Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

https://xkcd.com/2385/   Profs. Michael L. Nelson , Michele C. Weigle , and Jian Wu have been awarded a $10,000 COVA CCI Academic Curriculum Development Grant ( RFP COVACCI-21-05 ) with their proposal "Web Science and Web Security".  The deliverables of this project will include preparing and packaging for use outside of ODU four existing Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group courses that involve Web Security. Recently, WS-DL’s research and course offerings have moved toward the intersection of the web and security. In the process of developing and delivering our courses, it has become clear that we needed to offer a 400/500 level course focused on web client security .  Given the central role that the web plays in our daily commerce, education, and entertainment, we should be doing a better job producing BS and MS students with expertise in securing web applications. While web security is a significant portion of cybersecurity, it is often overlo...

https://xkcd.com/2180/ A record six WS-DL courses are offered for Fall 2019: CS 418/518 Web Programming , Dr. Jian Wu , Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30-2:45pm Topics : LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), jQuery, git/GitHub  CS 431/531 Web Server Design , Sawood Alam, Thursdays, 4:20-7:00pm Topics : HTTP, REST (Representational State Transfer), HATEOAS  CS 620 Introduction to Data Science , Dr. Sampath Jayarathna , Tuesdays, 4:20-7:00pm Topics : NumPy, NoSQL, ML, Recommenders CS 625 Data Visualization , Dr. Michele C. Weigle , Tuesdays, 9:30am-12:15pm Topics : Tableau, R, Vega-Lite, Data Types, Maps, Colors, Tables CS 891 Emerging Technologies , Dr. Justin F. Brunelle , Fridays, 3:00-5:30pm Topics : Cloud, Edge, IoT, Blockchain, Security, Agile CS 795/895 Intelligent User Interfaces , Dr. Vikas Ashok , Thursdays, 9:30am-12:15pm Topics : HCI, Assistive Technologies, Speech Interfaces, Wearable Computing, Crowd-Powered Interfaces I am on research leave for Fall 2019 a...

Four WS-DL classes are offered for Fall 2018:   CS 418/518 Web Programming is taught by Dr. Justin Brunelle , Tuesdays 4:20-7pm.  This class teaches LAMP , the original web programming stack. Even if you end up using MEAN , you still need to know LAMP. CS 431/531 Web Server Design is taught by Dr. Michael L. Nelson , Wednesdays 4:20-7pm.  This class teaches REST , the primary architectural style for web programming, via implementing a fully functional web server from scratch.   CS 795/895 Intro to Data Science is taught by Dr. Sampath Jayarathna , Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45-7pm.  This course will cover Python, machine learning, NumPy , pandas , and general data wrangling .  CS 795/895 Mining Scholarly Big Data is taught by Dr. Jian Wu , Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30-10:45am.  This course will cover machine learning, data mining, deep learning, as applied to the corpus of scholarly communication (via Dr. Wu's involvement in the Ci...