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  • Fall 2019 School of Computing Symposium

    <CODE_CHIEFS/>Team Programming Challenge 2020

    ATTN: Due to the Coronavirus, (COVID-19), Code Chiefs High School Programming Competition is postponed. We have yet to determine a new date for the event.

    Any updates will be posted here, on this page.

    Do you like challenges? Do you want to show off your programming skills? Do you have friends who like the same? How about spending four hours with your friends programming and competing with students in your school and in other schools? Would not that be fun? Join this national programming challenge. Winning a national challenge could be helpful when it is time to apply for college and securing scholarships.

    Welcome to the website of <Code_Chiefs/> Team Programming Challenge 2020, a programming competition for high school students, hosted by the School of Computing at the University of North Florida (UNF). In this website, we provide detailed information about the competition and how you can participate.

    Please visit this site as often as you can to get updated information. (Last Updated: 02/10/2020)

    Introduction

    Modeled after the global programming contests such as the ACM ICPC and the IEEE Xtreme contests, this competition will provide an opportunity for high school students to showcase their programming and problem-solving capabilities. The problems the contestants will be solving have been carefully handpicked at a level suitable for high school students who may be new to programming and problem-solving. For the year 2020, this competition will be held on March 28, 2020 from 9 am to 2 pm in John E. Matthews Jr. (Building 15) on the UNF campus.

    How to Participate

    A coordinating teacher from the high school that wishes to participate in the competition must register co-ed teams of two or three students from grades 9 through 12. Teams are not allowed to register themselves. There may be multiple teams from one school. The name and gender information for each team member should be included when registering a team.

    We recommend participating in the competition on-site at the UNF campus on the day of the competition. However, for the benefit of schools which may be unable to participate on-site, we will also be hosting this competition online at the same time the competition is held on campus. If a school wishes to participate in the competition online, the coordinating teacher will serve as the proctor at the school. We believe that this approach would make it more convenient for the schools to organize participation in our competition as an activity for a computing club for instance at their school.

    Whether participating on-site or online, each team must be registered for the competition. The coordinating teachers must register the participating teams prior to March 20, 2020 by visiting https://codechiefs2020.eventbrite.com/.

    Register your teams at Eventbrite

    This competition is offered free of charge. Light refreshments including coffee and other drinks, will be served at the UNF campus to the on-site participants. Pizza will be served from 11:30 AM to 1 PM.

    The Competition Schedule

    The Competition Programming Environments

    You may use C, C++, C#, Java, or Python. It is recommended that everyone in each team be familiar with at least one of these languages in common.

    IDE's Available On-site.
    Language(s) IDE(s)

    C, C++

    Code Blocks

    Java

    Eclipse, NetBeans, jGrasp

    Python

    IDLE, JuPyter

    C#

    Visual Studio

    Rules and Procedures

    • Around 10 problems will be posted at the beginning of the competition.
    • The teams will be given three hours to solve the problems.
    • Each team will be allowed to use one computer running Windows 10, and this computer will be provided on-site.
    • The participants online may use computers available at their schools.
    • Teams may bring any materials they wish to the competition except computing devices, including calculators, machine readable media, or devices requiring a wall outlet.
    • Cell phones may not be used during the competition, except for emergency communication(s).
    • Teams may choose to work the problems in any order.
    • The competition will be using kattis.com as the platform. For more information on Kattis you may visit https://open.kattis.com/help.
    • The teams must not run programs which are designed to maliciously degrade the performance of the system, or to disturb the work of other teams.
    • The teams are expected to obey federal and state computer laws.
    • The members of each team may not discuss the problems from the competition with anybody except the proctor(s) and its own members.
    • The teams must conduct themselves in a manner that will not disturb the other teams.

    Awards and Prizes

    • The top three on-site teams and the top three online teams will receive trophies and prizes.
    • The most diverse teams that performed the best will receive an award.
    • The School that performed the best (collectively if represented by multiple teams) will receive an award.
    • Each participant will receive a certificate of participation.

    FAQs

    Do the team members have to be in high school to compete?

    Yes. This competition is designed for high school students who are learning computer programming, including AP Computer Science, informatics, software engineering, or any other kind. The problems the teams will face are at the difficulty level to match the range of abilities of students 14 to 18 years of age, who have computer programming education ranging from 6 months to two or three years.

    Do the teams have to be in Florida to compete?

    No, not at all! Since this competition is also held online, we welcome all teams whose members are currently in high school!

    Can teams consisting of members who don't take computer programming classes at school participate?

    Yes. However, the coordinating teacher should still provide complete team and school information at the time of registration.

    Where can I find practice problems?

    We will use the Kattis system to run the competition. We recommend practicing programming problems archived by the Kattis system at https://open.kattis.com/.

    How many problems will there be?

    You will be working on around 10 problems of varying difficulty.

    Remember, you can work on the problems in any order.

    Do I have to work on the problems in order?

    No, you certainly do not!

    You may work on the problems in any order.

    Note that the problems could vary quite widely in level of difficulty.

  • Spring 2019 School of Computing Symposium

    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, but registration is required. Light refreshments was served. The Spring 2019 symposium has ended. Thanks to all for taking time to attend the symposium and providing comments to our student presentations.

    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. You can find list of advisory board members at CAB.

    Program Schedule

    • 10 AM to 10:45 AM - Students setting up their poster
    • 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM - Check-in and registration
    • 11:00 AM - Event kickoff
    • 11:00 AM to 1:45 PM - Attendees view posters and provide feedback
    • 1:45 PM to 2:00 PM - Event closing and announcement of symposium winners

    During the event, each attendee will be allowed to invest 100 UNF e-Dollars on posters of their interests. Attendees can cast an investment vote via smartphone using QR reader apps. QR Code Reader App should be available for free in the App store relevant to your phone. We will also have few computers at the event location for casting votes. Posters that receive the highest number of votes would be announced as the symposium prize winners.

    Event Materials

    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:

    https://www.unf.edu/universitycenter/directions.html

    Symposium Winners

    During the event, attendees were provided with 200 UNF e-dollars with instructions to invest in posters that are award worthy in the range of 5 to 20 dollars. Winners of the symposium were decided based on the number of votes and scores received. Winners were recognized with cash prizes and certification awards. Dr. Sherif Elfayoumy, School of Computing Director and Mr. Khwaja Shaik from IBM presented cash prizes and award certificates to winners of the symposium.

