Graduate School Leave of Absence Policy

2013-2014 is the first year we opted in the Graduate School's Leave of Absence policy to better keeping track of whereabouts of our students.  Three CS students are taking LoA for personal and work related reasons.

Course Lists

Course lists for MS in CS:

Prerequisite: CS 503, 504, 508, 519, Math 505

Core: CS 520, 524, 528, 564, 561/571

Elective: CS 525, 530, 536, 542, 543, 544, 545, 550, 553, 557, 565, 566,

              CSIT 532, 534, 537, 540, 555, 583

IT Elective: IT 514, 515, 518, 521, 530, 535, 548, 581

                  ITMG 527, 533

Special Topics CS/CSIT 598, 599

Other: CS 575, 580, 585, 595

Examples of two year compeltion schedule for a full time student

Examples of 2 year completion schedule for a full time student:

AI Track:

Fall: 524, 528, 571

Spring: 520, 525, 542

Fall: 543, 544, elective

Spring: 564, elective

ND Track:

Fall: 524, 553, 561

Spring: 520, 564, 525

Fall: 566, 528, elective

Spring: 536, elective

General study with Thesis/SE Project option:

Fall: 524, 528, 561

Spring: 520, 525, 564

Fall: 530, 571, 553

Spring: thesis, thesis

With all prerequisite courses:

Fall: 503, 505, IT 514

Spring: 508, 519, elective

Summer: elective, elective

Fall: 524, 528, 571

Spring: 520, 564, elective

Summer: elective

With a Cybersecurity Certificate:

Fall: 524, 530, 553

Spring: 520, 528, 555

Fall: 532, 571, 535

Spring: 564, 537

Unofficial 2 year course projection

Two Year Projection

Prefix	Course #	Fall	Spring	Fall	Spring	Note
Math	(207) 505	x	x	x	x	Prerequisite
CS	284-503	x	x	x	x
	287-504	x	x	x	x
	326-508	x	x	x	x
	419/519	x	x	x	x
	520		x		x	Core
	524	x		x
	428/528	x		x
	464/564		x		x
	461/561	x
	571	x		x
	525		x			Electives
	530	x		x
	536				+
	542				x
	443/543		x
	544		x
	445/545				x
	450/550	+
	453/553	x		x
	557			+
	565		+		x
	466/566			x
CSIT	532	x		x	x
	534		x
	537				x
	540	x	x
	555		x		x
	583			x
CS/CSIT	598				+
	598
	599	+	+	+
	599
Total:		15	15	15	15

x: courses we should offer on schedule:

+: courses we should offer on schedule, but often subject to student enrollment

Research Funds

Graduate students are eligible for a $500 research grant for purposes of conference, publication, research materials, equipment, etc.

Computer Science students are encouraged to apply for this grant, and engage in active research.

DCF to be gone

Graduate Council had made a decision to eliminate the Degree Candidacy Form (DCF).  It is students' responsibility to make sure his courses are on track for degree completion with help from his academic adviser.

Davis Peach Project Competition (undergraduate)

The highest mission of a science is its applications to answer questions with social impact.  I would like to see computer science undergraduate students to take on this challenge to design a proposal which will address the question of peace using programmable tools.

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September 23, 2013

Dear Hood Faculty,

I am pleased to announce that Hood College will again compete in the Davis Peace Project competition.  Hood undergraduate students are invited to design a “project for peace” and to compete for a Davis Peace Prize.  Winning submissions will be funded at $10,000 each and the project must be completed during the summer of 2014.  These projects are designed to facilitate young adults to consider, develop, and institute ways of building peace in the 21^stcentury.

Davis projects for peace are made possible by Kathryn Davis, an accomplished internationalist and mother of Shelby M. C. Davis who funds the Davis United World College Scholars Program. Hood College is a United World College partner school.

Please encourage your students to consider this opportunity to transform their visions into a realistic plan. 

For students planning to compete for a Davis Peace Prize, a one page statement (pre-proposal) describing what they plan to do and where (the location), how the project relates to their major, the significance of the project, and how this project might relate to future plans is due on November 22, 2013.  In this proposal, students must indicate a faculty advisor who is willing to assist the student in this process.  The pre-proposal will be submitted to the Hood College Davis Peace Prize Committee by sending an attachment to provost@hood.edu.

