inc. Prof. Jonathan I. Maletic was awarded a grant for $120K from ABB Inc.
  
• Prof. Ye Zhao Receives Google Faculty Research Award Prof. Ye Zhao has recently received a Google Faculty Research Award.
  
• Passing of Professor Sheng Yu The Department of Computer Science would like to extend our condolences to the family of Professor Sheng Yu, who passed away Monday, January 23.
  
• Prof. Javed I. Khan Becomes our New Chair Professor Javed I. Khan chosen as the new Chair of the Computer Science Department.
  
• CS Colloquium 11/21/2011 "Healthcare Big Data, HBase, and the Apache Software Foundation" Healthcare Big Data, HBase, and the Apache Software Foundation -- Doug Meil -- Explorys -- 3:45 pm, 21 November 2011, 228 MSB
  
• CS Colloquium 11/2/2011 "Rubik's Cube in Twenty Moves or Less" Rubik's Cube in Twenty Moves or Less -- Dr. Morley Davidson -- Mathematical Sciences Department -- Kent State University -- 3:45 pm, 2 November 2011, 228 MSB
  
• Rizal Mohd Nor and Mikhail Nesterenko Win Best Student Paper Award Rizal Mohd Nor, Mikhail Nesterenko (both of Kent State University) and Christian Scheideler (University of Padeborn) were awarded "best student paper" at the 13th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS) for their paper "Corona: A Stabilizing Deterministic Message-Passing Skip List".
  
• CS Colloquium 10/14/2011 "From Open-Loop Sensing to Closed-Loop Sensing and Control: Challenges to Embedded Wireless..." From Open-Loop Sensing to Closed-Loop Sensing and Control: Challenges to Embedded Wireless Networking --
  Dr. Hongwei Zhang --
  Computer Science Department --
  Wayne State University --
  4:00 pm, 14 October 2011, 228 MSB
  
• CS Colloquium 10/5/2011 "Computational Modeling Towards Two-Dimensional Annotation of Genomes" Computational Modeling Towards Two-Dimensional Annotation of Genomes -- Dr. Xuewen Chen -- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science -- University of Kansas -- 3:45 pm, 5 October 2011, 228 MSB
  
• CS Colloquium 9/30/2011 "Integrative-omics Identification of Signaling Pathway Networks..." Integrative-omics Identification of Signaling Pathway Networks and Clinical Associations in Cancer --
  Dr. Gurkan Bebek --
  Case Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics --
  Case Western University --
  3:45 pm, 30 September 2011, 228 MSB
  
  
  
• ACM Speaker Series: Casey Stella on "Better News Through Data Science" On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 7 PM, the Kent State University Student Chapter of the ACM will be hosting speaker Casey Stella in 228 MSB, who will speak on "Better News Through Data Science.
• Professors Baker, Farrell and Nesterenko Awarded NSF/Intel Parallelism Curriculum Grant Professors Johnnie W.Baker, Paul A. Farrell, and Mikhail Nesterenko received an award inducting them into the NSF/TCPP Fall 2011 Early Adopter program.
  
• Prof. Mikhail Nesterenko Wins Best Paper Award Prof. Mikhail Nesterenko (Kent State University) and Sebastien Tixeuil (University of Paris) were awarded "Best Paper" at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2011) in Singapore.
  
• NY Times: Is This Computer Science's 'Sputnik Moment'? After a recent article in the New York Times attributes the recent rise in interest in computer science to Facebook, CS educators are wondering if this is our "Sputnik Moment".
  
• Keep in Touch with the CS Department over the Summer! Want to keep in touch with the Computer Science Department over the summer? "Like" us on Facebook, or "Follow" us on Twitter!
  
• Congratulations to Nicholas Tietz for Winning ACESS STEM Scholarship Congratulations to Nicholas Tietz for winning this year's ACESS STEM Scholarship, which is awarded annually to a Kent State University student by the Akron Council of Engineering and Scientific Societies.
  
• Prof. Ruoming Jin Promoted to Associate Professor Congratulations to Professor Ruoming Jin, who has earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, effective this coming fall.
  
• CS Department Honors Week Undergraduate Student Recognition Ceremony 4/13/2011 Please join us for our Honors Week Student Recognition Ceremony on Wednesday 13 April at 3:30pm, as we congratulate our very talented undergraduate students for their accomplishments over this past academic year. 
  
• New Rotation Schedule for CS Core Courses The Department of Computer Science will be implementing a new course rotation schedule beginning in Spring 2012, which has implications for students registering for Fall 2011
  
• ACM / CS Sponsored "Pizza with Profs" Kent State University's ACM Student Chapter, together with the Computer Science Department, are hosting "Pizza with the Profs" on Wednesday 6 April at 7pm in the Math and Computer Science Library on the 3rd floor.
  
• ACM Speaker 3/31/2011 "Cryptology for Fun and Profit" Cryptology for Fun and Profit -- Dr. Michael Rothstein -- Computer Science Department -- Kent State University -- 7 pm, March 31, 2011, Room 228 MSB
  
  
• Department of Computer Science's Social Media Strategy Web page, Facebook, and Twitter -- how do we use them differently?
  
