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April 2008
Slashdot.org, 4/23/2008 – Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology James Wang’s image-based CAPTCHA technology is the subject of a blog post at Slashdot.org. The author hails the new technology as “promising.” (Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap)
Network World, 4/16/2008 – Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology Jim Jansen’s search engine usage research is noted in this article as being one among “the most amazing and colorful projects in the works.” (25 radical network research projects you should know about)
Science Daily (News wire) , 4/13/2008 — Jim Jansen , assistant professor of IST, led research on searches conducted using Web search engines. "Our findings have broad implications for search engines and e-commerce if they can classify the user intent of queries in real time," Jansen said. (Web searches classified into three categories)
Jansen's research also was featured in a news story on the IST Web site on 4/1/2008 and picked up by the Hindustan Times Syndication, Thaindian News, and Technology News Daily, and mentioned in blogs on HitTail, Overdrive, and Search Engine Land.
March 2008
US Fed News (News wire), 3/7/2008 — Under the joint direction of Michael Manojlovich, instructor in Information Sciences and Technology, and Sara Ahrens, community engagement coordinator at Penn State Greater Allegheny, students in two IST classes are partnering with community service organizations to provide IT outreach. (IST Classes Offer Expertise to Community Agencies)
US Fed News (News wire), 3/4/2008 — Penn State Greater Allegheny awarded a Research Development Grant for the 2007-08 academic year to Guangfeng Song, assistant professor of Information Sciences and Technology for his proposal titled, "Information Grouping and Perception of Complexity in Computer Interfaces, An Experimental Study." (2007-2008 Research Development Grants Awarded to Greater Allegheny Faculty)
February 2008
US Fed News (News wire), 2/27/2008 — IST Dean Hank Foley, along with IST Associate Dean John Yen and Associate Professor of IST, Gerald Santoro, met with campus administration, students and faculty at Penn State Greater Allegheny to discuss the IST program and begin collaboration on the College's five-year strategic planning process. (IST Dean Discusses Degree Distinctions and Career Opportunities for Graduates)
Business Wire (News wire), 2/2/2008 — Penn State, along with two other national universities, has received accreditation for its geospatial intelligence program by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF). Todd Bacastow, instructor in Information Sciences and Technology, is quoted in the article: "Penn State University is proud to be in the forefront with the other academic institutions in this important progress." (USGIF Accredits Universities Under First-Ever Geospatial Intelligence Accreditation and Certificate Program)
January 2008
Congress Now (News wire), 1/22/2008 — The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation released a report calling for a national broadband strategy. Robert Frieden,affiliate professor of Information Sciences and Technology, is sited in the article: "Frieden...said that Caterfone rules should apply to wireless services providers and that an independent party not carriers should certify the devices." (IT Trade Group Calls for National Strategy to Speed Broadband Deployment)
Penn State LIVE, 1/22/2008 – Feature press release on the The Future of American Communications Working Group, of which Andrea Tapia, assistant professor of Information Sciences and Technology, is a member. The group “plans to produce a volume outlining a comprehensive telecommunications policy agenda for the federal administration to be entering office in January 2009. That agenda will emphasize the potential of information technologies for improving democratic discourse, social responsibility and the quality of life.” (Working group focuses on communications policy for new administration)
US Fed News (News wire), 1/22/2008 — A group of inventors, including Peng Liu, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technoloy, has developed a clustered computer system that has been awarded a U.S. patent. (California Inventors Develop Clustered Computer System)
EDTECH – Article on TableSeer, a new search engine that can identify and extract tables from Adobe PDF files, featuring TableSeer developers C. Lee Giles, David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology and Prasenjit Mitra, assistant professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “This is a new tool which allows you to go in and grab either data from tables automatically or find summaries of results much faster. It’s a productivity tool to help researchers, students and scholars,” (Mitra) says. (A Search for Research)
Cornell Engineering Magazine, Spring 2008 Edition – Cover article mentions image research being conducted by James Wang, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “Professors Jia Lee and James Wang at Penn State have identified the creators of Chinese ink paintings from the 15th to 20th centuries.” (Bridging Worlds).
December 2007
St. Petersburg Times (Florida), 12/10/2007 —Article mentions BotSeer, a new search engine developed through research led by C. Lee Giles, David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “Web site administrators increasingly are barring some search engines from all or part of their sites, while granting others access, according to a study by Penn State University researchers (botseer.ist.psu.edu). C. Lee Giles, an information sciences and technology professor, said site administrators may allow crawlers from Google Inc.” (Webmasters May Shape Search Results). This research was previously mentioned in Biotech Business Week, Hit Search (UK), NetworkWorld.com, PC World, Science Daily, TopNews (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India), and VNUNet.com (UK).
Discovery News, 12/05/2007—Blog mentions ALIPR, an image tagging program developed by James Wang, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “If you took your pictures with a digital camera, you can try Penn State’s program, Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures, which automatically tags images as they are uploaded.” (Where Oh Where Art Thou, Digital Image?).
