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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING WINTER/SPRING 2016

Turing Award Winner Returns to MSU for Honorary Degree

harles Bachman (’48) was recognized a generic control system that would be far chair one of the more significant groups by MSU’s College of Engineering with more eff ective. Bachman was to be the in this open systems interconnection (OSI) an honorary doctorate in December architect for this new system that yielded eff ort that led to the familiar seven-layer C2015 for his lifetime achievement and the first direct access database manage- networking architecture known as the OSI contributions to computer science—and ment system (DBMS), Integrated Data Reference Model that is widely deployed database architecture in particular. Store (IDS), as one of its by-products. The in various implementations. Bachman has received many honors and invention served as the foundation for the Bachman’s career continued to focus awards in his career including an ACM Fel- world’s first general purpose manufacturing on database architecture innovations but low, the Turing Award, and the Presidential resource planning (MRP) system, and a few moved from manufacturing corporations to Medal of Technology and Innovation years later the two were used to create the soft ware companies. Feeling the entrepre- from President Obama. Bachman’s career world’s first online transaction processing neurial bug, he formed his own company, included stints at Dow Chemical, General system (OLTP). Bachman Information Systems, which Electric, Honeywell, Cullinet, and eventu- In 1978, the International Organiza- went public (NASDAQ: BACH) and was later ally his own computer assisted soft ware tion for Standardization (ISO) formed a acquired by Computer Associates. Aft er that engineering (CASE) company—Bachman technical committee to develop solutions exit, he focused on writing and consulting Information Systems. for computers to talk to one another, assignments. He now lives in a retirement Bachman’s post-war career began at exchange data, and thus allow programs community in Lexington, Mass. e Michigan State followed by graduate work to interoperate. Bachman was elected to > Rick Ducey at UPenn. His first job at Dow Chemical took him through various departments from 1950–1960. This journey through Dow’s functional areas was driven by his Anil Jain Named engineer’s mind and unique vision for how data and systems could be better NAE Member designed for business efficiencies. In 1960, Bachman was recruited by Congratulations to University General Electric to continue his path- Distinguished Professor Anil Jain, breaking leadership in computer data elected a member in the National systems. Bachman recalls that GE had a Academy of Engineering Class hundred autonomous business groups, of 2016—for contributions to the each making diff erent products. Each engineering and practice of biometrics. business unit preferred to have its own The honor, announced Feb. 8, is among manufacturing control system. However the highest professional distinctions GE had the foresight to see that computers, accorded to an engineer. e data, and soft ware programs could support

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING I am pleased to report that the Ding, who recently joined the department as assistant professors. National Science Foundation Both are experts in areas of data science, including large-scale FROM THE CHAIRIR renewed its support of the MSU data and machine learning. Furthermore, we are pleased to BEACON Science and Technology announce that Wolfgang Banzhaf will join the department this Matt Mutka Center due to the significant suc- fall as the John R. Koza Endowed Chair in Genetic Programming. cesses of BEACON researchers in In addition, new teaching specialists recently joined our its first five years. The center brings together researchers of many department. Sebnem Onsay comes to MSU aft er teaching for disciplines, including computer science, and continues to attract an extended time at Oakland University. Joshua Nahum joined talented graduate students. the department aft er working as a postdoctoral researcher with In other areas of impact, I wish to highlight the many eff orts BEACON. of Professor Laura Dillon to attract more women and underrep- A highlight each semester is the graduation of our students resented groups to computer science. MSU was rewarded with a at the commencement ceremonies. This past semester, in Pacesetter grant from the National Center for Women & Informa- addition to celebrating our students as they begin their careers tion Technology (NCWIT) to increase recruitment and retention aft er graduation, we were honored to host a distinguished MSU of women, first-generation students, and students of color in alumnus, Charles Bachman, who made historic contributions to computer science. Many other examples of innovative activities computing. Among the many honors in his career, Mr. Bachman are taking place within the department. received the ACM Turing Award in 1973 for outstanding contribu- The number of computer science majors keeps increasing tions to database technology. The Turing Award is the highest dramatically each year. In response, the department is recruiting award granted in the field of computer science. It was our several additional faculty members for the coming fall. pleasure to welcome Mr. Bachman and his family to campus to Meanwhile, we are pleased to welcome Jiayu Zhou and Hu honor him as one of MSU’s distinguished alumni. e

