ASET 2006-07 Annual Report
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In addition to regular job responsibilities, many ASET staff members participate in many professionally-oriented activities by serving on University and/or national committees, attending and presenting at University-based and national conferences and international conferences, teaching seminars, etc. Please note that the information below is based on the annual report submissions; therfore, some participants/activities as well as dates, places, and other information, may not be reflected here.
Many staff across ASET dedicated their time and resources to the 2007 ITS Expo and Event, held on April 24, 2007. ASET services represented at the event were inclusive of digital identity management, networking, Penn State WebMail, social and collaborative networking initiatives, and interactive 3-D modeling applications.
A cross-section of ASET staff combined efforts and talents to develop the ASET Security Best Practices document, an effort seeded in ASET's Emerging Technologies (ET). Representatives included Mike Burns (ET), Gavin Burris (GEaRS), Rich Cropp (ET), and Max Miller (AIT).
Melanie Rupert, financial advisor for ASET, attended SIGUCCS in Savannah, GA in Spring 2007. In addition, she taught Horticulture 138, a required 3 credit course for Landscape Architure majors at Penn State Altoona.
Danny Coughlin, Penn State User Services Conference Poster Session, Penn State WebMail Lite Overview, April 5, 2007.
Jeff D'Angelo and Jim Vuccolo, Penn State Web Conference 2007, Web-Based Access Control for ITS Web Services, June 11, 2007.
Network of People (NWOP) PASS Technology Update, May 15, 2007.
Slides:
PDF: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jcd/useful/nwop/NWOP_PASS_Update_200705.pdf
PowerPoint: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jcd/useful/nwop/NWOP_PASS_Update_200705.ppt
Steve Kellogg attended and presented at both the fall 2006 and spring 2007 Common Solutions Group (CSG) meetings.
Jim Vuccolo completed the 2006-07 Information Technology Leadership Program (ITLP) (September-May 2007).
Jim Vuccolo has started a blog on software engineering: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jvuccolo/blogs/sw/.
Several AIT staff members attended the 2006 the USENIX LISA Conference in Washington, DC, December 3-8, 2006.
Several AIT staff members attended both the Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 Internet2 Member Meetings.
Emerging Technologies has chosen to list all professional development and publication activities on its Web site. Publications and presentations are/will be listed via the Presentations, Papers, and Professional Development 2006-07 section of the Emerging Technologies Web site.
Vijay Agarwala, Gavin Burris, Jeff Nucciarone, and George Otto attended SC|06 (November 11-17, 2006, Tampa).
Vijay Agarwala and Jeff Nucciarone completed the 2006-07 Information Technology Leadership Program (ITLP) (September-May 2007).
Abdul Aziz and Vikas Argod attended the 2007 ANSYS US Regional Conference (May 2007, Philadelphia).
Abdul Aziz and Vikas Argod attended a half-day seminar by MATHWORKS (May 2007, University Park).
Adam Focht and Jeff Nucciarone attended TeraGrid 07 (June 2007, Madison).
Adam Focht attended Educause CAMP Shibboleth and Advanced CAMP 2006.
Jack Gundrum, George Otto and Elena Slobounov attended hands-on seminars on the Autodesk Revit products ( February 2007, University Park).
Anshuman Gupta attended the College of Engineering Research Seminar (February 2007).
Anshuman Gupta and Adam Focht attended the IBM Life Sciences Symposium (March 2007).
Anshuman Gupta attended the DOE Summer School on Multiscale Mathematics and High Performance Computing (June 2007).
Elena Slobounov completed Toastmasters International communication and leadership program.
University Service
Skip Knoble served on thesis committee for Ramatsemela Mphahlele, Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. candidate.
Jeff Nucciarone has started a blog on High Performance Computing: http://www.personal.psu.edu/nucci/blogs/tales.
George Otto served on thesis committee for Dragana Nikolic (Master of Architecture, Fall 2006) and Nevena Zikic (Master of Architecture, Spring 2007).
Elena Slobounov continues to serve as an active member of the Penn State Commission for Women Mentoring Committee.
George Otto is serving as co-chair of the organizing committee for CONVR 2007, to be held at Penn State in October 2007.
