Min Song published a book titled “Spectrum Sharing for Wireless Communications” at Springer Briefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The book explains widely used opportunistic spectrum access and TV white space sharing, and four new technologies to significantly increase the efficiency of spectrum sharing.
Will Cantrell will be conducting the second of two workshops on the SURF application process, including writing an effective SURF proposal at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 15, in Fisher 130. This will cover the same material as the workshop held in December so students who attended the first one need not attend this one. SURF . . .
This is Computer Science Education Week, and computer science students and faculty from Michigan Tech are bringing the thrill of computer coding to Houghton High School every day. It’s part of a worldwide initiative called Hour of Code, designed to interest young people in computer coding. Associate Professor Charles Wallace and Lecturer Leo Ureel, along with three . . .
The Department of Computer Science is offering local students free, hands-on instruction in the basics of computer programming and computer science. Starting Sept. 13, Copper Country Programmers meets from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays during the academic year at the Van Pelt and Opie Library. Computer Science faculty and students will teach the . . .
Drs. Jean Mayo, Ching-Kuang Shene and Chaoli Wang of MTU and Dr. Steven Carr of Western Michigan University, have been awarded $199,164 from the National Science Foundation to develop materials to educate students on modern access control models and systems. Educating students in this area is important for keeping the nation’s computer resources secure. Access . . .
A paper (entitled “On the Complexity of Adding Convergence”) by Alex Klinkhamer and Dr. Ali Ebnenasir received the best paper award at FSEN 2013 (http://fsen.ir/2013/). This is not an easy conference to get in to. This year’s acceptance rate was 26% amongst 65 submissions from 30 countries. Since Alex could not make it to the . . .