Girls Learn Computing at MSU Summer Camp

Fun at camp. Around two dozen middle school girls attended the Girls in Computing Summer Camp at MSU in 2015 to learn basic programming concepts and participated in several hands-on activities. Girls were intro- duced to the logic of computer science using “CS Unplugged”—a project that provides free games and activities to communicate computer science concepts to students. The camp was organized by Teresa Isela VanderSloot, MSU’s College of Engineering director of Women in Engineering, Recruitment and K–12 Outreach. e

MSU’s BEACON Center Nets Grant to Continue Evolution Research

MSU has been awarded $22.5 million populations of organisms respond to “BEACON’s world-class faculty by the National Science Foundation to climate change. members, all pulling toward common continue the research, education, and The use of digital organisms—self- goals, enable our high level of scientific outreach activities of the BEACON reproducing computer programs operating innovation, attracting top-notch graduate Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. in a controlled computer environment— students and postdoctoral researchers Since 2010, BEACON has brought allows researchers to explore evolutionary to the best place in the world to study together evolutionary biologists, dynamics much more rapidly than studies evolution in action,” he said. computer scientists, and engineers to in the lab or field. Understanding these Overall, BEACON researchers have explore evolution going on in today’s processes contributes to better solutions published more than 565 peer-reviewed world. BEACON researchers have of design and engineering problems of papers and written proposals that have provided insights into the evolution industrial and societal importance using netted nearly $47 million in external of disease, reducing the evolution of evolutionary computational tools, accord- funds. e antibiotic resistance and predicting how ing to Erik Goodman, BEACON director.

2 DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING | WINTER / SPRING 2016 Women in Computing

MSU a Pacesetter in Attracting More Women into Computer Science MSU is one of three Michigan institu- tions selected for the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Pacesetters program, a project designed to attract more women into the field of computer science. Pacesetters is a two-year program in which participating institutions develop aggressive and measurable goals for increasing the number of women in the U.S. computing and technology workforce. It is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Google, and Qualcomm. The number of females majoring in The number of females majoring in computer science at MSU has increased from 7 percent in 2008 to the current computer science at MSU has steadily 15 percent. Professor Laura Dillion (back, center) is a leader in MSU’s Women in Computing eff orts and works with increased from 7 percent in 2008 to the students including Keerthana Kolisetty (left , standing), and (seated, left to right) Sarah Byrum, Jessica Lam, Cassandra current 15 percent. On the strength of Thompson, and Shivaani Annadurai in a CSE291 class. past programs supported by the center, MSU was awarded a 2015 NCWIT Exten- spark interest in computer science for K–12 and communications technology (ICT). sion Services Transformation Award. students, especially underrepresented Laura Dillon, CSE professor, Louise In its Pacesetters program, MSU is minorities and girls. Hemond-Wilson (BS ’86), and Blair partnering with Lansing Community Col- Singleton, ECE PhD student, played key lege to increase recruitment and retention roles in TechKobwa ’14 and TechKobwa of women, first-generation students, and Commitment Continues at Rwandan ’15, and are helping organize two yearly students of color in computer science, said Technology Camp TechKobwa Camps—one in August and Laura Dillon, professor of computer science Over the past three summers, Camp the other in December. and engineering at MSU. TechKobwa has touched the lives of more “It is exciting to witness the transfor- The partnership will use courses than 150 young Rwandan women and 30 mation these young women undergo in at the community college to provide teachers (“Kobwa” is the Kinyarwandan just five days at TechKobwa,” Dillon said. aff ordable introductory programming word for “girl”). Outcomes of TechKobwa ’15 revealed experiences for at-risk students enrolled The weeklong technology camp for that student confidence in technical at Michigan State. Pacesetters also will Rwandan girls and secondary-school ability increased significantly; 100 percent reach out to K–12 guidance counselors teachers, launched in 2013 by the Peace of teachers said that their ICT skills to help broaden the diversity of the Corps, teaches technical and leadership increased during camp; and 90 percent computing workforce, Dillon said. skills. It provides access to computers, as of teachers left camp with the knowledge This year’s grants went to 42 organiza- well as a curriculum that helps develop and confidence to teach ICT in clubs and tions nationwide, including MSU, Michi- skills and confidence in using information courses. e gan Tech, and the University of Michigan. With three universities chosen and a community college partnership, Michigan is one of the three best-represented states in Pacesetters. Michigan has more than 16,000 job openings in computing right now.

