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2011
March 4, 2011 NPR, Undergraduates Ederlyn Lacson and Ray Douglas were interviewed by NPR about the strong job market for CS students. "Want A Job? You Ought To Be A Tech Geek". read more
Prof. Ben Shneiderman will be presented with the prestigious Miles Conrad Award on February 28, 2011 at the National Federation of Advanced Information Services ( NFAIS ) 53rd Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA. The purpose of the award is to recognize and honor those members of the Information Community who have made significant contributions to the field of information science and to the NFAIS itself. read more
Spring Colloquium presents Jandelyn Plane, Senior Lecturer. Title: Exploring Computer Science Gender Parity through Research in Afghanistan Date: February 7, 2011 Time: 4:00 pm Location: ECE Conference Room. AVW 2460 Through USAID, Jan Plane has been working with Computer Science Departments in underdeveloped countries of Africa and Asia for the pastdecade assisting them in curriculum development and capacity building.While visiting Afghanistan to work with their professors, she noticedan unusually high percentage of women in their computer scienceclasses. This talk will present lessons... read more
Russell H. Taylor, Johns Hopkins University, talks about "Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Interventional Medicine". Date: January 31, 2011 Time: 11:00 am Location: A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460 This talk will discuss ongoing research at the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology (CISST ERC) to develop systems that combine innovative algorithms, robotic devices, imaging systems, sensors, and human-machine interfaces to work cooperatively with surgeons in the planning and execution of surgery and other interventional procedures. This... read more
Ananta Tiwari and Jeff Hollingsworth received best paper - software, at the 2011 IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium. The paper was titled Online Adaptive Code Generation and Tuning". read more
2010
James Pinkerton and Rafael Setra, advised by Professor Bill Gasarch came in third place at the Siemens Competition in the team category. Siemens Competition 2010 read more
Atif Memon ranked 8th in the field Systems and Software Engineering in the Journal of Systems and Software Top Scholar survey for 2004-2008. This is an annual survey of publications in systems and software engineering; it identifies the top 15 scholars and institutions in the field over a 5-year period. Each ranking is based on the weighted scores of the number of papers published in TSE, TOSEM, JSS, SPE, EMSE, IST, and Software of the corresponding period. read more
Mohammad Hajiaghayi received a Google Research Award for his proposal "Online Auctions" in the area of algorithms and mechanism design. read more
Professor Emeritus Jack Minker presented invited lectures at two workshops in Lexington, Kentucky, during November 2010 read more
The department's ACM team, comprising of undergraduates Anirudh Bandi, Holman Gao, and Scott Zimmermann, has advanced to the 2011 ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals, to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The team is one of 100 teams chosen from over 8700 teams that participated in regional contests worldwide. read more
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