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Cain awarded NSF fellowship, examines race issues in STEM education
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Curtis Cain, a Ph.D. student at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), became the first IST student to be awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is receiving funding from NSF over a three-year period to support his project, “Black Males in STEM Higher Education,” in which he examines how race, in addition to gender, impacts people’s views on technology and their interest in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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Purao collaborates on how to build a better operator
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An ongoing project with associate professor Sandeep Purao at Penn State University is exploring the best way to present procedures, which are growing ever-more voluminous. Procedures tend to be organized by unit, each with its own set of procedures. "The problem is that in some cases I might have responsibility for more than one unit," Strobhar said. "I've seen console operators that have three sets of procedures in front of them because alarms are going off on three different units at the same time."
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Carroll’s book redefines “community” on the internet
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In his new book, Dr. Jack Carroll, Edward Frymoyer Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, “The Neighborhood in the Internet,” describes the groundbreaking research in Web-based community networks that he and his former colleagues at Virginia Tech conducted in the early years of the World-Wide Web, and provides an analysis of how those frameworks can be further developed with the technology that has since become available.
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Liu’s research on data recovery receives additional funding
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A computer system crash can have disastrous consequences for a company, including loss of critical business information. Peng Liu, a professor at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), is developing technology with the goal of enabling companies to quickly and accurately recover data that has been corrupted through hacking, viruses or malware.
Liu, director of the Center for Cyber-Security, Information Privacy, and Trust (LIONS Center), recently received another increment of $139,454 from George Mason University and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in support of the project, “Autonomic Recovery of Enterprise-wide Systems after Attack or Failure with Forward Correction.” The project, which started in 2007, is part of the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), a tri-service Department of Defense program that supports research teams whose research efforts intersect more than one traditional science and engineering discipline. The recent award is the last increment of the grant, which Liu and his students will use to develop a software tool that will enable enterprise data centers to automatically recover from cyber intrusions.
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Google award funds online privacy research at IST
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Online privacy has become a hot-button issue in recent years, as people are increasingly sharing their lives and conducting business on the Internet. With funding from Google, two professors at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology are investigating the factors that influence individual privacy preferences, and how they can be used to develop services that are in tune with consumers’ needs.
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IST’s Red Cell Lab on cutting-edge of security and risk analysis
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Military leaders understand that studying the adversary is an essential strategy to win the battle. Red cell analytics represents a framework for understanding the opposing point of view that can be applied to non-military areas such as politics, business, and crisis management. At the Red Cell Analytics Lab (RCA Lab) at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), which recently celebrated its grand opening, students are developing solutions to a wide range of security and risk problems with the aid of cutting-edge technology.
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Yen, Liu head team to improve cyber situation awareness
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As the world becomes more connected through systems and networks, cyber attacks by hackers, nation states and terrorists pose an increasing threat to U.S. security. At Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology, two faculty members, Dr. John Yen and Dr. Peng Liu, are spearheading a research initiative, funded by the U.S. Army Research Office, to determine how the experiences of human analysts can be leveraged to improve cyber situation awareness. A paper that they co-wrote, which proposes a knowledge-based cyber intrusion detection model, was recently recognized at an international conference.
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Cameron, Purao receive $100K grant from Lockheed Martin
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Dr. Brian Cameron, executive director of the Center for Enterprise Architecture (EA), and Dr. Sandeep Purao, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), recently received $100,000 from Lockheed Martin, to conduct a maturity analysis on its enterprise architecture function. Cameron and Purao will assess the function with the aid of a groundbreaking new Enterprise Architecture Maturity tool they developed.
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Ritter receives Naval research award
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The Research Office would like to announce that Frank Ritter has received an award of $10,000 from the Naval Submarine Medical Research Lab to support the following project “IPA Agreement.”
This award will support salary.
We are pleased to add this to the list of accomplishments in the College of Information Sciences and Technology research efforts.
