October 2008

UXPioneers, 10/3/2008 — Jack Carroll, holder of the Edward Frymoyer Chair in Information Sciences and Technology, was profiled in UX Pioneers, a Web site focused on leaders in the user experience field. Tamara Adlin, the site's publisher, conducted an interview with him.

September 2008

Science Daily (News wire), 9/30/2008 — IST Professor-in-Charge Michael McNeese, along with his son, Nathan, and Assistant Professor Gerry Santoro, were featured in an article about using Second Life as a problem-solving tool. The researchers also were featured TechRadar.com. (Virtual world offers new locale for problem solving)

Chronicle of Higher Education, 9/29/2008 — Associate Professor Lynette Kvasny, was featured in the Chronicle's Wired Campus section, which highlights education-technology news. Kvasny studied an African-American blog community's reaction to a news report on AIDS in the black community. (Black Americans use blogs to discuss HIV and AIDS, study says)

The Daily Collegian, 9/23/2008 —A group of IST and SRA students who won the Google Online Marketing Challenge talked about their trip to Google's California headquarters in Penn State's student newspaper. (Google trip winners get hands-on experience)

NewScientistTech, 9/21/2008 — C. Lee Giles, David Reese professor of IST, was featured in this science magazine for his work on a graphical search engine. Also collaborating on the project was Prasenjit Mitra, assistant professor of IST. (Graphic search engine will cheer sports fans)

Campus Technology, 9/15/2008 — IST professors Luke Zhang and C. Lee Giles are featured in this article about a video social-networking application they are working on with Alcatel-Lucent. (Penn State collaborating with Alcatel-Lucent on video social networking)

The Daily Collegian, 9/9/2008 — David Adewumi and Heekya.com were featured in Penn State's student newspaper. (Student creates storytelling site)

The Economist, 9/4/08 — IST Associate Professor James Wang's research on counterfeit van Gogh paintings was featured in the magazine's Technology Quarterly section. (The computer says no)

August 2008

The Washington Post, 8/12/2008 — IST junior David Adewumi’s start-up company Heekya.com was featured in article about the technology group LaunchBox Digital, which connects fledgling companies with experienced entrepreneurs. According to the article, Heekya.com is a place where users can post photos and videos and connect with one another in social network similar to Facebook or MySpace.

July 2008

Christian Science Monitor, 7/31/2008 — IST PhD graduate C. Frank Igwe wrote an opinion piece that examined the use of online support communities by African Americans with AIDS. Igwe was also featured in a June 2008 Christian Science Monitor article about minority PhD students, and was profiled in a news story on the IST Web site.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/21/2008 — IST Associate Professor James Z. Wang was featured in the science section of the Inquirer for his research on efforts to detect counterfeit Vincent van Gogh paintings. Wang worked with Penn State statistics professor Jia Li and several other researchers from universities including Princeton and Cornell. An Associated Press article about the research also appeared in media outlets such as MSNBC, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Washington Times.

June 2008

Centre Daily Times, 6/25/2008—IST's Tech Savvy Girls Summer Camp at University Park is the subject of a front-page article in Centre County's newspaper. The camp, which is coordinated by the college's office of Diversity, Outreach and International Engagement, allows 25 girls from throughout central Pennsylvania to create their own video games with the help of IST students and faculty. (Video Games: It's a Girl Thing)

April 2008

Slashdot.org, 4/23/2008 – Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology James Wang’s image-based CAPTCHA technology is the subject of a blog post at Slashdot.org. The author hails the new technology as “promising.” (Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap)

Network World, 4/16/2008 – Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology Jim Jansen’s search engine usage research is noted in this article as being one among “the most amazing and colorful projects in the works.” (25 radical network research projects you should know about)

Science Daily (News wire) , 4/13/2008 — Jim Jansen , assistant professor of IST, led research on searches conducted using Web search engines. "Our findings have broad implications for search engines and e-commerce if they can classify the user intent of queries in real time," Jansen said. (Web searches classified into three categories)

Jansen's research also was featured in a news story on the IST Web site on 4/1/2008 and picked up by the Hindustan Times Syndication, Thaindian News, and Technology News Daily, and mentioned in blogs on HitTail, Overdrive, and Search Engine Land.

