Houghton Makes Energy Prize Semifinals by Jennifer Donovan, director of news and media relations Tomorrow, Houghton County is hosting a community-wide celebration as Georgetown University announces that the county has advanced to the semifinals in the national Georgetown University Energy Prize. Many Michigan Tech faculty, staff and students are helping promote Houghton County’s entry, an . . .
Will Cantrell will be conducting the second of two workshops on the SURF application process, including writing an effective SURF proposal at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 15, in Fisher 130. This will cover the same material as the workshop held in December so students who attended the first one need not attend this one. SURF . . .
Local middle- and high-school students have recently engaged in coding activities with the help of Copper Country Programmers (CCP). The Michigan Tech CCP team is led by Associate Professor Charles Wallace, Lecturer Leo Ureel, and graduate student John Earnest in the computer science department. CCP is a weekly computer programming club for kids in grades . . .
PI Yushin Ahn (SoT) and Co-PIs Eugene Levin (SoT), Tim Scarlett (SS) and CK Shene (CS), “Hybrid Methodology for Documentation and Visualization of Industrial Heritage Based on Remote Sensing and Computer Vision [DoVI-Heritage],” US Department of Interior/National PArk Service Read more at Tech Today.
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 . . .
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 . . .