Michigan Tech is home to a supercomputer known as “Superior” and this computer is used for a variety of projects by research faculty right here in the Department of Computer Science: Laura Brown, Towards a reliable method for comparing large scale machine learning algorithms Ali Ebnenasir, Computational synthesis of self-stabilizing protocols Chaoli Wang, High-performance parallel . . .
The Graduate School is pleased to announce that the following students have earned: Jun Ma, PhD candidate in computer science Evgeniy Kulakov, PhD candidate in geology Colin Gurganus, PhD candidate in atmospheric sciences Suntara Fueangfung, PhD candidate in chemistry Fang Chen, PhD candidate in electrical engineering Xiaohui Wang, PhD candidate in electrical engineering Jennifer Riehl, . . .
It’s a mass of computer-programming brainpower. Teams from Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the South Pacific will be joined by North American contingents, including our Michigan Tech team. How big is it? It began last fall with over thirty thousand students from more than 2,300 universities and 91 countries. Regional qualifying . . .
NerdScholar, a financial literacy website for students, has named Michigan Tech’s software engineering programs in the Department of Computer Science the “most engaging” in the nation. Six schools were singled out in categories that include most engaging, most balanced, most variety, most innovative, most interdisciplinary and most real-world experience. The website highlights Tech’s Enterprise and . . .
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 . . .