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About the Premier healthcare alliance: A Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) is one of the nation’s leading healthcare improvement companies, uniting 2,900 hospitals and more than 100,000 other providers of care to transform healthcare. These members use Premier’s integrated data, benchmarking analytics, collaboratives, consulting and other services to drive innovation in the healthcare supply chain, deliver continuous improvements in healthcare costs and quality, and support success under emerging population health models. Premier plays a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, collaborating with members to co-develop long-term solutions that reinvent and improve the way care is delivered to patients nationwide. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier is passionate about leading the transformation to coordinated, high-quality, cost-effective care. Additional information is available at www.premierinc.com. Come follow us: LinkedIn - Facebook - Twitter - YouTube. About the Internship Program: Over a twelve week period students become a contributing member of the team working on meaningful projects that provide an opportunity to build their resume and have measurable success on key deliverables. Each student is paired with a Supervisor and Mentor to guide their professional development through the summer. In addition to exposure within their department, students will have ongoing lunch and learns, community and social events to learn more about Premier, the healthcare industry and the Charlotte area.

COLLOQUIUM Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Carolina Research Roadmap Driven by Network Benchmarking Lab (NBL): Deep Packet Inspection, Traffic Forensics, WLAN/LTE, Embedded Benchmarking, and Beyond Ying-Dar Lin Department of Computer Science National Chiao Tung University Abstract Most researchers look for topics from the literature. But our research has been driven mostly by development, which in turn has been driven by industrial projects or lab works. We first compare three different sources of research topics. We then derive two research tracks driven by product development and product testing, named the blue track and the green track, respectively. Each track is further divided into a development plane and a research plane. The blue track on product development has fostered a startup company (L7 Networks Inc.) and a textbook (Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach, McGraw-Hill 2011) at the development plane and also a research roadmap on QoS and deep packet inspection (DPI) at the research plane. On the other hand, the green track on product testing has triggered a 3rd-party test bed, Network Benchmarking Lab (NBL, www.nbl.org.tw), at the development plane and a research roadmap on traffic forensics, WLAN/LTE, and embedded benchmarking at the research plane. Throughout this talk, we illustrate how development and research could be highly interleaved. At the end, we give lessons accumulated over the past decade. The audience will see how research could be conducted in a different way. Ying-Dar Lin is Professor of Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1993. He served as the CEO of Telecom Technology Center during 2010-2011 and as a visiting scholar at Cisco Systems in San Jose during 2007–2008. Since 2002, he has been the founding director of Network Benchmarking Lab (NBL, www.nbl.org.tw), which reviews network products with real traffic. He also cofounded L7 Networks Inc. in 2002, which was later acquired by D-Link Corp. He founded Embedded Benchmarking Lab (www.ebl.org.tw) in 2011 to extend into the review of handheld devices. His research interests include design, analysis, implementation, and benchmarking of network protocols and algorithms, quality of services, network security, deep packet inspection, P2P networking, and embedded hardware/software co-design. His work on “multi-hop cellular” was the first along this line, and has been cited over 600 times and standardized into IEEE 802.11s, WiMAX IEEE 802.16j, and 3GPP LTE-Advanced. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2013 for his contributions to multi-hop cellular communications and deep packet inspection. He is currently on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Computer, IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Magazine - Network Testing Series, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Letters, Computer Communications, Computer Networks, and IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. He published the textbook Computer Networks: An Open Source Approach (www.mhhe.com/lin), with Ren-Hung Hwang and Fred Baker (McGraw-Hill, 2011). It is the first text that interleaves open source implementation examples with protocol design descriptions to bridge the gap between design and implementation.