    First Place Winner (Prize - $200)

    Poster Title: Yoga 4 Change Social Connection System

    Presenters: Darnell Lemons, Varsha Parthasarathy, Nahjani Rhymer, and Rodneisha Williams

    Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II

    Second Place Winner (Prize - $150)

    Poster Title: Generalization in Reinforcement Learning: Using Proximal Policy Optimization to Train Tasks for New Environments

    Presenters: Stephen Baker, Wilson Beach, Alexander Besuden, Will Kaczmarek, Jacob Roberts, and Lucas Welch

    Course: Research Project supervised by Dr. Eren Gultepe

    Third Place Winner (Prize - $100)

    Poster Title: VR Escape Room

    Presenters: Erica Arellano, Gabriel Pridham, Sebastian Sanders, and Tollie Thigpen

    Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering

    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: Pizza Street 
      • Presenters: Camille Copeland, Shaun Hawk, and Shawndell McGriff
      • Course: COP 3855 – Web Systems Development
    • Poster Title: Exploring Differences In Student Community Service Engagement & Leadership
      • Presenters: Sara Comella, Alexis Lovaas, Shawna Peterson, and Samantha Ronderos
      • Course: PSY 6217 – Research Design and Analysis II
    • Poster Title: Human-In-The-Loop Learning of Qualitative Preference Models
      • Presenters: Joseph Allen, and Ahmed Moussa
      • Course: Artificial Intelligence Projects
    • Poster Title: The Internet of Things
      • Presenters: Tyler Hodge, Joseph Jackson, Donald Thompson, and Lili Weinstein
      • Course: Research Project supervised by Mr. Jim Littleton
    • Poster Title: Fuzz testing: Theory in Practice
      • Presenters: Charlotte Morrison
      • Course: CEN 6070 – Software Quality Assurance and Testing
    • Poster Title: Location Explorer LV360°
      • Presenters: Sushma Alchuru, Bradley Boman, Michael Pepis, and Rajesh Vaddula
      • Course: CEN 6017 – Engineering of Software II
    • Poster Title: IoT: Trends on Edge Computing
      • Presenters: Victor Lopez, and Hugo Resendez
      • Course: CEN 6086 – Cloud Computing
    • Poster Title: Firebase E-Democracy Family of Software Architectures
      • Presenters: Preeti Mishra, George Terre, and Aaron Wilson
      • Course: CEN 6036 – Web Engineering
    • Poster Title: CRM Volunteer Management System
      • Presenters: John Amiel Bueser, John Supina, Kristen Wankowski, and Yanling Zhang
      • Course: CIS 4328 – IS Senior Project II
    • Poster Title: Syllabank
      • Presenters: Craig Belton, Liam Collins, Richard Cowans, Honya Elfayoumy, and Rothanak So
      • Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering
    • Poster Title: Client Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
      • Presenters: Gavin Murray, Jamie Trent, Maynard Sweeley, and Luis Vivas
      • Course: CNT 4514C – Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing

    * Symposium presenters received a participation certificate.

    Apart from above winners, three other posters received special recognition for the most innovative, the best real world application, and the best student selected projects. The most innovative project was selected by representatives from Availity, and real world project were selected by representatives from feature[23] (http://feature23.com/).

    Most Innovative Project

    • Poster Title: Lesson Plan Repository for Hope at Hand
      • Presenters: Rabia Ali, Diego Herrada, William Milligan, and Laura Roxanne Young
      • Course: CIS 4328 – IS Senior Project II

    Best Real World Application

    • Poster Title: Client Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
      • Presenters: Gavin Murray, Jamie Trent, Maynard Sweeley, and Luis Vivas
      • Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering
       
    Votes count for top 10 posters:
    Poster No. Poster Title Course Investment Amount Received
    42 Yoga 4 Change Social Connection System CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II 863
    12 Generalization in Reinforcement Learning: Using Proximal Policy Optimization to Train Tasks for New Environments Research Projects 536
    46 VR Escape Room CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 478
    33 CRM Volunteer Management System CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II 435
    50 Syllabank CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 390
    11 The Internet of Things Research Projects 322
    41 Student Information Management System for CIS JAX CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II 270
    36 Day of Difference Event Registration System CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II 230
    47 Constellation: Market Analysis Toolkit CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 225
    20 Location Explorer LV360° CEN 6017 - Engineering of Software II 200

    Participating Courses

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

    Course/Research Project Faculty Description of Posters
    CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy Custom built software products for local non-profit organizations
    COP 3855 - Web Systems Development Ms. Richa Jethwani An e-business company proposal and website
    CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing Mr. Jim Littleton Overview of an ethical issues relevant to computing field
    CEN 6036 - Web Engineering

    Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy

    		 Architectural analysis of software product lines.
    CEN 6086 - Cloud Computing Dr. Sanjay Ahuja  
    CAP 4630/5605 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Dr. Xudong Liu  
    CEN 4010 - Software Engineering Dr. Sandeep Reddivari Analysis and Design of custom built software products
    CEN 6017 - Engineering of Software II Dr. Sandeep Reddivari Custom built software products with advanced feature sets
    CEN 6070 - Software Quality Assurance and Testing Dr. Anirban Ghosh
    CNT 4514C - Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing Dr. Zornitza Prodanoff Project works on emerging mobile platforms and wireless network technologies
    PSY 6217 - Research Design & Analysis II Dr. Dan Richard Statistical analysis and reports on large data set from a community partner
    Research Projects Drs. Xudong Liu, Peyman Faizian, and Eren Gultepe Reports and findings from research studies
  • Fall 2018 School of Computing Symposium

    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 is served. The Fall 2018 symposium has ended.

    Thanks to all for taking time to attend the symposium and providing comments to our student presentations. Please provide your suggestions to improve the next symposium.

    Fall 2018 Symposium Feedback

    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. You can find list of advisory board members at CAB.

    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 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 allowed to vote on poster of their interests. Attendees can cast their vote via smartphone using QR reader apps. QR Code Reader App should be available for free in the App store relevant to your phone. We will also have few computers at the event location for casting votes. Posters that receive the highest number of votes would be announced as the symposium prize winners.

    Event Materials

    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:

    Symposium Winners

    During the event, attendees were provided with 10 votes with instructions to score posters that are award worthy in the range of 1 to 10. Winners of the symposium were decided based on the number of votes and scores received. Winners were recognized with cash prizes and certification awards. Dr. Sherif Elfayoumy, School of Computing Director presented cash prizes and award certificates to winners of the symposium.

