Early quake alerts
Michela Taufer, assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, is collaborating with researchers from Stanford University and the U.S. Geological Survey to implement a new network of seismic sensors aimed at arming communities with early earthquake detection and warning capabilities.
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CIS Students Honored at Breakfast
Undergraduate and graduate students received CIS Department awards at breakfast on May 14, 2011.
Software Engineer ranks as Best Job of 2011
Once, again, "Software Engineer" has been ranked as the #1 job, in a prominent national forum:
http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/10-best-jobs-2011
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ECIR Paper Award
Recently, at the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011) held in Dublin, the award for best student authored paper was given to Jaime Arguello of Carnegie Mellon University for the paper, "A Methodology for Evaluating Aggregated Search Results" by Jaime Arguello, Fernando Diaz, Jamie Callan, and Ben Carterette. Professor Carterette, a member of the UD CIS faculty, collaborated on this work as part of a sabbatical this past Fall semester which he spent at CMU. Congratulations to all of the authors for their terrific paper!
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ICST Best Paper Award
A paper entitled "A Study of Usage-Based Navigation Models and Generated Abstract Test Cases for Web Applications", by Sara Sprenkle, Lori Pollock, and Lucy Simko was awarded the Best Research Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing (ICST) in Berlin Germany. This is a prestigious conference in software testing (21% acceptance rate) with over 300 attendees. The paper is the result of collaborative research between CIS Professor Lori Pollock, CIS alum Dr.


