Drs. Ali Ebnenasir and Steve Seidel were recently awarded $106,000 from the National Science Foundation in support of their research. Their project is entitled “Towards the Model Checking of the Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Applications”. The goal of this project is to use model checking techniques to increase the dependability of High Performance Computing . . .
The Department welcomes three new faculty members, Dr. Chaoli Wang, Dr. Scott Kuhl, and Laura Brown. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. in computer and information science from the Ohio State University in 2006. He recently completed two years as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Davis. His research focuses on large-scale data analysis and . . .
We send congratulations to two of our Computer Science alums. Dan Wakeman, B.S. in Computer Science 1990, was named to Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders list for 2009. According to Computerworld’s website, “Computerworld’s annual list of the men and women shaping the IT industry showcases the best talent in the industry.” Dan is currently the . . .
A three person team of MTU Computer Science students finished 1st out of 38 teams in this year’s BonzAI Brawl AI programming competition. BonzAI Brawl is an MTU student run competition, where teams of 1 to 3 contestants implement an AI player for a client/server game. The contestants are given the details of the client . . .
Put your AI to the test! On April 11, 2009 the 2nd Annual BonzAI Brawl programming competition will take place in the CS department at Michigan Tech University. The programming competition will be an all day event, where teams of 1 to 3 contestants will implement an AI player for a client/server game. The contestants . . .
Computer Science Doctoral candidate Alicia Thorsen, Assistant Professor Phil Merkey, and Professor Fredrik Manne from the University of Bergen, Norway received the Best Paper Award for their paper, “Maximum Weighted Matching Using the Partitioned Global Address Space Model”, at the High Performance Computing and Simulation Symposium (HPC 2009) March 23-25 in San Diego, California. Alicia . . .