    First Place Winner (Prize - $200)

    Poster Title: UNF Athletics

    Presenters: Jason R. Castellon, Austin R. Cummins, Kerie A. Edwards, Bernard N. Quansah, and Michael L. Turner

    Course: CGS 4307 - Information Processing: An Organizational Perspective

      

    Second Place Winner (Prize - $150)

    Poster Title: UNF Parking Place Finder

    Presenters: Vincent Tran, Alejandra Wessolossky, John Wigner, and Geoff Woods

    Course:CEN 4010 - Software Engineering

      

    Third Place Winner (Prize - $100)

    Poster Title: Knock-Out Knowledge

    Presenters: Cody Ackerman, and Mason Perrella

    Course: CEN 4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications

      

    Honorable Mention Winners

    Ten 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: Navigating a Fat Robot in a Known Environment
      • *Presenters: Jose Gomez
      • *Course: CIS 4930/5930 - Geometric Algorithms and Data Structures
       
    • Poster Title: Jax Construction
      • *Presenters: Evan J. Gordon, Jasmine N. Jones, Mario Mulellari, Taylor F. Pierson, and Edward Sheridan
      • *Course: CGS 4307 - Information Processing: An Organizational Perspective
       
    • Poster Title: Zoo Management Database
      • *Presenters: Amiel G. Bueser, Alec J. Rance, Kristen M. Wankowski, and Yanling Zhang
      • *Course: COP 4720 - Database Systems
       
    • Poster Title: Medical Passport
      • *Presenters: Jeremy Beever, Jonathan Depaul, and Blake Henderson
      • *Course: COP 3855 - Web Systems Development
       
    • Poster Title: Day of Difference Event Registration System
      • *Presenters: Andrew Hill, David Munera, Jose Oropeza, and Michael Rice
      • *Course: CIS 4327 - IS Senior Project I
       
    • Poster Title: Electronic Voting
      • *Presenters: Joshua Bryant, and Javen Watson
      • *Course: CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing
       
    • Poster Title: Quantum Information Theory and Grover's Algorithm Presenting
      • *Presenters: Abigail Foreman
      • *Course: Research Projects
       
    • Poster Title: Firebase Food Ordering Application
      • *Presenters: David Lance Akins II, Tyrone Arthurs, Jin Kim, and Elizabeth Ruby
      • *Course: CEN4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications
       
    • Poster Title: GIAA: The Online Tabletop RPG
      • *Presenters: Amitabh Bhattacharya, Emily Czarnecki, Yuanlong (Allan) Liao, Nissarg Mehta, and Aaron Wilson
      • *Course: CEN 6016 - Engineering of Software I
       
    • Poster Title: HearthClone
      • *Presenters: Brandon Mack, Bobby Mathis, and Geoff McQueen
      • *Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering
       

    * Symposium presenters received a participation certificate.

    Apart from above winners, three other posters received special recognition for the most innovative, the best real world application, and the best student selected projects. The most innovative project was selected by representatives from Harris Computers, real world project were selected by representatives from feature[23] (https://feature23.com/), and best student selected poster was chosen by Danish Sayed.

    Most Innovative Project

    • Poster Title: Computational Geometry in Robotics: Digital Terrain Modeling
      • *Presenters: Brian Hicks
      • *Course: CIS 4930/5930 - Geometric Algorithms and Data Structures
       

    Best Real World Application

    • Poster Title: Multi-robot Information Collection in Unknown Environments With Dynamic Workload Balancing
      • *Presenters: Amitabh Bhattacharya
      • *Course: Research Projects
       

    Best Student Selected

    • Poster Title: Taxonomic Identification using Deep Learning
      • *Presenters: Stephen Baker, Alex Besuden, and Lucas Welch
      • *Course: Research Projects
       

    Votes count for top 10 posters:

    Votes count for top 10 posters:
    Poster No. Poster Title Course Votes Received
    10 UNF Athletics CGS 4307 - Information Processing: An Organizational Perspective 300
    60 UNF Parking Place Finder CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 275
    52 Knock-Out Knowledge CEN4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications 273
    31 Day of Difference Event Registration System CIS 4327 - IS Senior Project I 261
    53 Firebase Food Ordering Application CEN4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications 231
    54 Melancholy: Development of A 2D Platformer Game CEN4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications 223
    4 Computational Geometry in Robotics: Digital Terrain Modeling CIS 4930/5930 - Geometric Algorithms and Data Structures 212
    38 Five STAR Project Tracking and Reporting System CIS 4327 - IS Senior Project I 208
    42 Electronic Voting CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing 208
    45 Taxonomic Identification using Deep Learning Research Projects 203

    Participating Courses

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

    Info
    Course/Research Project Faculty Description of Posters
    CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethics Issues in Computing Mr. James Littleton Overview of an ethical issues relevant to computing field
    CAP 6100 - Interface Design and Implementation Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy User experience and interface design projects
    CIS 4327 - IS Senior Project I Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy Custom built software products for local non-profit organizations
    COP 4720 - Database Systems Ms. Richa Jethwani Designing databases for real-world applications
    COP 3855 - Web Systems Development Ms. Richa Jethwani An e-business company proposal and website
    CGS 4307 - Information Processing Ms. Richa Jethwani Designing custom database systems
    CEN 6016 - Engineering of Software I Dr. Sandeep Reddivari Custom built software products
    CEN 4010 - Software Engineering Dr. Sandeep Reddivari Custom built software products
    CIS 4930/5930 - Geometric Algorithms and Data Structures Dr. Anirban Ghosh Research projects on geometric algorithms and data structures
    CEN 4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Apps Dr. Zornitza Prodanoff Building custom mobile apps
    Research Projects Drs. Eren Gultepe and Karthikeyan Umapathy Reports and findings from research studies
  • Spring 2018 School of Computing Symposium

    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 is served. The Spring 2018 symposium has ended.

    Thanks to all for taking time to attend the symposium and providing comments to our student presentations. Please provide your suggestions to improve the next symposium.

    Spring 2018 Symposium 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. You can find list of advisory board members at CAB.

    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 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 allowed to invest 100 UNF e-Dollars on poster of their interests. Attendees can cast an investment vote via smartphone using QR reader apps. QR Code Reader App should be available for free in the App store relevant to your phone. We will also have few computers at the event location for casting votes. Posters that receive the highest number of votes would be announced as the symposium prize winners.

