Archive for May, 2013

Congratulations SRG Graduates

Monday, May 27th, 2013

Congratulations to the 2013 SRG Graduates!


Tianhao Tong (MCS), Dr. Yan Huang (PhD)


Jonathan Burket (BACS with Highest Distinction), William Melicher (BSCS, not pictured)

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Stephen Colbert on Jefferson’s Wheel!

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Stephen Colbert spoke about Jefferson’s wheel cipher at his valediction speech:



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Congratulations Jonathan!

Monday, May 6th, 2013


Jonathan Burket has been recognized with a CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention. This award recognizes outstanding research by undergraduate students in North America.

Jonathan joined our research group as a first year student (recruited from cs1120) and has done several research projects focused on web security including working on GuardRails and leading a new research project on correlating web application state and requests with behavior such as database requests.

Congratulations to Jonathan!

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MOOCs, KOOCS, and SMOOCHs

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

UVa Today has an article about my talk yesterday on open education: Evans: U.Va. Should Be a Global Leader in MOOCS, Online Learning, UVaToday, 1 May 2013. The article focuses just on the last slide, which is my proposal for what UVa should do.

The full talk is available at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/evans/talks/smoochs/ and below:


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