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  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.

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.

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

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

There will be an ACM student chapter meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) September 4, at 7pm, in SWR 2A17. For more info checkout their facebook page.

Details here.

COLLOQUIUM Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Carolina Subrahmanyam Bulusu Marine Science Program & Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of South Carolina Date: April 25, 2013 Time: 1400-1500 (2:00pm-3:00pm) Place: Swearingen 1A03 (Faculty Lounge) Abstract Salt plays an important role in our daily lives. True, salt makes our food tastier, but perhaps its most significant role is as an ingredient in Earth's climate. A measurement of sea surface salinity, or the concentration of salt at the ocean’s surface, gives us vital information on global ocean circulation and how fresh water moves between the ocean and other reservoirs through the water cycle, the process by which water circulates from the ocean, to the atmosphere, to the land, and then back to the ocean. In the past, researchers assumed that salinity did not play a significant role in the dynamics and thermodynamics of the oceans because it has little variation ind the global oceans. Salinity and temperature together affect the density of seawater, and its circulation. Though temperature has been measured extensively, both in-situ and remotely sensed, salinity observations have been lacking. Regular in-situ salinity measurements have been restricted to just a small fraction of the oceans. Most of these measurements have been by ships-of-opportunity along major shipping lines. Due to these limited measurements, basin-scale processes and variability studies that require the incorporation of salinity data have been a challenge. The launch of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite in November 2009, and the United State’s NASA and Space Agency of Argentina’s (CONAE; Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales) Aquarius/ Satellite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC)-D satellite mission in June 2011, opened a new era for providing global oceans salinity observations, which will improve our understanding of salinity variability and dynamics. SMOS has been designed to observe soil moisture over the Earth's landmasses and salinity over the oceans. Aquarius/SAC-D science objectives seek to provide high quality salinity data that will help enhance the study of ocean circulation, the global hydrological cycle, climate variability, land processes, land use, soil moisture, natural hazards, health applications, cryosphere, etc. Dr. Subrahmanyam (Subra) Bulusu is an Associate Professor, with appointments in the Marine Science Program and the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of South Carolina. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Southampton, UK in 1998, did two-year postdoctoral work at the Florida State University, and then became Research faculty at FSU until 2005. He joined USC in August, 2005 as an Assistant Professor and became an Associate Professor with tenure in 2009. Since his arrival at USC, he has established a state-of-the art Satellite Oceanography Laboratory in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences. Last year he was appointed as the USC campus Director for the NASA/SC Space Grant Consortium. He was awarded the prestigious Breakthrough Rising Star designation at USC in 2013.

Our speaker will be Jeff McElroy. Many of you know Jeff as a member of our IAB. Jeff has also started a number of highly successful high tech companies. Presently he is a principal of Bang! Technologies which specializes in helping entrepreneurs start high tech companies. Jeff is a good speaker and has had a number of interesting experiences that he will talk about. Jeff was a student here in the 1980s. At that time he persuaded Prof Hillborn in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department to let himself and another student do an Individual Study class to build a “car” to compete in the IEEE SoutheastCON hardware contest. This was our first entry into that contest which later became the basis for the capstone project in both the Electrical and the Computer Engineering programs. Following graduation one of his first companies was formed to develop a cell phone assistant using voice recognition. The basic idea was that you could use your phone as a personal secretary. For example you could ask your phone to “call Joe Smith” and it would look up the number and make the connection (this was 25 years ago, long before the iphone) or you could ask it to make a note of something said during the conversation so you wouldn’t forget it.