Trends in Technology

Friday, November 22, 2013 - 02:20 pm
Swearingen 2A07
Mr. Ted Tanner will be the speaker in our CSCE791 (Seminar in Advances in Computing) tomorrow at 2:20 and you are invited to attend his talk. Mr. Tanner has had a very successful career in establishing a number of start-up companies including: digidesign (acquired by Avid), MongoMusic (acquired by Microsoft), and BeliefNetworks (acquired by Benefitfocus). His presentation will focus on trends in the technology sector. The presentation will be held tomorrow at 2:20-3:10 in room 2A07 with additional space available in room 2A19. Biography Ted Tanner is an engineering executive with extensive experience ranging from startups to public corporations. Focused mainly on growth scale computing he has held architect positions at both Apple and Microsoft. Currently he is the CTO of PokitDok, Inc. that provides innovative enterprise and consumer focused price transparency to both large employer groups and direct consumer models. He has held instrumental roles in several start-ups, including digidesign (IPO and acquired by Avid), Crystal River Engineering (acquired by Creative Labs), MongoMusic (acquired by Microsoft) and BeliefNetworks (acquired by Benefitfocus). He has also ran a publicly traded NASDAQ:SPAZ at the CTO level. He is on the IAB for the University of South Carolina Computer Science Department as well as the Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning at the University of Tennessee. He also holds a Top Secret Clearance.Formerly he was the CTO of BeliefNetworks, Inc a real time semantic and predictive analytics company focused on media and department of defense applications. BeliefNetworks was purchase by Benefitfocus in 2009. Customers included Forbes.com, Comcast / DailyCandy.com and the Department of Defense. Prior to BeliefNetworks Inc he was an architect for seven years with Microsoft Corporation working on such products and technologies as the Windows Networking Stack, Vista Audio architecture, Metadata architectures, Secure Audio- Video path, and Media Center edition. Before leaving Microsoft in 2007, Mr. Tanner supported IPv6 and RFID solutions, Trustworthy Computing, Emergency/DataFusion Enterprise Architecture and Media architectures, in addition, Ted represented the Microsoft Corporation on the Presidential National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee Research and Development Taskforce (NSTAC-RDTF) and the Next Generation Networks Taskforce. Prior to Microsoft, he was VP of R&D for MongoMusic were he directed all aspects of knowledge discovery, machine learning, signal processing research, intellectual property management and venture capital assessment. MongoMusic was purchased by the Microsoft Corporation in 2000 for $75M. Prior to MongoMusic, Inc, Mr. Tanner was the Media Architect at Apple Computer Inc. where he worked on adaptive media processing architectures for OS9 and OSX underlying products such as iMovie, iTunes and GarageBand. Mr. Tanner has published numerous articles in leading technical magazines and holds several patents in the areas of semantics, machine learning, signal processing and signal protection. He is an active public speaker on advanced technology issues in a variety of industry forums and conferences including but not limited to government sponsored events and hearings such as those held by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

Duke Energy IT Information Session

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 07:00 pm
Swearingen 2A31
Learn about Internships and full-time job opportunities in Information Technology at Duke Energy.

Computing Education in South Carolina Summit

Friday, November 8, 2013 - 11:00 am
IT-oLogy, 1301 Gervais Street, Columbia SC
  Who Should Attend: South Carolina Legislators, Department of Education, K-12 Teachers, Principals, District Staff, Curriculum Decision-Makers and anyone interested in computer science education in the state of South Carolina What: The South Carolina Computer Science Education Summit When: Friday, November 8 2013 from 11:00am-12:30pm
  • Sit with Me event promoting women's role in the IT profession: Register here for Sit With Me
Friday, November 8 2013 from 1:00pm-4:00pm
  • Featured speakers include: Avis Yates Rivers with Technology Concepts and Cameron Wilson, COO of Code.org.
Topics include:
  • National effort to get computer science into schools
  • Individual states' efforts to broaden participation in and improve computer science education
  • State of computer science education in South Carolina
Saturday, November 9 2013 from 8:30am-4:30pm. Topics include:
  • Curricular changes going on in South Carolina
  • Exploring Computer Science overview and activity
  • Individual states' efforts to broaden participation in and improve computer science education
  • Professional Development panel and resources for educators
Where: IT-oLogy, 1301 Gervais Street, Columbia SC Cost: FREE To register, go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ComputingEducationSC118913 and select the sessions you would like to attend. See this article in the State, or this post for more info.

