Associate Professor Anthony Hornof will represent the University of Oregon as the keynote speaker at the annual COGAIN (COmmunication by GAze INteraction) conference, to be held in September, 2008, in Prague. COGAIN is a European-Union funded program that is dedicated to advancing the science and technology necessary for people with severe motor impairments to control a computer with their eye movements. COGAIN started in 2004, with 2.9 million Euros of funding from the European Commission's Information Society Technologies 6th framework program. There is no equivalent centralized program that is specifically dedicated to advancing communication by gaze interaction in the United States, ...»

Students working on University degree requirements will find CIS Summer Session both practical and fun. Three courses are in the Science group: CIS 111 Web Programming with JavaScript & AJAX, CIS 122 Algorithms & Programs with Python, and CIS 170 Science of Programming with Ruby. JavaScript, Python and Ruby are all excellent languages for Web Developers. Two courses satisfy the B.S. math/computing requirement: CIS 111 Web Programming (JavaScript & AJAX), and CIS 122 Programming and Algorithms (Python). Three courses allow a student to complete the entire first year of the CIT Minor in just 8 Weeks: CIS 110 Digital Information Processing (weeks 1-4), CIS 111 Web Programming ...»

The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $2.19 million grant to the UO and its partners for POINT (Petascale Productivity from Open, Integrated Tools). The other institutions sharing in the grant are the University of Tennessee, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. UO computer science professor, Allen Malony, is the project's principal investigator. "Now is the time to transfer successful, robust parallel performance infrastructure to an integrated, extensible, and sustainable performance tools suite," Malony says. Malony is also the Director of the NeuroInformatics Center at the UO which uses high ...»

Four CIS grad students have recently received scholarship awards. Nazanin Magharei received the 2008-09 Henry V. Howe Scholarship. She also received the 2008-2009 Miller Family Graduate Award in Technology and Science. Nazanin is a fourth year PhD candidate with a GPA of 4.08. Her research area is peer-to-peer streaming. She has published in ten journal and conference publications and received the 2006 Julifs Scholarship Award. According to CIS professor Reza Rejaie,"One of Nazanin's unique qualities is her desire to set a high bar for herself in any assigned task, and then try to pass that bar. Nazanin is a very talented, motivated and goal-directed PhD student who has achieved ...»

A team of UO faculty has received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a two year project which will explore new models for undergraduate computer science curriculum that better prepare students to work in a global community of computing professionals. The project is also supported by a similar grant for a group of faculty from Portland State University. A team of CIS faculty, Arthur Farley, Sarah Douglas, Virginia Lo, Andrzej Proskurowski and Michal Young developed the project proposal, meeting once a week over a period of four months and working additional hours individually. In July of 2007, UO and PSU received collaborative grants totaling more than $500,000 to fund ...»

Jiawei Han is a renowned computer scientist who specializes in research on Data Mining. Han, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will lecture May 08 on "Exploring the Power of Links in Information Network Mining. Data mining involves sorting through large amounts of data and picking out relevant information. It is usually used by business intelligence organizations, and financial analysts, but it is increasingly used in the sciences to extract information from the enormous data sets generated by modern experimental and observational methods. Han has over 300 journal and conference publications. His book, "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" is used as ...»

Over thirty professors and graduate students from 19 institutions in North and South America and Europe attended a symposium called "Third Workshop on Graph Classes, Optimization and Width Parameters," or GROW '07, Oct. 18-20 on the University campus. The participants investigate graphs which model relationships between objects such as roads between cities, links between network routers and even human social relationships. "To optimize the use of resources, one has to solve -- most often with the help of computers -- problems that frequently can be translated into properties of graphs," said Andrzej Proskurowski. "One of the most celebrated of such problems is the Hamiltonian path. Given a ...»

A paper titled "Scalable Automatic Test Data Generation from Modeling Diagrams" written by Yannis Smaragdakis and two of his former students at Georgia Tech received the "Best Paper" award out of 37 presented papers and 312 total submissions at the conference on Automated Software Engineering in November 2007. The paper also received one of three ACM SIGSOFT "Distinguished Paper Awards" given at ASE. Christoph Csallner and Ranjith Subramanian were the co-authors. Csallner is currently a visiting research assistant in the UO CIS Department. The paper presents a method for automatic production of test data from diagrams in the Object Role Modeling language. The authors define a ...»

Associate Professor Anthony Hornof has been awarded a second grant from the National Science Foundation for research developing eye-controlled software for children with severe mobility impairments. The project builds on previous success developing the EyeDraw software, which enables children to draw pictures by just moving their eyes, but branches into several new areas of research. "There are a few different scientific questions that we are asking here," says Dr. Hornof. "One is sort of an ethnographic anthropological question that relates to collaborating directly with children with severe motor impairments in the design of software. Another relates to a sort of artificial ...»

Life Technologies, LLC, a tech transfer company that resulted from Professor Steve Fickas' research group, has been nominated as finalist for an Emerald Award for Innovation. The Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce developed the Emerald Awards program to honor businesses in the Eugene and Springfield area that contribute to the community's vitality and quality of life. Emerald Awards are given in four categories: Innovation, Growth, Environmental Values, and Community Caring. Each award represents a core principle of sustainability and demonstrates the important connection between the success of local businesses and the quality of life in Eugene/Springfield. The other nominees ...»