Igniting Passion for CS in Young Minds MSU Women in Computing joined with the Information Technology Empower- ment Center (ITEC) and the Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT) to help ignite a passion for computer science in young minds. Through IgniteCS, a Google initiative, they mentored students participating in 2020 Girls Clubs at four Lansing-area middle schools and high schools throughout the spring 2015 semester. IgniteCS supports student groups committed to developing and Camp TechKobwa aids young women in Rwanda in learning the fundamentals of robotics, logical reasoning, delivering outreach programs, aiming to visualization skills, and working in teams.

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Meet Our New Faculty MSU Hires Nation’s First Endowed Chair Hu Ding joined the department as an assistant professor in January 2016. He in Genetic Programming received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Wolfgang Banzhaf will join the department as a professor at the State University of New York in August 2016. He is currently head of the Department of Computer Science at at Buff alo. He received his bachelor’s Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. degree in mathematics from Sun Yat-Sen He will become the first endowed chair in genetic programming in the United (Zhong Shan) University in 2009. His States. He will be the first to hold the John R. Koza Endowed Chair in Genetic Hu Ding research centers on designing efficient Programming. geometric algorithms for large-scale and Genetic programming techniques evolve computer programs to solve high-dimensional problems. His research problems, ranging from finding and fixing bugs in existing soft ware to generat- emphasizes both theoretical developments ing new programs that control robots or identify financial market trends. To and their applications in the real world. He further the field, Koza sponsors an annual evolutionary computation competi- has published a number of papers in top tion in which participants solve problems traditionally seen as requiring human conferences and journals, including SODA, intelligence to solve, such as generating new patentable designs, writing new NIPS, AAAI, CVPR, and PLoS Computational computer programs or debugging human-written ones, or beating human Biology. competitors in games. Joshua Nahum Banzhaf is one of the co-authors of Genetic Programming: An Introduction, Joshua Nahum officially joined the depart- a classic text in the field, as well as the sole author of Linear Genetic Program- ment as a teaching specialist in January ming, which provided a new basis to view genetic programming, extending the 2016, but has co-instructed courses for original work of Koza to new domains. e CSE since 2014. He was a BEACON Dis- tinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at MSU for the two years preceding his current appointment. He teaches a revamped as a special instructor for 10 years. She cur- tist at Samsung Research America. Zhou CSE 480 (Database Systems). The class rently teaches CSE 331, (Algorithms Design received his PhD in computer science at Sebnem Onsay teaches eff ective use and construction of and Data Structures), which focuses on Arizona State University in 2014. He has databases from the foundation up and algorithm efficiency and implementation a broad research interest in large-scale heavily utilizes practical programming of data structures, and she co-teaches CSE machine learning and data mining, and projects and homework. His interests 231 (Introduction to Programming Using biomedical informatics. He is the leading include bringing such methodology to Python). Her interest areas are evidence- author of the open-source multi-task future classes. based learning, and eff ective tools to teach learning soft ware MALSAR (multi-task programming and problem solving. learning via structural regularization). Sebnem Onsay joined the department as He also serves as associate editor for a teaching specialist in January 2016. She Jiayu Zhou joined the department as an Neurocomputing and regularly reviews comes to MSU from Oakland University’s assistant professor in August 2015. Before manuscripts for numerous journals in his Jiayu Zhou School of Engineering, where she served joining MSU, he was a staff research scien- field. e

