The University of Oregon's Network Resource Startup Center in partnership with the CIS Department recently held a weeklong Workshop on Campus Network Design and Operations. This intensive hands-on course was attended by an international group of students that included network engineers and operators from Africa and South Asia, as well as undergraduate computer science majors from China and the University of Oregon. The summer workshop was taught by staff from the NSRC (www.nsrc.org) and UO Information Services as part of the NSRC's mission to help develop and deploy networking technology throughout Asia/Pacific, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the New ...»

The CIS department seeks applicants for one or more full-time tenure-track faculty positions beginning fall 2010, at the rank of Assistant Professor. The University of Oregon is an AAU research university located in Eugene, two hours south of Portland, and within one hour's drive of both the Pacific Ocean and the snow-capped Cascade Mountains. See more at our Employment page. ...»

Principal Investigator Dr. Dejing Dou (Assistant Prof., CIS Dept.) and Co-Investigators Dr. Gwen Frishkoff (Assistant Prof, Psychology Dept. at Georgia State University), Dr. Allen Malony (Prof., CIS Dept. and Director of the NeuroInformatics Center, or NIC) and Dr. Don Tucker (Prof., Psychology Dept. and Co-Director of the NIC) have been awarded a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop Neural ElectroMagnetic Ontologies (NEMO), a system of formal ontologies and ontology-based tools to support sharing and meta-analysis of event-related brain potentials (ERP) data. This four-year project is one of the largest grants ever received by CIS department ...»

Classes with attITude! Summer registration begins Monday 5/4. Of special interest: CIS and the UO Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) will offer a week-long intensive Campus Network Design workshop. Read the full article for details. ...»

CIS Undergraduates Abdul Binrsheed, Craig Gardner, and John St. John collaborated with a Toronto-based web startup company, Fonolo, to port the company's telephone service system from the web to the Google Android mobile phone. The Fonolo telephone service can automatically navigate corporate phone trees to get to a human being. Phone trees are the annoying systems that prompt the caller with "Press 1 for departures, press 2 for arrivals, etc." The students were presented with a challenge in their Winter 2009 CIS 422 Software Methodologies class to build systems that navigate phone trees and then present the corporate representative who picks up the phone with a voice prompt to ...»

Prof. Steve Fickas is the general chair of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'09). ICSE is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of software engineering. ...»

Prof. Reza Rejaie is the program committee co-chair of the Sixteenth Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN'09) Conference. For 16 years, the multimedia computing and networking conference has brought together researchers, practitioners and developers to contribute new ideas in all facets of multimedia systems, networking, applications, and other related areas of computing. ...»

UO CIS and UO Information Services hosted the ACM Pacific Region Programming Contest at the University of Oregon in Eugene on November 15, 2008. This was one of five sites where teams from the region competed to solve as many programming problems as they could during the five hour contest. UO teams compete in the Northwest Regionals against teams from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, northern California and western Nevada. Top teams from each region are invited to the international finals. In 2001, the UO teams competed against almost 70 other teams at Eastern Washington University in Spokane. One team placed 10th and another 13th, each with three problems solved. ...»

Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American computer scientist who is the person most often called "the father of the Internet". His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Cerf presented his lecture, "Tracking the internet into the 21st century" at 11:00am on October 17 in the Ford Lecture Hall of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus. For video of the actual lecture, please see UO Libweb archive copy. For additional information about the lecture see: ...»

The CIS department seeks applicants for one or more full-time tenure-track faculty positions beginning fall, 2009. We anticipate appointments at the rank of Assistant Professor; however, in the case of exceptionally qualified candidates appointments at any rank may be considered. The CIS department is housed within the College of Arts and Sciences and part of the recently dedicated Lorry Lokey Science Complex. See more at our Employment page. ...»

Congratulations to Reza Rejaie for his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in the department of Computer and Information Science! Reza's promotion letter summarizes his tenure case as follows: "You have established an impressive reputation as one of the most influential peer-to-peer systems researchers in the nation. External reviewers remarked consistently on your profile of innovative, insightful, and influential, intellectual achievement and acknowledge you as a leading authority in peer-to-peer systems research." See Reza's web site for more information about his research and teaching at the University of Oregon. ...»

Congratulations to Jun Li for his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in the department of Computer and Information Science, in recognition of his outstanding contributions in research, teaching, and service. Prof. Li's research focuses on Internet security topics including worm detection, Internet routing forensics, protected client-to-client data sharing, and Internet source address validity enforcement. His research was recognized in 2007 by the prestigious NSF CAREER award, entitled "A Behavior-Based Framework for Detecting Internet Worms." He has also been the principal investigator on several research grants from NSF and Intel. His work has been published in leader journals ...»