From csundergrad at tulip.cs.qc.edu Fri Aug 8 23:45:21 2008 From: csundergrad at tulip.cs.qc.edu (CSCI Undergrad List) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 23:45:21 -0400 Subject: [CSCIUndergrad] Fw: 50+ IT Internships Available - Please Circulate Message-ID: Dear QC Career Center: Please help us reach your computer science students interested in paid internships by circulating the attached flyer. We expect to have over 50 openings by the end of August and urge all to apply as directed on the attached. Thank you, Joyce O'Brien ________________________________________ Project Director, CITY Program CUNY Institute for Software Design & Development (CISDD) 101 West 31st Street, 7th Fl NY, NY 10001 P: 212.652.2867 F: 212.652.2899 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://tulip.cs.qc.edu/pipermail/csundergrad/attachments/20080808/28792289/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://tulip.cs.qc.edu/pipermail/csundergrad/attachments/20080813/b5d7bd13/attachment.html From csundergrad at tulip.cs.qc.edu Thu Aug 14 12:28:28 2008 From: csundergrad at tulip.cs.qc.edu (CSCI Undergrad List) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:28:28 -0400 Subject: [CSCIUndergrad] Fall 2008 New Courses - Course Descriptions Message-ID: CSCI 3813.3/780 Introduction to Biometrics: Application to Computer Security Mon. & Wed. 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm Prof. Bon Sy Biometrics has emerged from relatively specialized use in the criminal forensics domain to more mainstream use for computer authentication, identification, document security, and surveillance for public safety. This emergence has been accompanied by an expansion in biometric modality from mainly fingerprints to other novel biometrics such as face, iris, hand, and voice. This course will concentrate on the unique advantages that biometrics brings to computer security. Students will gain knowledge in the building blocks of this field: signal processing, pattern recognition, security and privacy. By the end of the course students will be able to evaluate and design security systems that include biometrics and their usability and privacy implications. A prototype of biometric voice security system will be provided to students to gain hands-on experience. Students can participate in the enrollment process to register their voice prints, as well as in the verification process to experience voice authentication --- all through a phone device from anywhere, at anytime. CSCI 3813/780 Privacy preserving secure computation Mon. & Wed. 8:00 pm - 9:15 pm Prof. Bon Sy Secure computation (SC) deals with the problems in which multiple parties with private inputs would like to compute jointly some function of their inputs but no party wishes to reveal its private input to participants; for example, both Alice and Bob want to know who is richer without revealing their actual wealth. Yet another example of secure computation is: Bob needs to withdraw money from his bank account. However, with the concern on identity theft, he does not want to reveal the actual bank account number --- not even in encrypted form, to the teller in the bank, nor the ATM. This course will concentrate on the concept of privacy and computation techniques that are provable private and secure. And how is privacy preserving secure computation related to (and different from) encryption? Students will gain knowledge in the building blocks of this field: objective of security and privacy, elements for modeling security and privacy, information-theoretic approach for evaluating privacy leak, cryptographic techniques for facilitating private computation, and the applications of privacy preserving secure computation to data retrieval, security authentication, and data mining. In this course students will be given hands-on experience on developing, testing, and evaluating some simple, yet useful, privacy preserving secure computation techniques. Students will also be showed how these privacy preserving secure computation techniques could be applied to data mining, machine learning, and security authentication. CSCI 3813/780 Randomized Algorithms Prereq. CSCI 323 Mon. & Wed. 3:05pm - 4:20pm Prof. Hoeteck Wee This is a course about randomization and computation. We will study the use of randomization in the following contexts: (1) design of efficient algorithms: e.g. load-balancing algorithms, namely how to assign jobs to machines so as to minimize the maximum load; Bloom filters and hashing techniques for identifying duplicates and popular items in massive and/or streaming data sets (e.g. human genome sequences and Internet traffic). (2) modeling and quantifying certain "natural processes": e.g. the "birthday paradox" -- in any group of 23 people, it's quite likely that two will have the same birthday; random graph models used in explaining the structure of the Internet and large social networks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://tulip.cs.qc.edu/pipermail/csundergrad/attachments/20080814/1b447d11/attachment.html From csundergrad at tulip.cs.qc.edu Thu Aug 28 13:28:18 2008 From: csundergrad at tulip.cs.qc.edu (CSCI Undergrad List) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:28:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [CSCIUndergrad] CSTutoringCenter.com Updates (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:04:57 -0400 From: Alex Maureau To: xiuyi at cs.qc.edu Subject: CSTutoringCenter.com Updates ***Please pass on to the mailing list (if you can)*** Hey there, ??? Just a friendly reminder that you can place your used books online and save time and paper while doing so at www.cstutoringcenter.com/books ??? Also available is an online review book in C++ geared for CS111 and CS211 students.? It contains 17 chapters of featuring the major topics you cover in the class.? It also contains lots of practice examples with solutions.? Please check it out on the site at www.cstutoringcenter.com/courses ??? Also, browse our store for discount books through Amazon.com at www.cstutoringcenter.com/store.html Have a great semester, Alex Maureau CS Tutor