ICS News and Announcements

UH Manoa's ICS and Speech Receive NSF Grant for study of Virtual Organizations

The National Science Foundation's VOSS program (Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems, Office of Cyberinfrastructure) awarded a grant of $382,421 to Dan Suthers (Principal Investigator, Dept. of ICS) and Devan Rosen (Co-Principal Investigator, Dept. of Speech) for a project titled "Traces--Understanding Distributed Socio-Technical Systems". The grant begins on November 1, 2009 and runs for a period of three years.

Prof. Guylaine Poisson part of large NIH grant

 

LIS Program Receives IMLS Grant

The University of Hawaii's Library and Information Science Program has received a National Leadership grant of $249,918 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Seminar: Lipyeow Lim, "Getting into Data Management Research" (9/17/2009)

4:30PM, POST 127, Thursday 9/17

Seminar: David Chin, "CCPV: Coherence-Based Modeling of Cultural Change and Political Violence" (9/10/2009)

Thursday, September 10, 4:30pm, POST 127

CIS Proposal Defense, Chi Kim Diep, "Stakeholders' perceptions of information literacy instruction programs and a best-practice model for academic libraries in Vietnam: An exploratory embedded qualitative study" (8/28/2009)

Friday, August 28, 2009. 10:00am to noon., POST 302

ICS Proposal Defense: Pavel Senin, "Software Trajectory Analysis: An empirically based method for automated software process discovery" (8/20/2009)

POST 318, 12:00noon

CIS Proposal Defense: David Nickles, "Informing Complex Technology Interventions in a Technology-Rich Teaching Ecology: Design Features for Lecture Podcasting that Promote Active Learning" (8/26/2009)

11:00-1:30pm, POST 302

"A Protocol for Secure Electronic Remote Voting", Edoardo Biagioni, Yingfei Dong, Wesley Peterson, Kazuo Sugihara

IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Security (N2S), Paris, France, June 2008

Medina wins best student paper award at CSCL 2009

ICS Ph.D. student Richard Medina wins for “Inscriptions becoming representations”

Seminar: Shari Ishikawa, "Renewable Integration - Opportunities and Challenges" (6/26/2009)

Holmes Hall 287, Friday June 26, 1:00 - 2:00pm

Summer Job Opportunities in Renewable Energy!

Undergraduate jobs through the REIS project

CIS Proposal Defense: Chong-Hyuck Park, "The effect of narrative flexibility, problem solving style, and familarity on the enjoyment of computer games" (6/3/2009)

Wednesday, June 3rd at 2 pm in Crawford 322

Prof. Casanova awarded $30K NSF grant

Grant title: "DiRT: A Testbed for Distributed Research"

ICS Ph.D. Fanelli in NYT (5/11/2009)

Robert Fanelli, ICS Ph.D. (2008), now at West Point

Memorial Service for Wes Peterson (5/22/2009)

Friday, May 22nd, from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at the East-West Center’s Hawaii Imin International Conference Center

Johnson is co-PI on REIS Project, winner of $1M UH Sustainability Competition

REIS stands for Renewable Energy and Island Sustainability

Steveler named Global Expert in eHealth by World Bank

 

Gazan at NASA Astrobiology Institute Strategic Science Initiative Workshop

 

Seminar: Rich Zemel, "Learning to label complex images" (5/11/09)

Monday May 11, 2009 2.30pm POST 302

Seminar: "Renewable Energy and Island Sustainability" (5/7/2009)

Thursday, May 7, 12:00 noon, POST 214 (Don Kim Lab)

Dissertation Defense: Daniel Smith, "Social Media Correlates of Organizational Climate" (5/7/2009)

Thursday, May 7, 2:30pm, Crawford 322

School Library Specialization Among Top Ten in U.S. News and World Report

The LIS school library media specialization has been recognized as among the top ten in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report.

Seminar: Victor V. Miagkikh, "Learning in Networks: from Spiking Neural Nets to Graphs" (5/4/2009)

Monday, May 4th, 3pm, Moore Hall 205 (1890 East-West Road)

ICS 101 TAs are Semi-Finalists in Walt Disney's ImagiNations 2009 Competition (4/27/2009)

Students design mobile device to enhance park goers.

Seminar: Diane Nahl, "Virtual World Librarianship and the 3-D Web" (4/28/2009)

Tuesday April 28th at 4:15 p.m. in POST 126.