On February 3, 2014, the final proposal is due.  The final proposal must capture the proposed project concisely in two pages of narrative and a one page budget sheet. The final proposal will be submitted to the Hood College Davis Peace Prize Committee by sending an attachment of the final proposal to provost@hood.edu.

Attached to this email is information that should answer many of your questions.   If you have additional questions, please contact either:

Dr. Donald Wright at wright@hood.edu (member of the Hood College Davis Peace Prize Committee)

Ms. Kate Emory at emoryk@hood.edu (Hood’s official contact for the Davis Peace Prize)

Sincerely,

Kate Conway-Turner

Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs

Building Wireless Networks in Nepal (lecture)

On Wednesday at 7:30 in HT 131, Nepali social entrepreneur Mahabir Pun will speak on on his extensive work in applying information and communication technologies to develop remote areas of the Himalayas.

Mahabir Pun is recognized for his extensive work in applying information and communication technologies (specially wireless technologies) to develop remote areas of the Himalayas, also known as the Nepal Wireless Networking Project. He is the winner of the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay (aka Asia's Nobel Prize) award for community leadership (http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/).

After working as a teacher for several years, he went to the US and completed master's degree in education from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Later, he also got an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Nebraska, USA in 2007. He went back to Nepal and currently working in education, nature conservation, community development and wireless networking fields. He first dreamed of connecting his village of Nangi to the internet in 1997. He is working ever since to bring the internet to rural Nepal using wireless technology. So far he has constructed computer labs at several schools, connected several villages using wireless in Nepal. He has already connected several villages, and now working on expanding the wireless network to different parts of Nepal and use it for educational, health, communication, local e-commerce, weather monitoring and scientific research purposes. He was awarded Ramon Magsaysay award because of the use of wireless technology for the benefit of rural people in Nepal. He is currently the Program Director for the Himanchal Educational Foundation.

Thank Jiwan Giri for arranging this opportunity for us.

Fall Numbers

Total graduate students at Hood College for Fall 2013: 1006 (full time 140 and part time 866).

The Master's degree program in Computer Science welcome seven new students from Russia, Pakistan, and US States of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

IEEE Cluster 2013 Student Program Scholarships

Please forward and post widely - let's get students involved!

Hosted by the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute:

  IEEE Cluster 2013

  September 23-27, 2013

  Indianapolis, IN

In this email:

  NEW!  Student Program Announced - Student Mentors needed

  Consider a Workshop and/or Tutorial

  Conference Program on SCHED

  Thanks to our sponsors

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Student Program

Thanks to the generosity of the National Science Foundation and our Bronze and Silver sponsors we are now able to offer registration and travel scholarships.  See the website for details.  Application deadline is September 13 but we will be making decisions on awards as the applications come in so students may make travel arrangements as soon as possible - this makes it somewhat of a first-come first-served application process.  http://pti.iu.edu/ieeecluster-2013/student.php  If you are interested in mentoring a student please let me know right away.

Workshops and Tutorials

If you haven't already done so, consider attending the Monday tutorials or Friday workshops.

http://pti.iu.edu/ieeecluster-2013/tutorials.php

http://pti.iu.edu/ieeecluster-2013/workshops.php (some are still accepting papers, see each workshop URL for more information)

Conference Program on SCHED

SCHED allows you to login, create a custom schedule of what you're interested in attending, print your own guide or schedule, have a profile in the attendee directory and more.  Create your free login and start using SCHED to plan your conference experience.

http://ieeecluster13conference.sched.org/

http://ieeecluster13conference.sched.org/mobile/

Special thanks to our sponsors:

Platinum

National Science Foundation

Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute

National Center for Genome Analysis Support

Gold

Cray - the supercomputer company

DirectDirect Networks [DDN]) sponsors.  

Silver

Case Western Reserve University

IBM

Bronze

The University of Chicago Research Computing Center

Clemson University

Georgia Tech Information Technology

University of Miami Center for Computation Science

Mississippi State University

University of Notre Dame

San Diego Supercomputer Center

-Robert

Robert Ping

Education and Outreach Manager

UITS Research Technologies

Collaboration and Engagement Support Group

robping@indiana.edu

812-345-1065

http://pti.iu.edu

Research Technologies is a Cyberinfrastructure and Service Center

affiliated with the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute.

Independent Study: 2013 Fall

Mobile Application Development
Rattanaphan Boonbutra
Dr. George Dimitoglou (instructor)

This project will explore using the Arduino UNO board and Android application development.