    Event Materials

    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:

    https://www.unf.edu/universitycenter/directions.html

    Symposium Winners

    During the event, attendees were provided with 200 UNF e-Dollars with instructions to invest in a range of 10 to 20 dollars on posters that are award worthy. Winners of the symposium were decided based on the investment amounts received. Winners were recognized with cash prizes and certification awards. School of Computing Advisory Board members along with Dr. Sherif Elfayoumy, School of Computing Director presented cash prizes and award certificates to winners of the symposium.

    First Place Winner (Prize - $200)

    Poster Title: Yoga 4 Change Tracking Management System

    Presenters: Katie Grubbs, Hinal Pandya, Cindy Pham, and Matthew Ramsay

    Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II

    Second Place Winner (Prize - $150)

    Poster Title: UNF Symposium WebApp

    Presenters: Salim Zubair, Sotiri Kolvani, Adrian Santos, Camron Conway, and Michael Vasquez

    Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering

    Third Place Winner (Prize - $100)

    Poster Title: City Year JAX Impact Dashboard

    Presenters: Dorothy Charpentier, Chloe Cruz, Eric Mwaura, and Wafaa Safar

    Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II

    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: Hubbard House Data Analysis Dashboard
      • Presenters: Dustin Go, Dorian Johnson, James Smith, and Elizabeth Thompson
      • Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II
       
    • Poster Title: 39 Canine
      • Presenters: John Amiel Bueser, Jacob Grubbs, Kristen Wankowski, and Yanling Zhang
      • Course: COP 3855 - Web Systems Development
       
    • Poster Title: Wearable Technology
      • Presenters: Troy Bogle, Daniel Cassel, Jenny Herard, Clay Jackson, and Seth Johnson
      • Course: CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing
       
    • Poster Title: Enter the World of CMS
      • Presenters: Mohammed Salman Khan, Samuel Matloob, and Jayalakshmi Raman
      • Course: CEN 6036 - Web Engineering
       
    • Poster Title: Microservices and Containerization
      • Presenters: Jeremy Futral
      • Course: CIS 6302 - Distributed and Internet Systems
       
    • Poster Title: IoT - Fog - Cloud Architecture for A Real-World App
      • Presenters: Nathan Wheeler
      • Course: Research Project supervised by Dr. Sanjay Ahuja
       
    • Poster Title: Mobile Hotspots in Transportation and Travel
      • Presenters: Patrick Franza, Nicholas Ierna, Nickolas Miyares, and Ian Parlor
      • Course: CNT 4514C - Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
       
    • Poster Title: Splicing and Biomolecular Automata
      • Presenters: Gabrielle Coker, Abigail Foreman, Alex Geer, and Ben Thiemann
      • Course: COT 4461 / MAD 4505 - Computational Biology / Discrete Biomathematics
       
    • Poster Title: Crypto-Currency: Blockchains, Mining and Security
      • Presenters: Edward Alvey, Andrew Armour, Davensly Dugar, and Carlos Siguenza
      • Course: CIS / EEL 4930 - Cybersecurity Systems
       
    • Poster Title: Irma Source Code Visualization
      • Presenters: Samuel Matloob, and Charlotte Morrison
      • Course: CEN 6017 - Engineering of Software II
       
    • Poster Title: Open Pantry
      • Presenters: Danah Alkadi, Michael Dormann, Ana Garcia Velez, Kaihua Liu, Megan Molumby, and Samuel Reilly-Rogers
      • Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering
       

    * Symposium presenters received a participation certificate.

    Apart from above winners, three other posters received special recognition for the most innovative, the best real world application, and student panel selection awards. The most innovative project was selected by representatives from Prudential Financial (https://www.prudential.com), real world project were selected by representatives from feature[23] (https://feature23.com/), and student panel award was selected Danish Sayed.

    Most Innovative Project

    • Poster Title: NASA SUITS Design Challenge
    • Presenters: Richard Lentz
    • Course: Research Project supervised by Dr. Ching-Hua Chuan

    Best Real World Application

    • Poster Title: k-Colorability and Computing with DNA Nano-Objects
    • Presenters: Nicole Cataland and Joshua Inman
    • Course: COT 4461 / MAD 4505 - Computational Biology / Discrete Biomathematics

    Best Student Panel Selection

    • Poster Title: ElderSource Volunteer Management System
    • Presenters: Stephen Waldron
    • Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II

    Votes count for top 10 posters:
    Poster No. Poster Title Course Investment Amount Received
    11 Yoga 4 Change Tracking Management System CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II 825
    69 UNF Symposium WebApp CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 590
    6 City Year JAX Impact Dashboard CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II 575
    70 Open Pantry CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 510
    57 Splicing and Biomolecular Automata COT 4461 / MAD 4505 - Computational Biology / Discrete Biomathematics 420
    42 NASA SUITS Design Challenge Research Projects 400
    4 Hubbard House Data Analysis Dashboard CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II 351
    14 39 Canine COP 3855 - Web Systems Development 350
    2 Five Star Veterans Center Residence Information Management System CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II 345
    15 Argus Capital COP 3855 - Web Systems Development 325

    Participating Courses

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

    Info
    Course/Research Project Faculty Description of Posters
    CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy Custom built software products for local non-profit organizations
    COP 3855 - Web Systems Development Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy An e-business company proposal and website
    CEN 6036 - Web Engineering

    Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy

    		 Architectural analysis of software product lines.
    CEN 6302 - Distributed and Internet Systems Dr. Sanjay Ahuja  
    CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethics Issues in Computing Mr. James Littleton Overview of an ethical issues relevant to computing field
    CEN 4010 - Software Engineering Dr. Sandeep Reddivari Analysis and Design of custom built software products
    CEN 6017 - Engineering of Software II Dr. Sandeep Reddivari Custom built software products for real world clients
    CIS/EEL 4930 - Cybersecurity Systems Dr. Swapnoneel Roy and Dr. Patrick Kriedl  
    Research Projects Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy Reports and findings from research studies
  • Fall 2017 School of Computing Symposium

    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 is served. The fall 2017 symposium has ended.

    Thanks to all for taking time to attend the symposium and providing comments to our student presentations. Please provide your suggestions to improve the next symposium.

    Fall 2017 Symposium 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. You can find list of advisory board members at CAB.

    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 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 allowed to vote on poster of their interests. Attendees can cast their vote via smartphone using QR reader apps. QR Code Reader App should be available for free in the App store relevant to your phone. We will also have few computers at the event location for casting votes. Posters that receive the highest number of votes would be announced as the symposium prize winners.