March 2008

US Fed News (News wire), 3/7/2008 — Under the joint direction of Michael Manojlovich, instructor in Information Sciences and Technology, and Sara Ahrens, community engagement coordinator at Penn State Greater Allegheny, students in two IST classes are partnering with community service organizations to provide IT outreach. (IST Classes Offer Expertise to Community Agencies)

US Fed News (News wire), 3/4/2008 — Penn State Greater Allegheny awarded a Research Development Grant for the 2007-08 academic year to Guangfeng Song, assistant professor of Information Sciences and Technology for his proposal titled, "Information Grouping and Perception of Complexity in Computer Interfaces, An Experimental Study." (2007-2008 Research Development Grants Awarded to Greater Allegheny Faculty)

February 2008

US Fed News (News wire), 2/27/2008 — IST Dean Hank Foley, along with IST Associate Dean John Yen and Associate Professor of IST, Gerald Santoro, met with campus administration, students and faculty at Penn State Greater Allegheny to discuss the IST program and begin collaboration on the College's five-year strategic planning process. (IST Dean Discusses Degree Distinctions and Career Opportunities for Graduates)

Business Wire (News wire), 2/2/2008 — Penn State, along with two other national universities, has received accreditation for its geospatial intelligence program by the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF). Todd Bacastow, instructor in Information Sciences and Technology, is quoted in the article: "Penn State University is proud to be in the forefront with the other academic institutions in this important progress." (USGIF Accredits Universities Under First-Ever Geospatial Intelligence Accreditation and Certificate Program)

January 2008

Congress Now (News wire), 1/22/2008 — The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation released a report calling for a national broadband strategy. Robert Frieden,affiliate professor of Information Sciences and Technology, is sited in the article: "Frieden...said that Caterfone rules should apply to wireless services providers and that an independent party not carriers should certify the devices." (IT Trade Group Calls for National Strategy to Speed Broadband Deployment)

Penn State LIVE, 1/22/2008 – Feature press release on the The Future of American Communications Working Group, of which Andrea Tapia, assistant professor of Information Sciences and Technology, is a member. The group “plans to produce a volume outlining a comprehensive telecommunications policy agenda for the federal administration to be entering office in January 2009. That agenda will emphasize the potential of information technologies for improving democratic discourse, social responsibility and the quality of life.” (Working group focuses on communications policy for new administration)

US Fed News (News wire), 1/22/2008 — A group of inventors, including Peng Liu, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technoloy, has developed a clustered computer system that has been awarded a U.S. patent. (California Inventors Develop Clustered Computer System)

EDTECH – Article on TableSeer, a new search engine that can identify and extract tables from Adobe PDF files, featuring TableSeer developers C. Lee Giles, David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology and Prasenjit Mitra, assistant professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “This is a new tool which allows you to go in and grab either data from tables automatically or find summaries of results much faster. It’s a productivity tool to help researchers, students and scholars,” (Mitra) says. (A Search for Research)

Cornell Engineering Magazine, Spring 2008 Edition – Cover article mentions image research being conducted by James Wang, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “Professors Jia Lee and James Wang at Penn State have identified the creators of Chinese ink paintings from the 15th to 20th centuries.” (Bridging Worlds).

December 2007

St. Petersburg Times (Florida), 12/10/2007 —Article mentions BotSeer, a new search engine developed through research led by C. Lee Giles, David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “Web site administrators increasingly are barring some search engines from all or part of their sites, while granting others access, according to a study by Penn State University researchers (botseer.ist.psu.edu). C. Lee Giles, an information sciences and technology professor, said site administrators may allow crawlers from Google Inc.” (Webmasters May Shape Search Results). This research was previously mentioned in Biotech Business Week, Hit Search (UK), NetworkWorld.com, PC World, Science Daily, TopNews (Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India), and VNUNet.com (UK).

Discovery News, 12/05/2007—Blog mentions ALIPR, an image tagging program developed by James Wang, associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology. “If you took your pictures with a digital camera, you can try Penn State’s program, Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures, which automatically tags images as they are uploaded.” (Where Oh Where Art Thou, Digital Image?).