Notable News

CDM Security Daemons Win Cyber Defense Competition

Banks, William — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:53:00 GMT

CDM's Security Deamons student team defeated 7 other teams from the state to win the Illinois Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition!

Congratulations to our student team which included, in alphabetical order:

Chris Alexander
Jeremiah Bailey
Alex Herrick
Anthony Kasza
Dan Pullega
Jacob Schmit
Mike Thomson
Ben Toews
Adam Zamora

The team advances to the Midwest Regional competition which is scheduled for 3/25-26/2011 to be held at Moraine Valley Community College.

Learn more about our Information Assurance and Security Engineering program.

CDM Professors Secure Third Consecutive NSF Grant

Banks, William — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:16:00 GMT

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of$325,538 to DePaul University for support of the project “REU Site: MedIX:Medical Informatics Experiences in Undergraduate Research" under thedirection of Daniela Raicu and Jacob Furst. After six years of funding, theprogram will continue for three more years and be hosted by the MedicalInformatics Laboratory at DePaul University and the Imaging Research Instituteat the University of Chicago. The MedIX program aims to 1) encourage talentedundergraduates to pursue graduate education, especially undergraduatesunderrepresented in information technology, and b) expose students tointerdisciplinary research, especially at the border of information technologyand medicine.

Statistics on the previous REU MedIX Program (2005-2010)include:

• 81% students had at least oneresearch publication

• 39 publications (4 journal papers, 25conference papers, 10 extended abstracts)

• 3 honor theses and senior projects, 4fellowships to support graduate school, and 1 Computing Research Association(CRA) honor mention for outstanding undergraduate research

More information on the MedIX program: http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/research/vc/medix

CDM Team Wins ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

Banks, William — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:15:00 GMT

Marek Gibiec, Adam Czauderna, and Dr. Jane Cleland-Huang were awarded an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, held this September in Belgium. Their work was part of a long-term project funded by the National Science Foundation and Siemens Corporate Research to automate the software traceability process through the application of machine learning and data mining techniques.

The work described in this particular paper utilizes novel web-mining techniques to modify the terms found in the HIPAA technical safeguards in order to improve the ability to automatically trace these safeguards into the specifications of healthcare related products. The ultimate goal of the research is to automate the task of demonstrating compliance of complex and safety-critical software systems to relevant regulatory codes. This is the second ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award received by this research team in 2010.

Marek is currently a student in the MS in Computer Science program, while Adam is a recent graduate of the program and currently employed full-time at DePaul’s Systems and Requirements Engineering Center (SAREC) on a traceability project funded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Jane Cleland-Huang is director of SAREC and Associate Professor of Software Engineering at DePaul.

CDM student John Murphy and professor Jose Zagal win Top Paper Award at Meaningful Play Conference 2010

Tye, Kuo — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:07:00 GMT

John Murphy, a student in CDM's Game Development Masters program and professor Jose Zagal were recently honored with a Top Paper Award at the Meaningful Play Conference held in Michigan from October 21-23. In their award-winning paper, titled "Videogames and the Ethics of Care", Murphy and Zagal explore the use of care ethics as an alternative lens through which to examine the ethical frameworks and experiences offered by videogames.

Meaningful Play 2010 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. The conference brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways.

John Murphy was provided with funding from CDM to travel and present the paper at the conference.

Meaningful Play 2010 Website: http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu/index.php

Chicago International Film Festival Offers an iPhone App

Banks, William — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:29:00 GMT

The DePaul CDM-sponsored 46th Chicago International Film Festival is offering its first-ever iPhone application. Made possible through a partnership with Applitite LLC, this app provides iPhone users with all the information necessary to enhance the festival experience.

Applitite, a leader in festival applications, tailored the APP specifically for the Chicago International Film Festival. It allows users to research films, view trailers, screening times, share your agenda, and get up-to-the-minute festival news. The Official Chicago International Film Festival APP can be downloaded through Apple's iTunes Store for $.99 cents.