Seminar: Dr. Ian Witten, "Semantic document processing using Wikipedia as a knowledge base" (4/30/2009)

Thursday, April 30th, 12:00 – 1:00, POST 127

Seminar: Wes Peterson and Edo Biagioni, "Practical Distributed Voter-Verifiable Secret Ballot System" (4/23/2009)

Thursday, April 23, 2009, POST 127, 4:30pm

Proposal Defense: Kar-Hai Chu, "Exploring How Technology Mediates the Types of Relationships Formed in Sociotechnical Systems" (4/30/2009)

Thursday, April 30th, 4:30pm, POST 127

Seminar: Blanca Polo, "Birth of the Multi-Format Teaching Environment" (4/16/2009)

April 16, 2009, 4:30pm, POST 127

Proposal Defense: Pei-Chia Chang, "A Personalized Recommender Agent for the World Wide Web - A Semantic Perspective" (5/1/2009)

May 1, 2009, 4:00pm, POST 302

Seminar: Yaroslav Halchenko, "PyMVPA: Fathom Brain Function through Multivariate Pattern Analysis" (4/17/2009)

Friday, 4/17, 1:15 - 2:15, POST 127

Seminar: Allen Lee, "Generalizing Generalizability in Information Systems Research" (4/9/2009)

Thursday, April 8, 2009, POST 127, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Proposal Defense: Louis Tomsic, "Determining the effectiveness of crisis response strategies for communication while blogging to minimize crisis effects (4/17/2009)

April 17, 2009, 10:30 AM, Crawford Hall Room 322

Seminar: Mark Miller, "The Next Generation Biology Workbench" (4/8/2009)

Wednesday April 8, 2009, Talk: 3:30 P.M. - 4:30 P.M., Demo: 4:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M., UH Manoa POST 127

Seminar: Dan Smith, "Organizational Climate and Social Media Use" (4/2/2009)

POST 127, 4:30pm April 2nd

Hackystat in Google Summer of Code 2009

Get your applications in now!

Seminar: Dan Suthers, "Tracing Interaction in Distributed Socio-Technical Systems" (4/2/2009)

POST 126, Thursday, April 2, 2009, 3:00pm

Seminar: Sascha Ossowski, "An organization-oriented approach to coordination in multi-agent systems" (3/31/2009)

11:30 A.M - 12:30 P.M. , Holmes Hall 389

Seminar: Sam Joseph and Diane Nahl, "Second Life Research in ICS/LIS/CIS" (3/19/2009)

This Thursday March 19th from 4:30-5:30 PM in POST 127, we will have two related presentations of research being conducted in Second Life by faculty and researchers in ICS and LIS.

Dissertation Defense: "Measuring and extending LR(1) parser generation", Xin Chen (4/3/2009)

Post 302, 4-6pm

Hackystat featured in Ka Leo

Project Hackystat was featured in the March 12 edition of Ka Leo, the University of Hawaii newspaper.

Seminar: Chris Hundhausen, "Can Direct Manipulation Lower the Barriers to Computer Programming and Promote Transfer of Training? An Experimental Study" (3/11/2009)

March 12th, 4:30-5:30 pm POST 127

Dissertation Defense: "The Effect of Message Framing on Attitudes and Intentions Toward Diabetes Mellitus Type II Prevention", Miwa Yamazaki (3/9/2009)

March 9 (Monday), 11:15am-1:15pm, POST 302

Screencast: "Google Summer of Code 2009", Philip Johnson (2/19/2009)

A 20 minute screencast about the Google Summer of Code 2009 program from a 2008 participant.

Play: "Inside Out", The Actors Group (through 2/22/2009)

INSIDE OUT is a sharp, contemporary comedy which pits academic idealism against office politics and intertwines romantic misadventure with global crises.

Seminar: Ray Anderson, "TIME's Greenest CEO" (2/13/2009)

Ray Anderson, TIME'S Greenest CEO, to speak at Campus Center Ballroom, Friday, February 13th, 12-2PM

Seminar: Scott Robertson, Ravi Vatrapu, and Richard Medina, "Off the Wall Political Discourse: Facebook Use in the 2008 Presidential Election" (2/12/2009)

POST 127 on Thursday February 12th at 4:30 pm

Seminar: Philip Johnson, "Make money, win friends, and influence people: how to participate in Google's Summer of Code" (2/19/2009)

Thursday, February 19, 2009, 3:00pm, POST 126

Seminar: David Roberts, "Authoring Support for Interactive Narratives" (2/9/2009)

Monday, 09 Feb 2009, 12:00pm, POST 302 (ICS conference room)

Seminar, John Deighton, "Brand Building in the Age of the Internet" (2/6/2009)

Friday, February 6, 2009, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m, Shidler College of Business, BusAd D204

