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The University of Virginia
Department of Computer
Science was awarded an
REU
(Research Experiences for Undergraduates) site in 2005 by the
National Science Foundation. We began our
program in the summer of 2005 and ended in the summer of
2007.
The topic of our REU site was "Creating Computer
Applications for Medicine" and the Principal Investigator for this effort
was Alfred C. Weaver,
Professor of Computer Science.
The objective of our REU site was to
involve eight to ten undergraduate students per year in an eight-week summer
research program to develop new computer applications for medicine. All
summer projects were related to an on-going research project to protect
privacy and enforce security for medical data. This research,
currently in its fifth year, is conducted by Professor Weaver and two
Graduate Research Assistants, and is sponsored by
Microsoft Research.
Our current
research
website provides
an overview of our work and copies of our major presentations and papers.
Student REU Projects
Summer 2005
Presentation Videos
Summer 2006
Presentation Videos
Summer 2007
Presentation Videos
Goals of the REU Site:
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Increase undergraduate student interaction with ongoing research
projects, research faculty, and graduate students
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Develop novel and innovative computer applications of use to the
medical community
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Encourage the participation of women, minorities, disabled, and the
disadvantaged in the REU program
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Involve students in project presentations
and scientific paper preparation
Potential Student Projects:
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Secure electronic prescriptions
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Monitoring organ transplant patients' prescription drug compliance
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Incorporating biometric authentication technologies into data security
schemes
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Using PDAs, laptops, and Tablet PCs to create wireless view ports into
medical image archives
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Conducting real-time digital ultrasound examinations over the Internet
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Connect our Office of Telemedicine to remote nursing homes and
retirement centers using wireless technologies
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Participate in our on-going medical data security project by joining one
of its teams: authentication, authorization, trust establishment, trust
brokering, medical portal development, or demonstration system development
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Propose a customized project of personal interest to you
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Click here for
more details on potential student projects.
Details:
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Eight-week program.
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Students worked individually or in two-person teams
(preferred)
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Graduate students acted as mentors for
the undergraduate students
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Group meetings assured that all projects
made progress throughout
the summer
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One component of the REU was a unit on
professional ethics in computer science and medicine
Benefits:
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