A Brief History of Distance, Online, and Virtual Worlds EducationThe AZIRE
A talk for the 2017 online course for education in virtual worlds, presented on the 7th of June at the SLMOOC Headquarters in Second Life. Combines history of distance education to provide a context for a discussion of virtual worlds.
A Brief History of Distance, Online, and Virtual Worlds EducationThe AZIRE
A talk for the 2017 online course for education in virtual worlds, presented on the 7th of June at the SLMOOC Headquarters in Second Life. Combines history of distance education to provide a context for a discussion of virtual worlds.
Research program educationaldataanalytics4personalisedt&l-2017Demetrios G. Sampson
Educational Data Analytics for Personalised Teaching and Learning
Keynote Speaker
2017 Symposium on Taiwan-Estonia Research Cooperation, Taipei, Taiwan
6-9 March 2017
A Roadmap from High School to Engineering CollegesNAFCareerAcads
This session will provide an overview of The NACME Guide to Engineering Colleges, which contains a comprehensive description of undergraduate engineering colleges in the United States. participants will discover how to best use this tool with parents and students who are applying to an engineering undergraduate program. Also, NACME has learned from its program operation experience that obtaining an engineering baccalaureate degree requires a multifaceted strategy. Scholarships alone don’t suffice. What is needed is a comprehensive engineering student strategy that creates a supportive academic community, while promoting a high level of collaborative learning and group study. Administrators from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Virginia polytechnic State University will engage with the audience about the skills needed and student support opportunities available at their respective institutions for success in an undergraduate engineering program.
Research program educationaldataanalytics4personalisedt&l-2017Demetrios G. Sampson
Educational Data Analytics for Personalised Teaching and Learning
Keynote Speaker
2017 Symposium on Taiwan-Estonia Research Cooperation, Taipei, Taiwan
6-9 March 2017
A Roadmap from High School to Engineering CollegesNAFCareerAcads
This session will provide an overview of The NACME Guide to Engineering Colleges, which contains a comprehensive description of undergraduate engineering colleges in the United States. participants will discover how to best use this tool with parents and students who are applying to an engineering undergraduate program. Also, NACME has learned from its program operation experience that obtaining an engineering baccalaureate degree requires a multifaceted strategy. Scholarships alone don’t suffice. What is needed is a comprehensive engineering student strategy that creates a supportive academic community, while promoting a high level of collaborative learning and group study. Administrators from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Virginia polytechnic State University will engage with the audience about the skills needed and student support opportunities available at their respective institutions for success in an undergraduate engineering program.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys at Amazon.pdf
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1. James Woodson McGuffee
St. Edward’s University, cmb 795 phone: (512) 448-8465
3001 S. Congress Ave. e-mail: jmcguffee@acm.org
Austin, TX 78704-6489 http://faculty.stedwards.edu/jameswm/
Education
• Ph.D. Louisiana State University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Major - Computer Science, Minor - Speech Communication, August 1994.
• B.S. Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana.
Major - Computer Science, May 1989.
Full-Time Work Experience
• Associate Professor of Computer Science, St. Edward's University,
Austin, Texas, August 2004 to present.
• Assistant Professor of Computer Science, St. Edward's University,
Austin, Texas, August 2000 to July 2004.
• Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Information Technology,
Austin Community College, Austin, Texas, August 1995 to July 2000.
Served as Assistant Dean of Advanced Technology, August 1997 to July 2000.
• Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Louisiana State University at
Alexandria, Alexandria, Louisiana, August 1994 to June 1995.
Other Work Experience
• Adjunct Instructor of Computer Science, Huston-Tillotson College, Austin,
Texas, August 1999 to December 1999. Taught CSC/CIS 353 Operating Systems.
• Computer Lab Administrator, Academic Center for Athletes,
Louisiana State University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
January 1994 - May 1994.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science,
Louisiana State University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
August 1989 to July 1993.
• Computer Systems Consultant, City Hall, Winnsboro, Louisiana, Summer 1989.
• Systems Programmer and Consultant, Computing Center,
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, August 1987 - May 1989.
2. James W. McGuffee, Ph.D.
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Publications
• McGuffee, James W. “Programming Languages and the Biological Sciences”, The Journal of
Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 22, Number 4, April 2007.
• McGuffee, James W. and Cabezas, R. Andrew “Starvation-Proof Priority Round-Robin
Queues for Time-Sharing Systems”, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume
21, Number 4, April 2006.
• McGuffee, James W. “Drama in the Computer Science Classroom”, The Journal of
Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 19, Number 4, April 2004.
• McGuffee, James W. "The Discrete Mathematics Enhancement Project", The Journal of
Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 17, Number 5, April 2002.
• McGuffee, James W. "Defining Computer Science", SIGCSE Bulletin -inroads, Volume 32,
Number 2, June 2000.
• McGuffee, James W. and Albright III, James A. "Computer Science Using an Interactive
Video Classroom", The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 15, Number 3,
March 2000.
