Research
and Grants
GRANT AWARDS
Professor Harry Zhou (with SEGMA
Technologies Inc) has received a grant of $141,686 in August
2009 from Maryland Industrial Partnerships to develop a set of
knowledge mining and integration technologies to enhance the
capabilities and scalability of KaeloŽ, an automated tool for
assessing the effectiveness of the board and management of
public companies by investors, market analysts and regulators.
Harry Hochheiser, Shiva Azadegan, Mike
O'Leary, Blair Taylor, and Claude Turner (Bowie State) were
awarded $399,511 from the National Science Foundation for
support of the project entitled "Building Security In:
Injecting Security throughout the Undergraduate Computing
Curriculum." This work involves developing modules for teaching
computer security concepts and disseminating the materials to a
variety of schools, including Bowie State, HCCC, AACC, and CCBC.
(September 2008)
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Dr. Jinjuan Feng, Dr. Jonathan Lazar, and
Dr. Mike O'Leary in the Computer and Information Sciences
Department, together with Dr. Claude Turner from the Bowie State
University have been awarded a two year grant for $299,832 from
the National Science Foundation under the Capacity Building
track. This project entitled 'Integrating Usability and
Accessibility in Information Assurance Education' includes a
combination of teaching, research, and community development
activities aimed toward making security and privacy mechanisms
more usable and accessible. (August 30th, 2008)
Chuck Dierbach and Harry Hochheiser (with
Chris Ariza of the Music department) were awarded $139,981 from
the National Science Foundation for support of a project
entitled "Piloting Pathways for Computational Thinking in a
General Education Curriculum." This work will involve the
development and infusion of various "computational thinking"
courses for various disciplines into the GenEd curriculum.
(August 2008)
Dr. Shiva Azadegan announces that the National Center for
Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) has named Towson
University as an academic alliance Partner. Dr. Hochheiser
and Dr. Azadegan were awarded a $15,000 Academic Alliance Seed grant
to help increase and retain the number of women majoring in CS &
CIS Programs. (August 2008)
Dr. Heidi Feng was awarded $30,101 from UMBC for her proposal
"Optimized Hands-Free Speech Recognition" (March
2008)
Dr. Yanggon Kim was awarded $47,320 from Soogsil University
(Korea) for developing an exchange cohort graduate program
(March 2008).
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of
$580,920 to Towson University for support of the project
entitled "CoSMiC * -- Computing, Sciences, and Mathematics in
College," under the direction of Joyce C. Little, Gail E.
Gasparich, and Martha J. Siegel. This award is effective September
1, 2007 and expires August 31, 2011.
Mike O'Leary was awarded a $299,963 grant from the
National Science Foundation to support the project "A
Second Generation Faculty Development Program". This
project will focus on better preparing faculty from a consortium
of Maryland colleges and universities to teach and do research
in the area of computer security. Claude Turner from Bowie
State University is co-PI.
PAPER ACCEPTED
JiaJin Lei and Chao Lu had their paper “FUSION of ICA SPATIAL, TEMPORAL and LOCALIZED FEATURES for FACE RECOGNITION” accepted by SNPD2007.
MEETINGS
Bob Hammell and two of his doctoral students (Anthony Barnes and Tim Hanratty) visited with Dr. John Yen and others at the Pennsylvania State University. They discussed potential collaborative efforts in extending PSU's current R-CAST (Recognition Primed Decision-making enabled Collaborative Agents for Simulating Teamwork) model. The R-CAST model simulates decision-making activities and team behaviors, and is currently supported by various government agencies including the Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen, MD. Discussions are continuing with regard to using the R-CAST model as a basis for dissertation research by one or both of the students.
Harry Hochheiser, participated in an NSF review panel for human-centered computing in March, 2007.
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