SPRING 2006

IBM

This project will demonstrate how a data-centric approach to risk assessment can be done with a combination of existing tools and extensions. Traditional views of risk employ a system-centered approach where privacy policies are centered on data access. We take a data-centric view of risk where policies and procedures are built around (1) a map of where data resides, (2) which applications and processes use it, and (3) where it goes.

Capital Broadcasting Company

This project involves the development of a community website portal that will provide a place for users to access tools with which they can search for community news and information, publish community news and information, interact with other members of their own neighborhood, interact with communities of shared interest, and rate each other's content. The portal will provide a content publication and management system that will enable users to upload and publish photos, weblogs, news items, calendar items, and community events. In addition, users will be able to pull in RSS feeds of content available elsewhere on the web and create RSS feeds of their own published content. Users will also be able to interact with other users by geographic neighborhood and special interests.

GlaxoSmithKline

This project will adapt an already existing system that generates a variety of product/customer reports. This reporting system is currently not available for use by everyone at the company, and reports pertaining to a particular product/customer can only be obtained by putting in a request to a designated manager. This is inefficient because there are numerous individuals who need to access different pieces of the system, but they are not authorized and must therefore, go through the designated manager to access their reports. We are developing a layer of security around the existing system by creating a special security client. This will allow authorized individuals to access their own product and customer reports.

Symantec

This project involves three components related to a security framework used as an approach to risk management. (1) Review and feedback on the framework and best practice content that has been developed to-date by Symantec, (2) development of a set of metrics and weighting that will apply to the framework security elements, and (3) the development of a tool that can be used to facilitate the delivery of a highlevel risk assessment based on the framework.

MCNC

MCNC is currently engaged with both internal and external customers on a variety of projects. Currently, there is no centralized location for communication between those groups. As such, management of MCNC has determined that a centralized content management system should be developed that would handle these requirements. We will evaluate several Content Management Software (CMS) solutions, select a suitable CMS, install and configure the CMS, extend the CMS to meet the unique needs of the organization.

SPRING 2005

Projects will be listed soon.

FALL 2003

Surry County Arts Council
The Surry County Arts Council wants to have a website that enables group tour guides and/or individuals to plan a trip to the area and immediately know the per person price. Guides would select from a list of options in various categories and have a per person price at the end of their selections. They would then be able to confirm and purchase (security/privacy sensitive) the "package option" on-line.

EPAL Scenario Testing System
Sponsored by IBM

Collaboration Site Integration
Sponsored by I-Cubed

The Arts Center of Carrboro
This project involves the creation of an interactive website that will assist the Arts Center with handling patron requests for tickets and class registrations faster and more efficiently through an online system. The system will allow for a better means for people to donate to the center as well. Additional security will also be added to enable other transactions.

SPRING 2003

IBM
The P3P standard does not extend well to the enterprise level and is tailored more for an individual than for a business. The emerging EPAL language will allow policies to be written that describe in detail an enterprise's internal data handling practices.
The EPAL language is defined by an XML Schema. There is currently no means to graphically edit policies using this language. The project requires the team to develop a stand alone Swing-based EPAL editor that allows importing and exporting of EPAL policies, GUI editing of EPAL policies, and importing of P3P policies to export as EPAL policies.

ABB
ABB wants to capitalize in its company knowledge and experience and sell it to its customers. Many units at ABB possess valuable domain knowledge that exists
in the heads of experienced employees. Currently, there is a service department where the Utility company calls and is transferred to the "valuable" employee who provides expert advice. This service can be packaged and made available via a Web portal. So, when a Utility maintenance person is walking through a facility with a hand-held device, can ask for advice to the ABB Web-Doctor. And ABB can sell this advice as a service.

NavoWave
In 2002, Microsoft introduced the Tablet Computer and Tablet extension to Windows XP in partnership with major computer manufacturers like HP, Fujitsu, Toshiba, ViewSonic, and others. This project involves building models for learning and performance support on the tablet computer. As part of this project, the team should perform market analysis for Tablet based learning and performance support, and build a Tablet interface for viewing and interacting with learning and performance support content.

I-Cubed
It is anticipated that the application security layer will develop "holes" on an ongoing basis similar to the new virus threats that are rising. Thus the application layer must be continually updated, which may create a subscription opportunity. The application must require download of these updates before making the engineering document available to the users. This requires the application layer to ask the server if updates are required and download them automatically without user intervention. The development aspects of this project will create a prototype Java update utility. The business aspects will deal with creating a business model which validates the market for such a product/service/subscription. The ideal team will have a Network Administrator to set up an HTTPS server and create the necessary code and scripts to bootstrap the Design Application Extension.

Market Acquity
This project involves development of online resources for generating and distributing information regarding CFG (Customer Focus Groups) events. Additionally, the project requires building a database of people interested in sponsoring and/or participating in CFG for local tech organizations.

FALL 2002

Xforms:
The Xforms Project is a continuation of the Xforms project developed during Spring 2002, which is an application that provides desktop browser and WAP 2.0 access to a customer's consolidated bank accounts The Xforms project for the current semester would be an extension to the XBank application to use web services to query each bank for the user's account information and to process transactions for those accounts.

Web Portal:
As part of its Industrial IT initiative, ABB is developing Industrial IT enabled software components. These software components are intended to be made available through a Web Portal to potential ABB customers so that they can purchase them, download them, and use them to put together some kind of application. The project requires students to develop a Web Portal prototype, which would run in a PC environment.

