*List of Announcements (details below):*
* Google's Latest Product (to replace Google Reader)
* New Graduate Certificate: Data Analytics
* Open Forum: Revised Time Limits for Ph.D. Programs: Tuesday 4/2
* Planning Meeting for NSF ADVANCE Proposal: Monday 4/22
* Michael Hieb Receives Funding from Booz Allen Hamilton / US Dept. of
Defense
* Larry Kerschberg and Collaborators are Issued a Patent
*Google's Latest Product (to replace Google Reader)*
URL: http://www.google.com/landing/nose/
*New Graduate Certificate: Data Analytics*
URL: http://volgenau.gmu.edu/graduates/GraduateCertificateDataAnalytics.php
Data analytics (i.e., the process of acquiring, extracting, integrating,
transforming, and modeling data with the goal of deriving useful
information) is becoming an important quantitative methodology in a wide
variety of applications. The need for data analytics is due to the
massive accumulation of "Big Data" in all industries to include but not
limited to healthcare, finance, government (federal, state, and local),
and cyber defense.
This certificate program provides a broad overview of the end-to-end
value chain for Big Data Analytics, from the capture and management of
the data, through the analytics that harness the data to create
value.The program is designed to provide a framework for the
methodologies for organizing and integrating disparate data, analyzing
and visualizing the integrated data, and determining what decisions or
actions should be taken to generate value from the data. The program is
comprised of 12 credits of required coursework.
The certificate is intended for students who are interested in
addressing the challenge of transforming the massive data arising in
applications such as business analytics, cyber defense/forensics,
energy, finance, genomics, healthcare, intelligence, law enforcement, or
transportation, into meaningful information.The program is intended for
graduate students in areas where applications of big data may arise.
/Certificate Requirements/
The following four courses (12 credits) must be completed with a grade
of B or better:
* AIT 580 Analytics: Big Data to Information
* STAT 515 Applied Statistics & Visualization for Analytics
* CS 504 Principles of Data Management and Mining
* OR 531 Analytics & Decision Analysis
AIT 580, STAT 515, and OR 531 will be offered in Fall 2013. CS 504 and
OR 531 are expected to be offered in Spring 2014.
*Open Forum: Revised Time Limits for Ph.D. Programs: Tuesday 4/2*
A subcommittee of the Mason Graduate Council was recently formed to
examine the current rules about maximum duration of PhD studies at
Mason. The committee prepared a draft proposal which was discussed at
the Graduate Council last month.
We would like to invite you all to an open forum to discuss this
proposed draft and hear your comments before the proposal moves
forward.A draft of the proposal is included below, with changes underlined.
The forum is scheduled for Tue. April 2 at 3:00 pm. It will take place
in Mason Hall, room D0005.
/Draft Proposal:/
For _both full-time and part-time_students enrolled in post-master's
doctoral programs, the total time to degree will not exceed eleven (11)
_nine (9)_ calendar years from the time of first enrollment as a
doctoral student. Doctoral students are expected to advance to candidacy
in no more than six _five_ years and to complete all other degree
requirements for graduation (including dissertation or final project) in
no more than five _four _years from the time of advancement to
candidacy. Students who do not meet published time limits because of
circumstances beyond their control (_including personal or family
illness or incapacity, military activation or deployment, or other
similar circumstance_) may petition _their dean_ for an _a single
_extension _of one calendar year at any point during their program_.
Extensions to the time limit for advancement to candidacy may be granted
for a maximum period of one calendar year. The one-year extension
granted to advance to candidacy will run concurrently with the five
years provided to complete the dissertation. _In case of an extension_,
the total time limit to _for completion of the_ degree will not exceed
eleven (11) _ten (10)_ years. even for those students granted a time
extension for advancement to candidacy. Students who are given
permission to re-enroll following an absence from Mason may not count
the time limits as beginning on the date of re-enrollment. Failure to
meet the time limits or to secure approval of an extension request may
result in termination from the program. International students attending
in F-1 or J-1 status also have more restrictive _time_ limits to advance
to candidacy and to complete the degree and cannot expect the maximum 11
9-year deadline to apply to them. Students should contact the Office of
International Programs and Services for information. _It is the
responsibility of the student to conform to these time limits._
*Planning Meeting for NSF ADVANCE Proposal: Monday 4/22***
George Mason University is in the initial phases of preparing a grant
application to the National Science Foundation, ADVANCE program.The
meeting will be held on the Fairfax campus with video connections to
Arlington and Prince William. The location will be determined shortly.
ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in
Academic Science and Engineering Careers.
The meeting will be held on Monday, April 22, at 1pm.
If you would like more information, please contact Carl Batt
([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
The meeting is being organized by Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach and Carl Batt.
URL for ADVANCE: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383
*Michael Hieb Receives Funding from Booz Allen Hamilton / US Dept. of
Defense*
Michael Hieb of the C4I Center received $23K from Booz Allen Hamilton
and the US Dept. of Defense for his project "M&S CO Mission Support
Services".
*Larry Kerschberg and Collaborators are Issued a Patent*
Larry Kerschberg of the Computer Science Department, Ph.D. graduate
Hanjo Jeong, and Yonsei University professors Yong Uk Song and Wooju
Kimwere issued the following patent by the US PTO.
Title: Case-Based Framework for Collaborative Semantic Search
Inventors: Larry Kerschberg, Hanjo Jeong, Yong Uk Song and Wooju Kim
Number: 8,386,4785 B2
Issue date: February 26, 2013.
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Stephen G. Nash
Senior Associate Dean
Volgenau School of Engineering
George Mason University
Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 2500
Mailstop 5C8
Fairfax, VA 22030
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Phone: (703) 993-1505
Fax: (703) 993-1633
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