Student Successes

As part of Loyola’s Pathways Strategic Plan and related program restructuring new students are not being accepted into the Computer Science (CS) and Computer Information Systems (CIS) programs.  In addition, only students with Junior or Senior status as of Fall 2006, and with departmental approval, may complete majors in either of these two programs. Continuing students with a declared major in CS or CIS should contact the Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

The following students were recognized at the 2005 College of Arts and Sciences Honors Convocation.

• Jonathan A. Biguenet, Thair B. Judeh, and Mark J. Williams, Jr., were recipients of The Outstanding Computer Science Major Award.

Thair B. Judeh (2004) Accepted for Research Experience for Undergraduates in Distributed Rational Agents, Dept. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington.

Catherine Putonti (2000) Catherine's research into data warehouses and databases let to two publications: "Generalization and personalization of drill-down operator for data warehouses" and "Design of Data Warehouses with Dynamically Changing Data Sources" which were published in the Proceedings of the Southern Conference on Computing.

John Maynard (2000) John is developing techniques to support the use of Smart Boards and other emerging technologies in the classroom.

Ronnie Yates (1999) Ronnie was a recipient of a Richard Frank grant to support his research on hand-held computers. He also showed how database constraints could be expressed graphically using an Object Relationship model. These database constraints are integrated into the Object-oriented environment that includes database primitives. The database primitives allow the graphical constraints to be used to generate Java code. In this way, they hope to develop a system that allows graphical specifications of database constraints and automatic code generation of them.

Ryan Harvey (1999) He has developed some statistical models

Steve Claverie (1998) Steve developed a computer-aided software development (CASE) tool. The CASE tool will allow a user to create a program using primarily graphics and icons. When completed the CASE tool will automatically generate Java code that can be used on the Internet.

The CASE tool is based on an extension of the Entity-Relationship model that is used in developing databases. The database is a repository of information about the graphical representation - the shapes used, their size, location, color, etc. By using Steve's CASE tool, a user will be able to generate Java code much like one can generate basic operations on a database, like queries and updates.

Steve's paper entitled "Operators in an Extended Entity-Relationship Model and their Applications" was accepted for publication and presentation at the South East Regional ACM Conference.

Another paper of Steve's entitled "Cooperative Processes under a Shortest-Job-First CPU Scheduling Algorithm" was accepted for publication and presentation at the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges South Central Conference.