Arts Council:
The Surry County Arts Council currently has a website that is updated by a volunteer who lives and works in Raleigh. The URL is www.surryarts.org. The project requires students to further extend the website to an online shopping site. The resulting website should have professional appeal and the customer is open to ideas of the Practicum students.

Presenter's Consortium:
The North Carolina Presenter's Consortium has a part-time Webmaster that maintains the site at http://www.ncpresenters.org/. This project involves developing a system using push technology for emailing information to past ticket purchasers, a calendar system, and an on-line "hot tix" system. The "hot tix" system they envision will be similar to the TKTS box office in New York City.

Privacy Web Services:
This project requires students to assess the current state of E-Commerce Web sites for P3P compliance-(e.g. how many P3P compliant sites actually make extensive use of all the available P3P tags; are there any existing web service or application generators that ensure compliance with privacy and security policies). Design and prototype a system that will enable compliance checking between websites and stated privacy policies.

SPRING 2002

Art Museum:
The Hickory Museum of Art would like to enhance their online presence by providing additional capabilities to their static website. At the present time, people must communicate with the museum via phone, postal mail, or actually visiting the museum. The museum folks would like to make things easier for their patrons by (1) creating an online store (2) providing online registration for classes and (3) offering a method of membership renewal online.

Conference Integration:
This project involves enhancing e-learning and making it more engaging by integrating existing software products of Centra and LIPSinc. Centra has proprietary software that enables e-learning both in synchronous and asynchronous modes. LIPsinc's Livetalk and TalkBack software brings characters to life by using an engine that incorporates audio input into a character's facial movement in a way that makes the character appear more realistic. This project will combine the existing technologies from Centra and LipSinc in a way that has never been done.

Conference Registration:
The upcoming SREIS conference will soon be accepting online registration. The problem is that the website does not have this capability yet. The project team will investigate some of the innovative and effective methods of providing online conference registration and implement this for the organization.

Wireless:
The problem to be addressed is the creation of an XForms application that will acquire data from existing web services in XML format. A wireless-based client will initiate the request for data to a server side XForms application. That application will acquire the desired web services data, manipulate and render as required by an XForms processor and deliver the rendered data back to the client.

FALL 2001

Non-Standard Orders Online Transactions:
Students developed electronic commerce software to enable e-commerce of Kodak Earth Imaging Products non-standard orders. Specifically, they created an online entry form and price calculator to support Sales Force and Value Added Resellers and potentially end users in calculation of non-standard quotes and enabled the on-line transaction of purchases.

Online Bidding:
Kodak Earth Imaging Products sells available and planned imagery. They enable users to specify a global area of which they would like digital imagery. They have an array of local fliers willing to provide quotes based on the users needs. What they needed was an efficient way to managem the transaction. Students developed an online bidding exchange transaction system. The system captures a request for quote of imagery acquisition and enables an online bidding environment to support a database of local aerial fliers.

Napster for Consultants:
IBM's Intellectual Capital Management (ICM) system has proven to be a useful tool, however, a number of issues in use have been identified. First, consultants are not adequately incented to share files and/or post them to IC. Second, those files that are posted to IC are usually final reports and have very little applicability to interim work deliverables of interest to consultants. Third, lack of standardization of work flow and nomenclature around work flow has rendered the search mechanisms within ICM ineffective. Fourth, the lag-time between the completion of a consulting engagement and it's posting to ICM is simply too long and finally the administrative overhead associated with reviewing, classifying and managing the information within ICM is becoming increasingly taxing from a resource perspective. The project scope included an examination of the key issues associated with ICM, a validation of the business importance of these issues, an identification of the technical requirements that stem from these validated business issues and the development of a prototype P2P system that integrated IBM's standardized work-flow process.

Next Generation Email:
Given the increasing amount of time that people spend managing and processing their e-mails, instant messages, and other correspondences, a need for the reinvention of the corporate communications interface is needed to ensure that productivity is not negatively impacted by increasing electronic communications. The project scope included an examination of the key issues associated with each communication technology (e-mail, instant messaging and internet meeting rooms), a validation of the business importance of these issues, an identification of the optimal usage scenarios for each medium and a recommendation for integration of each medium to facilitate synergy, codification of the technical requirements that stem from the analysis and the development of a prototype internal communication dashboard that integrates these technologies. Sponsored by IBM.

 

SPRING 2001

Order Tracking System:
Newton Instruments asked the student team to specify, design and prototype an electronic order tracking system. The tracking information request should travel from Newton's website to the Carrier's website, and report back to the user via Newton's website.

User Interface Design:
Newton Instruments asked the student team to design and prototype multiple design alternatives for the Newton website prototype. Participatory requirements analysis, usability and user interface design were of paramount importance throughout this project.

Electronic Catalog:
Newton Instruments asked the student team to redesign the Newton electronic catalog to make it as user friendly as possible and completely available via the website. This project involved specification and design through the use of rapid prototyping.

Agent Website for B2B service:
Details to be added soon.

Knowledge Management for Haht Commerce:
Many people using Haht software uncover various pieces of knowledge. Some of this is shared through white papers and newsgroups. Haht would like to take this a step further and build an online community that will allow people to learn from others. The members of the community will be consumers and/or producers of technical information (e.g. developers, consultants, system integrators, etc.). This project had 2 phases: (1) Create an "as is" picture of the organization that describes the current flow of information. This will generate requirements necessary to find a solution.(2) What should be purchased or developed to fulfill the requirements generated in Phase 1.