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Dana is a senior majoring in Informatics and minoring in Business. Her
main interest is to combine these two fields to help people to make
their lives better. Besides that, Dana is fond of traveling, dancing,
partying and just having a fun time with her friends. Dana serves as
the undergraduate chair for Just Be.
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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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Craig is a
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
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 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 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, chi tea, 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 junior in the Hutton Honors College at Indiana
University. She studies computer science and works as an undergraduate
instructor (UI) 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 is a first-year graduate student in Informatics, studying
Human Computer Interaction (HCI). She likes computers because they are
fun and because they help solve problems. She says 'I like helping
people solve problems with comptuers.'
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Jereme is 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 is studying computer science. She says, "I started
playing computer games with my grandpa and my dad when I was about
two. 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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Peyman studies in the Informatics and German
departments. He loves video games and took an Informatics course that
got him interested in how they worked. He hopes to work in Europe
(perhaps returning to Germany, where he spent several years) helping
companies solve their problems. Understanding computers and their
application is a part of those plans.
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Melanie 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 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 is a Computer Science major. He thinks that computers
offer an open field for anybody to study what they find interesting
(unlike physical sciences with larger monetary requirements to even
get started, computers can be acquired inexpensively). His interests
include cyber-security, particularly as it relates to social
interactions.
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Roy is a Computer Science major with a minor in Informatics. He
enjoys the ability to control every detail of a program and hopes to
apply his skills to game design.
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Priya 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 teach others to apply computer science to their own
problems.
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Amanda is a junior studying Computer Science. She is from a small
town in Northern Indiana and has lived in Indiana all of her life.
In her free time, she likes to ride her bike and listen to music.
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Brent is a second-year graduate student in the Ph.D. program,
studying Computer Science.
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Neil is a junior in the Computer Science department. He hails from
Indianapolis and graduated from Southport High School. He has always
been very ambitious. He is an Eagle Scout and he enjoys camping and
sailing. In the summers, he works as a Camp Counselor. During the
school year, he works on campus for Information Technology Services.
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Sarah is a junior majoring in Informatics. She is from Carmel IN, but
was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She graduated from Carmel High
School in May 2006. Last summer she interned at California ISO in
Sacramento. In her free time, she likes to run, play golf, watch
football, and go shopping.
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Will is an undergraduate at IU, who after three years as an IU
student, has decided to follow his passion of computers and computing
as a Computer Science major. Although programming is still a new
language to him, he is excited to be learning Java this semester along
with discrete mathematics. Besides loving computers and gaming of all
kinds, he teaches the sport of Fencing at IU. In his spare time, he
enjoys golfing, going to the gym, working, and brushing the dust off
his violin and other musical instruments
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