CSE Research Highlights

Xiaoming Liu’s Work Funded saliency detection, and global motion in humans. A major unsolved question in by GE, TechSmith compensation. The grant continues until HTx is, how can we dynamically monitor Xiaoming Liu, assistant professor of August. and even quantify cell transplantation? computer science and engineering, has The CSE team will develop machine received a two-year grant from GE. This learning, computer vision, and visu- project aims to develop an intelligent Two Receive NIH R01 Grant alization schemes for automated data vehicle system to automatically detect the Xiaoming Liu, assistant professor of quantification. trailer tongue from the rear-view camera. computer science and engineering, The system should be robust to the and Arun Ross, associate professor of diverse variation in trailer type, distance, computer science and engineering, have NSF Funding Supports Alex Liu’s Research viewing angles, and weather condition. been awarded an NIH R01 grant entitled Alex Liu, associate professor of com- Funding will begin this September. “Quantitative Molecular and Cellular MRI puter science and engineering, has He has also been collaborating on a of Hepatocyte Transplantation.” The project been awarded a three-year research research project with TechSmith since team includes Erik Shapiro (radiology) and grant from the Secure and Trustworthy August 2013. The objective of this project James Luyendyk (veterinary medicine). Cyberspace program at NSF. The project is to develop a set of computer vision For many severe liver diseases, the only is in collaboration with M. Zubair Shafiq, algorithms for analyzing sports videos eff ective treatment is liver transplantation. who graduated from MSU in 2014 under captured by mobile phones. The research- Hepatocyte transplantation (HTx) has the supervision of Liu and is currently an ers have been focusing on the problems been proposed and used as an alternative assistant professor at the University of of sports genre categorization, motion treatment, with limited long-term success Iowa; and Zhiyun Qian, who is currently

4 DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING | WINTER / SPRING 2016 an assistant professor at the University of and Amazon have been planning to enter been little scientific research to prove this California at Riverside. The objective of this this space. To best serve customers and claim to be true. As such, there have been project is to understand and strengthen maintain competitiveness, MVNOs need repeated challenges to the admissibility of the security of Multipath TCP (MPTCP)—an to quickly detect and react to performance fingerprint evidence in courts of law. IETF standardized suite of TCP exten- degradations experienced by end users; “We wanted to answer the question sions that allow one MPTCP connection, however, this is a challenging task as that has plagued law enforcement and consisting of multiple sub-connections MVNOs do not have direct access to the forensic science for decades: Is fingerprint between two hosts, to use multiple paths underlying MNO networks. This research pattern persistent over time?” said Anil Jain, simultaneously. The project is expected eff ort will yield frameworks and algorithms University Distinguished Professor of com- to raise awareness of MPTCP security and for MVNOs to quickly detect and localize puter science and engineering. “We have ultimately yield a foundation for MPTCP end-to-end (E2E) service performance now determined, with multilevel statistical security. The study will further increase degradations. modeling, that fingerprint recognition the acceptance of MPTCP as an efficient, Liu has also been named to the accuracy remains stable over time.” trustworthy, and next-generation transport editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Jain, along with his former Ph.D. layer protocol, especially considering that Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). student Soweon Yoon, who is now with the deployment of new protocols can the National Institute of Standards and always be hindered by security concerns. Technology, used fingerprint records of The results will lead to development of 15,597 subjects apprehended multiple guidelines and specifications for MPTCP times by the Michigan State Police over a through standards organizations such as time span varying from 5 to 12 years. IETF. The results show that fingerprint recognition accuracy doesn’t change even as the time between two fingerprints Liu Receives Research Gift from Google being compared increases. for Virtual Cellular Data Services The paper by Yoon and Jain, published Alex Liu, associate professor of computer in the Proceedings of the National science and engineering, has received Academy of Sciences, is the largest and a research gift from Google to support most thorough study of the persistence his research on detecting and localizing Research Shows Fingerprint Accuracy of Automated Fingerprint Identification performance degradation for virtual Stays the Same over Time Systems, or AFIS, accuracy. cellular data services. Mobile Virtual Fingerprints have been used by law Experts agree that Jain’s research Network Operators (MVNOs) have become enforcement and forensics experts to suc- addresses one of the most fundamental popular as they provide more flexible cessfully identify people for more than 100 issues in fingerprint identification and is of plans, oft en better services, and typically years. Though fingerprints are assumed to great importance to law enforcement and lower prices. For example, both Google be infallible personal identifiers, there has forensic science. e

