“Hour of Code” Brings Computer Programming to Houghton High School

This is Computer Science Education Week, and computer science students and faculty from Michigan Tech are bringing the thrill of computer coding to Houghton High School every day. It’s part of a worldwide initiative called Hour of Code, designed to interest young people in computer coding.   Associate Professor Charles Wallace and Lecturer Leo Ureel, along with three . . .

IEEE GlobalSIP 2014 – Dr. Min Song Gives Keynote Talk

Dr. Min Song gave the keynote talk at IEEE GlobalSIP 2014 on December 5. The talk is titled “A Transparent Spectrum Co-Access Protocol for Primary and Secondary Users.” In this talk, Dr. Song introduced a novel wireless network protocol, termed spectrum co-access protocol (SCAP), for secondary users to transparently and simultaneously access the spectrum with . . .

Laura Brown and High Performance Computing

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Dr. Laura Brown’s research is centered broadly on the application and design of methods in artificial intelligence and machine learning. This work spans from the theoretical design of algorithms for feature selection and learning Bayesian networks, to the application of methods across domains including clinical healthcare, biomedicine, power distribution networks, . . .

Proposals in Progress, November 20, 2014

PI Charles Wallace and Co-PIs Leo Ureel and Shreya Kumar (CS), “Agile Communicators: Preparing Students for Communication-Intensive Software Development Through Inquiry, Critique and Reflection,” NSF PI Ali Ebenasir (CS), “Colloborative Research: Breakthrough: Integrating Fault-Tolerance and Tamper Evidence for Cyber-Physical Systems,” NSF From Tech Today