: My Studies at UB

   I enrolled in Master of Art in Informatics program at School of Informatics at University at Buffalo in Spring 2002 and became a dual master programs student, MA informatics and Master of Library Science, in Spring 2003. The following courses are what I have done for pursuing two master degrees in MA Informatics and MLS.

    :: Summer 2004         (GPA: 4.0)

• INF 597J  : Capstone Project/Seminar
  • Instructor: Matthew Cascio
  • Project: An Evaluation of Online Translation Systems in English-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval

    :: Spring 2004         (GPA: 4.0)

• LIS 561  : Information Systems Analysis and Design
  • Instructor: Dr. Christopher Brown-Syed
  
  
• LIS 563  :  Digital Libraries
  • Instructor: Dr. June M Abbas
  • Buffalo Museum of Science -- Bentley Snow Crystal Digital Library Project
    • Infrastructure Design
    • Gained excellent knowledge in Greenstone Open Source Digital Library software.
    • Responsible for project's infrastructure construction.
    • Created a search engine using ASP (VBScript) to retrieve relevant records from MS Access database.
  
  
• LIS 581  :  Management of Libraries and Information Agencies
  • Instructor: Dr. John Ellison
  • Course assignments

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    :: Fall 2003         (GPA: 3.890)

• CSE 503 B  :  Computer Science for Nonmajor
  • Instructor: Dr. Carl Alphonce
    • JavaApplet
  
  
• ICO 500  :  Collaborative Applications in Web Design
  • Instructor: Roberta Sullivan
    • Course assignments:
      • Koha Informational site
      • Parasignal
      • Team Project
      • UB Remote Access
    • Use Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop to create various website for different needs.
    • Web site's structure, page layout, navigation system.
  
  
• LIS 571  :  Organization and Control of Recorded Information
  • Instructor: Dr. Stephen Paling
    • Project: Cataloging Scheme for organizing personal digital photograph collection.
    • AACR2, MARC, XML
  
  
• LIS 598 B  :  Dirceted Study - Koha Library Automation System
  • Instructor: Dr. Christopher Brown-Syed
    • Koha@buffalo Project
    • Used Koha Open Source Library Automation System to create a pilot educational system for LIS 506 course.
  
  

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    :: Summer 2003         (GPA: 3.777)

• ICO 637  :  Policy and Legal Issues
  • Instructor: Dr. Thomas Jacobson
  
  
• LIS 501  :  Special Topic
  - Library Systems Administration: UNIX, Linux & Web Servers.
  • Instructor: Dr. Christopher Brown-Syed
    • Use command-line mode to operate Sun Solaris, RedHat Linux.
    • Update Solaris 8 to Solaris 9.
    • Install and configure Apache Web server in Solaris 8/9.
  
  
• LIS 518  :  Reference Sources and Services
  • Instructor: Anne M. Perrault
    • Project: Pathfinder: Cross-Language Information Retrieval
    • DIALOG Classic, ERIC, Lexis-Nexis, Factiva, InfoTrac, Digital Dissertation.

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    :: Spring 2003         (GPA: 4.0)

• LIS 505  :  Introduction to Library and Information Studies
  • Instructor: Dr. Christopher Brown-Syed
  
  
• LIS 506  :  Information Storage and Retrieval
  • Instructor: Dr. Miguel Ruiz
  
  
• LIS 598 A  :  Directed Study - Cross-Language Information Retrieval
  • Instructor: Dr. Miguel Ruiz
    • Use SMART information retrieval system for retrieval experiments.
    • Participate Cross Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF, 2003 conference in Multilingual Information Retrieval task in "Large-multilingual" (Multilingual-8), responsible for dealing with online translation process in Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
  
  
• LIS 598 G  :  Directed Study - Network Routing
  • Instructor: Dr. Neil Yerkey
    • Paper: Introduction of Main Differences Between IPv4 and IPv6 in Base Functionality (Adobe PDF format: 106 Kbytes)
    • Use Windows 2000 server/perfessional and Cisco Catalyst 1900 series router to create wide-area network (WAN).

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    :: Fall 2002         (GPA: 3.75)

• COM 537  :  Organizational Communication
  • Instructor: Dr. Gerald M. Goldhaber
    • Paper: Influence of E-Mail in Workplace
  
  
• COM 631  :  Communication Technologies and Public Policy
  • Instructor: Dr. Gary Ozanich
    • Research study in Industrial Analysis focuing on cellular telephony GSM900/1800/1900 and 3G.
  
  
• LIS 507  :  Survey of Information Science and Services
  • Instructor: Dr. Miguel Ruiz
    • Paper: User-centered Interface In Multilingual Web sites:
      Different Examples of Multilingual Web Site Development
    • Use Smartdraw software to create dataflow diagrams.
  
  
• LIS 562  :  Networking Technologies
  • Instructor: Dr. Neil Yerkey
    • Paper: Security Weakness of Wireless Local Area Network (IEEE 802.11)
    • Use Microsoft Windows 2000 Server/Professional to create Server-Client LAN in NetBIOS and TCP/IP network protocols.

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    :: Spring 2002         (GPA: 4.0)

• LIS 502  :  Special Topic -- Information Systems Analysis and Design
  • Credit Hours: 6
  • Instructor : Dr. Neil Yerkey, Dr. Christopher Brown-Syed
    • Paper: Computer Virus Protection in Small Business
      (Adobe PDF format: 121 Kbytes)
  
  
• LIS 503  :  Information Architecture
  • Instructor: Dr. Corinne Jorgensen
    • Project: Building Multilingual Environment in Single PC
  
  
• LIS 569  :  Database Systems
  • Instructor: Dr. Neil Yerkey
    • Project: VHS/DVD Management System Ver. 1.0
      (Microsoft Access 2000, 4020 KB)
    • Use Microsoft Access 2000 to create real database management system.

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