Mr. Ted Tanner will be the speaker in our CSCE791 (Seminar in Advances in Computing) tomorrow at 2:20 and you are invited to attend his talk. Mr. Tanner has had a very successful career in establishing a number of start-up companies including: digidesign (acquired by Avid), MongoMusic (acquired by Microsoft), and BeliefNetworks (acquired by Benefitfocus). His presentation will focus on trends in the technology sector. The presentation will be held tomorrow at 2:20-3:10 in room 2A07 with additional space available in room 2A19. Biography Ted Tanner is an engineering executive with extensive experience ranging from startups to public corporations. Focused mainly on growth scale computing he has held architect positions at both Apple and Microsoft. Currently he is the CTO of PokitDok, Inc. that provides innovative enterprise and consumer focused price transparency to both large employer groups and direct consumer models. He has held instrumental roles in several start-ups, including digidesign (IPO and acquired by Avid), Crystal River Engineering (acquired by Creative Labs), MongoMusic (acquired by Microsoft) and BeliefNetworks (acquired by Benefitfocus). He has also ran a publicly traded NASDAQ:SPAZ at the CTO level. He is on the IAB for the University of South Carolina Computer Science Department as well as the Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning at the University of Tennessee. He also holds a Top Secret Clearance.Formerly he was the CTO of BeliefNetworks, Inc a real time semantic and predictive analytics company focused on media and department of defense applications. BeliefNetworks was purchase by Benefitfocus in 2009. Customers included Forbes.com, Comcast / DailyCandy.com and the Department of Defense. Prior to BeliefNetworks Inc he was an architect for seven years with Microsoft Corporation working on such products and technologies as the Windows Networking Stack, Vista Audio architecture, Metadata architectures, Secure Audio- Video path, and Media Center edition. Before leaving Microsoft in 2007, Mr. Tanner supported IPv6 and RFID solutions, Trustworthy Computing, Emergency/DataFusion Enterprise Architecture and Media architectures, in addition, Ted represented the Microsoft Corporation on the Presidential National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee Research and Development Taskforce (NSTAC-RDTF) and the Next Generation Networks Taskforce. Prior to Microsoft, he was VP of R&D for MongoMusic were he directed all aspects of knowledge discovery, machine learning, signal processing research, intellectual property management and venture capital assessment. MongoMusic was purchased by the Microsoft Corporation in 2000 for $75M. Prior to MongoMusic, Inc, Mr. Tanner was the Media Architect at Apple Computer Inc. where he worked on adaptive media processing architectures for OS9 and OSX underlying products such as iMovie, iTunes and GarageBand. Mr. Tanner has published numerous articles in leading technical magazines and holds several patents in the areas of semantics, machine learning, signal processing and signal protection. He is an active public speaker on advanced technology issues in a variety of industry forums and conferences including but not limited to government sponsored events and hearings such as those held by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

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  Who Should Attend: South Carolina Legislators, Department of Education, K-12 Teachers, Principals, District Staff, Curriculum Decision-Makers and anyone interested in computer science education in the state of South Carolina What: The South Carolina Computer Science Education Summit When: Friday, November 8 2013 from 11:00am-12:30pm

• Sit with Me event promoting women's role in the IT profession: Register here for Sit With Me

Friday, November 8 2013 from 1:00pm-4:00pm

• Featured speakers include: Avis Yates Rivers with Technology Concepts and Cameron Wilson, COO of Code.org.

Topics include:

• National effort to get computer science into schools
• Individual states' efforts to broaden participation in and improve computer science education
• State of computer science education in South Carolina

Saturday, November 9 2013 from 8:30am-4:30pm. Topics include:

• Curricular changes going on in South Carolina
• Exploring Computer Science overview and activity
• Individual states' efforts to broaden participation in and improve computer science education
• Professional Development panel and resources for educators

Where: IT-oLogy, 1301 Gervais Street, Columbia SC Cost: FREE To register, go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ComputingEducationSC118913 and select the sessions you would like to attend. See this article in the State, or this post for more info.

Computer running slow? Think you have a virus? No problem! On October 12, 2013, the student chapter of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will hold Fix-IT at USC. This free event is open to the entire Columbia community. It will be held at the Swearingen Engineering Center (301 Main. St.) from 9a.m. to 3p.m. Services include virus and spyware removal, operating system installation, hardware diagnostics, general troubleshooting, and simple software installation. We can service laptops, desktops, Mac, Windows, and Linux. A few disclaimers: We will try to solve any problem you are having to the best of our abilities, but some problems may be out of our purview. Also, if you want us to install an operating system for you, then you will need to supply the CD with the software and the installation key.

We will be having a meeting on Wednesday September 25th. The meeting will have a guest speaker. The speaker is David Grim of Allen & Associates of America, Inc. The company he is representing is an I.T. Staffing company for the Charlotte, Columbia, and Greenville area. He will be reviewing resumes in advanced so if you would like a professional to review your resume send a digital copy todavid@allenassociates.net. He has asked for it in a .doc or .docx format. He will also give a short presentation on the listed topics. Send Resumes to david@allenassociates.net. Please do not send them to me.

• How to improve your chances of success in the I.T. market.
• What skills are in demand.
• How to improve your resume so you can be more appealing to companies. (In a stack of resumes, ours are ALWAYS picked first.)
• Interviewing tips. (Don’t think this can be covered too much.)
• Interview & lead tracking (Organizing the search)

Thanks, Benjamin Morgan Chair of ACM@USC