• CS Colloquium 4/1/2011 "STREAMIT: Dynamic Visualization and Interactive Exploration of Text Streams" Time: Friday, 1 April 2011, 3:45 - 5:00 PM --
  Place: MSB 228 --
  Speaker: Ye Zhao, Kent State University
  
• CS Colloquium 3/16/2011 "Managing and Mining Biological Networks" Managing and Mining Biological Networks --
  Dr. Jiong Yang --
  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department --
  Case Western University --
  3:45 pm, March 16, 2011, Room 228 MSB
  
• ACM Speaker 3/9/2011 "An introduction to Network Science and Network Data Management" An introduction to Network Science and Network Data Management --
  Dr. Ruoming Jin --
  Computer Science Department --
  Kent State University --
  7 pm, March 9, 2011, Room 228 MSB
  
• ACM Speaker 3/2/2011 "A Lightweight Transformational Approach to Support Large Scale Adaptive Changes" A Lightweight Transformational Approach to Support Large Scale Adaptive Changes --
  Dr. Jonathan I. Maletic --
  Computer Science Department --
  Kent State University --
  7 pm, March 2, 2011, Room 228 MSB
  
  
• IT & IS Career Expo Thursday 3/3/11 10:00-11:30am & 12:30-2:00pm -- Kent Student Center
  
• CS Colloquium 3/7/2011 "Differential Modeling for Biomedical Applications" Differential Modeling for Biomedical Applications --
  Dr. Chandan Reddy --
  Computer Science Department --
  Wayne State University --
  3:45 pm, March 7, 2011, Room 228 MSB
  
• Trip Report: Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWIC 2011) 3 professors and 6 students participated in OCWIC 2011, hearing talks, making presentations, and participating in a poster competition.
  
• Kent State University ACM Student Chapter Reboots The ACM Student Chapter at Kent State University has recently reformed and is looking for new members. Meetings are usually held on Wednesdays at 7:00pm room 228 in the Math and Computer Science Building. We look forward to seeing you there!
  
• Summer 2011 Registration Starts Monday 2/21 Registration for summer classes starts Monday 21 February 2011.
  
• Dr. Angela Guercio Receives Award for Paper at 16th ICMDS/WDET
  
• CS Colloquium 9/15/2010 "Data-driven Approaches in Biomedical Ontology Research" Time: Wednesday, September 15 2010, 3:45 - 5:00 PM
  Place: MSB 228
  Speaker: Dejing Dou, University of Oregon
  
• Dr. Jonahan Maletic Awarded $250,073 in $2M NSF MRI Consortium Grant Dr. Jonathan I. Maletic, Professor and Interim Chair, was part of a research team granted a $2M National Science Foundation Award. The project is entitled "MRI-R2 Consortium: Development of a Software Traceability Instrument to Facilitate and Empower Traceability Research and Technology Transfer, CNS 09-59924", and is described further below. The work is a consortium between DePaul University in Chicago, The College of William & Mary, and Kent State University. Dr. Jane Cleland-Huang is the lead PI from DePaul and Dr. Denys Poshyvanyk is the co-PI from William & Mary.  Prof. Maletic received $250,073 of the $2M total.
  
• Changes to Introductory CS Sequence Underway The Department of Computer Science is planning to make changes to the introductory Computer Science course sequence. Specifically, we plan to be changing the first course for Computer Science Majors.
  
• Prof. Maletic Taking over for Prof. Walker as Interim Chair CS Chair Robert A. Walker is stepping down as Chair to take the lead for A&S in a cross-cutting initiative for digital computing programs, and Professor Jonathan I. Maletic has been appointed as Interim Chair for Computer Science
  
• Passing of OBR Distinguished Professor Yuri Breitbart The Department of Computer Science mourns the loss of OBR Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Yuri Breitbart, who passed away peacefully last night.
  
• Professors Dragan, Maletic, Nesterenko Promoted to Professor Computer Science Associate Professors Feodor Dragan, Jonathan Maletic, and Mikhail Nesterenko have been promoted to full Professor, effective this fall. Congratulations to the three of them for this important recognition of their professional achievement!
  
• Four KSU Students Participate in 2010 Google Summer of Code Four KSU students -- Brian Bartman, Thomas Mulally, Justin Shreve, and Andrew Sutton -- will be participating in the 2010 "Google Summer of Code" program, designed to encourage college student participation in Open Source software development.
  
• Dr. C.C. Lu Awarded a $34,997 KSU Research Challenge Grant Dr. C.C. Lu, Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded a 1-year $34,997 KSU Research Challenge Grant for the project entitled "MRI-Based Attenuation Correction for PET/MRI and Medical Image Registration Methods on Graphics Processing Units
• Kent State Presents Computer Science Discovery Day on May 1 The Department of Computer Science at Kent State University is hosting a Computer Science Discovery Day on Saturday, May 1. Accepted, prospective and interested students, along with their friends and family members, can learn more about the exciting possibilities of studying computer science at Kent State. The activities begin at 10 a.m. in the Mathematics and Computer Science Building, which is adjacent to the first parking lot east of the Student Center parking lot on Summit Street.
  