    Event Materials

    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:

    https://www.unf.edu/universitycenter/directions.html

    Symposium Winners

    During the event, attendees were provided with 10 votes with instructions to vote on their top 10 posters that are award worthy. Winners of the symposium were decided based on the number of votes received. Winners were recognized with cash prizes and certification awards. School of Computing Advisory Board member, Khwaja Shaik, along with Dr. Bob Roggio, Professor and Dr. Sherif Elfayoumy, School of Computing Director presented cash prizes and award certificates to winners of the symposium.

    First Place Winner (Prize - $200)

    Poster Title: VRVisu+ : A Tool for Virtual Reality-based Visualization of MRI Images

    Presenters: Jason Smith and Sandeep Reddivari

    Course: Research Projects

    Second Place Winner (Prize - $150)

    Poster Title: Deadroad

    Presenters: Phillip Balcar, Myles Gayles, Merrick Ghali, Adnane Lokman, and Nick Rosser

    Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering

    Third Place Winner (Prize - $100)

    Poster Title: Hi Hello

    Presenters: Riya Gharat, Adrian Santos, and Salim Zubair

    Course: CEN 4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications

    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 for list of honorable mention award winners:

    • Poster Title: These Are Not the Drones You Are Looking For
      • Presenters: Karla Clifford, Kourtnie Jenkins, Daniel Sawyer, and Camille Soliman
      • Course: CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing
       
    • Poster Title: StartTrippin
      • Presenters: Jing Lan, Abdul Ghani Mahmoudi, and Camille Soliman
      • Course: COP 3855 - Web Systems Development
       
    • Poster Title: City Year JAX Impact Dashboard
      • Presenters: Dorothy Charpentier, Chloe Cruz, Eric Mwaura, and Wafaa Safar
      • Course: CIS 4327 - IS Senior Project I
       
    • Poster Title: 3D Modeling Made Easy Simple 3D View for Blender
      • Presenters: Purvi Bhatt and Jeremiah Doody
      • Course: CAP 6100 - Interface Design and Implementation
       
    • Poster Title: Detecting Sarcasm in Tweets
      • Presenters: Richard Lentz, Jayalakshmi Raman, and Dean Rice
      • Course: Research Projects
       
    • Poster Title: Social Welfare using Possibilistic Logic Theory
      • Presenters: Charlotte Morrison
      • Course: CIS 6930 - Preferences and Social Computing
       
    • Poster Title: Cinder Blocks and Grenades
      • Presenters: Dorothy Charpentier, Andrew Potts, and Shannon Powell
      • Course: CEN4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications
       
    • Poster Title: T-Reqs: A Requirements Tracking Application
      • Presenters: Mohammed Salman Khan, Jeevan Pandey, Jayalakshmi Raman, and Dean Rice
      • Course: CEN 6016 - Engineering of Software I
       
    • Poster Title: Product Spy
      • Presenters: Abubakr Hassan and Kyle Stanton
      • Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering
       

    * Symposium presenters received a participation certificate.

    Apart from above winners, two other posters received special recognition for the most innovative and the best real world application projects. The most innovative project was selected by representatives from Ernst & Young Global Limited (https://www.ey.com/) and real world project were selected by representatives from feature[23] (https://feature23.com/).

    Most Innovative Project

      • Presenters: Jeremy Futral, Samuel Matloob, Charlotte Morrison, Ahmed Moussa, and Nathan Wheeler
      • Course: CEN 6016 - Engineering of Software IPoster Title: Irma Source Code Visualization

    Best Real World Application

    • Poster Title: Leaf's Adventure
      • Presenters: Austin Neveau
      • Course: CEN4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications
       
    Votes count for top 10 posters:
    Poster No. Poster Title Course Votes Received
    39 VRvisu+ : A Tool for Virtual Reality-Based Visualization of MRI Images Research Projects 36
    50 Deadroad CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 35
    45 Hi Hello CEN4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications 32
    20 City Year JAX Impact Dashboard CIS 4327 - IS Senior Project I 28
    30 3D Modeling Made Easy Simple 3D View for Blender CAP 6100 - Interface Design and Implementation 27
    46 Cinder Blocks and Grenades CEN4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications 27
    25 Yoga 4 Change Tracking Management System CIS 4327 - IS Senior Project I 25
    4 These Are Not the Drones You Are Looking For CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing 23
    43 Leaf's Adventure CEN4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Applications 22
    34 Detecting Sarcasm in Tweets Research Projects 21

    Participating Courses

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

    Info
    Course/Research Project Faculty Description of Posters
    CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethics Issues in Computing Mr. James Littleton Overview of an ethical issues relevant to computing field
    CAP 6100 - Interface Design and Implementation Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy User experience and interface design projects
    CIS 4327 - IS Senior Project I Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy Custom built software products for local non-profit organizations
    COP 3855 - Web Systems Development Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy An e-business company proposal and website
    CEN 4535C - Development of Gaming and Mobile Apps Dr. Ching-Hua Chuan Developing custom mobile and/ game apps
    CEN 6016 - Engineering of Software I Dr. Sandeep Reddivari Custom built software products
    CEN 4010 - Software Engineering Dr. Sandeep Reddivari Custom built software products
    CIS 6930 - Special Topic Course Dr. Xudong Liu Research projects on social preference modeling
    COP 4710/5716 - Data Modeling Dr. Ayan Dutta Relational data modeling projects
    Research Projects Dr. Swapnoneel Roy Reports and findings from research studies
  • Spring 2017 School of Computing Symposium

    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 is served. The spring 2017 symposium has ended.

    Thanks to all for taking time to attend the symposium and providing comments to our student presentations. Please provide your suggestions to improve the next symposium.

    Spring 2017 Symposium 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. You can find list of advisory board members at CAB.

    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 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 allowed to invest 100 UNF e-Dollars on poster of their interests. Attendees can cast an investment vote via smartphone using QR reader apps. QR Code Reader App should be available for free in the App store relevant to your phone. We will also have few computers at the event location for casting votes. Posters that receive the highest number of votes would be announced as the symposium prize winners.

    Event Materials

    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:

    https://www.unf.edu/universitycenter/directions.html

    Symposium Winners

    During the event, attendees were provided with 100 UNF e-Dollars with instructions to invest in a range of 5 to 20 dollars on posters that are award worthy. Winners of the symposium were decided based on the investment amounts received. Winners were recognized with cash prizes and certification awards. School of Computing Advisory Board members along with Dr. Behrooz Seyed-Abbassi, Associate Professor, and Dr. Sherif Elfayoumy, School of Computing Director presented cash prizes and award certificates to winners of the symposium.

