The Computer Science and Information Systems department encourages active participation by our students in a variety of activities including presentations and publications of undergraduate research at regional, national, and international conferences. Our students routinely receive recognition for exceptional performance both inside and outside the classroom.
UNK CSIS Facebook Group
ACM Student Organization
Free Microsoft Software for CSIS students
CSIS Student Job Website
CSIS Student Internship Information
Computer Science & IT Careers
CSIS Student Awards
Senior student projects take on several forms. Several senior teams of students have created several projects for non-profit or government agencies. Some students have researched gaming in education.
Joel Meyer and Michael Sall - UNK Seniors who coded the UNK Campus Map App for Android.
KEARNEY — Two seniors in the department of computer science and information systems at the University of Nebraska at Kearney have designed and programmed an Android map application of the UNK campus. Michael Sall of Holdrege and Joel Meyer of Norfolk created the app to help people find buildings, departments and student services offices on campus. “When started, this app will capture the user’s current GPS location and through menus, allow the user to choose a destination on campus,” said department chair Sherri Harms. “The person can then follow the sidewalks or roads to reach their destination.” The app, called Wobini MApps, is built upon the Android Software Development Kit and uses the Google Maps Application Programming Interface to display the map and geo-locations, according to Meyer.
The app is available for $.99 at www.wobinimapps.com. There is also a quick response code and printed material on the website so the app can be provided to others as well.
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Another team researched the possibility of capturing keystroke
signals using a laser beam directed at the back of a laptop and
recording the vibrations. (This was portrayed in the CBS Numb3rs TV
show.) The vibrations detected in the laser beam were
translated into sound waves, noise was removed and the individual
keystroke signals were analyzed.The system was first trained on the
wave pattern for the keystrokes. The prototype system successfully
detected the keystrokes that were attempted. |
Another team created an prototype online appointment application for the UNK Writing Center.
Still other teams of students investigated online poll security through a fun competition whereby one group designed a series of increasingly tamper-proof polls, each of which the second group tried to fraudulently manipulate. Web polls should only allow a user to complete the poll one time and should verify that “web bots” are not automatically submitting false responses. Key techniques to tamper-proof polls include IP address logging and verification, captcha blocking, cookies, and more. Key techniques to test the polls include automatically generating IP addresses that look unique, automatically submitting poll responses on a timed basis, and more