Today we launched a new website for the Samford Campus Recreation department. This launch is the culmination of a year’s collaborative effort with the Campus Recreation department, my Software Engineering students from last Fall, and my continued refinements throughout the academic year and summer. The previous version of the website was developed and edited exclusively… Continue reading Another student project success!
Category: Research
ICOMP 09
Viva Las Vegas! After a three day drive that included quick visits to friends and family along the way in Texas and Arizona as well as brief visits to the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam at night (very cool!), and finally to Las Vegas, I arrived just in time to showcase my Ajax Performance Monitor Toolkit.… Continue reading ICOMP 09
Samford University Virtual Supercomputer
The Samford Unviersity Virtual Supercomputer is coming soon! Today I gave a demonstration/presentation about the non-dedicated cluster I am building on campus. Eventually, it may grow into a supercomputer, but for now I am quite happy with the direction it is taking as a computational resource for campus. The Powerpoint Slides from my presentation are… Continue reading Samford University Virtual Supercomputer
Alabama Academy of Science Annual Meeting
Tonight I am attending the executive committee meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, where I am the editor for electronic media (i.e., I am in charge of the organization website). Tomorrow I will be chairing the Engineering and Computer Science presentations at the University of West Alabama in Livingston, Alabama. I did not submit… Continue reading Alabama Academy of Science Annual Meeting
Under hacker attack!
Update – Apparently it was about May of this year when there was a large surge in ssh password attacks. I believe that my computer became a target sometime after that. Here are some good articles reporting on the situation: “Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge” by InformationWeek “Brute-force SSH attacks surge by SC Magazine This… Continue reading Under hacker attack!
ACM Mid-Southeast Conference Today!
After a late start, we made it into Gatlinburg, TN just after 1AM. We got to drive through light snow falling, and see all the beautiful Christmas lights with hardly any traffic on the roads at all. Now it is on to the very serious business of wrapping up my presentation that I am due… Continue reading ACM Mid-Southeast Conference Today!
New (to me) research bibliography tool
I have been a long time user of bibliography search engines such as citeseer, the ACM portal, IEEExplore, etc… but I have always turned to standalone software applications such as Endnote and JabRef to manage the articles I find. This summer I created my own web-based annotated bibliography tool and just barely got it off… Continue reading New (to me) research bibliography tool
2008 ACM Mid-Southeast Fall Conference
I just submitted an abstract titled “Investigating the impact of Ajax on server load in a web 2.0 application” to the upcoming 2008 ACM Mid-southeast Fall Conference. This annual conference is held each year in Gatlinburg, TN and is a great place for students and faculty to present current research and make connections for future… Continue reading 2008 ACM Mid-Southeast Fall Conference