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| Elizabeth Unger is a professor of computing and information science, the Vice Provost for Academic Services and Technology (CIO), and Dean of Continuing Education at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. She earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering and MS in Mathematics from Michigan State University. Her doctorate is from the University of Kansas in Computer Science. Her work experience with IBM as an applied science representative and later at Michigan State University provided a background in scientific computing applications. Positions directing university computing centers were followed by a 32-year career as a professor. She supervised 19 doctoral dissertations and over 160 master's theses and reports in the areas of data and information organization, data security, and the use of technology in university teaching. She has had over 100 research papers and four books published. She was involved in the creation of the computer science department, its initial curriculum, and subsequent revisions over the years, including the development of a curriculum for management information systems in the College of Business at Kansas State University. Under her leadership as vice provost/dean, Kansas State has been awarded seven national awards for quality distance learning, and has been named one of the most wired and unwired universities. Over 90 percent of the current teaching faculty members use some form of information technology as a part of their residential and distance course delivery. The campus has 46 high-technology classrooms, including seven in a studio paradigm. A learning and research management system to leverage the efforts of the faculty members was designed and implemented in 1997; it is currently a product of one of the two tightly held corporations started under her direction to provide income to the on-campus information technology units. The first synchronous team-taught Internet 2 class was led by Kansas State University with faculty members from Oregon State University and the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. The Great Plains IDEA consortium was an idea that was developed to allow ten university faculties to join to be nimble in meeting student degree program needs that could not be met by any one university alone. There are now five distance programs offered through this consortium, including master's degrees in financial planning, youth development, and gerontology. Unger is on the Great Plains Network Board; the Board of the Computer Science Accreditation Commission, a sponsoring organization for ABET computer science and information systems accreditation; several national computing boards; and a few local civic boards. Her current efforts include internationalization of the distance learning programs at Kansas State University to provide American students with opportunities to study with international students; to share cultural and global business experiences and opportunities with students; and to offer opportunities for residential classes that are team-taught with international faculty. As co-PI on an NSF Advance grant, she continues her career-long efforts to assist women in succeeding in science and engineering professions. |
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Determining the currency of data Fan W., Geerts F., Wijsen J. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 37(4): 1-46, 2012. Type: Article
Dirty data refers to inaccurate, incomplete, or erroneous data in a computer system. One form of dirty data is created when relational databases contain multiple relations for an entity. Determining which of the entity attribute values...
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Data management within mHealth environments: patient sensors, mobile devices, and databases O’Donoghue J., Herbert J. Journal of Data and Information Quality 4(1): 1-20, 2012. Type: Article
The quality of data in pervasive environments is the focus of this paper, with an emphasis on medical applications. The paper asserts that the next generation of pervasive computing environments will require intelligent real-time conte...
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Beginning SQL Server 2012 for developers Dewson R., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012. 720 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430237-50-1)
A very good introduction to SQL Server 2012 is offered in this book, which contains detailed instructions, examples, and a Web site where readers can practice writing solutions to the included exercises....
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Log-based middleware server recovery with transaction support Wang R., Salzberg B., Lomet D. The VLDB Journal: The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases 20(3): 347-370, 2011. Type: Article
Web-based applications are commonly hosted over multiple systems, which are often not provided by the same service organization. This architecture--from the client, to middleware servers, to back-end databases--presen...
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Recognizing contributions in wikis: authorship categories, algorithms, and visualizations Arazy O., Stroulia E., Ruecker S., Arias C., Fiorentino C., Ganev V., Yau T. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61(6): 1166-1179, 2010. Type: Article
Wikis were created as tools to allow collaboration among a number of contributors. Common in public forums on the Internet, some Internet wikis now span several years of contributions. Focus on the use of this tool in university resear...
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Affective information processing Tao J. (ed), Tan T. (ed), Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008. 348 pp. Type: Book (9781848003057)
Affective information processing gives computers human-like capabilities for the interpretation and generation of affect. This book is a collection of 17 papers, presenting current research work in affective information processing....
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Programming languages: an active learning approach Lee K., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2008. 282 pp. Type: Book
This is an excellent undergraduate-level textbook for courses devoted to understanding programming language concepts, including those courses that prepare students in writing simple parsers and compilers. It also provides skill buildin...
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Beginning SQL Server 2008 for developers: from novice to professional Dewson R., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2008. 496 pp. Type: Book (9781590599587)
Developers will find this book useful for learning SQL Server 2008. Professionals in the database sector, especially database administrators, who are unfamiliar with SQL Server 2008 are the target audience of this 450-page, example-dri...
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Beginning PHP and MySQL e-commerce: from novice to professional (2nd ed.) Balanescu E., Darie C., Apress, 2008. 800 pp. Type: Book (9781590598641)
This easy-to-read “how to” book walks readers through the step-by-step process of creating an e-commerce Web site. The book assumes the reader has some experience in creating Web sites with PHP, and some knowledge o...
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Referential integrity quality metrics Ordonez C., García-García J. Decision Support Systems 44(2): 495-508, 2008. Type: Article
Quality measures for the referential integrity of databases are developed in this paper. These quality measures provide insight into the completeness of the foreign keys and also the consistency of the foreign key values. The global in...
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