Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Carla Bluhm and Nathan Clendenin '07 have been contracted by Praeger Press to write a book on face transplants and matters of identity, to be released in early 2009.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Gregory M. Kapfhammer recently presented a paper at the ACM India Software Engineering Conference in Hyderabad, India. “Database-Aware Test Coverage Monitoring,” co-authored with Mary Lou Soffa (University of Virginia), describes a testing technique that tracks a program's interaction with a relational database. The paper is available for download at http://www.cs.allegheny.edu/~gkapfham/research/papers/. While in India, Dr. Kapfhammer also gave three technical presentations at industrial and academic locations. He delivered the talk “The Theory and Practice of Software Testing” at the offices of SGT Global in Chennai. This presentation identifies the fundamental challenges of software testing and then explains different approaches to efficient and effective testing. The second presentation, “Set Covers, Knapsacks, and Regression Testing Techniques,” was given at Madras Christian College. This talk establishes a connection between the NP-complete 0/1 knapsack and minimal set cover problems and two methods for improving the regression testing process. His presentation at the Chennai Mathematical Institute, “Using Synthetic Coverage Information to Evaluate Test Suite Prioritizers,” presents algorithms that support experimental studies by automatically generating test coverage and timing information. All of these presentations are available for download at http://www.cs.allegheny.edu/~gkapfham/research/present/.
Director of Financial Aid Sherry Proper is technical reviewer for a new book, Mr. Cheap's Guide to Paying for College: Go to School Without Going Broke, published in January 2008 by Adams Media, an F+W Publications Company. The book contains material adapted and abridged from a book that Sherry co-authored in 2005, The Everything Paying for College Book.
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