Awards & Honors

Ofria Elected President of International and enhancement of innovation. ment of Defense—helping to improve and Society for Artificial Life Jain’s research focuses on pattern advance security. As a result of his research Charles Ofria, professor of computer recognition, computer vision, and and development, he has been assigned science and engineering, has been biometric recognition. Throughout his six U.S. patents on fingerprint matching, elected for a two-year term as president career, he has worked with several agen- which have been transferred to IBM, and of the International Society for Artificial cies—including the FBI and the Depart- two Korean patents on surveillance. e Life (ISAL). The organization is a democratic, international, professional society dedicated to promoting scientific Artificial Intelligence and Evolution research and education relating to Takes Gaming to the Next Level artificial life, including sponsoring An assistant professor of integrative conferences, publishing scientific journals, biology and computer science and and maintaining websites related to engineering has developed an artificial artificial life. intelligence system for video games that adapts to the player’s behavior by Darwinian evolution. Game on! Jain Honored for Innovation Arend Hintze said that unlike tra- Anil Jain, a University Distinguished ditional artificial intelligence systems, Professor of computer science and which are typically limited to a set of engineering, was named a fellow of instructions given to the computer- the National Academy of Inventors in controlled opponents, this system gets December. He earned the honor for his smarter the more gamers play and the contributions to patents and licensing, more data the system acquires. innovative discovery and technology, > MSUToday significant impact on society, and support

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Determination: Beating the Odds to Pursue a Dream

Jordyn Castor (’15) entered the world nearly four months early, weighing just over a she said. “They have done everything pound. Lifesaving acts performed in a neonatal intensive care unit in Grand Rapids, in their power to make sure I succeed, Mich., that day caused Castor’s retinas to detach—which left her completely blind and including brailling my textbooks by hand.” set in motion an unforeseen chain of events that would shape Castor’s life. RCPD also provided a scholarship to Castor to help cover living expenses while she “My interest in technology and computer opened a new world for Castor. was in New York. computer science started when I was in Five years aft er that first computer “What really empowered me at MSU the second grade and my family bought arrived, Castor wrote her first program— has been the opportunity to see the our very first computer,” she said. The for the National Federation of The Blind impact I can have on someone else’s life. Youth Slam, a conference that encourages By just being myself and sharing my pas- blind youth to consider careers in science, sions, I am able to make a real diff erence technology, engineering, and math. This that can potentially shape the lives of inspired Castor to stay the course and others,” Castor said. study computer science. Castor spent summer 2015 working While attending MSU, the Center for as an intern in accessibility design and Spartan Engineering and the student quality at Apple in California. CSE Alum’s Technology organization, Women in Computing, made For her MSU capstone course project Debuts Iris-Scanning sure Castor was prepared for her career in December, Castor, along with three for Smartphones pursuits. She was awarded a stipend to other team members, developed an cover a trip to the Grace Hopper Celebra- app called Intelligent Real-World Text s-scanning A “first in world” iri tion of Women in Computing, the world’s Recognition. smartphone technology that was largest gathering of women technologists. For use on Windows 10 devices (PCs, introduced in Japan in June was It was at the Grace Hopper event that Cas- tablets, and cell phones), the app uses the developed by Delta ID, the startup tor landed a highly competitive internship device’s camera to take a picture, recognize (PhD ’01). The of Salil Prabhaker with a top Wall Street investment bank what it is, and then perform a task—like smartphone’s built-in biometric sys- and security management firm in New reading it aloud. tem can scan an iris within a couple York City. “One of its cool uses,” said Castor, “is it of seconds, and is intended to be “You know, I’ve never been to a city of can read your receipt to you or help you used to authenticate the user for this capacity before,” said Castor during with a menu in a restaurant. The app also phone unlocking, mobile payment her New York internship in summer 2014. off ers long-term storage of data. authorization, and other services. It “My family was nervous, but I told them “Don’t let fear stop you. Take every adheres to FIDO specifications, and these opportunities come around only opportunity as it comes, and don’t let the user’s biometric data is stored once in a blue moon.” anything hold you back from pursuing on the device itself. Prabhaker is the The investment bank was interested your dreams and your goals,” she said. former student of CSE University e in Castor not only for her qualifications as Castor received her bachelor’s degree Distinguished Professor Anil Jain. a computer programmer, but for her in December 2015 and has returned to S N LAS OT determination to make soft ware Apple in California to work on accessibility C ES R T U BEEN O more usable for individuals design and quality. O Y PROMOTED? who are disabled. To read more about Castor and view

