Spiridon Bakiras joins the Department of Computer Science as an associate professor. Before coming to Michigan Tech, Bakiras was at John Jay College at City University of New York. Bakiras received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Master’s in Telematics from the University of Surrey in the United . . .
Professor Linda Ott (CS) is quoted extensively in an article on GoodCall, a website on education and consumer news, in an article on what factors predict success in a career in computer science. From Tech Today. Recent Survey Predicts Whether You Would Do Well in Computer Science “A high percentage of the high school women . . .
Jaclyn Barnes, a PhD student, advised by Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon, submitted a research proposal on musical robotic therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders that has been selected for the Doctoral Consortium at the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2015) going on in Lisbon, Portugal, this week, October 26-28, 2015. . . .
Associate Professor Charles Wallace (CS) testified Friday before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce about a digital literacy program for seniors, Online at the Library, led by Wallace and Michigan Tech students. The hearing dealt with how to protect seniors from hacker fraud. Online at the . . .
Professor Soner Onder (CS) will give an invited talk, “Control-Flow Computing at the Correct Abstraction Level” at Florida State University on Nov. 4., 2015.
On Oct. 31, 2015, more than 20 three-student teams from Michigan Tech, Northern Michigan, Lake Superior State and Algoma College of Sault Ste. Marie, Canada will meet in Tech’s Rekhi Hall to compete in the 2015 North Central Regional Programming Contest for a spot in the world finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest. Teams . . .