Spring 2013 School of Computing Symposium

Friday, April 19, 2013 from 4 PM to 6:30 PM   UNF Ann and David Hicks Hall

About the Event

The School of Computing Symposium features current undergraduate and graduate students involved in course projects, thesis projects, and other types of faculty research projects. Students and faculty will share their project work via poster presentations. This event provides an opportunity to have one-on-one interaction with our students and faculty, test their products, and  provide feedback on their work.

The event is open to the public.  Light refreshments will be served.  The symposium is free but RSVPs are required (registration is closed now).

Our Sponsors

Special thanks to corporate sponsors for supporting our students in this event. This symposium is supported by annual contributions by members of the School of Computing Advisory Board and local companies. For this semester’s symposium, we would like to acknowledge the contributions from Jay Griffin from TekSystems, Jim Simak from Harris Computer, Ben MacDonald from ICS, and Dr. Dharma Acharya from CSX Transportation Inc.

Program Schedule

3:15 PM to 3:45 PM – Students get ready for their poster presentation
3:30 PM to 4:00 PM – Check-in and registration
4:00 PM – Event kick off
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM – Attendees view posters and provide feedback
6:00 PM to 6:30 PM – Event closing and announcement of symposium winners

During the event, each attendee will be provided with five voting stickers. Each poster will have space allotted in the table for placing voting stickers. Attendees can place voting stickers on posters they liked most. Posters that receive the highest number of stickers would be the symposium prize winners.

Event Materials

Promotional Flyer

Symposium Schedule  

(Above schedule include list of poster presentations, poster layout, and driving directions).

Symposium Winners

During the event, attendees were provided with six voting stickers with instructions to place one sticker per poster. Winners of the symposium were decided based on the number of stickers received. Winners were recognized with cash prizes and certification awards. Dr. Dharma Acharya, Assistant Vice President – Operations Research at CSX Transportation, and Dr. Sherif Elfayoumy  presented cash prizes and award certificate to winners of the symposium.

First Place Winner (Prize - $200) Poster Title: profol.io Presenters: Jonathan Huber, Adam Lankford, Chris Ly, and Micah Willard Course: COP 4813/5819 - Internet Programming
Second Place Winner (Prize - $150) Poster Title: Volunteer Management System for Sulzbacher Center Presenters: Raymond McDermott, Zachary McKee, Cuong Vo, and Geoffrey Wark Course: CIS 4328 - Information Systems Senior Project II
Third Place Winner (Prize - $100) Poster Title: Twitter Data-Mining: Insight into the #ows and #anonymous communities Presenters: James Hamilton Course: CIS 4900 - Directed Independent Studies

Honorable Mention Winners

Nine posters were recognized with honorable mention award for best-in-class poster presentation. Honorable mention winners received $50 cash prize and award certificate. See below of list of honorable mention award winners:

Poster Title: Computing with Membrane Systems

Presenters: Emily Albert, and Cassie Walther

 Course: MAD 4505/ COT 4461 - Discrete Biomathematics/ Computational Biology

Poster Title: Video Streaming Protocols for Mobile Computing

Presenters: Donald Smith

Course: CNT4514C - Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing

Poster Title: Southeast Superior Shipping Mobile Application Development

Presenters: Anthony Broom, Derek Daley, Andrew Karstaedt, Paul Matthews, and Cory Petersen

Course: CGS 4308 - Information Processing: Requirements Identification and Specification

Poster Title: Virtualization and Hypervisors in Cloud Computing

Presenters: Jerome Carey, Thinh Le, Sean McAdams, and Daniel Sudhindaran

Course: CIS 6930 - Cloud Computing

Poster Title: Challenges in E911 Implementations

Presenters: Anusha Srialluri

Course: CIS5105 - System Performance and Evaluation

Poster Title: Membership Development and Communication Control System for Brazil-Florida Alliance

Presenters: Ikonija Bogojevic, Micah Forster, Mergen Orashev, Kavita Sharma

Course: CIS 4328 - Information Systems Senior Project II

Poster Title: Baker’s Helper   

Presenters: Nehru Becirovic, Trisha Diamond, Grace Huang, and Anthony Scialo

Course: COP 4813/5819 - Internet Programming

Poster Title: Playback: A musical Education Application

Presenters: Aleksey Charapko, Charles Cox, Raymond McDermott, and Girard Williams

Course: CIS 4930/5930 - Music Informatics and Computing

Poster Title: Boat Ramps in Duval County   

Presenters: Zach McKee

Course: CIS 4850C - Introduction to Spatial Information Systems

 

*All symposium student presenters received a participation certificate.

 

Event Location and Parking

UNF Ann and David Hicks Hall
4892 First Coast Tech Parkway,
Jacksonville, FL, 32224

You can find driving instructions at the below link:
https://www.unf.edu/welcomecenter/Directions_VC.aspx

Visitors who do not have UNF Parking permits are expected to purchase $3 visitor parking permit to park their vehicle in the UNF Ann and David Hicks Hall parking lot. Parking permit can be purchased using parking ticket vending machine available near the parking lot entrance.

Past Symposiums

Fall 2012 SoC Student Symposium

Spring 2012 SoC Student Symposium  

Fall 2011 SoC Student Symposium