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Student Develops New WiFi Technology

Whether we see it or not, we all move through a cloud of WiFi radio signals virtually wherever we go. Kamran Ali, a PhD student in computer science and engineer- ing, wants to use it to control a computer without a keyboard. Ali came to MSU aft er graduating with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Lums in Lahore, Pakistan, in 2013. He then began studies at MSU in the computer science lab of Professor Alex Liu. “Wireless signals can be used to sense activities in the environment,” he said. “Everybody uses WiFi, and these devices are everywhere now—offices, homes, everywhere. We decided to see if we could detect small activities, like keystrokes, using WiFi signals.” Ali sees a future in which we type on a piece of paper, or use our hands to scroll through an application, all without touching any actual computer components. Off -the-shelf devices pick up is moving on a virtual keyboard. Or whether someone has fallen the way those motions disturb the WiFi signals that are already in a bathroom or hospital room. bouncing around the room, and are translated into the appropri- Ali has used the techniques on both the 2.4 gigahertz and ate action. 5 gigahertz WiFi band. And yes, the folks at MSU’s intellectual “We use only commodity WiFi devices,” Ali said. “Today’s WiFi property arm, MSU Technologies, are on the chase for a patent on devices, to keep up high throughput, continuously adapt to a this technology. changing environment. Those parameters, if we extract them and He demonstrated the technology at MobiCom, an industry then apply signal processing and machine learning tools, can be conference in Paris in September. e used to detect activities.” Like whether your first or second finger > Matt Roush, TechCentury

Student Honors & Awards

PhD Student Designated NIJ Graduate the board’s meeting for having the highest Foundation Scholars Program provides Research Fellow scholastic average at the close of their last talented, yet financially disadvantaged CSE PhD student semester at MSU; they each had a 4.0 GPA. youth—especially those from Africa—with Thomas Swearingen Sun, who received her computer science access to high-quality education. has been designated degree, was also a member of MSU’s Mahat joins two other MasterCard a National Institute Honors College. Scholars majoring in computer sci- of Justice (NIJ) ence—Amanuel Goshu from Ethiopia, and Graduate Research Arnold Mutayoba from Tanzania. Fellow based on his MasterCard Foundation Scholars MSU is receiving $45 million in proposal “Incorpo- Duale Mahat from Kenya is a 2015 funding from the foundation to support rating Graph-Based Models in a Deep MasterCard Foundation Scholar majoring 185 scholars throughout the nine-year Learning Framework for Operational Face in computer science. program, which includes 100 four-year Recognition.” Swearingen will receive a MSU partnered with The MasterCard undergraduates and 85 master’s degree stipend from NIJ toward completing his Foundation in 2012 on a $500 million students. MSU will host the most scholars PhD program. education initiative. The MasterCard among the six U.S. partner institutions. e The biometrics specialist is from Ooltewah, Tenn. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. At MSU, his academic advisor is Arun Google is so interested in why young women Ross, associate professor of computer are dropping out of computer science, it flew senior Rachael Acker of Midland to Mountain science and engineering. View, Calif., to brainstorm on the topic in January. Acker is actively involved with IgniteCS. Fift een students, six professors, and four Google CSE Student Honored by Board of Trustees employees spent a day discussing retention. Angela Sun was Among their findings: strengthen intro classes among seven to showcase more than programming; establish students to receive more mentors; deal with exclusion issues; and an MSU Board of encourage universities to embrace the changes Trustees’ Award in the field and the need to engage students e for fall semester. earlier. The students were honored Dec. 18 at

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