Computing and Software Engineering Colloquia

The School of Computing and Software Engineering regularly hosts speakers both from SPSU and from elsewhere to give research presentations:

Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 10:40-11:40AM, J131
Speaker: Dr. Xuerong (Sherry) Feng
Subject: Sorting by Exchanging Elements at Bounded Distance
Date: Friday, April 18, 2008, 10:40-11:40AM, J131
Speaker: Dr. Lei Zhu
Subject: An Introduction to Information Retrieval and Web Search
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008, 10:40-11:40AM, J131
Speaker: Dr. Xiang Fu
Subject: Discover SQL Injection Vulnerabilities Using Symbolic Execution
Date: Monday, April 14, 2008, 10:40-11:40AM, J131
Speaker: Dr. Yan Zhong Ding
Subject: Cryptography: The Art and Science of Hiding
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 7:30-8:50PM, J161
Speaker: Professor Julian Cook, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia
Subject: The Fourth Amendment in Computer Forensics Investigations
Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 6:00-7:20 PM, J-217
Speaker: Mr. Scott Vincent, CISSP, Lockheed Martin Information Security
Subject: Computer Forensics within a Corporate Environment

Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 4:55-5:55 PM, J-161
Speaker: Dr. Lars Mathiassen, GRA Eminent Scholar & Professor of Computer Information Systems Center for Process Innovation, J Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State Univ.
Subject: Improving Software Practices through Industry-Academia Collaboration

Date: Thursday, April 19, 2007, Time: 4:55-5:55 PM, J-133
Speaker: Dr. Liu Wenping,Visiting Faculty Member from North China University of Technology
Subject:  Content-based Video Retrieval
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2007, 4:45-5:45 PM, J-161
Speaker: Dr. Mary Lynn Manns, University of North Carolina at Asheville          
Subject: Successful Strategies for Leading Change
Thursday, March 22, 2007, 4:55-5:55 PM
Speaker: 1. Dr. Becky Rutherfoord and 2. Prof. Briana Morrison School of CSE, Southern Polytechnic State University
Subject: “Learning Styles - Are these Really Important for Educators?” – Dr. Becky Rutherfoord
“Computer Science Education – What’s Next?” – Prof. Briana Morrison

Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 4:55-5:55 PM, J-110
Speakers: 1. Dr. Frank Tsui, 2. Dr. Rich Halstead-Nussloch, and 3. Dr. Patrick Bobbie
School of CSE, Southern Polytechnic State University
Subject: Computing Research at SPSU – Brief Faculty Presentations

Thursday, July 27, 2006, 3:30pm, J-202
Speaker: Dr. P. S. Avadhani, Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Andhra University (India)
Subject: Cryptographic Algorithms and Techniques

Monday, May 15, 2006, 11:00am - 11:50am, Room J-202
Speaker: Dr. Ronggao Liu, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Mapping China Using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) Data

Monday, April 10, 2006, 9:00am - 9:50am, Room J-202
Speaker: Dr. Chung-wei Lee, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, Alabama
Stability Routing and Density-based Secure Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Monday, March 20, 2006, 11:00am, Room J-202
Speaker: Dr. Lixin Tao, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Pace University
Agent-Enabling Transformation of E-Commerce Portals with Web Services

Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 3:30pm, Room J-202
Speaker: Mr. Paul H. Wilson, CA (Computer Associates International, Inc.)
eTrust and Security Management Solutions

Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 11:30am, Room J-213
Speaker: Dr. Rich Halstead-Nussloch, Department of IT, SPSU
Teaching and Learning Web Design in a Hop, Skip and a Jump

Thursday, October 27, 2005, 7:30pm, Room J-131
Speaker: Dr. Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Wavelet-based enhancement of remote sensing and biomedical image series using an auxiliary image

Thursday, May 19, 2005, 10:30am, Room J-202
Speaker: Shailender Nagpal, The Mathworks, Inc.
MathWorks Seminar: "Using MATLAB for Bioinformatics"

Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 11:30am, Room J-202
Speaker: Dr. Ming-Jun Lai, University of Georgia
Image Edge Detection by Box Spline Tight Framelets

Thursday, December 2, 2004, 11:00am, Room J-202
Speaker: Ying Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
GeneTrek: A System to Cluster Genes by Functional Keyword Association from Biomedical Literature

Friday, October 1, 2004, 11:00am, Room J-202
Speaker: Rushi Tamhankar, Mississippi State University
Watermarking: A tool to protect intellectual property rights in Remote Sensing

Monday, April 19, 2004, 11:30am, Room J-202
Speaker: Dr. Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia 
LISA: A Tool for Incremental Programming Language Development

Monday, April 12, 2004, 11:30am, Room J-202
Speaker: Dr. Caterina M. Scoglio, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 
TEAM: A Traffic Engineering Automated Manager for Packet Switched and Optical Networks

Monday, March 1, 2004, 11:00am, Room J-202
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Dow, Department of Mathematical Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville 
Combining Rendered Graphics and Photographic Terrain Images 

