About Me

I am a student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Peter Kiewit Institute and I am studying for a B.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Information Assurrance. I am also an IT Intern for Omaha Public Power District and have spent time as a Teaching Assistant for "Intro to Computer Programming" classes and labs. In my free time I like to work on projects, play video games, hang out with friends, and sing karaoke. Below is a list of projects that I have worked on or currently involved in.

Christmas 2008A Beefman Christmas

http://nicknisi.com/christmas - This year, we recorded our own Christmas album! Check it out!

Fall 2008The State of the Arms Race: Steganography vs. Steganalysis

http://nicknisi.com/stego - This is a companion site for a paper I am currently working on. It will have anything from examples to source code there and may be referenced in the paper I am working on for my Foundations of Information Assurance class.

Fall 2008Staff Study: Clickjacking

http://nicknisi.com/clickjacking - This is a companion site for a Staff Study I wrote. There are a couple of examples that show how simple ClickJacking is. I will also post my Staff Study later.

Fall 2007Stock Buzz

http://buzz.nicknisi.com/ - This is my semester long project for my Software Engineering class. This was a major project written in Java, Perl, PHP, and JavaScript, and used a MySQL database backend. This application would spider news articles related to companies on the S&P 500 and use natural language processing to determing whether or not the article was saying something good or bad about the company and would generate a 'buzz' for the company. It would also graph the stock price and the 'buzz' to show if the 'buzz' in the news was affecting the stock's value. A team of four of us worked on this project. My focus was on the web spider and the front end. (Please Note: the site may take a while to load.)