Spring 2014 School of Computing Symposium

Friday, April 18, 2014 from 3 PM to 5:30 PM

Grand Banquet Hall

UNF Adam W. Herbert University Center

About the Event

The School of Computing Symposium features course projects, thesis projects, and other types of faculty research projects carried out by undergraduate and graduate students. Students and faculty will share their work via poster presentations. This event will provide you an opportunity to have one-on-one interaction with our faculty and other computing students.

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

If you attended, please provide us feedback by completing the survey available at below link:

Spring 2014 Feedback Survey

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.

Program Schedule

• 2:15 PM to 2:45 PM - Students setting up their poster
• 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM - Check-in and registration
• 3:00 PM - Event kickoff
• 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Attendees view posters and provide feedback
• 5:00 PM to 5:30 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 announced as the symposium prize winners.

Event Materials

• Promotional Flyer
• Program Schedule

Symposium Winners

During the event, attendees were provided with six votes with instructions to cast one vote per poster. Winners of the symposium were decided based on the number of votes received. Winners were recognized with cash prizes and certification awards. Mr. Yash Nath, CEO of iStartJax and Mr. Jim Simak, Executive Vice President at Harris Computer Systems along with Dr. Asai Asaithambi presented cash prizes and award certificates to winners of the symposium.

First Place Winner (Prize - $200) Poster Title: Trinity Rescue Mission Overnight Intake Program Presenters: Anthony Farr, Daniel Fernandez, Tatini Gandham, and Ivan Nunez Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II
Second Place Winner (Prize - $150) Poster Title: Node.js Application for Stocks Presenters: Francesco Calabrese, Ty Downs, Alfonso Fajardo, Jimmy Thai, and Christian Weatherford Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering
Third Place Winner (Prize - $100) Poster Title: Looking Through the Glass: A UNF Walking Tour Presenters: Jared Magaro, David Iya, Tyler Heveran, Steven Haas, and Morganne Lander Course: CIS 2991 - Inventing Mobile Apps for Android Phone and Tablet

Honorable Mention Winners

Eleven 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 for list of honorable mention award winners:

• Poster Title: Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Inmate Disciplinary Report
  • Presenters: Randy Blankenship, Joshua Dickison, Niloufar Mohaseb, and Bradford Wilson
  • Course: CIS 4328/CIS 4594 - IS Senior Project II/Mobile Capstone II
   
• Poster Title: Budget Meal App - Recipe that fits your budget
  • Presenters: Zhamir Cobb, Stephanie McMahon, Christina Polidan, Kelton Rahusen, and Jarrett Reece
  • Course: CGS 4308 - Information Processing and Requirements Specification
   
• Poster Title: The UNF Crowd Sourcerer
  • Presenters: Joseph Hoeppner, Priyanka Dhoopa Harish, and Tyler Morris
  • Course: COP 4813 - Internet Programming
   
• Poster Title: Joomla! Website for GroundWork Jacksonville
  • Presenters: Donald Dedman, Scot Hancock, and Kyle Lennie
  • Course: CIS 4930 - TLO: Website and Apps for community
   
• Poster Title: MIDI Music Model
  • Presenters: Elizabeth Feldman and Khushboo Pachchigar
  • Course: COT 4470 - Introduction to Music Informatics
   
• Poster Title: Android Broker
  • Presenters: Melissa Land, Michelle Jones, Nisha Tabassum, Riley Prescott, Justin Gagnon, and Michael Perkins
  • Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering
   
• Poster Title: Peanut Butter Shopping Time
  • Presenters: Jonathan Chery, Curtis Nowak, Casey Parker, Thomas Petrocelli, and Eugene Sadsarin
  • Course: COP 3855 - Web Access and Systems Design
   
• Poster Title: Mid-Range Wireless Power Transfer
  • Presenters: Brian Hicks
  • Course: CNT 4514C - Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
   
• Poster Title: Fast Play For Fast Players
  • Presenters: Arvin Chavez, Tyler Rochester, Justin Fellin, Josh Birnholz, and Christen Hancock
  • Course: CIS 2991 - Inventing Mobile Apps for Android Phone and Tablet
   
• Poster Title: Sorting by Transpositions
  • Presenters: Jici Huang and John C. Fitzgerald
  • Course: Research Papers
   
• Poster Title: Motherlode: A Crowdsourced CMS for GIS Applications
  • Presenters: David King, Nicole DeRoin, Matt Walston, and Geoff Wark
  • Course: CEN 6017 - Engineering of Software II
   

* Symposium presenters received a participation certificate.

Apart from above winners, two other posters received special recognition for the best real world application project and the best investable product. The best real world application project poster was selected by Jim Simak from Harris Computer Systems and the best investable product poster was selected by Yash Nath from iStartJax.

Best Real World Application

• Poster Title: CFCATS - Computer Forensics Case Management Tracking System
• Presenters: Chris LaValley, Sai Raghu Talluri, and Jigisha Rana
• Course: CEN 6017 - Engineering of Software II

Best Investable Product

• Poster Title: ID10T Interfaces
• Presenters: Christopher Phelps, George Muller, Matthew Pawloski, Bradley Boman, Okechukwu Anyanwu
• Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering

Event Location and Parking

UNF Adam W. Herbert University Center

12000 Alumni Drive

Jacksonville, FL 32224 - 2678

The University Center offers complimentary parking to all event attendees. You can find driving instructions at the below link:

http://www.unf.edu/universitycenter/Map_and_Directions.aspx

Participating Courses

Students and Faculty from following courses and research projects will be presenting their work at the symposium.

Past Symposiums

• Fall 2013 SoC Symposium
• Spring 2013 SoC Symposium
• Fall 2012 SoC Student Symposium
• Spring 2012 SoC Student Symposium
• Fall 2011 SoC Student Symposium