The Howe Center for Writing Excellence has announced the recipients of three grants for the 2009-2010 academic year. The goal of these awards is to support high-impact projects that will help students write better and learn more through writing.
A team of five faculty members in the computer science and software engineering department received a $5,000 [...]

Keith Frikken receives NSF Grant
Keith Frikken, assistant professor, computer science and software engineering, was awarded a 3-year grant from the NSF program:  “Trustworthy Computing.”  The grant, “Privacy-Constrained Searching” is a partnership with Purdue University.  Keith’s portion of the grant is $133,024.

John Karro receives PhRMA Foundation Research Starters Grant
John Karro, assistant professor, computer science and software [...]

Software Communication Chautauqua participants at Miami University

The Software Communication Chautauqua brought together a community of interested educators and industry representatives to discuss how communication could and should be integrated into the software engineering curriculum.  The international workshop was hosted by Miami University. The organizers were Janet Burge (computer science and software engineering) and Paul Anderson [...]

The Third Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWIC) was held February 27-28, 2009 at the Mohican Resort and Conference Center. OCWIC is a regional conference modeled after the International Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Attendees included women majoring in computing fields and enrolled in universities and colleges from all over Ohio, and [...]

Collaborating with other departments is a goal of Miami’s Computer Science and Software Engineering department, says associate professor Gerald Gannod. Senior systems analysis major Holly Connor took that goal to heart with her Undergraduate Summer Scholars project: creating a processing tool to help solve a problem in the humanities. While “Techniques for the Automated Transformation [...]

Douglas Troy, Anne Carson, and Jean Vanderbeek’s article, “Enhancing Community-Based Disaster Preparedness with Information Technology,” was the third most downloaded article from Disasters Journal in 2008. The article was downloaded 1,313 times as compared to 1,738 times for the top download.
Community Based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) refers to a specific form of local-level capacity building and [...]

Eric Bachmann, associate professor in computer science and software engineering, has received a three year $300,000 grant from the Army Research Office for his work in Immersive Virtual Environments. Immersive VEs treat the user’s own body as an input device. Tracking the movement of the user’s body provides a natural and intuitive means of interacting [...]

This summer, Miami University hosted the second INTERalliance IT Careers Camp on its Oxford campus to show area high school students the exciting opportunities in information technology.
The sessions featured four teams competing in various daily “problem-solving Olympics” in which they proposed IT solutions for real-world challenges. Corporate sponsors in this year’s Miami program were Kroger, [...]

This research award is endowed by the Orwig Family and given to the selected recipient at the SEAS Academic Awards Banquet held in April. The criterion for the research award includes: Importance of the research towards progress in the discipline, creativity of the thought process and methods behind the research, and original breakthroughs in conceptual [...]

We are proud to announce that Janet Burge, assistant professor of computer science and software engineering has recently published a book entitled:  “Rationale-Based Software Engineering.”  The rationale behind a software system includes the decisions made while developing the software, the alternatives considered, and the reasons that argue for and against those alternatives. The rationale provides insight [...]