CSE Professor Janardan featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education

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The Chronicle of Higher Education featured CSE Professor Ravi Janardan in a news story focused on the benefits and perils of video recorded class lectures. In the story, Janardan expressed concern that video recorded lectures for students can lead to lower class attendance.

Moving Up: CSE Graduate School Ranking Improves

The U.S. News & World Report released its 2008 list of top graduate programs and the University of Minnesota's computer science program ranked 31st in the nation. That ranking is up from the previous rankings of 34th place in 2007 and 36th place in 2006.

According to the U.S. News & World Report Web site, the data used to compile the 2008 rankings was based on surveys conducted in the fall of 2007 by more than 1,200 programs and 14,000 members of various academic and professional communities.

Overall, the CSE department’s rankings have followed this upward trend and continued to climb in recent years.

CSE grad student Web site nominated for Webby Awards

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CSE graduate student Jesse Vig’s Web site, GeoGreeting.com, has been nominated for the Best NetArt Website as part of the 12th annual Webby Awards. Vig’s site was nominated in this category last year as well.

CSE study finds you get what you pay for with online Q & A sites

A new study by CSE researchers, professor Joseph Konstan and graduate student Max Harper, revealed that the answer quality provided by online question-and-answer Web sites, such as Yahoo! Answers and Google Answers, depends on two factors -- how much you pay and how many people contribute to your answer. News of this research was posted on the ScienceDaily Web site.

The study posed 126 questions across a variety of Q&A sites and found that paying $10 or more to get your question answered at the now-closed Google Answers site yielded the highest-quality answers.

CSE Professor's online HIV prevention work featured in campus paper

A story in The Minnesota Daily featured CSE professor Joseph Konstan’s cutting-edge work with B. R. Simon Rosser, a professor in the School of Public Health, on a new Web-based software program to help fight the spread of HIV.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by the professors embarked on a clinical trial in December to test the software program that aims to reduce the risk-taking behavior associated with the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

The research team has been working for more than five years to create computer programs that assess risks undertaken by men seeking sex with other men through online venues.

CSE professor Hopper gives computer security tips in campus news story

The Minnesota Daily published a story about recent reports of digital information theft at major universities. In the story, concerns about such loss at the University of Minnesota are addressed and CSE professor Nicholas Hopper gives expert tips on computer security. Hopper said the key to securing data are password and encryption protection measures. He also said it is important to only use campus computers for work and avoid opening questionable e-mails. For more on this story, visit “Report shows high rates of data theft at University.”

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