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Acacia is a senior at Indiana University double majoring in
Computer Science and East Asian Languages with a focus on Japanese.
She has been around and interested in computers all her life. She has
also been an undergraduate assistant instructor in CS and is a member
of WiC. She has lived in Germany for one year and has been an exchange
student in Japan for six months. Outside interests include reading,
ballroom dance, anything related to Japanese culture, and visiting
strange roadside attractions.
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Adity is a 4th-year PhD student in Computer Science. Before she came
to IU, she completed her Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and
Mathematics at Mount Holyoke College, an all women liberal arts
school, in Massachusetts. Her hometown is Dhaka, Bangladesh. her
interest in computers began when I was in 7th grade, the first time
she had her own computer. Her research interests include human
computer interaction, userend security, information visualization and
using technology to improve our daily life. Currently she is involved
in developing a cell phone program that motivates teenage girls to
exercise. She is also working on a project in which they are
investigating how to enable common users to manage their own devices
securely. Besides computer science, she enjoys arts and crafts,
painting and drawing, cinema, music, video editing and photography.
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Craig is a 4th-year
Computer Science PhD student and an associate instructor at Indiana
University. Before coming to IU, he attended Ohio University which was
about 60 miles from his hometown of Circleville, Ohio. He became
interested in computers in elementary school, which is when he first
encountered them. His research interests include networking, security
and distributed systems. His latest research focuses on preventing the
forgery of IP addresses, limiting the ability of criminals to hide
their identities on the Internet. In his spare time, Craig enjoys
reading and running.
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Jacob is a
5th-year PhD student in Computer Science. He grew up in South Bend,
IN, where he discovered computer programming at around 4th grade on an
old Apple computer purchased from a thrift store. Currently he works
with Professor Filippo Menczer on issues related to information
retrieval in structured and unstructured text and the Internet. He is
also interested in exploring the topology of the Web, computer
security and privacy (especially phishing), and is currently
collaborating with Markus Jakobsson and Fil Menczer to write a book on
click-fraud. Jacob is currently a consultant to a large financial
institution and to RavenWhite, Inc. In his free time, he enjoys
weightlifting, running, and travel.
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Larisse is a 3rd year PhD Student at Indiana University. Before coming
to Indiana, she received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
at Binghamton University. She spent a year working on matrix
computations with Dr. David S. Wise, the focus of the research being
on improving algorithms' locality, using block recursive algorithms
involving Morton ordering and Ahnentafel indexing. Currently, she is
focusing her areas of interest, which mainly include Algorithms and
Programming Languages. Larisse is expecting to graduate in May 2010.
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Sam
is a 3rd-year PhD student in Computer Science. She came to
Indiana University (IU) from SUNY Fredonia, which is near her
hometown, Buffalo, NY. She is an associate instructor and member of
the Women in Computing group at IU. Sam jumped at the first
opportunity to take a programming class in high school where she found
she had a passion for problem solving. Her interests include music,
movies, tai chi, dancing, playing outside, laughing, yoga, reading,
and hanging out with her friends and family.
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Tara is the manager of the User Experience group at Indiana University and has a Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction from the School of Informatics at IU. One of her main goals at work is to provide users with better information systems by promoting development processes that include user-centered design, usability evaluations, and research. She became interested in computers after taking a programming course during her sophomore year in college. Tara is on the worship team and is an adult leader for the youth group at her church. She enjoys music, horseback riding, and long walks - especially in the snow!
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Tina is a sophomore in the Hutton Honors College at Indiana
University. She studies computer science and
works as a peer tutor for students who are taking the introductory
course.
She has been curious about how computers work since she first heard the
alien sounds of a dial-up internet connection when she was five or six
years old, but her real interest grew when she realized that computing
was something she could actually do. She has always loved math, so her
mother suggested taking a computer course when she was looking for a new
major after spending her freshman year pursuing jazz studies on the
trumpet. She tried out computer science and loved it. She is currently
working at an internship at IU as a research assistant for the LEAD
project. She also enjoys playing sports, dancing, biking, kickboxing,
painting, having fondue and salsa parties for Colts games, and she is a
member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority.
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Sarah Reeder is an informatics major. She likes computers because they
are fun because they help solve problems. She says 'I like helping people
solve problems with comptuers.'
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Sara Nickel is an undergraduate at IU. She is currently undecided
for a major and is new to computer science. Here interest in
computing comes from a desire to do graphics work.
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Adam Hinz is a computer science undergraduate. He says "There are times when I don't
like computers, but that's one of the reasons I'm in CS to make computing easier."
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Hyewon Kim
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Jereme Magsaysay is a majoring in geography.
He works with computers because they make the complicated math involved
in geographic studies easier and he likes video games. He became interested when
he got his first gaming system, but now wants to own his own business
working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
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Valkyrie Savage is studying computer science. She says, "I started playing
computer games with my grandpa and my dad when I was about 2. I've been hooked
on them since. Plus, I think it's fascinating how much we all rely on computers,
and how many people know so little about them." She is unsure of how to impact
the world, but is sure that understanding computers will help her in whatever
field she ends up in.
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Peyma Hosseinzadeh studies in the Informatics and German departments.
She loves video games and took an Informatics course that got her interested in
how they worked. She hops to work in Europe (perhaps returning to Germany, where
she spent several years) helping companies solve their problems. Understanding
computers and their application is a part of those plans.
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Melanie Dybvig is a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science. She has been working
with computers as long as she can remember, and has always been curious about how they worked.
Her dad is a Computer Scientist and has always been willing to share his work with her. She
hopes to attend graduate school and eventually secure a research position at a university.
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Shelly Hunert is a Computer Information Systems (from the business school) and
Computer Science major. She finds computers rewarding and challenging to study.
Her involvement began in high school with installing software and configuring
equipment, but has grown to include trying to understand how computers relate
to many careers.
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John Meylor is a Computer Science major. He thinks that computers offer a open
field for anybody to study what they find interesting (unlike physical sciences with
larger monetary requirements to event get started, computers can be acquired inexpensively).
His interest include cyber-security, particularly as it relates to social interactions.
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Sourjya Sinha (Roy) is a Computer Science major with a minor in Informatics.
She enjoys the ability to control every detail of a program and hopes to
apply her skills to game design.
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Priya Padna is a Computer Science major. She was introduced to computers early in her
schooling and has been "in love with them ever since." She intends to use her skills
to contribute to the field of computer science, and other to apply computer science
to their own problems.
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