Thursday, February 26, 2004, 10:00am, Room J-202
Speaker: Dr. V.N. Sastry, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad, India 
Multiple Objective Network Optimization Problems and QOS Routing

Thursday, February 12, 2004, 11:00am, Room J-202
Speaker: Mr. Weilian Su, Georgia Institute of Technology
Time-Diffusion Synchronization Protocol for Sensor Networks

Monday, December 1, 2003, 11:30am, Room J-151
Speaker: Dr. J. Michael Meehan, Western Washington University
DICE and DHAKS, Experiments with Ditributed Operating Systems

Monday, November 3, 2003, 11:30am, Room J-151
Speaker: Dr. Paul Scheunders, University of Antwerp, BELGIUM
Wavelet representation of multivalued images

Monday, October 20, 2003, 11:30am, Room J-151
Speaker: Dr. Muhammad A. Rahman, State University of West Georgia
Support for Question-Answering System: Adding Proper Name Derivatives to a Lexical Database

Monday, August 25, 2003, 11:30am, Room J-151
Speaker: Mr. Richard Conn, Microsoft Corporation
A View of Microsoft Research With Opportunities for Collaboration

Tuesday, July 22, 2003, 04:30pm, Room J-217
Speaker: Dr. Roy George, Clark Atlanta University
Cluster Analysis of Earth Science Data

Monday, April 21, 2003, 11:30pm, Room J-217
Speaker: Dr. Brad Morantz, Georgia State University
Topic: Neural Networks: An Overview

Monday, March 17, 2003, 12:00pm, Room J-217
Speaker: Dr. Yan-Qing Zhang, Georgia State University
Topic: Computational Web Intelligence on Wired and Mobile Wireless Networks

Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 02:00pm, Room J-131
Speaker: Dr. Bhanu Prasad, Georgia Southwestern State University
Topic: Knowledge-Based Electronic Commerce

Monday, February 3, 2003, 11:30am, Room J-217
Speaker: Dr. Yi Pan, Georgia State University
Topic: Research Issues in Optical Multistage Networks

Tuesday, December 3, 2002 , 1:30 PM

Room J-108

John A. Graniero

Director, Information Institute

The Information Institute - Collaborative Opportunities with the Information Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

Monday, November 18, 2002 , 11:30 AM

Room J-217

Dr. Benny Bing

Wireless Local Area Networks - The New Wireless Revolution

Monday, October 28, 2002 , 11:30 AM

Room J-217

Dr. Buddy H. Jeun

Computers That Can Recognize Objects

Monday, September 23, 2002 , 11:30 AM

Room J-217

Ralph Duncan

Consultant

Automating Construction of Pixel Processing Programs

Monday, August 26, 2002 , 11:30 AM

Room J-217

Dr. Michael C. Weeks

Georgia State University

Architectures for the Wavelet Transform

Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 4:00PM

Room J-202

Dr. Juan E. Gilbert

Auburn University

Animated Pedagogical Agents

Monday, March 4, 2002, 11:30AM

Room J-202

Dr. Hsin-Chu Chen

Clark Atlanta University

Distributed and Parallel Computing with Mobile Agents

Monday, February 11, 2002, 11:30AM

Room J-202

Dr. Jose M. Garrido

Kennesaw State University

Java for Object-Oriented Simulation

Tuesday, November 13, 2001, 4:30 PM
Room J-202
Dr. Shamkant Navathe
Georgia Institute of Technology
Scalability Issues in Mobile Intermittently Synchronized Databases

Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 11:30 AM
Room J-131
Dr. Anu G. Bourgeois
Georgia State University
Reconfigurable Computing
Friday, October 5, 2001, 11:00 AM - Noon
Room J-131
Dr. Xiaoshan Li
University of Macau
Formal Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML
Monday, April 2, 2001, 9:00-10:00 AM
Room J-131
Dr. Pierre F. Tiako
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rennes, France
Distributed Software Development and Perspectives for Embedded Software Development
Wednesday, March 7, 2001, 9:00-10:00 AM
Room J-131
Dr. Seong-Moo (Sam) Yoo
Columbus StateUniversity, Columbus, GA
(1) An Efficient Task Allocation Scheme for 2D Mesh Architectures
(2) All-to-All Communication in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Wednesday, February 28, 2001, 5:00-6:00 PM
Room H-120
Dr. Benjamin Bishop
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
The PhD Program at UGA / Hardware Support for Physical Modeling

Tuesday, February 27, 2001, 9:00-10:00 AM
Room J-131
Dr. Andy Ju An Wang
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Towards Component-Based Software Engineering

