Research
 
 
 
Current Funded Research  Broadening Participation in Computing via Community Journalism for Middle Schoolers funded by NSF, September 2007 - August 2010. TCNJ has been awarded a $600,000, three-year grant to pilot a program intended to increase participation in the computing sciences by exposing rising 8th-graders at Fisher Middle School to interactive journalism. The grant is under the aegis of the NSF's Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program. The co-PIs are Ursula Wolz and Monisha Pulimood from Computer Science, and Kim Pearson from Journalism. Mary Switzer, TCNJ's Gender Equity Specialist is the program manager. Designing the Next-Generation Magazine: Content, Usability and Information Security funded through the Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU) in Computer Science and Engineering program, AY 2007 - 2008. A content management system assists in organization, control, and publication of a variety of media. During submission and approval of an article for web publishing there may be multiple copies circulating between editors, making it difficult to keep track of changes. Automating the submission, routing, and approval processes, and managing the soft copies and associated media can help alleviate the problem. A prototype web-based content management system was designed and implemented based on specifications from Kim Pearson of the journalism program, for Unbound, the online magazine at our College. In this project we will extend the system’s functionality to provide a user-friendly interface and a security model that works with the College's firewall. CREU is sponsored by the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), conjunction with the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC). This project is funded by the National Science Foundation. http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0739173http://nsf.gov/index.jsphttp://www.tcnj.edu/~mobcompl/creu07/shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2
CONTACT ME Email: pulimood [at] tcnj [dot] edu Mail: Dept. of Computer Science Holman Hall 225 2000 Pennington Road Ewing, NJ 08628-0718 Phone: 609-771-2788 Fax: 609-637-5190 “The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live” - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The important thing is to not stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein Students interested in working on any of my projects are encouraged to contact me. Mentored Research  Content Management System to Support Community Journalism for Middle Schoolers This project entails adapting the Unbound content management system to meet the needs of the community journalism institute funded through the NSF BPC grant.. Designing the Next-Generation Magazine: Content, Usability and Information Security This project entails implementing the requirements of the funded CREU project described above. Extensions to the Database System to Support Computer-Aided Reporting (CAR) In Fall 2007, the students in the CSC 446 (Database Systems) course collaborated with Donna Shaw, professor in Journalism, to design and implement database systems to support computer-aided reporting. This project entails unifying the best of both projects in terms of functionality and user interface, extending / partially redesigning the schema to generalize it, and extending the functionality to make it more widely applicable Continued development of TGRID - TCNJ GRID computing framework The College of New Jersey has several computer labs across the campus equipped with state-of-the-art computers for use by students and faculty. There are periods, for example during the night or during the summer months, when a significant number of these computers are underutilized. We are investigating various issues of cooperation, like how users can retain their ability to cooperate while not being in their home environment, the role of context and location in determining how cooperation can be carried out, how resources can be described semantically in a meaningful way to more efficiently exploit the limited resources by supporting better ways of providing data relevant to the user, etc. Our findings are being applied to extend a grid computing framework that we have designed and implemented. This framework will eventually enable sharing, selection, and aggregation of resources across the TCNJ campus. (A grid computing system is a distributed collection of computers that enables Internet Programming, i.e. the sharing, selection, and aggregation of resources across a large network like the Internet. This sharing is made possible based on the resource availability, capability, performance, cost, and ability to meet quality-of-service requirements.)