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A recent article on big data in the Twin Cities Business Journal features the work of CS&E alumni Prasanna Desikan and Robert Cooley and Professor Jaideep Srivastava. Desikan is senior scientific advisor for the Center for Healthcare Research & Innovation at Allina Health System in Minneapolis, and Cooley is chief technology officer for OptiMine Software, Inc. Cooley and Desikan both received their Ph.D.s from the University of Minnesota.
The article, "The Many Uses of Big Data," discusses the overwhelming volume of data that is being created, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, and how that data is being used in healthcare, policing and multiplayer online games.
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The work of associate professor Volkan Isler was featured on the KSTP news broadcast Thursday, September 6. Isler and his research group use a network of robotic devices to locate and track radio-tagged carp, an invasive species of fish. The common carp poses a significant threat across the Midwest by polluting lakes by uprooting plants and releasing large quantities of harmful nutrients while bottom-feeding. Watch the robotic boats work in the news segment via the KSTP news website.
A new press release posted on EurekAlert! features Associate Professor Paul Schrater's work on video surveillance. Schrater, Komal Kapoor, Nisheeth Srivastava and Christopher Amato (CSAIL) use mathematics on video surveillance to reach a compromise between the accuracy of an alert (which would trigger an alarm unneccesarily) and the speed needed to allow security staff to respond to an intrusion.
Accoring to Amato, "In addition to port and airport security, the system could monitor video information obtained by a fleet of unmanned aircraft. It could also be used to analyze data from weather-monitoring sensors to determine where tornados are likely to appear, or information from water samples taken by autonomous underwater vehicles."
Professor Nikos Papanikolopoulos' research using Kinect cameras to diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was recently featured in the New Scientist.
The group uses cameras set up in a nursery to monitor 3 and 5 year-olds as they play tracking each child based on their clothing. The footage is loaded to a computer where software then examines each child's movement based on the average amount of movement in the room, and then flagging children who move more or less than the average.
Computer science researchers Denis Foo Kune, associate professors Nick Hopper and Yongdae Kim, and undergraduate student John Koelndorfer have discovered that cell phone hackers can track your physical location without your knowledge. Using a cheap phone, readily available equipment, and no direct help from a service provider, hackers can listen to unencrypted broadcast messages from cell phone towers.
The group described their work in a recently released paper “Location Leaks on the GSM Air Interface” which was presented at the 19th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego, California.
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Professor Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos is featured in a new story in the Pioneer Press and on twincities.com. The article discusses the burgeoning robotics industry in the Twin Cities area and Robotics Alley, the first regional conference on robots hosted by Edina-based ReconRobotics and the Minnesota High Tech Association happening Thursday, November 17th at the Carlson School of Management.
Papanikolopoulos discusses the Scout, the robot created at the University of Minnestoa in 2006. "It's just a camera on wheels," Papanikolopoulos said. "Why is it so popular? Because it does a very dangerous job and it saves lives."
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