Professors, researchers, and university leaders Dan Fuhrmann and Tim Havens have full plates. But they make room in their lives for music as a way to create, connect, and cultivate community. The duo has been playing together since 2012, when Fuhrmann, then chair of Michigan Tech’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, hired Havens as . . .
The foresight to envision the rapid rise of everything computational and establish a hub for pioneering and expanding groundbreaking work in the field set Michigan Tech’s Institute of Computing and Cybersystems on its path 10 years ago. An ambitious goal to become “a $10-million institute” was set and has now nearly been met.
The third woman in Purdue University history to earn a PhD in computer science joined the faculty at Michigan Tech 47 years ago. Computer Science Professor Linda Ott never left. She didn’t need to. “I did all kinds of things that kept the job interesting,” said Ott, who celebrated her retirement at the end of . . .
Tabasum Hamdard didn’t know anyone when she arrived at Michigan Tech to pursue a master’s degree in data science. When she takes the podium as the graduate student speaker at commencement exercises on Friday, April 24, there will be as many familiar faces in the crowd as there are memories of a community that welcomed . . .
It’s a building year for Copper Country Coders, and the students taking on stewardship of the group, which was established in 2011, are definitely up to the task. They remember what it was like to be captivated by coding at a young age. They enjoy hanging out with fellow Huskies. And they love to teach.
Candidates for the computer science tenure-track faculty position openings in the College of Computing will be visiting campus this semester, including Yanxue Jia.