Seminar: Dr. Robert Kauffman, "Returns to IT Outsourcing" (1/30/2009)

Friday, January 30, 3-4:30, Shidler College of Business, Room D204

CIS Seminar: "Are Mixed Methods Coherent?" (1/22/2008)

POST 127, 4:30pm

Dissertation Defense: Marc LePape, "Human-computer interaction in extreme environments: Interaction effects between field dependency-independency and altered +/-Gz accelerations on end-user performance" (1/29/2009)

2:00pm, John Burns Medical School, Room 205H

Seminar: Steven Blumenthal, "Connecting the Other 3 Billion" (1/21/2009)

Wednesday, January 21, 2009, Holmes 389, 2:00pm

Proposal Defense: Patrick Gilbert, A Delphi policy study on the future's use of distance education within the University of Hawaii system (2/5/2009)

4:30 pm, POST 126

Seminar: Dr. Ricki Goldman, 10 Mindful Activities & 7 Design In-Sites for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (1/15/2008)

Thursday, January 15, 4:30-5:30, POST 127

Seminar: Dr. Lance Hoffman, "Privacy, social networks, trust, and terrorism" (1/13/2009)

Tuesday, January 13, 2009. Holmes 389. 11:00am - 12:00pm.

Seminar: Dr. Randy Isaac, "The Rise and Fall of Moore's Law" (1/8/2009)

January 8, 2009, 3:00pm, POST 723

Seminar: Professor Yan Chen, "NetShield: Matching with a Large Vulnerability Signature Ruleset for High Performance Network Defense" (12/18/2008)

Prof. Yan Chen, Northwestern University, Dec. 18th, 2008, 10:30-11:30am, Holmes Hall 389

Ravi Vatrapu to Copenhagen Business School

 

Student proposal: ICS Founders Reading Room

As a class project, the students of LIS 650: Management of Libraries and Information Centers, created a proposal for an ICS Founders Reading Room. Housed in POST 303C, the space is designed to honor the memory of Professors Will Gersch and Art Lew.

Seminar: Dr. Nihat Ay, Information Maximization in Recurrent Structures (12/9/2008)

Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, 1pm, POST 302

Seminar: Medical Informatics Projects Day (12/9/2008)

The Seventh Annual MEDICAL INFORMATICS PROJECTS DAY will be presented on Tues, Dec 9, 3:00 pm to 5:40 pm in Room POST 302 on the UH-Manoa campus. You may attend in person or via remote technologies (see below).

Seminar: Lessons Learned in Election Technology from the 2008 Elections, and Future Directions, Jeremy Epstein, Cigital Inc. (12/8/2008)

ICS/HawaiiCHI Seminar, Monday, December 8, 2008. 10:00am, POST 318

Seminar: NSF's new "Cyber" programs (12/4/2008)

December 4, 2008, Holmes Hall 389, 10:00 - 11:30am

CIS Dissertation Defense: Claire Hitosugi, Effects of Culture on Online Initial Trust: Individual Level Analysis (12/5/208)

December 5 (Fri), 2008, at 2 p.m, BusAd C101

UH Undergraduate Summer Research Awards (12/15/2008)

Up to $3000 available to support summer research!

ICS Industry Day (11/20/2008)

Thursday, November 20, 2008, 11:30am - 2:30pm, POST 318B

ICS Events during Manoa Experience Day (11/15/2008)

Rich Gazan, Kim Binsted, and the LILT Lab

Seminar: Computational geometry algorithms for navigation planning and asset monitoring in medical applications, Dr. Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary (11/13/2008)

Thursday, Nov 13, 2008 in POST 302

Seminar: Google, Friend or Enemy, Herman Mauer, Graz University of Technology (11/12/2008)

Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 12:00-1:30pm. PwC Conference room (G-301), Shidler College of Business.

Seminar: CIS Research Panel on Bioinformatics

Thursday, October 30, 2008, POST 126, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Award: 2008 SIG Publication of the Year, Diane Nahl and Rich Gazan

Diane Nahl (editor) and Rich Gazan (contributor) win national book award.

Seminar: Software Licenses: "Terms and Conditions" and "Requirements"

Thursday, October 23, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm, Kuykendal 210

Careers: Boeing Information Session

Monday, October 27, 2008 5:00-6:00 pm, POST 126.

DOE Award: Historical Native Hawaiian Archive, Stephen Itoga (10/8/2008)

The US Department of Education has awarded $191,593 to PI Stephen Itoga and the ICS Department to begin the establishment of a digital archive of historical Native Hawaiian records and stories.

Seminar: CIS Research Panel on HCI (10/9/2008)

A panel on Human Computer Interaction research at UH will be held in POST 126 on Thursday October 9th at 4:30-5:30 pm.

