Month: August 2015

Alumna Aubrey Baker and a Viral Empowerment Message #ILookLikeAnEngineer

Computer Science alumna Aubrey Baker is part of the inspiring viral campaign ‪#‎ILookLikeAnEngineer‬. She was interviewed in an MLive article that featured her work downstate at CQL where she codes web applications. Baker also hosts a regular BitCamp event for middle school students and a semester-long Girls Who Code course. Viral hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer inspires campaign in . . .

Tim Havens Presents on Fuzzy Systems

Tim Havens (ECE/CS) presented two papers at the IEEE Int. Conference on Fuzzy Systems in Istanbul, Turkey. The first paper was entitled, “Feature and Decision Level Fusion Using Multiple Kernel Learning and Fuzzy Integrals,” authored by ECE PhD student Anthony Pinar and coauthored by Havens and Derek Anderson and Lequn Hu from Mississippi State University. . . .

K-12 Teachers Computer Science Workshop at Tech

Twenty school teachers from across Michigan will be at Michigan Tech for a three-day workshop Monday through Wednesday. The workshop, called CS4all, will help teachers learn to integrate computer science and computational thinking into their classrooms. Sponsored by grants from Google, the workshop is the first step toward establishing an online “community of practice” to . . .