BITS Lab, in collaboration with UIC Facilities Management, recently launched the UIC Shuttle Tracker, which provides the real-time location of the UIC Bus Service as well as CTA buses within the UIC campus. The UIC Shuttle Tracker is available at http://bus.uic.edu/. In addition to real-time locations, the system also provides approximate arrival time predictions for all stops on the shuttle routes.
Zebras at the Ol' Pejeta conservancy in Kenya where in January 2010 UIC
computer science students joined Princeton biology students in a unique
field course in computational population biology (co-taught by Professor Tanya Berger-Wolf). Among other projects, students studied zebra social behavior and designed software for automatic identification of
individual zebras by stripes.
Commencement 2010. Barbara Di Eugenio with her three graduating PhD: (left to right) Swati Tata, Davide Fossati and Cindy Kersey
Mayank Lahiri, a PhD student in the Computational Population Biology Lab, has received the Provost's Award for his project on automatic identification of zebras from photographs, a project he has started in Kenya as a student in the Field Computational Population Biology course this semester. He will use the award to go back to Kenya to validate, fine-tune, and deploy the system where it is most needed: in the field, so the nature conservancy staff, field assistants, researchers, and scouts can use it to do their job studying and saving zebras.
Gamer Edward Kahler applies his talent to create interactive visualization analysis tools for Argonne National Laboratory scientists
Abul Musa searches the Loop for errant Wi-Fi signals for a study to improve mobile devices.
Department News
- Isabel Cruz gives Reginald Golledge Distinguished Lectureship at UCSB "Big Data in Geographic Information Science Panel 2012"
- Computer Science Faculty Member Bing Liu on front page of NY Times
- Congratulations to computer science PhD student Marco Maggioni on receiving the Fall 2011 UIC Chancellor Graduate Research Fellowship
- NSF Features Research by Professor Isabel Cruz and PhD Student Rigel Gjomemo "Computer Scientists Advance Secure Emergency Response Systems"
- NSF grant to Urban Planning and Policy Professor (PI), and interdisciplinary collaborators including Leilah Lyons and Andy Johnson from CS
- CS graduate students build app for connecting students, and are working on launching a start-up company for it
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