Bio

B.S. ​University of Tennessee, 1971M.S. ​University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1973Ph.D. ​​University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1976

"Developed the Xpress Transport Protocol that became a Military Standard for the U.S. Navy. Teach eCommerce and entrepreneurship."

Alfred C. Weaver, Professor of Computer Science

 

Research interests include:

Electronic Commerce, Cybersecurity, Computer Networks, 3D Printing, Crowdsourcing

 

 

Alf Weaver received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1976. He joined the University of Virginia in 1977 and is now Professor of Computer Science, Chair of the UVA Faculty Senate, and Founding Director of UVA’s Applied Research Institute, where he is working with projects related to national security. His research group helped develop the Xpress Transport Protocol that became a Military Standard and now operates on ships, helicopters and airplanes.  He has founded five companies, the most successful of which was sold to Comcast.  He was an ACM National Lecturer, gave keynote speeches throughout the world, held the Lucian Carr III endowed chair, is a Fellow of the IEEE, He is a Life Member and past-President of the IEEE Industrial Applications Society.  He has supervised 137 funded research projects, advised 69 Ph.D. and master’s students, and co-authored two books, 14 book chapters, and >170 refereed journal and conference publications.

Awards

  • Fellow of the IEEE 1996
  • IEEE Dr. Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Research Achievement Award 2001
  • IEEE Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award 1992

Research Interests

  • Electronic commerce
  • Cybersecurity
  • Computer Networks
  • 3D printing
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Automated library search

Selected Publications

  • "Crowdsourcing for Emergency Response," Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vega, NV, July 25-28, 2016. Liliya I. Besaleva and Alfred C. Weaver
  • "Applications of Social Networks and Crowdsourcing for Disaster Management Improvement," IEEE Computer, May 2016. Liliya I. Besaleva and Alfred C. Weaver
  • "Crowdsourcing for Emergency Response," Academy of Science and Engineering 8th International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom'15), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, August 18-20, 2015. Liliya I. Besaleva and Alfred C. Weaver
  • "Social Networks to the Rescue! The Power of Crowdsourced Data in Emergency Response," International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems," Las Vegas, NV, July 27-30, 2015. Liliya I Besaleva and Alfred C. Weaver
  • "An Empirical Performance Evaluation of Relational Keyword Search Techniques," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 26, issue 1, January 2014, pp. 30-42. Joel Coffman and Alfred C. Weaver
  • House of Mirrors: Surveillance and Transparency, Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society, 2014. Deborah Johnson, Priscilla Regan, Katherine Wesson, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Kent Wayland, Roberto Armongol, and Alfred C. Weaver

Courses Taught

  • Computer Science 101 - Introduction to C++ Program Design
  • Computer Science 120 - Introduction to Business Computing
  • Computer Science 270 - Pascal Programming
  • Computer Science 352 - Advanced Programming and Data Structures
  • Computer Science 361 - Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming
  • Computer Science 384 - Microcomputer Laboratory
  • Computer Science 453 - Electronic Commerce Technologies
  • Computer Science 454 - Operating Systems
  • Computer Science 484 - Digital Computer Systems Laboratory
  • Computer Science 457 - Computer Networks
  • Computer Science 551 - Electronic Commerce
  • Computer Science 551 - Federated Trust Systems
  • Computer Science 551 - Trustworthy Computing
  • Computer Science 584 - Microcomputer Systems Design
  • Computer Science 651 - Federated Trust Systems
  • Computer Science 651 - Trustworthy Computing
  • Computer Science 656 - Operating Systems
  • Computer Science 755 - Operating Systems
  • Computer Science 757 - Computer Networks
  • Computer Science 851 - Local Area Networks
  • Computer Science 851 - Advanced Computer Networks
  • Computer Science 4753 – Electronic Commerce
  • Computer Science 2190 – Research Seminar
  • Computer Science 5501 – Electronic Commerce
  • Computer Science 6190 – Research Seminar
  • Computer Science 5501 – Special Topics in Computer Science (eCommerce)
  • Computer Science 6501- Special Topics in Computer Science (eCommerce)
  • ENGR 390 - Electronic Commerce (Rodman Scholars Seminar Series)

Featured Grants & Projects

  • Secure Mobile Computing


    Made a portable device erase its sensitive data when it becomes separated from its owner

  • Crowdsourcing


    Use the crowd to locate trouble spots during a natural disaster

  • Scientometric Analysis


    Software to scour electronic libraries and locate scientific articles of partcular interest

  • 3D Printing


    Can we make a 3D printed weapon that an airport scanner cannot detect?