    First Place Winner (Prize - $200)

    Poster Title: DeadCode - 3D first person shooter game

    Presenters: Philip Balcar, Merrick Ghali, Adnane Lokman, Nicholas Rosser, Jason Smith, and William Wherry

    Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering

    Second Place Winner (Prize - $150)

    Poster Title: Find the BootyTM - Scavenger hunt web application

    Presenters: Michael Frederick, Riya Gharat, Kevin Janssen, Mai Huong Nguyen, Kevin Poon, David Timmers, and Brandon White

    Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering

    Third Place Winner (Prize - $100)

    Poster Title: JRCS Volunteer Management Solution

    Presenters: Christian J. Bartram, Molly Johnson, Whitley E. Turner, and Clayton Walters

    Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II

    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 for list of honorable mention award winners:

    • Poster Title: SWUBER
      • Presenters: Chloe Cruz, Michael Dimmitt, Jerrad Monagan, Isaac Newton, and Matthew Wilson
      • Course: COP 3855 - Web Systems Development
       
    • Poster Title: Special Needs Camporee Registration System
      • Presenters: Einar V. Acuna, Erika Hilty, Kesar Long, and Jennifer Stelmach
      • Course: CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II
       
    • Poster Title: Autonomous Vehicles
      • Presenters: Connor Daly, Levi Jawara, Tanner McDonald, and Ki-Jana Panzarella
      • Course: CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing
       
    • Poster Title: Near Field Communication: Android Application
      • Presenters: Christopher J. Lowery, Matthew Romanczuk, and Richard Sahs
      • Course: CNT 4514C - Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
       
    • Poster Title: Mobile Cloud Computing
      • Presenters: Purvi Bhatt, Jermiah Doody, and Jayalakshmi Raman
      • Course: CEN 6086 - Cloud Computing
       
    • Poster Title: The CLS Program: Accessible Education Through Software Engineering and Interaction
      • Presenters: Samin Faisal and Michael Azar
      • Course: CEN 6017 - Engineering of Software II
       
    • Poster Title: Steganography
      • Presenters: William Cross, Erin Edwards, Sam Maletta, and Jason Smith
      • Course: CIS 4366 - Computer Forensics
       
    • Poster Title: Quantum Integer Factoring - Shor's Algorithm
      • Presenters: Paul Edwards and Bardell Reynolds
      • Course: Quantum Computing course/ Research Project supervised by Dr. Asai Asaithambi
       
    • Poster Title: BYTEME Studio presents Kitty Krawler
      • Presenters: Danah Alkadi, Michael Dormann, Ana Garcia Velez, Kaihua Liu, Megan Molumby, and Samuel Reilly-Rogers
      • Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering
       

    * Symposium presenters received a participation certificate.

    Apart from above winners, three other posters received special recognition for the most innovative, the best real world application, and student panel selection awards. The most innovative project was selected by representatives from feature[23] (https://feature23.com/), real world project were selected by representatives from Greenshades (https://go.greenshades.com/), and student panel award was selected Adrian Santos.

    Most Innovative Project

    • Poster Title: VRvisu: A Tool for Virtual Reality-Based Visualization of Medical Data
    • Presenters: Jason Smith
    • Course: Research Project supervised by Dr. Sandeep Reddivari.

    Best Real World Application

    • Poster Title: REKRDD Inc. - made for the teams
    • Presenters: Daniel Banks, Eric Gurvitz, Robin Hall, Khue Nguyen, Rajan Pandya, and Daniel Tiu
    • Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering

    Best Student Panel Selection

    • Poster Title: BandsNearMe - Find live music web application
    • Presenters: Fahad Alsaudee, James Lindsey, Samuel McGuire, Merrillee Palmer, Terrance Santilli, John Schumm, and Rachel Snyder
    • Course: CEN 4010 - Software Engineering

    Votes count for top 10 posters:
    Poster No. Poster Title Course Investment Amount Received
    54 DeadCode - 3D first person shooter game CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 645
    58 Find the BootyTM - Scavenger hunt web application CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 560
    18 JRCS Volunteer Management Solution CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II 535
    15 Special Needs Camporee Registration System CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II 509
    59 BYTEME Studio presents Kitty Krawler CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 480
    60 BandsNearMe - Find live music web application CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 425
    4 SWUBER COP 3855 - Web Systems Development 390
    56 int elligence - Renting From Me CEN 4010 - Software Engineering 343
    7 CodeCraft Software Volunteer Management System CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II 335
    3 Nerdherd COP 3855 - Web Systems Development 330

    Participating Courses

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

    Info
    Course/Research Project Faculty Description of Posters
    CIS 4328 - IS Senior Project II Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy Custom built software products for local non-profit organizations
    COP 3855 - Web Systems Development Mr. Edwin Harris An e-business company proposal and website
    CEN 6086 - Cloud Computing Dr. Sanjay Ahuja Cloud computing models, techniques, and architectures
    CIS 3253 - Legal and Ethics Issues in Computing Mr. James Littleton Overview of an ethical issues relevant to computing field
    CEN 4010 - Software Engineering Dr. Douglas Leas Analysis and Design of custom built software products
    CNT 4514C - Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing Dr. Zornitza Prodanoff Mobile and sensor network projects
    CEN 6017 - Engineering of Software II Dr. Sandeep Reddivari Custom built software products for real world clients
    CIS 4366 - Computer Forensics Dr. Swapnoneel Roy  
    CIS 4900 - Quantum Computing Dr. Asai Asaithambi  
    CAP 4630 - Artificial Intelligence Dr. Ching-Hua Chuan  
    MAD 4203 - Combinatorics / COT 4111 - Computational Structures II Dr. Daniela Genova  
    Research Projects Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy Reports and findings from research studies
  • 2014 UNF Computing User Group and CTO Panel

    User Group Expo

    About the Expo

    The UNF Computing User Expo provides a platform for user groups from Northeast Florida connect with UNF Students and regional professionals. About 10 local user groups will set up a small booth and provide information on their events, other activities, membership benefits, and how you can become a member. This event will provide you an opportunity to interact with local user group members and organizers.

    The Expo will be held on October 25, 2014 from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM at the Adam W. Herbert University Center on the UNF campus.

    Why join a user group

    Whether you are a working professional or a student, user groups are excellent place to interact with others with similar interests. User groups provides excellent opportunities for professional development and discussing about your latest bugs. By joining user groups of your interest, you can participate in hands-on workshops, learn new techniques of coding and analysis, learn how your peers solve problems, and learn about future directions of the field. For aspiring leaders, user groups provide you the opportunity to present current software capabilities and development techniques, share your experiences with peers and students, and enhance your leadership skills by serving as a user group officer.