Public Latex Thesis Style files for UHM theses and dissertations, Robert Brewer (10/6/2008)

Robert Brewer has set up an online repository for maintaining Latex style files intended to satisfy UHM formatting guidelines for theses and dissertations

NASA Award: UH Astrobiology Institute, Kim Binsted and Rich Gazan (10/6/2008)

ICS faculty members Kim Binsted and Rich Gazan are co-investigators in the UH-NASA Astrobiology Institute, which recently won a second round of five years of funding from NASA.

NSF Award: Diversity and ecology of marine RNA viruses, Guylaine Poisson (10/4/2008)

Greg Steward, Guylaine Poisson, and Alexander Culley were awarded a $498,325 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the diversity and ecology of marine RNA viruses.

Dissertation Defense: Factors influencing the development of institutional repositories (10/10/2008)

Jennifer Campbell-Meier will defend her dissertation, "Factors influencing the development of institutional repositories," 9:30-11:30 Oct. 10 in Room 302 of the POST Building.

College of Engineering Career Fair and Resume Book (10/29/2008)

The College of Engineering will host their Career Fair on Oct. 29 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. All students and faculty are welcome to attend.

Seminar: CIS Research Panel on Social Computing (10/2/2008)

Thursday 10/02 at 4:30 PM in POST 126

Seminar: Blended instruction in large-enrollment introductory courses--complementing face-to-face instruction with educational technologies (9/25/2008)

POST 126, Thursday, September 25th, 4:30-5:30pm

Disney Internship Information Meeting (10/15/2008)

Meeting with Disney Reps, 10/15/2008, 10:00-11:00am with food!

The Hawaii Universities Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Website (BCB) is now launched

This consortium was created to facilitate research, education, and to promote collaboration in the fields of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in the state of Hawaii. This website provides a unified view of the different laboratories research objectives and projects, a fast and easy access to the members, and Bioinformatics tools and resources.

Seminar: Digital Democracy and Digital Citizenship: Emerging Trends and Empirical Studies (9/17/2008)

12-1pm, Burns Hall Room 2118

Podcast of Paranjape talk now available

Professor Paranjape's seminar on A Neuro-Surgery Ward Bed-Allocation Modeling System using Software Agents has been recorded and is available as a podcast.

Seminar: Microsoft Live, Software, and Studios (9/12/2008)

Best practices on pitching new IP to game publishers and strategies for optimizing your title for console games.

A Neuro-Surgery Ward Bed-allocation modeling system using software agents (8/7/2008)

ICS Seminar, Thursday, Aug 7, 1:00pm, POST 302

Information Security Careers Meeting (7/30/2008)

Round-table discussion with local industry experts in information security

LIS Alumni Receive Recognition

Jane Kurahara and Betsy Young, retired school librarians, have been recognized by the Honolulu chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League for their efforts to preserve Hawaii's Japanese internment stories.

New Book on Project-Based Learning

Violet Harada, Carolyn Kirio, and Sandra Yamamoto have published Collaborating for Project-Based Learning in Grades 9-12. Harada is a professor in the Library and Information Science (LIS) Program, Department of Information and Computer Sciences. Kirio and Yamamoto, LIS alumni, are currently the cybrarians at Kapolei High School. Their high school was recognized as one of the 2006 National School Library Media Programs of the Year by the American Association of School Librarians and Follett Learning Resources. The new text was published by Linworth Publishing, Inc., a national publisher of professional development resources for K-12 school professionals. While many texts have been published on project-based learning models, this is the first work that focuses on the school librarian’s leadership role in the school improvement process.

Project Hackystat in Google Summer of Code 2008

Project Hackystat, sponsored by the Collaborative Software Development Laboratory, has been chosen as an open source organization for Google Summer of Code 2008.

40th anniversary ICS & LIS conference and lunch (11/29/2007)

University of Hawaii Information and Computer Sciences 40th Anniversary and Library and Information Science 10th Anniversary Poster Session and Lunch on March 8, 2008, Saturday.

Three New ICS Ph.D.s: David Pautler, Matt Chapman, and Nathan Dwyer (12/20/2006)

 

New Grants Awarded to ICS Researcher (10/12/2006)

 

ICS Members Start and Publish in New Journals (09/16/2006)

 

Faculty Positions in ICS (CS & LIS) (09/08/2006)

 

Successful Ph.D. Dissertation Defense by Qin Zhang (08/30/2006)

 

Outsourcing of computer jobs a misconception (03/10/2006)

from the Daily Kent Stater