Seminar: Hendranus Vermeulen, “The gamification of computer science”
The talk introduces the terms ‘serious games’ and ‘gamification’, which derive from the troublesome concept ‘game’. It focuses on the gamification of the 2nd year Computer Game Design course, which was...
View ArticleSeminar: Alan Mislove, “Measuring personalization of online services”
Today, many web services personalize their content, including Netflix (movie recommendations), Amazon (product suggestions), and Yelp (business reviews). In many cases, personalization provides...
View ArticleSeminar: Dusko Pavlovic, “On the Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Security...
In his famous 1960 essay, Eugene Wigner raised the question of “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences”. After several decades of security research, we are able to ask...
View ArticleWhat makes food sound tasty? ICS researchers find out.
Yelp reviews are a part of modern dining. And good reviews are good business for eateries. But what makes good eats sound delicious on Yelp? That’s what two University of Hawaii information science...
View ArticleSeminar, Pourang Irani, “Toward ubiquitous analytics”
Our reliance on data for making decisions, or data analytics, is undergoing a transformation from being predominantly carried out by a single individual or a group of experts, and in limited settings...
View ArticleHiCHI in the news: How Does Social Media Affect Our Political Decisions?
Social media affects political decisions – for better or worse, University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers say. As the election season heats up, it’s important to understand how sites like Facebook and...
View ArticleLAVA hosts Mid Pacific High School LiDAR Showcase of Historical Hawaiʻian Site
January 21, 2016 The Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA) worked with Mid Pacific High School to showcase their students’ LiDAR scans of Kaniakapupu ruins – the summer palace...
View ArticleSeminar: Riko Jacob, IT University of Copenhagen, “Sparse Grids and the...
Starting from the observation that quite frequently the memory system is the performance bottleneck, I will discuss a typical memory efficient algorithm, namely the classical one for dense matrix...
View ArticleSeminar, Alex Cabello, “Introduction to AlgorithmHub and the Technology...
AlgorithmHub is a cloud based service that promotes the development, sharing and publishing of algorithms. AlgorithmHub creates communities around algorithms, thus minimizing reinvention and...
View ArticleAT&T Hackathon, Friday, March 11
The 2016 AT&T mobile hackathon is coming up this Friday, March 11, 2016. It is designed for attendees interested in coding mobile apps or hacking hardware solutions. So join us as we hack hardware,...
View ArticleSeminar: Terence Parr, “Mini-tutorial on building ANTLR 4 grammars”
Programmers run into parsing problems all the time, whether it’s a data format like JSON, a network protocol like SMTP, a server configuration file for Apache, or a simple spreadsheet macro language....
View ArticleICS and LAVA featured at March Wetware Wednesday
Wetware Wednesday, a monthly high tech networking event hosted by HTDC, will be hosted this month by the ICS Department and Jason Leigh’s LAVA laboratory. Join us from 6-8pm on March 30 in Keller 102...
View ArticleGovernor David Ige Visits CyberCANOE
March 29, 2016 Governor David Ige and the first lady were treated to a 3D graphic display on the UH West Oʻahu CyberCANOE (Collaborative Analytics Navigation and Observation Environment) that is used...
View ArticleACM Student Chapter hosts high school events
The UH ACM Student Chapter (ACManoa) hosted two outreach workshops in ICSpace (POST 318B) earlier this month. The workshops provided students from the UH Information and Computer Science (ICS) program...
View ArticleGazan receives IMLS Grant: Online Q&A in STEM Education: Curating the Wisdom...
Associate Professor Rich Gazan was awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant for the project “Online Q&A in STEM Education: Curating the Wisdom of the Crowd.” The project...
View ArticleData Visualization class taught between Hilo and Manoa via CyberCANOE
In the Spring 2016 semester, a new system –CyberCANOE– was installed at Imiloa Astronomy Center, the first of its kind in the Big Island. A brainchild of University of Hawai’i-Mānoa Faculty in Computer...
View ArticleGerald Lau is Advisor of the Year!
Gerald Lau was recently awarded the Pakela Award for Outstanding Advisor at the University of Hawaii Manoa. From the award page: “Gerald Lau serves as a stellar model for integrating academic advising...
View ArticleTranslating Oral Traditions Into A Modern, Immersive, Interactive Virtual...
Three undergraduate students, Andrew Guagliardo (from Academy for Creative Media), Anna Sikkink, Derek Chan (from Computer Science), and Kawena Bautista (Shidler College of Business) were awarded...
View ArticleCyberCorps Scholarship for Service Awards
UHM has received funding from the National Science Foundation for three CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) awards. These awards will help us promote cyber security education at UHM and prepare...
View ArticleHawaii State Energy Office & LAVA Selected to Receive Federal Clean Energy Grant
HONOLULU — The Hawaii State Energy Office (HSEO) has been selected to receive a competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to create a data visualization tool that will help...
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