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IST collaborates with American Cancer Society to study online support of cancer survivors
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Researchers in the College of Information Sciences and Technology have been working with directors of the American Cancer Society to gain a better understanding of the dynamics and functioning of online communities for cancer survivors and their families and to eventually develop innovative computing technologies to better support the needs of these communities.
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Tutwiler named director of NC2IF
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Dr. Richard L. Tutwiler, a senior research associate at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory, has been named as deputy director of the Center for Network-Centric Cognition and Information Fusion (NC2IF), a research center led by the College of Information Sciences and Technology that explores the gap between the collection of reports and data in computer systems and human decision-making. Tutwiler, who assumed the position on Jan. 1, replaces Dr. Pete Forster, a senior lecturer at the College of IST.
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Alfabet makes million dollar donation to EA Center
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The Center for Enterprise Architecture (EA) at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) is the beneficiary of a gift-in-kind of software materials valued at $1,079,000. The materials are being donated by alfabet, a global provider of software for strategic information technology planning and business change management.
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NSF grant to provide scholarships and training to IST students
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Students in Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology who are interested in protecting data from hackers and saboteurs will soon be able to apply for a program in which they will receive scholarship money and expert training for their chosen field.
Anna Squicciarini, assistant professor at the College of IST, and Jan Mahar Sturdevant, senior instructor, were recently awarded $819,522 from the National Science Foundation to support the “Scholarship for Service in Information Assurance Program at the Pennsylvania State University.” The Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service program, which is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, is designed to “increase and strengthen the cadre of federal information assurance professionals that protect the government's critical information infrastructure.” Information assurance is the process of protecting data from misuse by people inside or outside a business or organization.
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Dow invests $1.3 million in Penn State research projects
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Flexible and printed electronics, chemical linguistic analysis and green building projects are targeted to receive $1.3 million in research grants from the Dow Chemical Co. Lee Giles, professor of information sciences and technology, received a $200,000 grant for chemical linguistic analysis with ChemXSeer.
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IST makes impact on ISCRAM conference in Portugal
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Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) had a large presence at the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response Management (ISCRAM), held in Lisbon, Portugal.
“Penn State was a force at this conference,” said Andrea Tapia, associate professor of IST. “Even though the conference was in Portugal, we had major presenters every day.”
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Squicciarini receives research award from HP
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The College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) would like to congratulate Anna Squicciarini on her research award to support her project “Analytics for Situational Awareness.”
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Probing Question: What does computer literacy mean these days?
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Remember when watches had springs you would wind? When mail meant letters delivered by a mailman, and the only kind of files came in manila folders? If so, you’re a dying breed. By the mid-1980s, American life had been radically transformed by the computer chip. These days, digital technology governs everything from our alarm clocks and coffeemakers to our cars, books, and newspapers -- not to mention the way we work and play on personal computers of all shapes and sizes. Given how thoroughly we’re steeped in today’s wireless web-connected world, how has the meaning of computer literacy changed?
“The term began largely as a way to signify operating a computer, as in how to use it in a functional way,” said Stuart Selber, a Penn State associate professor of English, and Science, Technology and Society. “If you could print or save or back up work, comprehend terms like megabyte or megahertz, and navigate a file structure, then you were considered to be computer literate.”
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New IST course examines connection of information, people and technology during crises
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In recent years, technology has changed the way that the world responds to crisis. Social media and mobile technologies have played a role in saving lives in disaster situations such as earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, a tsunami in Japan and violent protests in the Middle East.
This fall, Andrea Tapia, an associate professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, will be teaching a course that will explore the inter-connectedness of information, people and technology in a crisis.
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Web search expert authors new book on sponsored search, keyword advertising
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According to a new book by Dr. Jim Jansen, an associate professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, the success of sponsored search has dramatically affected how people interact with information, websites, and services on the web. On July 24, Jansen’s book “Understanding Sponsored Search: Core Elements of Keyword Advertising,” one of the first academic book on sponsored search, will be released by Cambridge University Press.
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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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