Lockpicking 101

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 06:30 pm
Swearingen, Room 2A17

Fix-it Day

Saturday, October 12, 2013 - 09:00 am
Swearingen Engineering Center
Computer running slow? Think you have a virus? No problem! On October 12, 2013, the student chapter of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will hold Fix-IT at USC. This free event is open to the entire Columbia community. It will be held at the Swearingen Engineering Center (301 Main. St.) from 9a.m. to 3p.m. Services include virus and spyware removal, operating system installation, hardware diagnostics, general troubleshooting, and simple software installation. We can service laptops, desktops, Mac, Windows, and Linux. A few disclaimers: We will try to solve any problem you are having to the best of our abilities, but some problems may be out of our purview. Also, if you want us to install an operating system for you, then you will need to supply the CD with the software and the installation key.

ACM: I.T. Staffing with David Grim

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 06:30 pm
SWGN 2A17
We will be having a meeting on Wednesday September 25th. The meeting will have a guest speaker. The speaker is David Grim of Allen & Associates of America, Inc. The company he is representing is an I.T. Staffing company for the Charlotte, Columbia, and Greenville area. He will be reviewing resumes in advanced so if you would like a professional to review your resume send a digital copy todavid@allenassociates.net. He has asked for it in a .doc or .docx format. He will also give a short presentation on the listed topics. Send Resumes to david@allenassociates.net. Please do not send them to me.
  • How to improve your chances of success in the I.T. market.
  • What skills are in demand.
  • How to improve your resume so you can be more appealing to companies. (In a stack of resumes, ours are ALWAYS picked first.)
  • Interviewing tips. (Don’t think this can be covered too much.)
  • Interview & lead tracking (Organizing the search)
Thanks, Benjamin Morgan Chair of ACM@USC

Second Gamecock Computing Research Symposium

Friday, September 13, 2013 - 02:00 pm
Swearingen Atrium
Featuring:
  • State of the CSE Department
  • Brief Overviews of Faculty Research (One-Minute Madness! Each CSE faculty member has 1 minute and 1 slide)
  • Poster Presentations by Graduate Students
When: Friday, September 13, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Where: Amoco Hall, Swearingen Engineering Center, 301 Main Street, Columbia This is your opportunity to learn about the world-class research underway in computing at the University of South Carolina. The research extends from the theory of computing to practical aspects, such as smart-phone apps. It includes computer vision, bioinformatics, multiagent systems, Bayesian reasoning, wireless networking, information security, quantum computing, and robotics. The symposium is also an opportunity to meet the students conducting this research.
First Name Last Name Poster Title
Sergey Aganezov On pairwise distances and median score of the three genomes under DCJ
Mingzhe Du Wikitheoria: Web-based Tools for Developing & Accessing Sociological Theory
Xiaochuan Fan A Fuzzy Edge-Weighted Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation Model for Image Segmentation
Nan Gao Genetic Algorithm for RMP
Yang Gao Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiply on the Texas Instruments C6678 Digital Signal Processor
Dazhou Guo SVM Based Automatic T1 Weighted MRI Chronic Stroke Brain Lesion Detection Pipeline
Bryan Haines Research Experience for Veterans Simulation Software for Renewable Integration
Junaed Bin Halim Bringing MIMO Power Saving Feature in 802.11n EWLAN: An SDN Approach
Shizhong Han Facial Action Units Recognition through Quality based Multi-Algorithm Fusion
Jie Huang Secure Caching Architecture for Mobile Cloud
Ani Kish Dynamic Partitioning of Data for Workflow Compositions
Yuewei Lin Imporved Background Subtraction for Detecting Objects with Infrequent Motions
Xiao Lin Sequential Experimental Design
Jhih-Rong Lin Identification of regulation of nuclear import by post-translational modification (PTM) within/adjacent nuclear localization signal (NLS) based on NLS-import receptor interaction
Ping Liu Facial Expression Analysis with Deep Learning
Rufeng Meng SkyEye: Local Traffic Map
Hossen Mustafa Detecting Evil Twin Access Point Attack in Wireless Hotspots
Krishna Nagar Accuracy, Cost and Performance Tradeoffs for Set-wise Floating Point Accumulation
Bridgette Parsons NurseView: Agent-Based Simulation for Nursing Administration
Muhammad Sakib Revealing Fast-Flux Mothership
Dhaval Salvi Document Image Analysis: Document Image Retification and Handwritten Text-Segmentation
Ibrahim Savran Large-scale Pairwise Sequence Alignments on a Massively Parallel GPU Cluster
RoxAnn Stalvey Information Security in High School
Jing Tian Text Independent Handwriting Identification Using Leap Motion Controller
Jiting Xu Approximate Bayesian Computation Based on Progressive Correction of Gaussian Components
Fan Zhang Real Time Optical Flow on Multicore Embedded DSP
Kang Zheng Paragon: A Digital Collation System
Youjie Zhou Multiscale Superpixels and Supervoxels via Hierarchical Edge-Weighted Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation
Jun Zhou Finding the lost treasure by comining PMAG and GAST
Lingxi Zhou Genome Inferring based on Median Problem of Maximum Likelihood of Gene Adjacencies
Cheers, Michael Huhns, Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science and Engineering