• McGuffee, James W. "The Question of Professional Certification", The Journal of
Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 14, Number 3, March 1999.
Presentations
• The 20th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC): South Central
Conference, Moderator for a Panel Discussion on “Computer Science Education at Private
Colleges and Universities”, April 25, 2009.
• Lone Star Ruby Conference 2008, “Ruby in the Computer Science Classroom”, Session
Presentation, September 6, 2008.
• The 19th Annual CCSC: South Central Conference, “Try Ruby!”, Tutorial, April 19, 2008.
Co-presenters: Jay Blanco and Franz Wambach.
• The ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (sponsored by SIGCSE),
Faculty Poster Presentation: “A Dramatic Assignment for the Computer Networks Class”,
February 21, 2003.
• The 13th Annual CCSC: South Central Conference, "Tools for Teaching Computer Ethics",
Workshop Presenter, April 13, 2002.
• The ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (sponsored by SIGCSE),
Session Moderator for a Panel Discussion on "Managing Undergraduate CS Research",
March 2, 2002.
• Preparing Future Faculty Academic Job Market Workshop, University of Texas at Austin,
Panel Participant, September 1998.
• The 7th Annual CCSC: South Central Conference, Moderator for a Panel Discussion on
“Teaching Computer Science Classes via Distance Education”, April 1996.
3. James W. McGuffee, Ph.D.
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Awards and Grants
• Primary Investigator for the Hilltopper Mathematics and Computer Science
Scholarship (HMCSS) program. This scholarship is funded by a $206,250 grant from
the National Science Foundation's Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
Scholarships Program (CSEMS). This award is effective August 1, 2002 - July 31,
2005.
• Nominee, Austin Community College Teaching Excellence Award, May 1998.
Professional Activities
• St. Edward's University Service
2015 Strategic Planning Steering Committee, Faculty representative, 2008-2010.
Faculty Senate, Senator (at-large), 2007 – 2009.
Department of Computer Sciences, Chair, 2005 – 2008.
Student Financial Aid and Success Committee, 2004 – 2007.
School of Natural Sciences Committee, 2004 – 2006.
Residence Life Director Search Committee, 2004.
Faculty Senate Committee on Course Evaluations, 2003 – 2005.
Service Scholarship Committee, 2002 - 2005.
Academic Council, Natural Sciences representative, Spring 2003.
Bioinformatics Degree Plan Committee, 2000-2003.
Digital Campus Curriculum Committee, 2002-2003.
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Round Table, 2000-2003
(committee chair 2001-2003).
Freshman Orientation Activities, active faculty participant, 2000-present.
• Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC)
Conference Chair, 2010.
South Central Regional Treasurer, 2007–2009.
South Central Steering Committee, 1999-2002, 2003-present.
South Central Webmaster, 2001-2007.
South Central Panels & Tutorials Chair, 1999-2001.
Paper Referee, 1999-present.
Local Arrangements Committee, 1998-1999.
Session Moderator, 1997.
• U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), reviewer of grant
proposals for the Cooperative Grants Program (CPG), 2003, 2005.
• The National Education Computing Conference (NECC), volunteer exhibitor for the
Association for Computing Machinery-Special Interest Group on Computer Science
Education (ACM-SIGCSE), June 16, 2002.
• The ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (sponsored by
SIGCSE), Paper Referee, 2001-present.
• National Science Foundation, Computer Science Engineering and Mathematics
Scholarship, Panel Reviewer, October 2000.
4. James W. McGuffee, Ph.D.
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Professional Activities (continued)
• Austin Community College's Baldrige Criteria for Educational Improvement,
Assessment Team Chair, Spring 2000.
• Austin Community College Committee Service
Academic Policies and Standards Committee, 1998-1999.
College-Wide Technology Committee, 1997-2000.
Computer Information/Computer Science Task Force, 1995-2000.
Faculty Senate Audit Committee, 1995-1997 and 1999-2000.
Mini-Grant Review Committee, 1997-2000.
Who's Who Selection Committee, 1998-2000.
• Texas Community College Teachers Association, Computer Information Technology
Section Leader, 1998-2000.
• Austin Independent School District, School-To-Career Curriculum Alignment
Advisory Council Member, 1998-1999.
• IEEE Computer Society, Central Texas Section Chair, 1997-1998.
Professional Organizations
• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE).
Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN).
• Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC).
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Honor Society in the Computing Sciences).
Community Service/Outreach
• Austin Community College District
Trustee, Place 8, elected term of office: 2006-2012.
South Austin Citizens Advisory Committee (SACAC), 2002-2006.
• Battle Bend Springs Neighborhood Association, member.
• Central Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Elder.
• South Austin Civic Club, member.
• Texas Bible Chair Foundation, Board Member: 2006-2009.
5. James W. McGuffee, Ph.D.
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Student Publications/Presentations Supervised
• Bradley S. Meck “Visualizing Text Based Pattern Matching”, Oral presentation at the
Symposium On Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE) at St. Edward's
University, April 17, 2009.
