News & Events: 2006 - 2007 Academic Year

• ICS students presented at Undergraduate Research and Creative Art Symposium
  
• CS220 class published a paper in Robotic Education Workshop
  
• Park Team Wins Top Award in Cerner I-Television Competition
  
• ICS Student Wins Prominent Scholarship and Internship
  
• ICS Students Participate in Computer Science Conference
  
• ICS Professor, Students Receive Research Grant
  
  

ICS students presented at Undergraduate Research and Creative Art Symposium

Seven ICS students presented at Park University 2nd annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Art Symposium on April 18, 2007.

Podium presentations:

• Isaac Kolensie "Asterisk: the open source Linux PBX"
• Nick Kreeger "Experiences in Open-Source Software: Correo - A new email application for Mac OS X"

Student Posters:

• Azbilegt Chuluunbat and Bavitha Vinod "Floor Sweeper - Robotic Programming"
• Aris Czamanske " Java Applet for IPv4 Address Subnet Calculations"
• Nick Kreeger "Service learning with Robotics in the Community"
• John Nickell "Service Learning in Computer Education at Brazil"
• Bavitha Vinod and Virginia Maikweki "Anonymity in Class e-Survey"

Wen Hsin, Ph.D. served as a faculty advisor.

CS220 class published a paper in Robotic Education Workshop

Wen Hsin, Ph.D, and eight students from CS220 Computer Architecture in spring 2007 semester published a paper in a robotic education workshop. In particular,

Hsin, W.-J., Baker, C., Branscum, J. Bunce, E., Czamanske, A., Kreeger, N., Neri, R., Nganga, P., Warren, A. "Assembly Programming using Simple Lego Mindstorms RCX Robots," in the Workshop on Research in Robots for Education, Robotics Science and Systems. Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, June 30, 2007. Dr. Hsin presented the paper in the workshop.

Park Team Wins Top Award in Cerner I-Television Competition

Eight Park University computer science and business students recently completed the Cerner Software Development Life Cycle course, with a team placing Top Award in the I-Television (I-TV) Category. Park faculty Dr. Steve Hallman of the ICS department, served as the team's advisor and course professor.

There were eight student teams representing: Park University, William Jewell College, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas State University, and Kansas State University-Purdue, which participated in the course. The teams objective was to design and develop a working solution, from one of the following categories: Medical PDA application, I-Television, Headboard, or a Rapid Response, these networked solutions had the ability to accessed Cerner's proprietary Millennium Objects Suite.

The teams consisted of a project/solutions manager, documenter/tester, software designer/architect, and software programmer. They met weekly with Cerner employees throughout the spring semester to develop their projects into working solutions.

During the meetings, students heard from Cerner subject matter experts who provided information regarding their roles and experiences. The student teams also met during the semester with a Cerner pharmacist, doctor, architect, and the company's executives to gather information and to ensure they were meeting the requirements for the software system they were developing.

On May 2, 2007, the eight teams presented their solution to the Cerner executives. The executives/judges scored the teams according to eight criteria ranging from solution functionality to the ability to answer questions.

Park's BluSozo team performed exceptionally well competing to win the Top Award in the Cerner I-Television Category Competition. The winning Park team received a $300 gift certificate for Amazon for their efforts. Park's Team BluSozo team received top placed in the I-TV category. Congratulations to the BluSozo team!

Vision Plus Team members:   Michael Aboagye - Project Manager   Benson Njuguna - Designer/tester   Mariama Suwarch - Documenter   Evan Mambdi - Solution Manager   Dr. Steven Hallman - Advisor
BluSozo Team members:   Dr. Steven Hallman - Advisor   Janice JnBaptiste - Project/solutions manager   Shawn Henderson - Designer/architect   Bavitha Vinod - Software Programmer   Nilla Pin - Documenter/Tester

ICS Student Wins Prominent Scholarship and Internship

Park University senior in Information and Computer Science Nick Kreeger is the recipient of Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2007 Student Scholarship.

In order to be selected, applicants are judged on their technical ability, creativity of ideas expressed in products or projects, prior WWDC attendance, technical and work experience. As one of 450 recipients, Kreeger will have the opportunity study the latest Apple technology, learn from Apple engineers and meet Mac developers. He will also attend the Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 in San Francisco in June.

ICS Students Participate in Computer Science Conference

On April 14, Information and Computer Science students and faculty participated in the 13th annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges – Central Plains Conference at Drury University in Springfield, Mo.

Students Nick Kreeger, John Nickell, Aris Czamanske, Bavitha Vinod and Azbilegt Chuluunbat each gave a poster presentation on the work that they have done during 2006-2007 academic year. Kreeger presented "Student Service Learning in Robots," Nickell presented "Service Learning in Computer Education at Brazil," Czamanske presented "Ipv4 calculator – Java Applet," Vinod presented "Anonymous Class Survey System," and Chuluunbat and Vinod presented "Floor Sweeper."

Kreeger and Wen Hsin, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science, also gave a tutorial on robotic programming.

Additionally, Rodrigo Neri and above-mentioned students formed two teams and participated in a programming contest. The contestants had three hours to write computer programs to solve seven problems. The winning team solves the most problems correctly within the shortest amount of time. Out of the 20 teams competing, the Park University teams won fifth and ninth places.

ICS Professor, Students Receive Research Grant

The Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) awarded an external undergraduate research grant to Wen Hsin, Ph.D., associate professor in Information and Computer Science, and Park students Virginia Maikweki and Amanda Warren. The National Science Foundation provides the funding for this project. The students will work under Hsin's guidance to complete the project during the 2006-2007 academic year.