Computer science professor receives grant
Spectator Staff
Issue date: 9/15/08 Section: University Briefs
Paul Wagner, associate professor of computer science, has received a $404,305 National Science Foundation grant to develop portable and customizable software for hands-on, computer intensive educational workshops.
The three year NSF grant is intended to help build on work Wagner completed through previous NSF grant to create a laptop-based computer security workshop program.
Along with his Learning and Technology Services staff team, Wagner created a program that would allow an instructor to control file downloads, run programs and monitor laptops in a workshop setting. The program was run on a group of laptops connected by cables.
The current grant will allow Wagner and his team to go wireless with the laptop program. This will allow participants to use their own laptop computers connected through a small network.
The team plans to implement the program by next year and will submit a proposal to roll it out in March at the 40th Association of Computing Machinery Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education in Chattanooga, Tenn. Workshops on how to use the software will be offered at UW-Eau Claire during the second and third year of the grant.
Additionally, the grant provides funding for three students each year to work on the project.
The three year NSF grant is intended to help build on work Wagner completed through previous NSF grant to create a laptop-based computer security workshop program.
Along with his Learning and Technology Services staff team, Wagner created a program that would allow an instructor to control file downloads, run programs and monitor laptops in a workshop setting. The program was run on a group of laptops connected by cables.
The current grant will allow Wagner and his team to go wireless with the laptop program. This will allow participants to use their own laptop computers connected through a small network.
The team plans to implement the program by next year and will submit a proposal to roll it out in March at the 40th Association of Computing Machinery Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education in Chattanooga, Tenn. Workshops on how to use the software will be offered at UW-Eau Claire during the second and third year of the grant.
Additionally, the grant provides funding for three students each year to work on the project.
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