Slashdot.org, 4/23/2008 – Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology James Wang’s image-based CAPTCHA technology is the subject of a blog post at Slashdot.org. The author hails the new technology as “promising.” (Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap)
Network World, 4/16/2008 – Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology Jim Jansen’s search engine usage research is noted in this article as being one among “the most amazing and colorful projects in the works.” (25 radical network research projects you should know about)
Science Daily (News wire) , 4/13/2008 — Jim Jansen , assistant professor of IST, led research on searches conducted using Web search engines. "Our findings have broad implications for search engines and e-commerce if they can classify the user intent of queries in real time," Jansen said. (Web searches classified into three categories)
Jansen's research also was featured in a news story on the IST Web site on 4/1/2008 and picked up by the Hindustan Times Syndication, Thaindian News, and Technology News Daily, and mentioned in blogs on HitTail, Overdrive, and Search Engine Land.
March 2008
US Fed News (News wire), 3/7/2008 — Under the joint direction of Michael Manojlovich, instructor in Information Sciences and Technology, and Sara Ahrens, community engagement coordinator at Penn State Greater Allegheny, students in two IST classes are partnering with community service organizations to provide IT outreach. (IST Classes Offer Expertise to Community Agencies)
US Fed News (News wire), 3/4/2008 — Penn State Greater Allegheny awarded a Research Development Grant for the 2007-08 academic year to Guangfeng Song, assistant professor of Information Sciences and Technology for his proposal titled, "Information Grouping and Perception of Complexity in Computer Interfaces, An Experimental Study." (2007-2008 Research Development Grants Awarded to Greater Allegheny Faculty)
February 2008
US Fed News (News wire), 2/27/2008 — IST Dean Hank Foley, along with IST Associate Dean John Yen and Associate Professor of IST, Gerald Santoro, met with campus administration, students and faculty at Penn State Greater Allegheny to discuss the IST program and begin collaboration on the College's five-year strategic planning process. (IST Dean Discusses Degree Distinctions and Career Opportunities for Graduates)
Business Wire (News wire), 2/2/2008 — Penn State, along with two other national universities, has received accreditation for its geospatial intelligence program by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF). Todd Bacastow, instructor in Information Sciences and Technology, is quoted in the article: "Penn State University is proud to be in the forefront with the other academic institutions in this important progress." (USGIF Accredits Universities Under First-Ever Geospatial Intelligence Accreditation and Certificate Program)
January 2008
Congress Now (News wire), 1/22/2008 — The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation released a report calling for a national broadband strategy. Robert Frieden,affiliate professor of Information Sciences and Technology, is sited in the article: "Frieden...said that Caterfone rules should apply to wireless services providers and that an independent party not carriers should certify the devices." (IT Trade Group Calls for National Strategy to Speed Broadband Deployment)
Penn State LIVE, 1/22/2008 – Feature press release on the The Future of American Communications Working Group, of which Andrea Tapia, assistant professor of Information Sciences and Technology, is a member. The group “plans to produce a volume outlining a comprehensive telecommunications policy agenda for the federal administration to be entering office in January 2009. That agenda will emphasize the potential of information technologies for improving democratic discourse, social responsibility and the quality of life.” (Working group focuses on communications policy for new administration)
US Fed News (News wire), 1/22/2008 — A group of inventors, including Peng Liu, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technoloy, has developed a clustered computer system that has been awarded a U.S. patent. (California Inventors Develop Clustered Computer System)
EDTECH – Article on TableSeer, a new search engine that can identify and extract tables from Adobe PDF files, featuring TableSeer developers C. Lee Giles, David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology and Prasenjit Mitra, assistant professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “This is a new tool which allows you to go in and grab either data from tables automatically or find summaries of results much faster. It’s a productivity tool to help researchers, students and scholars,” (Mitra) says. (A Search for Research)
Cornell Engineering Magazine, Spring 2008 Edition – Cover article mentions image research being conducted by James Wang, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “Professors Jia Lee and James Wang at Penn State have identified the creators of Chinese ink paintings from the 15th to 20th centuries.” (Bridging Worlds).
December 2007
St. Petersburg Times (Florida), 12/10/2007 —Article mentions BotSeer, a new search engine developed through research led by C. Lee Giles, David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “Web site administrators increasingly are barring some search engines from all or part of their sites, while granting others access, according to a study by Penn State University researchers (botseer.ist.psu.edu). C. Lee Giles, an information sciences and technology professor, said site administrators may allow crawlers from Google Inc.” (Webmasters May Shape Search Results). This research was previously mentioned in Biotech Business Week, Hit Search (UK), NetworkWorld.com, PC World, Science Daily, TopNews (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India), and VNUNet.com (UK).
Discovery News, 12/05/2007—Blog mentions ALIPR, an image tagging program developed by James Wang, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “If you took your pictures with a digital camera, you can try Penn State’s program, Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures, which automatically tags images as they are uploaded.” (Where Oh Where Art Thou, Digital Image?).
