Under the leadership of Dr. Naeem (Jim) Seliya, the CIS Department has created the Agile Software Engineering Laboratory, where student will gain hands-on experience with various agile software development techniques.

 

The laboratory, housed in 117 CIS, includes 12 high-end computers hosting various industry-standard software engineering and project development applications.The immediate benefit is that our students will be trained in real-world software development projects, gaining a unique attractiveness to local and national companies and organizations.

Congratulations to Dr. Shengquan Wang for receiving a 5-year Career Award from the National Science Foundation. This award is for research on dynamic thermal management with timing guarantees in thermal-aware, high-performance, real-time embedded systems.

On Saturday, February 2, 2008, the CIS department will host Computer Science Saturday, a Girl Scout approved computer science program for girls. For more information, click here.
News Posted: January 08, 2008

On Saturday, January 19, 2008, the CIS department will host Computer Science Saturday, a Boy Scout approved computer science program for boys. For more information, click here.
News Posted: January 08, 2008

On Wednesday, October 24th the Michigan Chapter of the International Game Developers Association met in IAVS Aditorium at UM-Dearborn to hear a round table presentation on the state of Game Education in Southeastern Michigan. The panelists included Kim Callery (International Academy of Design and Technology), Jake Pollack (Schoolcraft CC), and Ben Ridgway (College of Creative Studies), Brian Winn (Michigan State University), and our own Bruce Maxim (CIS). Panelists discussed the philosophies behind the game degree options at their respsective schools and opportunities for collaborations among faculty, students, and industry. The group will return on Wednesday, November 28th for a Microsoft sponsored tutorial on using the XNA game development library.

Dr. Qiang Zhu and his graduate student, Kristine Towne, won the Best Paper Award for their paper entitled "Window Query Processing for Joining Data Streams with Relations" (co-authored with Calisto Zuzarte from IBM and Wen-Chi Hou from Southern Illinois University) at CASCON'07 -- the 17th annual International Conference on Computer Science Technologies and Research, hosted by the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies in Toronto, Canada, October 22 - 25, 2007. The conference attracted hundreds of attendees from all over the world. The Best Paper Award included a plaque and $500 for each author of the paper.

Dr. Zhiwei (Tommy) Xu will join our department as an Assistant Professor as of September 2007. A graduate of Florida Atlantic University in 2001, Dr. Xu was a Senior Staff Engineer at Motorola Laboratories in Chicago. Dr. Xu's areas of research are the applications of computational intelligence to software engineering, software reliability and availability, and autonomic computing.

Dr. William Grosky, along with Dr. Farshad Fotouhi from Wayne State University and Dr. Peter Stanchev from Kettering University, are co-organizing a Workshop on the Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics, to be held on September 28, 2007, in Augsburg, Germany, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2007. More Information