In Spring 2012 I am teaching the following courses:
INFS 612 - Principles and Practices of Computer Networks
INFS 797 - Social Networks
In the Fall Semester 2011 I taught the following courses:
INFS 612 - Principles and Practices of Computer Networks
INFS 740 - Database Programming for the World Wide Web
January 2010:
The Mason Center for Health Information Technology is created as a multidisciplinary center hosted by the College of Health and Human Services and the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering.
October 3, 2006:
Drs. Kerschberg, Kim and Scime were awarded Patent Number 7,117,207, "Personalized Semantic Taxonomy-Based Search Agent."
The abstract of the patent is as follows:
Disclosed is a search mechanism comprising: accepting search intent information from a user having a search intent; creating a semantic taxonomy tree having term(s) representative of the search intent information; augmenting the term(s) with associated concepts derived from the term(s) using existing terminological data; associating a weight with at least one of the term(s); obtaining user preference intent; determining root term(s); transforming the semantic taxonomy tree to a Boolean search query; submitting the Boolean search query to searcher(s); receiving at least one search result(s); interpreting the search result(s); requesting page(s) specified the search result(s); receiving the page(s); generating ranked results; presenting the ranked results to the user; presenting the semantic taxonomy tree to the user; accepting user feedback from the user; and using the user feedback to update the user preference intent.
An article on WebSifter patent appeared on January 11, 2007 in the Mason Gazette.
Click on this link to view the patent.