Randy Hicks, a CIS senior, was in a major motorcycle accident on June 28, 2009. To help with medical bills, his friends are sponsoring a Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser and Silent Auction on Sunday, August 30, 2009, from 3pm-9pm at Fireman's Park, 9005 Brandon Road, Newport, Michigan 48166.

 

For more information click here.

Di Ma
University of California, Irvine

 

 Abstract: Some Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) preclude constant presence of a centralized data collection point, i.e., a sink. In such a disconnected or unattended setting, nodes must accumulate sensed data until it can be off-loaded to an itinerant sink. Furthermore, if the operating environment is hostile, there is a very real danger of node and data compromise. The unattended nature of the network makes it an attractive target for attacks that aim to learn, erase or modify potentially valuable data collected and held by sensors. We argue that adversarial models and defense techniques in prior WSN security literature are unsuitable for the unattended WSN (UWSN) setting. We define a new adversarial model by taking into account special features of the UWSN environment. We show that, in the presence of a powerful mobile adversary, securing data stored on unattended sensors presents some interesting challenges and opens up an exciting new line of research

 

In this talk, we focus on techniques that allow unattended sensors to recover from intrusions by soliciting help from peer sensors. We show how certain simple defense methods can result in sensors re-gaining secrecy and authenticity of collected data, despite adversary's efforts to the contrary. We present an extensive analysis and a set of simulation results that support our observations and demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed techniques.

Asco Numatics will award two merit-based scholarships of $5,000 each to exceptional undergraduate and graduate engineering students pursuing careers in manufacturing, processing, or other indsutrial automation related disciplines.

Applications must be submitted online here.

Our department has an open faculty position, starting Fall 2009. To see our ad, which will appear in the January 2009 issues of Communications of the ACM and IEEE Computer, click here .

Starting in Fall 2009, the CIS Department will participate in the newly approved Ph.D. in Information Engineering, along with the ECE and IMSE departments. Details can be found here .

Dr. Roberto Kampfner presented the paper, 'A Basic Principle for the Architecture of Computer-Based Information Processing,' at the 52nd Annual Meeting of  the International Society for the Systems Sciences, held in Madison, Wisconsin on July 13-18, 2008.

 

 This paper considers architecture design as a means of reducing the interdependence between the subsystems of an entire system, including software system components, in a manner that allows for the effective support of function and adaptability.

G.A.M.E. Laboratory website at:  GAME Website

 

Under the leadership of Dr. Bruce Maxim, the CIS Department has created the G.A.M.E. (Games and Multimedia Environments) Laboratory where students can use sophisticated hardware and software to create computer games that contain user interactions that are as rich and exciting as those found in commercial games.

 

This laboratory, housed in CIS 239, supports the department's new computer science track in game design. More broadly, with the collaboration of the Department of Animation/Digital Media of the College of Creative Studies (CCS), in Detroit, the department hopes to attract students to study IT through undergraduate coursework emphasizing team-based game projects.

 

Establishing a dedicated game development laboratory provides students with space to do interesting, innovative, and collaborative work. CIS faculty members will be able to make more interesting course assignments based on known hardware and software capabilities without relying on assumptions about what software/hardware students will be able find on their own.

 

Students taking our second game design course work with CCS students on interdisciplinary project teams to create high quality 3D video games. UM-D students provide programming and software engineering expertise and CCS students provide artistic expertise in the creation of multi-media game assets. We hope to expand this collaboration to include yearlong senior design projects that will be valuable to students at both institutions. For example, one such project, begun in May 2007, allows users to experience the life of a homeless person on the streets of Detroit.

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