• Roy Nunez “Port-Hopping for Secure Data Transmission”, Oral presentation at the
Symposium On Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE) at St. Edward's
University, April 7, 2006. (Special Note: One of two oral presentations that received
SOURCE awards.)
• Wesley Holler “Holleristics – Artificial Intelligence Research”, Oral presentation at the
Symposium On Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE) at St. Edward's
University, April 8, 2005. (Special Note: One of two oral presentations that received
SOURCE awards.)
• Raul Cabezas “Analysis of Multi-Layer Starvation-Proof Priority Queuing Structure“,
Research presentation at the 108th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, March
4, 2005.
• Christopher Cahill and Linus Akanoh, Jr. “Financial Statements Investigations and Analysis”,
Research presentation at the 108th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, March
4, 2005. (Special Note: Placed 3rd overall in the undergraduate research oral presentation
competition.)
• Wesley Holler “Holleristics”, Research presentation at the 108th Annual Meeting of the Texas
Academy of Science, March 4, 2005. (Special Note: Earned honorable mention in the
undergraduate research oral presentation competition.)
• Austin Ledbetter “Comparison of Data Compression Algorithms”, Research presentation at
the 108th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, March 4, 2005.
• Tim Rudloff “Simulating Multicast Routing: Selecting a Center”, Research presentation at
the 108th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, March 4, 2005.
• Andrew Staltman “Sensitivity Analysis of POMDP Problems”, Research presentation at the
108th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, March 4, 2005.
• Lizeth Roque and Robert Burch “University Service Projects Involving Multiple Users”,
Poster Presentation at the 15th Annual CCSC South Central Conference, April 16, 2004.
• Barry McRee “Evaluation of Media Player Performance Using Network Traffic Analysis”,
Oral presentation at the Symposium On Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression
(SOURCE) at St. Edward's University, April 2, 2004.
• Shaun Encarnacion and Jerry Garcia “Cryptography and Encryption: Implementing the
Blowfish Algorithm”, Research presentation at the 107th Annual Meeting of the Texas
Academy of Science, March 5, 2004.
• Raul Hinojosa “Packet Sniffing Over Wireless Connections”, Research presentation at the
107th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, March 5, 2004.
• James D. Pringle “Evaluation of Software Based Firewalls”, Research presentation at the
107th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, March 5, 2004.
6. James W. McGuffee, Ph.D.
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Student Publications/Presentations Supervised (continued)
• Kyle Clark and Chris Guerrini “Creating RCX Code Using C-type Languages”, Research
presentation at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, February 28,
2003.
• Jeffrey Litwinowich, L. Brooke Jackson, and Maribel Molina “Creating RCX Code Using an
Object Oriented Approach”, Research presentation at the 106th Annual Meeting of the Texas
Academy of Science, February 28, 2003.
• Melissa Y. Zavala “Can Genetic Programming Techniques Improve the Performance of
Multicast Routing Algorithms?”, Poster presentation at The ACM Technical Symposium on
Computer Science Education (sponsored by SIGCSE) as part of the ACM Undergraduate
Research Competition, February 20, 2003. (Special Note: Placed as a semi-finalist in the
competition. There were five semi-finalists chosen in the competition.)
• Chris Herbig "Genetic Algorithms vs. Greedy Algorithms in the Optimization of Course
Scheduling", The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 17, Number 5, April
2002. (Special Note: Placed 3rd overall in CCSC:SCC student paper competition.)
• Omar Lopez, Abraham Gandara, and Rebecca Shoher "On Campus Database Projects", The
Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 17, Number 5, April 2002.
• Dory Parisi "An Interactive Ethics Game", The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges,
Volume 17, Number 5, April 2002.
• Jeffrey J. Schindler "An Interactive Web Site for Distance Learning Students", The Journal of
Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 17, Number 5, April 2002.
• Arnold Vento, Cindy Beltran, and Emi Taniuchi "Quantitative Analysis of Robotic
Languages", The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 17, Number 5, April
2002. (Special Note: Received honorable mention in CCSC:SCC student paper competition.)
• Raul Flores "Costing Performance Metrics of Accessible Web Browsers", Oral presentation
at the Symposium On Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE) at St.
Edward's University, February 1, 2002.
• Michael Lee Moore "Lego Mindstorms: Comparison of High Level Languages", Poster
presentation at the Symposium On Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression
(SOURCE) at St. Edward's University, February 1, 2002.
• Daniel Krutsinger "I Can Read It", The Journal of Computing in Small Colleges, Volume 16,
Number 3, April 2001.
• Tony Mendolia "ICMP Datagrams in Traceroute Algorithms", The Journal of Computing in
Small Colleges, Volume 16, Number 3, April 2001. (Special Note: Placed 2nd overall in
CCSC:SCC student paper competition.)
• Willliam Natale "TCP/IP and Security Software Applications", The Journal of Computing in
Small Colleges, Volume 16, Number 3, April 2001. (Special Note: Placed 3rd overall in
CCSC:SCC student paper competition.)