Title: An Introduction to Point Cloud Understanding Brian VanVoorst, MTU Alumni & Technical Director of BBN Technologies Thursday, March 22,2012 – 135 Fisher Hall – 2:00 PM Abstract: A point cloud is a collection of 3D points from a 3D sensor such as a LIDAR, stereo camera, or a Microsoft Kinect system. These 3D sensors . . .
Put your AI to the test and conquer the nine realms! On March 31, 2012 the 5th Annual BonzAI Brawl programming competition will take place in the CS department at Michigan Technological University. The programming will be an all day event, where teams of 1 to 3 contestants will implement an AI player for a . . .
Department of Computer Science Seminar February 27, 2012 – 4:04 PM – Room G005 – Rekhi Hall Title: “Fuzzy Kernel Clustering of Large Scale Biomedical and Bioinformatics Data” Dr. Timothy Havens Abstract: Since the early 1990’s, the ubiquity of personal computing technology has produced an abundance of staggeringly large data sets—it is estimated that Facebook . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .