New Student Orientation for Fall Term 2003

Location: Bellefield Hall Auditorium and SIS Building

Thursday
July 24, 2003
4:00 - 5:30 PM

Summer Recognition Ceremony for June and August graduates

Summer Term Pizza Party

Location: the First Floor, IS Building

New Student Orientation for Summer Term

Location: the First Floor Conference Room, IS Building

April Graduation Recognition Ceremony & Continental Breakfast

Recognition Ceremony begins at 9:30 a.m. on the 7th Floor in the Auditorium of Alumni Hall.
Breakfast is at 10:30 a.m. in the Commons Room of the Cathedral.

February 27 -
March 31, 2003

SIS Faculty Search Candidates ( Brief bio of each candidate )

• Thursday, February 27th
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, Joseph Kabara (visiting assistant professor of department of information sciences and telecommunications). The presentation topic is "WIRELESS DATA NETWORK DESIGN". Abstract
• Monday, March 10th
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, Eun Park (Ph. D, Department of Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles). The presentation topic is "ENSURING AUTHENTIC RECORDS IN ELECTRONIC RECORDKEEPING SYSTEMS: EUN PARK'S RESEARCH AND FUTURE DIRECTION". Abstract
• Wednesday, March 12th
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, Madhusudhan Govindaraju. The presentation topic is "XCAT 2.0: COMPONENT-BASED PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR GRID SERVICES". Abstract
• Thursday, March 13th
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, Jiang Li. The presentation topic is "END-TO-END MULTICAST CONGESTION CONTROL". Abstract
• Friday, March 14th
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, Filippo Menczer (Assistant Professor). The presentation topic is " MINING, MAPPING, MODELING AND CRAWLING THE WEB". Abstract
• Monday, March 17th
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, Miles Efron (PhD Candidate, School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). The presentation topic is " A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO DIMENSIONALITY ESTIMATION FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL UNDER THE LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING MODEL". Abstract
• Tuesday, March 18th and Wednesday, March 19th (Split schedule)
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, Bryan Heidorn (University of Illinois). The presentation topic is " BEYOND PAPER ON THE WEB: HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL FLORA". Abstract
• Friday, March 21st
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, James Joshi (PhD Candidate, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University ). The presentation topic is " A GENERALIZED TEMPORAL ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING SECURE APPLICATIONS ". Abstract
• Monday, March 24th
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, Amanda Spink (Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University). The presentation topic is "WEB SEARCHING 1997-2002: ISSUES & TRENDS". Abstract
• Tuesday, March 25th
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, Jaudelice C. de Oliviera. The presentation topic is " NEW PREEMPTION POLICIES FOR DIFFSERV-AWARE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING TO MINIMIZE REROUTING IN MPLS NETWORKS". Abstract
• Wednesday, March 26th
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, William Cohen (Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery Carnegie Mellon University ). The presentation topic is "SIMILARITY-BASED QUERYING OF HETEROGENEOUS DATABASES: AN OVERVIEW OF THE WHIRL SYSTEM". Abstract
• Friday, March 28th
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, Jeffrey Pomerantz (Ph. D Candidate, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York). The presentation topic is "QUESTION TAXONOMIES FOR DIGITAL REFERENCE TRIAGE". Abstract
• Monday, March 31st
  School of Information Sciences presents SIS Faculty Candidate, Peter Y. Wu (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications). The presentation topic is "AN OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED WORKFLOW AUTOMATION". Abstract