Dr.
Arun Kulkarni, interim chair and professor of
computer Science chaired a session on Data Mining at the 12th
Annual International Conference on Smart Engineering System Design,
Nov. 11-13. He also presented papers co-authored by graduate students
Sara McCaslin and Bradley Bryant
including:
(Co-authored
by McCaslin) "Extracting fuzzy rules from multispectral satellite
images data", In Intelligent Engineering Systems Through
Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 12, Cihan Dagli et al. Editors,
ASME Press, New York, 2002, pp 315-320.
(Co-authored
by Bryant) "Decision trees for data mining" In Intelligent
Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, Vol. 12,
Cihan Dagli et al. Editors, ASME Press, New York, 2002, pp 423-428.
Dr. Smita
Mehta, assistant professor of special education, authored
an entry in the Encyclopedia of Education (2nd edition;
New York: Macmillan). The entry, co-authored by J.M. Kauffman,
is titled “Education of Individuals With Disabilities.’’
Dr. Brenda
Gilliam, associate professor of special education, had
two articles published in November. "Staff Development and
Organizational Productivity for Texas Elementary Schools"
by William Johnson, Gilliam and Annabel Johnson was published
in Instructional Leader, XV(6). Instructional Leader
is the refereed professional journal published by the Texas Elementary
Principals and Supervisors Association.
"The
Second Generation Correlates of Effective Schools" by William
Johnson, Annabel Johnson, Mary Jane Hunt and Gilliam was published
in Texas Study of Secondary Education, XXII (1). This
journal is the refereed professional publication of the Texas
Association of Secondary School Principals.
