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Research Briefs
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Exergaming: Health or Hype?
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Erika Poole, an assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, describes herself as “part nerd, part athlete.” Which explains the title of the presentation she gave in the IST Building’s flashy “cybertorium” recently: “Exergaming: Health or Hype?”
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Wang receives patent for image-based CAPTCHAs
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Professor James Wang was recently awarded US Patent #7,929,805 for his collaborative research in computer security.
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Tapia receives Fulbright grant to conduct research in Costa Rica
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The College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) would like to congratulate Andrea Tapia, who has been awarded a Fulbright grant from The J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
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EMERSE: New findings on Twitter’s role in disaster response
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The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti just over a year ago was the beginning of IST’s innovative research infrastructure, EMERSE (Enhanced Messaging for the Emergency Response Sector), which categorizes tweets and texts from disaster sites into data that non-governmental organizations can use to aid victims.
Over the course of the past several months, Associate Professor Andrea Tapia has been researching the trustworthiness of Twitter and whether or not it is a suitable medium for emergency responders to use to allocate aide resources.
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EA center gains momentum
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The Center for Enterprise Architecture (EA) has been busy this semester developing new curricula, providing thought leadership in the field, and initiating research in areas such as EA framework, usage and construction.
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MURI team reaches 2-year mark
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Peng Liu, professor of IST, and a team comprised of 5 post-doctorates and 15 graduate students, recently reached the 2-year mark on their Cyber Situational Awareness (Cyber SA) research; MURI: Computer-aided Human Centric Cyber Situation Awareness.
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Xu, Grossklags, Wang present on privacy at ACM conference
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Heng Xu, Jens Grossklags, and Na Wang’s article, “Third-Party Apps on Facebook: Privacy and the Illusion of Control,” was recently accepted by the ACM Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology. The conference was held in December in Boston.
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Students explore ways to attract women to technology
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Information technology is a growing field that offers a vast array of career opportunities, but women tend to shy away from exploring areas such as engineering, science, and technology. A group of students in the College of IST recently investigated the root causes for the weak female representation in technological professions. They also devised a set of proposals and prototypes, some of which are currently being implemented, in an effort to spread the message about the opportunities that the College offers to women.
