Csilla Farkas Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Carolina, Columbia Abstract: Are you living in a smart home? Are you using smart devices to monitor your health? Is your organization considering to increase automation for sensing and controlling operations? While the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) may mean different things to different people, there is a common theme: the need for cybersecurity. The key security challenges are focused on three areas: 1) device vulnerabilities, 2) communication security and trust, and 3) data integrity, security, and privacy. In this talk I present a semantics-based approach to support IoT data integration and security. Bio: Csilla Farkas is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the Center for Information Assurance Engineering at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Farkas’ research interests include information security, data inference problem, financial and legal analysis of cyber crime, and security and privacy on the Semantic Web. silla Farkas received her PhD from George Mason University, Fairfax. In her dissertation she studied the inference and aggregation problems in multilevel secure relational databases. She received a MS in computer science from George Mason University and BS degrees in computer science and geology from SZAMALK, Hungary and Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary, respectively.

This week at our Weekly ACM/Software Engineering Meeting, Jeremy Day is giving a talk about the History and Usage of vi. Food may be provided. More Information

Come join us for our first meeting of the semester in Amoco Hall! We'll be discussing events throughout the school year, voting on future meeting times, and watching a demonstration on how to turn your pets into mobile hacking machines. More Details

I would like to invite you to attend this week's CSCE 791 seminar. These seminars highlight research being performed in our department and across the world. All CSCE 791 seminars are open to anybody who wishes to attend - not just students registered for the course. Friday, September 1, 2:20 - 3:10 PM Swearingen room 2A14 Speaker: Dr. Duncan Buell, University of South Carolina Abstract: First year students at most large universities take required courses whose purpose is to teach them to write prose essays and make arguments. We have acquired more than 7000 pairs of draft-and-final essays from USC and have been analyzing them. We are not trying to do “machine grading” of essays as an AI project. Rather, we are trying to identify features of writing that can be quantified and thus processed with programs as a big-data analysis. We are interested in the extent to which students revise their draft essays to become final versions. And we are interested in comparing our student writing against other genres of writing. For this last we use the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) as source data. The COCA is a corpus of more than 500 million words of text separated into genres of academic writing, magazine writing, transcripts of spoken English and interviews, and such. Our eventual goal is to situate student writing relative to other genres and thu s to help with improving the pedagogy of teaching writing; knowing what the students are actually writing now is key to knowing how to get them to write formal prose effectively. Programming is done in Python. Part of speech tagging is done using the CLAWS package from the University of Lancaster in the UK. Sentence parsing is done using the package from Dan Jurafsky’s lab at Stanford. Bio: Duncan A. Buell is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Unviversity of South Carolina. His Ph.D. is in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1976). He was from 2000 to 2009 the department chair at USC, and in 2005-2006 was interim dean. He has done research in document retrieval, computational number theory, and parallel computing, and has more recently turned to digital humanities as one of the emerging “marketplace” applications for computing. He is engaged with First Year English at USC on the analysis of freshman English essays, searching for an understanding of actual student writing in an effort to improve pedagogy for first year English instruction. He has team taught four times with Dr. Heidi Rae Cooley on the presentation of unacknowledged history on mobile devices, and he and Dr. Cooley are actively engaged in ways to go beyond text to fully enable the use of visual media in mobile applications that present human ities content, especially content that might normally remain unacknowledged by institutional authority.

Welcome to join Women in Computing tonight. We welcome everyone - all genders and majors! The event will be held tonight in Faculty Lounge at Swearingen 1A03, from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. Today’s major agenda is to give an information session for Grace Hopper Conference. Department of Computer Science and Engineering will be sending a group of students to the 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing which will take place on Wednesday, October 4 through Friday, October 6, in Orlando, Florida. http://ghc.anitaborg.org/. The deadline of application is tonight. We will talk about the application and selection process. The club has invited some previous attendees to attend the meeting and share their experience. More info about WiC.

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It’s that time of year. Students enrolled in the cross-College Critical Interactives class (CSCE 571, FAMS 511, MART 591, FAMS 710, CSCE 790) have been developing the 2017 version of Ward One App, which they will present and demonstrate on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at 4:30 - 5:30pm in Booker T. Washington Auditorium. We invite you join us for the event. The presentation and demonstration will be followed by Q&A.

The Entrepreneurship Club at USC hosts an event called Backers & Hackers, a program that brings computer science and business students, along with Columbia’s entrepreneurial community together to transform app ideas into working mobile applications. Last year at our demo day, we showcased 13 mobile apps, had 100 attendees, 15 sponsors, and 4 investors. Backers & Hackers Demo Day will take place at the Sonoco Pavilion at the Darla Moore School of Business on April 13th at 6:00 PM. Food will be provided. https://tockify.com/incubator/detail/113/1492120800000