    CTO Panel

    The UNF CTO Panel brings together local technology leaders to discuss opportunities, challenges, and crucial technological issues faced by organizations in the Northeast Florida region. Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) will discuss Information Technology advances, challenges and opportunities, and their impact on educating future technology professionals.

    Our Sponsors

    Special thanks to Availity for sponsoring this event. This event is supported by annual contributions by members of the School of Computing Advisory Board and local companies.

    Event Registration

    The Panel was held on October 25, 2014 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM at the Adam W. Herbert University Center on the UNF campus.

    User Group Expo and CTO Panel events are open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

    Expo and Panel events are free but registration is closed.

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

    Feedback Survey Link (Closed)

    Event Schedule

    Here is an overview schedule for the event:

    Check-in and Breakfast: 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM

    User Group Expo: 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM

    CTO Panel Introductions: 10:20 AM

    CTO Panel Discussions: 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

    CTO Panel Q&A: 11:15 AM to 11:30 AM

    Event Closing Address: 11:30 AM

    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:

    https://www.unf.edu/universitycenter/directions.html

    Participating User Groups

    Big Data Jax

    Big Data Jax at Meetup

    JaxDUG - NET Developers

    JaxDUG at Meetup

    JAXPHP/ JAXWeb

    JAX PHP/JAXWeb at Meetup

    JaxUX - User Experience

    Founded in 2012, JaxUX became Jacksonville's first user experience focused Meetup group. JaxUX is committed to providing an outlet for people who are interested in gaining new insights in the world of UX and how that relates to design and development. Once a month we meet to discuss user experience design, information architecture, copywriting, analytics, usability studies, rapid prototyping, sketching, wireframing, and much, much more.

    Tech on Tap JAX

    Tech on Tap JAX at Meetup

    Jacksonville SQL Server Users Group

    JAX Java User Group

    The Jacksonville Java Users Group (JaxJUG) is focused on Java as well as other JVM-based languages, and related enterprise and web technologies. We're professional, relaxed and informal. Our monthly meetings are an opportunity to learn about current developments and trends from experts in the field, and to network with peer professionals and recruiters.

    MDUG - Microsoft Developers User Group

    MDUG at Meetup

    RubyJax

    RubyJax, founded in 2007, is a Jacksonville based community that focuses on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. We are 255 members strong and meet 2 to 3 times per month. RubyJax is free and open to everyone regardless of your programming experience. We meet the 2nd and 3rd Thursday of every month and alternate our meeting locations between our sponsors- Hashrocket, Starfield TMS and Bearden Designs.

    RubyJAX at Meetup

    CTO Panel Members

    Prezi presentation used for moderating CTO Panel discussions

    Moderator:

    Karthikeyan Umapathy

    Associate Professor at School of Computing, UNF.

    Karthikeyan Umapathy is currently working as Associate Professor at the School of Computing, University of North Florida. He received his PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests center on designing and developing complex information systems, and analyzing web service standards and IT standardization processes. He uses service learning as a means to help students understand that it takes more than technical expertise to be a good professional and excel in the job. He uses service learning to provide real-world software development experience for students by identifying projects from Non-Profit and Small-business organizations.

    Karthik's Website

    Karthik at LinkedIn

    Panel Members:

    Matt Stueck Chief Technology Officer at ICS

    Matt is the Chief Technology Officer at Information & Computing Services (ICS, Inc., developers of RF-SMART). After graduating with BS degree in Computer Science from Southern Polytechnic University in Atlanta, GA, Matt became a software engineer and then spent time as an implementation consultant. Over the past 20 years, he has spent a majority of his career architecting Warehouse Management (WMS) and Automated Data Collection (ADC) systems - systems used by several hundred companies around the world for mission-critical supply chain operations. In his 15 year years with ICS, Matt has designed and architected every major product, primarily ADC (barcoding for manufacturing and warehousing) solutions with specific integrations to leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) like Oracle's JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics AX and NetSuite. Currently, Matt is leading the RF-SMART for NetSuite Product Development Team and directing a newly formed Department R Group dedicated to technical research at ICS. Matt received a BS degree in Computer Science from Southern Polytechnic University in Atlanta, GA.

    Jane Landon SVP and Chief Technology Officer at Web.com

    Jane Landon joined Web.com in November 2010 as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Web.com, Ms. Landon was Deputy Commissioner and Chief Information Officer for the New York City Department of Finance. Her past experience includes leadership positions at Microsoft, where she was General Manager/Chief Information Officer for Public Sector Business Systems Information Technology, as well as Prudential Insurance of America and The Bankers Trust Company. Ms. Landon holds a BA Business Administration degree from SUNY Fredonia in Fredonia, NY.

    Company BIO

    Web.com Group, Inc. provides a full range of Internet services to small businesses to help them compete and succeed online. Web.com meets the needs of small businesses anywhere along their lifecycle with affordable, subscription-based solutions including domains, hosting, website design and management, search engine optimization, online marketing campaigns, local sales leads, social media, mobile products, and eCommerce solutions.

    Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, Web.com is a public company (NASDAQ: WWWW) serving approximately 3.1 million customers with approximately 2,000 employees. We are proud to have been recognized on the 2013 Deloitte Fast 500 Technology list as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America for the fourth year in a row.

    Brian Ritchie

    Chief Technology Officer at PaySpan, Inc.

    Brian Ritchie is the Chief Technology Officer for PaySpan, Inc. responsible for Product Engineering and Infrastructure Technology. During his nearly 15 years with PaySpan, Brian has designed and architected large scalable multi-tenant systems. He currently provides technology direction for PaySpan as it delivers efficiency and increased transparency to the healthcare reimbursement cycle.

    Brian has over 22 years of technology experience developing software and managing technology teams in various industries. He has been active in the development community giving presentations to local user groups and code camps. Brian is also the author of RavenDB High Performance published by PACKT in 2013.

    Mr. Ritchie holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska.

    Kevin Denneny

    Chief Technology Officer / Development Operations for the Global Consumer Bank at Citigroup

    Kevin is the Chief Technology Officer / Development Operations for the Global Consumer Bank. He provides business strategic consulting, technology governance, innovation management as well as a range of systems integration services in support of Citi's consumer banking transformational investments. Kevin manages a budget of $250MM and a total staff of 2800 FTE.

