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CCI will host the 2010 Annual Junior First Lego League Expo in the Capital District

Feburary 6, 2010, 1:00 – 3:30 pm, Campus Center Ballroom
Cost: Free for attendees
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What: Grand Opening of CCI’s “new” Undergraduate Office

When: Tuesday February 9th, 1:00 – 3:00 PM

Where: Lower Level Library, Suite LI-84.

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What: Wii Social

When: 7:00 - 10:00, March 2, 2010

Where: Campus Center 375

What: NTIR 2010

When: Apr. 9, 2010

Where: SUNY Albany Downtown Campus

The Informatics Department of The University at Albany is pleased to announce its Fifth Annual Spring Research Conference: New Trends in Informatics Research, 2010. The conference will feature talks by student and faculty researchers discussing their current work, and poster displays by Information Science PhD students presenting the progress that they have made in their own research. More>>

What: Global Game Jam 2010!
Where: SUNY Albany Main (Uptown) Campus
When: 3pm on Friday, Jan. 29 till 5pm on Sunday, Jan. 31.

Everyone planning to attend the Albany event location is encouraged to pre-register for $5 by following the instructions on our website.
On-site registration is $7.
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Namjoo Choi, Prof. Indushobha Chengalur-Smith, and Andrew Whitmore had their paper accepted for IEEE Software.

Choi, N., Chengalur-Smith, I., & Whitmore, A. (Forthcoming) First Impression Management for Newly Initiated Open Source Software Projects, IEEE Software.
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The U.S. House of Representatives' recently designated December 6-12, 2009 as Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) in recognition of the transformative role of computing and necessity of rigorous computer science education at all levels.

Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science 2 (WILIS 2):

UAlbany Develops Pioneering Curricula in Financial Market Regulation

NSF grant of $800,000 supports project aimed at developing students' computational thinking skills for financial market management
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INF PhD candidate Ira Goldstein and Professor Ozlem Uzuner published a paper, "Specializing for predicting obesity and its co-morbidities," in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2009, 42(5), 873-886.

CCIWIT: the William A. Bloom, Women in Technology Scholarship

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This is the first year the Morrisville College has participated and is one of only four colleges in New York State that participated in the 48-hour International Game Developers Associations’ International Game Jam , joining SUNY Albany, New York University and Rochester Institute of Technology. More>>.

Resume Critiques with Guest Technical Recruiters

Date: Monday, February 1, 2010
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm
Location: Career Services, SL G50

**Computer Science, Information Science and Information Technology majors**
Do you want to learn how to highlight your technical skills on your resume?
Guest Recruiters:
Dennis Fiegel, Human Resources Director, Computer Sciences Corp.
Sherry Lovelass, Security Engineer III, CDPHP
Doug Davis, MDH Technical Test Manager, KeyBank

Josh Avery had his paper accepted for the Library Student Journal

The title of the article is "The Democratization of Metadata: Collective Tagging, Folksonomies and Web 2.0" and will be forthcoming in 2010. The Library Student Journal is a journal run by both Graduate Students and LIS Professionals.

Lucy Bungo, An MSIS student, will be presenting a paper at the 2nd Annual University of Toronto ischool Student Conference.

The title is, "Interlibrary Loan is Not Dead Yet," which she originally submitted as part of the requirement for IST666: Academic Libraries and Higher Education.

The synopsis is, "With budget crunches, digital and online publishing, and the open access movement, some librarians think that interlibrary loan will cease to be a necessary library service. But until all content is online and free, and all people have broadband Internet connections, interlibrary loan will continue to serve as a useful tool for providing information to the public."

Eugenia Kim, An MSIS student, will be presenting a paper titled "A Multipurpose System: the Development of the University at Albany Library Systems Wiki" at the 2nd Annual University of Toronto ischool Student Conference.

It is a documentation of the creation process of a wiki-based knowledgebase system for the University at Library systems.

INF Ph.D. student Tung-Mou Yang receives a "University at Albany Dissertation Research Fellowship Award, 2009-2010."

IST Professor Rorrissa and INF Ph.D. student Demissie publishes a paper in Government Information Quarterly (GIQ).

Rorissa, A., & Demissie, D.(2010). The state of the art of e-government services in Africa: An analysis of relevant websites. Government Information Quarterly (GIQ).

Two UA Information Studies graduate students have been selected as 2010 ARL Career Enhancement Program Fellows.

The ARL Career Enhancement Program, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ARL member libraries, gives MLIS students from underrepresented groups an opportunity to jump-start their careers in research libraries by providing a robust fellowship experience that includes an internship in an ARL member library. This program reflects the commitment of ARL members to create a diverse research library community that will better meet the challenges of changing demographics in higher education and the emphasis on global perspectives in the academy.

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The Times Union had a story about Prof. Sinn's project to create a virtual archives of No Gun Ri.

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CCIWIT: the William A. Bloom, Women in Technology Scholarship for an undergraduate student(s).

The College of Computing and Information Women in Technology (CCIWIT) program is proud to announce the William A. Bloom Œ85, Women in Technology Scholarship for an undergraduate student(s) at the University at Albany who intends on pursuing a degree in The College of Computing and Information, with demonstrated financial need. The scholarship is for a female student, preferably from Queens or one of the five boroughs. Eligible students can apply through the Financial Aid Office in February 2010. CCIWIT is dedicated to supporting, empowering, and building community among female faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students. The program also encourages girls in middle school and high school to pursue undergraduate and graduate studies in the fields related to computer science, informatics, and information science. As a result, CCIWIT initiatives are designed to address the critical need to bridge the achievement gap and increase access for women to enter the computing and information technology fields. For more information on CCIWIT or the William A. Bloom Œ85, Women in Technology Scholarship, please contact Jennifer Goodall at jgoodall [at] uamail [dot] albany [dot] edu.

The cover of the June 2009 issue of Neural Computing, one of the leading journals in computer science, features a figure from the lead article by CCI's Siwei Lyu and his coauthor, Eero P. Simoncelli

Their research concerns fundamental questions in the study of images and vision: what are the building block of images we encounter in the everyday real world, and what is the best language to describe them? The wisdom of the past two decades has been that images are formed by adding and subtracting simple units and that the mathematical language of linear transformations is the best one to describe them. This paper convincingly refutes this standing theory and describes simple nonlinear transforms that are much more effective. Besides the scientific value, this work will have far-reaching practical impacts on image compression (e.g., a better JPEG algorithm), image authentication (e.g., determining if an image has been "Photo-shopped"), and other important applications with digital images. The article, "Nonlinear Extraction of Independent Components of Natural Images Using Radial Gaussianization," is available at www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/neco/21/6.