User:Cindy.cicalese

Dr. Cindy Cicalese is the Senior Technical Advisor of the Software Solutions and Technologies department at the MITRE Corporation. She has developed software across a diverse set of domains including social semantic authoring, real-time robotics control, distributed systems, web applications, and more. She was a tenured computer science professor at Marymount University in Arlington, VA before returning to MITRE. She developed many of the MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki extensions that contribute to the MITRE Gestalt Framework.

Contributions to Open Source MITRE Gestalt Framework Extensions

 * Semantic Rating
 * Title Icon
 * Semantic Dependency
 * PluggableAuth
 * OpenID Connect
 * SimpleSAMLphp
 * Safe Delete
 * LDAP Authorization (with Ian Campbell)
 * Hierarchy Builder (with Kevin Ji)

Other Contributions

 * worked with Yaron Koren to add "mapping template" to Semantic Forms at NYC Enterprise MediaWiki Hackathon
 * submitted bug fixes and new functionality to Semantic Title
 * remediated a XSS vulnerability in MediaWiki core
 * implemented a previous Java applet version of VIKI and consulted on the implementation of the new, improved D3/JavaScript version by Jason Ji

Presentations

 * SMWCon Fall 2013:
 * Revolutionizing Page Naming with Semantic Properties
 * SMWCon Spring 2014:
 * Semantic MediaWiki Farm Infrastructure for Multi-Organizational Sharing