• Saturday 1 May 2010 "Computer Science Discovery Day" What: Computer Science Discovery Day; Who:  for Accepted Students, Prospective Students, and Interested Students; When: 9:40am - 3:00pm, Saturday 1 May 2010; Where: various locations in the Mathematics and Computer Science Building
  
• Kent State Assistant Professor Receives $523,859 NSF Grant Dr. Ruoming Jin, assistant professor of computer science at Kent State University, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop data mining technologies. The five-year CAREER grant of $523,859 is for his project titled "Novel Data Mining Technologies for Complex Network Analysis.
• Computer Science Majors Significantly Increase for the Second Year in a Row The number of undergraduate students majoring in computer science significantly increased for the second year in a row according to the Computing Research Association (CRA)
  
• Scheduled Computer System Down Time and Reduced Service over Spring Break Both CS and Math computer systems will be subject to down time and reduced service over the Spring break. In general there will be COMPLETE shutdowns for SHORT PERIODS only, except on Monday March 28 and Wednesday March 31 when there will be a COMPLETE shutdown ALL DAY AND NIGHT through the next morning. During shutdowns there will be no system access, and on that Monday and Thursday there will be no network or telephone service in the building.
  
• Dr. Ruoming Jin Awarded a 5-year $523,859 NSF CAREER Grant Dr. Ruoming Jin, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded a 5-year $523,859 NSF CAREER grant for the project entitled "CAREER: Novel Data Mining Technologies for Complex Network Analysis
• Information Session 3/24/2010 "Google Summer of Code 2010" What:  Google Summer of Code 2010 Information Session Who: Andrew Sutton, CS PhD Candidate Where: MSB 121 When:  10-11am, Wednesday 24 March 2010
  
• Seven of the Top "Best Jobs in America" are in Computing Seven of the Top "Best Jobs in America" are in Computing
  
• CS reaches K-12 at Stark Hands-on activity was completed by 8th grade students at the CS Department at Stark.
  
• CS Colloquium 3/24/2010 "Accelerating Web Services with Elastic Cloud Caches" CS Colloquium 3/24/2010 "Accelerating Web Services with Elastic Cloud Caches
• EVENT: Business and Academia at KSU EVENT: Business and Academia at KSU
  
• Upcoming Colloquium - DEVELOPING A NATIONAL NETWORK TO MINE AGGREGATE MEDICAL DATA The effective practice of medicine is not just about developing new and better medicines, it is also about knowing how to better and more effectively use the medicine and medical expertise which currently exist. In fact, there is much to be gained if we could more fully understand the data which currently exist. Unfortunately, these data are stored in many, many formats and places, and the data are protected by HIPAA regulations. In this talk, we describe how activities and research at Explorys, a recently created company partnering with the Cleveland Clinic, are working together to collect and use this massive amount of data for the improvement of health care. The technology is akin to Google's in some ways; particularly, in the ability to store, index, and make searchable billions of medical diagnoses, medication, measures, procedures, and outcomes. We believe these efforts will accelerate innovation and enable better medicine.
  
• CS & Math System / Network Outages The CS and Math systems and network infrastructure will be experiencing some disruptions through Tuesday 12 January, due to the previously planned replacement of the machine room's dedicated air conditioner.
  
• CS Department 2009 Holiday Schedule During the winter break, the CS Department Main Office will close on Thursday 24 December, and will not reopen until Monday 3 January. Following the break, the air conditioner in the Machine Room will be replaced, which may force the shutdown of some non-essential equipment for several days.
  
• Shannon Steinfadt Thinks Parallel at SC09 In this video interview, Shannon Steinfadt (KSU CS PhD student) shares how she introduced parallelism to her Computer Science 10051 class, and how she is utilizing parallel programming to help national security. Shannon is currently working at Los Alamos National Labs as she completes her dissertation.
  
• CS Colloquium by Dr. Philip R.O. Payne, Ohio State University On Friday, December 11, 2009, Dr. Philip R.O. Payne, Ohio State University, will speak on the topic "The High Throughput Data Problem: Hypothesis Generation and Phenotype Modeling in Translational Research
• Prof. Ken Batcher recognized as Emeritus Professor KSU's Board of Trustees has recognized Professor Ken E. Batcher as an Emeritus Professor
  
• "Science" Section of CS 10061 Intro to Programming In Spring 2010, Section 13400 of CS 10061 Intro to Programming (TR 2:15-3:30pm) will be oriented toward introducing C++ programming to science students
  
• Chibuike Muoh Thesis Defense Chibuike Muoh will defend his Masters Thesis "Sparsification for Topic Modeling and Applications to Information Retrieval" on Thursday, November 12 at 2:00 in room 274 MSB
  
• Ryan Holeman Thesis Defense Identifying Programming Idioms in C++ Generic Libraries
  
• CS Department now on FaceBook and Twitter Follow the KSU CS Department on FaceBook and Twitter
  
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