    Ron Pizur

    Senior Vice President - ITS Systems Development at Allstate Benefits

    Ron joined Allstate Benefits in 2000 and since then has lead multiple major technology initiatives delivering significant value to the company. In 2007, Ron's innovation in 'straight through processing" led to Allstate receiving the 'Celent Award", recognizing underwriting innovation in the Insurance space. Ron leads the technology delivery for Allstate Benefits including enrollment, billing, claims, customer service and data warehouse analytics. His prior experience includes 5 years with CSX Intermodal as Director of Operations Systems.

    Archive of Audience Questions using Sli.do

    11:37 AM | score: 1

    Should universities increase the scale of in class projects to prepare students for the working world?

    11:31 AM | score: 1 Live

    What is the best way for students to learn how to break down problems?

    11:30 AM | score: 0 Live

    How fluid should our 10 year plans be?

    11:27 AM | score: 0 Live

    Is graduate level education beneficial to students who are also entering working world after graduation?

    11:25 AM | score: 0 Live

    outside of user groups, what other avenues do you find most useful to keep up with technology changes and keep your skill set current?

    11:23 AM | score: 0 Live

    How fostering are companies to newer ideas from younger workers fresh out of university?

    11:20 AM | score: 1 Live

    This is a bit of an odd one, but: how important are watches? If I'm not wearing one, does that affect me negatively, or does it really not matter at all?

    11:20 AM | score: 0 Live

    How should students do their part to help fuse industry and academia?

    11:17 AM | score: 1 Live

    Is it possible for students that do online learning, such as university of Phoenix, to get involved with UNF student groups?

    11:13 AM | score: 3 Live

    What advice would you give someone who is an introvert trying to be more involved and social? Communication is key when working with others.

    11:12 AM | score: 0 Live

    How old are you

    11:09 AM | score: 0 Live

    This is a test message

    11:06 AM | score: 1 Live

    Karthik, that question about communication skills is really good... I think it would be beneficial to everyone here if you put that to the panel in the little time left.

    11:03 AM | score: 3 Live

    UNF is currently searching for a CIO. What advice would you offer us and how might the CIO/CTO position be different in an Academic setting.

    11:03 AM | score: 2 Live

    How do we as user group organizers answer the call for inspiring new talent in Jacksonville to fill the much needed IT jobs?

    11:02 AM | score: 0 Live

    Is there any preferred or highly used programming language in businesses, or it depends on the company?

    10:59 AM | score: 1 Live

    @Jane can you talk about the threat of ex-parte restraining orders from Microsoft to web servers, and how the legislative world is not keeping up with the digital security war?

    10:56 AM | score: 1 Live

    Are "buzzword" technologies not always viable to implement?

    10:54 AM | score: 1 Live

    ln what ways are you implementing better security systems for clouds?

    10:54 AM | score: 1 Live

    With the Target and Home Depot data breaches in mind, how can organizations fight state sponsored hackers who have no limit to the effort they might put forth?

    10:54 AM | score: 0 Live

    Would the costs to maintain and improve security hinder business growth?

    10:53 AM | score: 1 Live

    What are your thoughts on open source software?

    10:52 AM | score: 0 Live

    Is this software working

    10:52 AM | score: 5 Archived

    Ms. Landon: Women are grossly underrepresented in IT in general and in executive management in particular. What advice would you give to women in technology who want to ultimately become a CTO or CIO?

    10:51 AM | score: 1 Live

    For your type of position, what would you say is more important as a background, Business or Information Technology? To what degree is each background important for you?

    10:51 AM | score: 9 Archived

    What would you say is that largest single skill set lacking from UNF graduates from the college of computing?

    10:50 AM | score: 2 Live

    Do you see any risk in security breeches about implementing the cloud into your businesses?

    10:50 AM | score: 4 Archived

    How much willing is business to spend money on technology research?

    10:50 AM | score: 1 Live

    IT is generally seen as an expenditure vs an asset, however the major players are all successful because of their superior IT technology, shouldn't there be a more paradigm shift in this approach

    10:49 AM | score: 2 Live

    Is Jacksonville and UNF bridging the knowledge gap and meeting you requirements ? If not how best can we work to bridge the gap?

    10:49 AM | score: 1 Live

    What are your thoughts on mobile application development? Web vs Native vs Hybrid? Which have you used? Which have been successful or failed?

    10:49 AM | score: 3 Live

    Is big data affecting your organization and how? What is your organization doing to gear up for big data?

    10:48 AM | score: 0 Live

    What are the major risks and liabilities you see from local requirements in a global market?

    10:47 AM | score: 3 Live

    Does your company employ Agile and Srum strategies and how have these affected the vertical hierarchy of your company for the better in the long term?

    10:45 AM | score: 2 Live

    With the data breaches at companies like Target and Chase bank, what is your company doing to address these risks?

    10:45 AM | score: 2 Live

    Where do you see SaaS and cloud computing going in 5 to 10 years and the ever changing needs of each company to do things "their own way"?

    10:44 AM | score: 5 Archived

    With respect to the employees you oversee, how important are communication skills versus technical skills?

    10:44 AM | score: 8 Archived

    UNF recently added back into the curriculum a cobiol programming class, is this on target with companies modernixing the mainframe? Would you recommend that students attend COCBOL class among other cla

    10:43 AM | score: 4 Archived

    What types of legal and/or ethical concerns are being raised by emerging technologies in your field.

    10:43 AM | score: 4 Live

    Question to Kevin

    What is the difference between Devops and other operations like application support, data center support, etc.,

    What benefit does the organization/business a from the new group?

    10:42 AM | score: 5 Live

    Do you have any advice or anecdotes on telling your board "no" and how to advance understanding of when a company can't or shouldn't pursue a technological solution.

    10:42 AM | score: 0 Archived

    Do CTOs have any responsibilities within the international domain, or is the focus primarily on US operations?

    10:42 AM | score: 2 Live

    What kind of change have you faced in your organization and how have you led through the change?

    10:41 AM | score: 2 Live

    Ron Pizur - what are some lessons you learned as you oversaw the enormous growth at Allstate Benefits? (AJ, Capricorn Systems)

    10:40 AM | score: 2 Live

    In your opinion, do you feel that crypto-currencies like bitcoin can be a viable source of income and should be a market that should be explored?

    10:38 AM | score: 6 Archived

    How does business affect your decision making on technology solutions? What are the implications on providing highend or latest solutions with business playing majority role on decisions?

    10:29 AM | score: 4 Archived

    What is the difference between a CIO and CTO?