This is the 46th year of the Chicago International Film Festival bringing you the brightest and boldest new films and filmmakers, and now “there’s an app for that”.

The app will be available for download the week of October 1st.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chicago-international-film/id394739184?mt=8

A Second Game Dev Student, David Henry, Wins Game Narrative Review Competition

Banks, William — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:55:00 GMT

Digital Cinema - Animation Master's student David Henry has been selected as one of the winners of the Game Narrative Review Competition, run by the Game Developers Conference Online.

Henry’s entry was one of three competition winners to receive a free All-Access Conference Pass to GDC Online, which takes place October 5 – 8 in Austin, TX.

Henry’s winning entry reviewed the gothic narrative of The Dark Eye, a horror puzzle game based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. The PC game was created in 1995 by now-defunct game developer iNSCAPE, and is a rare-to-find cult classic.

David has been invited to present his work during a one-hour poster session at the conference on Wednesday, October 6.

The competition is organized as part of the Game Narrative Review program, a collaboration between some of the nation's leading game development schools and GDC Online, which hosts the industry's premier gathering on the subject of storytelling in games.

GDC Online Austin: http://www.gdconline.com

Game Dev Student John Murphy winner of GDC Online Game Narrative Review Competition

Banks, William — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:43:00 GMT

Game development Master's student John Murphy's has been selected as one of the winners of the GDC Online Game Narrative Reviews Competition. Murphy's entry, described by one of the judges as an outstanding submission, examined the unconventional narrative of the art game "The Path" developed and released in 2009 by Tale of Tales.

Murphy has been invited to present his work at the upcoming Game Developers Conference Online to be held in Austin, Texas in early October. The competition is organized as part of the Game Narrative Review program, a collaboration between some of the nation's leading game development schools and GDC Online, which hosts the industry's premier gathering on the subject of storytelling in games.

In addition to being a Masters student in DePaul's Computer Game Development program, John serves as producer for this year's IGF Student Showcase project "Octodad".

Murphy's winning entry was developed with support from CDM professor Jose Zagal.

The Path (Official Website): http://www.tale-of-tales.com/ThePath/GDC Online Austin: http://www.gdconline.com/

Professor Zagal's book "Ludoliteracy" featured in the International Game Developers Association newsletter

Banks, William — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:02:00 GMT

The International Game Developers Association's latest newsletter, a special extended issue on game education, features a review of Professor Zagal's book "Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education". Suzanne Freyjadis, the author of the review, calls it "a much welcomed primer on the study and teaching of games", and notes that "Zagal’s work is well-researched and delves into both theoretical questions about pedagogy and game education as well as offering some highly practical insights on how to think about helping students get the most out of their educations. Zagal not only has impressive scholarship, but he also has impressive methodology."

Featured on Page 24 of the Newsletter:
http://www.igda.org/newsletter/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/IGDAPerspectivesNewsletter08-2010.pdf

Also available (in html) here:
http://www.igda.org/newsletter/?p=213

Further information on the book:
http://ludoliteracy.com/

DePaul, IBM launch analytics, data mining center

Banks, William — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:54:00 GMT

Word is spreading about CDM's new data mining center and Predictive Analytics program.

From PC Word: "We realized there was a need to create a program that prepared students in careers in data analytics and business intelligence," said Raffaella Settimi, an associate professor at DePaul's College of Computing and Digital Media, who helped craft the program.

Check out some of the press coverage below.

CDM's Malicious Masque Featured in IGDA Newsletter

Banks, William — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:55:00 GMT

The Malicious Masque, a game developed during the 2010 Global Game Jam, is featured in the IGDA Global Game Jam Quarterly Newsletter. The 4-player game was developed by Jason Pecho, Ryan Wiemeyer, Ben Perez, Eric Huang, Kevin Giesler, Nate Anaman and Kevin Baxtrom pictured below.