Thursday, February 15, 2001, 9:00 AM
Room J-131
Dr. Ahmad Ghafarian
North Georgia College and State University, Dahlonega, GA
Incorporating Software Testing in Programming Courses
Monday, February 5, 2001, 9:00 AM
Room J-131
Dr. Hanqi Zhuang
Robotics Center and Electrical Engineering
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Web Administration of Teleworking
Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 5:00 PM
Room H-121
Dr. Kamesh Namuduri
Department of Computer Science and
Center for Theoretical Studies of Physical Systems
Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta
Wavelets and their Applications
Tuesday, September 19, 2000, 5:00 PM
Room H-120
Prof. Gunther Schwenzfeger
Department of Computer Science
Hochschule Anhalt
The University of Applied Sciences, Koethen, Germany
Computer Science at the Hochschule Anhalt
Wednesday, September 6, 2000, 5:00 PM
Room H-121
Dr. David Gries
Department of Computer Science
University of Georgia, Athens
Using Calculational Logic as a Tool
Thursday, June 8, 2000, 5:00 PM
Room H-320
Dr. Bei-Tseng Bill Chu
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
A Rule-Based System for Cross-Enterprise Access Authorization
Wednesday, April 19, 2000, 9:00 AM
Room J-131
Dr. Frank Tsui
Vice-President of Technology and Process
Metamor Worldwide, Inc.
Software Engineering - A Practitioner's Perspective
Tuesday, April 18, 2000, 5:00 PM
Room H-322
Dr. Allen Parrish
Department of Computer Science
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Toward a Fundamentals-Based Perspective for Component-Based Software Development
Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 5:00 PM
Room H-322
Dr. Leo Mark
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
XMLApe
Thursday, March 30, 2000, 5:00 PM
Room H-322
Dr. Jose M. Garrido

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Kennesaw State University
Object Oriented Modeling andThe Process Interaction Approach to Simulation
Thursday, March 16, 2000, 9:00 AM
Room J-131
Dr. Demetrios Kazakos
Department of Computer Science
University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Research in Wireless Multiuser Communication Networks
Thursday, February 24, 2000, 5:00 PM
Room H-322
Ms. Laurie Williams
University of Utah
The Collaborative Software Process
Wednesday, December 8, 1999 9:00-10:00 AM
Room J 131
Dr. George Paschos
Florida Memorial College
Color Texture Analysis for 2-D Recognition: Algorithms and Applications
Monday, November 29, 1999, 5:30-6:30 PM
Room G 240
Dr. Raymond Greenlaw
Armstrong Atlantic State University
On Computing Prufer Codes and Their Corresponding Trees Optimally in Parallel

(Speaker available at 5:00 PM for an informal conversation over refreshments)

Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 5:30-6:30PM
Room J 131
Dr. Norman D. Geddes
CEO and Principal Scientist
Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc.
Engineering Knowledge-Based Systems

(Speaker available at 5:00 PM for an informal conversation over refreshments)

Thursday, October 21, 1999, 7:30 PM
SPSU Student Center
Dr. Watts S. Humphrey
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University
A Conversation with Watts Humphrey
Friday, October 22, 1999, 8 AM - 3:15 PM
(This event has a registration fee of $30, and includes continental breakfast, breaks, and lunch)
(Call Ms. Dawn Ramsey, 770-528-3714 for location, TBA)
First Annual Watts Humphrey Lecture Series in Software Engineering
Competing in the Software Age: Software Process Improvement
A one-day program featuring keynote speaker Dr. Watts S. Humphrey

Other speakers:
Mr. Larry Boldt, Sr. VP, Technology Builders, Inc.
Mr. G. Allen Whittaker, Lockheed Martin
Dr. Iraj Hirmanpour, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Dr. Abi Salimi and Ms. Kathleen Demery, ALLTEL Information Services
Prof. Barbara Thomas and Ms. Briana Morrison, Southern Polytechnic State University
Wednesday, June 16, 1999, 4:30-5:30PM
Room H 320
Dr. Hassan Pournaghshband
What makes a Query Processor Efficient:
Optimization Issues for Nondistributed and Distributed DBMSs
AND

Dr. Sheryl Duggins
Distributed Characteristics of Subject Oriented Programming:
An Evaluation with the Process and Object Paradigms
Friday, April 30, 1999, 9:00-10:00 AM
Room H 202
Mr. Atsushi Inoue, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Cincinnati
Soft Computing as a Basis for Perceptual Information Processing
-- Application of Text Categorization --

Friday, April 23, 1999, 9:00-10:00 AM
Room H 202
Dr. Mary J. Russell
Bornn Communications and University of North Texas
Data Representation: Some Design Decisions and their Consequences

Thursday, April 22, 1999, 9:00-10:00 AM
Room H 240
Mr. Stanislav Kurkovsky, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Southwestern Louisiana
Possibilistic Temporal Propagation

Thursday, April 15, 1999, 5:00-6:00 PM
Room H 240
Professor Ronald Schroeder
A Look at Real-Time, Embedded Computer Systems

Thursday, April 8, 1999, 4-5:15 PM
Room H 320
Dr. Jorge L. Diaz-Herrera
Software Process Improvement

Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 5-6 PM
Room C-133
Dr. Gerd W. Wöstenkühler
A Fast Diagnosis Procedure for Automatically Produced Small-sized Series-wound Motors

Thursday, March 11, 1999, 4-5 PM
Room H 320
Dr. Venu G. Dasigi
Information Fusion Experiments for Automatic Text Classification

Thursday, February 25, 1999, 4-5 PM
Room M 133
Dr. Steven L. Davis
YAFFA - Yet another fast Fibonacci algorithm