News

Professor Offutt wins a SCHEV 2019 Outstanding Faculty Award!

Feb. 19, 2019, 8:31 a.m.

Prof. Jeff Offutt has been named one of the winners of the 2019 Outstanding Faculty Awards by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV).

Events

• Intelligent Digital Fabrication: Toward a Collaborative Partnership between Humans & Machines

  Mar 04
  14:00 PM - 15:00 PM

  Research Hall 163

  Jeeeun Kim

• From Barriers to Bridges: Designing Infrastructures for Help in Online Programming Communities

  Mar 29
  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Research Hall 163

  Denae Ford Robinson

Research Highlights

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  Professor Osterweil's research builds a secure Internet

  When you tap your phone to make a purchase or fill out a health or financial information form online, you hope your private data is secure.

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  Learning Analytics Provides Actionable Insights towards College Student Success

  College students may one day choose their courses the same way they choose books on Amazon. A computer program will suggest the best classes for them, based on grades in other courses, career goals, instructor preference, and learning style.

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  Microtask Programming

  Can software be built through self-contained ten-minute contributions? In microtask crowdsourcing, transient contributors are given a short, well-defined task and an interface purpose-built for completing it. 

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  Towards Integrated Wireless Networking and Sensing using Millimeter-wave

  Professor Parth Pathak’s research investigates the design of next generation of wireless networks that can provide very high data rate wireless links and enable smart indoor spaces.