At the 18th Annual Student Leadership Awards Ceremony being held on April 13, 2012, our department will recognize one CS student as its 2012 Department Scholar. This student will receive a $200 cash award from the university. In addition, from the collective 2012 department scholars, one student will be selected to receive the Provost’s Award . . .
The Computer Science Department is hosting a Creativity Contest, looking for artwork, designs, and anything creative to adorn the walls of Rekhi Hall. The contest is open to Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Systems Science, and Computer Engineering students of all levels, as well as department faculty and staff. Any questions can be sent to . . .
Women in Computing Science (WiCS), a student organization supported by the Department of Computer Science (CS) recently received a $500 award from the National Center for Women in Information Technology and Return Path, Inc. through the NCWIT Academic Alliance Student Seed Fund program. The purpose of these awards are to help student-run programs and initiatives . . .
The Computer Science Department & the Center for Computer Systems Research will sponsor a seminar Friday, November 4, 2011, in Rekhi Hall, Room 214 featuring Dr. Gang Chen. Dr. Chen from AMD Boston Design Center, will talk about the just-in-time compiler shipped with every AMD GPU and APU product, what it is and why it . . .
Dr. Robert Pastel and Dr. Charles Wallace of the Computer Science Department are co-principal investigators on a $249,840 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) titled “Environmental Cyber Citizens: Engaging Citizen Scientists in Global Environmental Change through Crowdsensing and Visualization”. Citizen science aims to bring citizen scientists, ordinary individuals and groups, directly into the scientific . . .
Dr. Soner Onder was awarded $153,000.00 from the NSF (National Science Foundation), division of Computer and Communication Foundations, Software and Hardware Foundations Program in support of his research. This research focuses on developing a framework in which compilers and processor architectures can collaborate efficiently and effectively. The project will support two Ph.D. students for one . . .