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June 06, 2016
The first Midwest Big Data Summer School for Early Career Researchers will be held from June 20-24, 2016 in Ames, Iowa. Spearheaded, by ISU Computer Science faculty, Dr. Hridesh Rajan, Pavankumar Aduri, and Adisak Sukul, this summer school is designed as a one week, intensive curriculum aimed at...
May 18, 2016
Program Your Adventure... Iowa State University's Department of Computer Science programming team competes TONIGHT (May 18th, 2016) at 8 p.m. in the ACM ICPC World Finals. The team will match their programming and problem solving wits against the other top...
May 10, 2016
While most college students are prepping for summer internships or other warm weather adventures that follow closely on the heels of finals, an elite group of ISU student programmers is preparing for an adventure half-way around the world. Iowa State University’s Department of Computer Science...
May 02, 2016
Congratulations to all of the following students for the academic, research and teaching accomplishments for the 2015/2016 academic school year: Teaching Excellence Award  - Nimanthi Atukorala – Spring 2016 - Guolei Yang  – Spring 2016 - Baskar Gopalakrishnan –...
April 04, 2016
Former ISU Computer Science PhD student, Mukul Bansal, has received a prestigious NSF CAREER AWARD https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1553421. During his time here at Iowa State's Computer Science Department, Bansal was co-supervised by Dr. David Fernandez-Baca and Dr. Oliver...
March 07, 2016
On February 24, 2016 the Graduate Advisory Council (GAC) hosted the Graduate Student Research Poster Contest sponsored by Kingland.  Sixteen graduate students submitted posters on various topics.   The poster presenters -  Front Row - Shruti Biswal, Yu Liu, Karen Doty,...
February 04, 2016
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will honor Jack Lutz, professor with the Department of Computer Science, with a reception on February 10th, from 11:30-12:30 in 302 Catt Hall. Lutz has been named as the recipient of the Scott Hanna Faculty Fellowship. Refreshments will be served. Lutz...
January 25, 2016
In today’s world, individuals, society, and nations all depend on software to manage critical infrastructures for power, banking and finance, air traffic control, telecommunications, transportation, national defense, and healthcare. Dr. Hridesh Rajan, at Iowa State University (ISU)’s Department of...
November 06, 2015
NSF division of Computing and Communication Foundations has funded a two year project to be conducted by Dr. Samik Basu to investigate the application of formal methods, particularly model checking techniques, to analyze information propagation problems as they relate to computer security,...
November 02, 2015
On Saturday, October 31, 2015, the Computer Science Department sent programming teams to compete against hundreds of other collegiate programmers in the ACM North Central North America region (NCNA). With more than 1,500 teams from around the world vying for a spot at the International Collegiate...
October 08, 2015
Federated Plant Database Initiative for the Legumes, Award IOS-1444806, National Science Foundation, Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, 2015-2018 (PI). Co-PIs: Steven B. Cannon (USDA-ARS/Iowa State University), Christopher D. Town (J. Craig Venter Institute), Andrew D. Farmer (National...
October 02, 2015
Future cyber-molecular systems such as biosensors and drug therapeutics must operate safely in a dynamic physical environment.   A newly funded project by computer science faculty Robyn Lutz, Jack Lutz, and Jim Lathrop, and GDCB faculty Eric Henderson,  will help design cyber-molecular systems that...
August 14, 2015
A project by Prof. Robyn Lutz will use product-line analysis and traceability techniques to make it easier to compose safety cases for new products. The work is collaborative with Dr. Jane Cleland-Huang at DePaul University. http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1513717
August 01, 2015
Thanks to the hard work of the IT support staff over the summer, the infrastructure from the departmental server room previously housed in Atanasoff 0116B has been successfully migrated to the server room in Pearson Hall and the University data center in Durham hall.  The migration was...
June 12, 2015
The US National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $1,426,917 research grant to ISU Computer Science faculty members Hridesh Rajan and Tien N. Nguyen and BGSU Computer Science faculty member Robert Dyer for research on Big Data in Software Engineering.  Big Data in Software...
May 28, 2015
On Saturday, April 18th, K-12 students from around Iowa gathered at Atanasoff Hall to participate in the 2015 Spring Annual Computational Thinking Competition. Students showcased projects in a wide variety of areas; ranging from games, robotics and new innovative ideas and...
May 11, 2015
Criteria for eligibility include demonstrated exceptional performance over a number of years at solving under time constraints problems that are at the difficulty level of programming contests (such as the ACM International Programming Contest). It is not required that the student must have...
April 24, 2015
Wei Le (Co-PI), joint with Suraj Kothari(PI) and Srikanta Tirthapura (Co-PI) from the ECE department, and Jeremías Sauceda from EnSoft (Co-PI), receives a $4.65 million DARPAR award (contract FA8750-15-2-0080) to develop a system to detect resource usage vulnerabilities within software. The award...
January 27, 2015
David Weiss was named a 2015 Fellow by IEEE, the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers for his "contributions to software measurement and product line engineering," according to IEEE.  Robyn Lutz was named a 2014 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist....
November 14, 2014
You can view the details here:  http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1422134&HistoricalAwards=false 
November 14, 2014
Congratulations to the ISU team of "Trevor Boone, Jacob Smith, and Tyler Uhlenkamp" who have qualified for the ACM-ICPC 2015 World Finals by coming second out of more that 270 teams at the North Central North America regionals contest on Nov 8th! The contest pits teams of three students against...
October 02, 2014
Carl K. Chang, Professor of Computer Science from Iowa State University, was selected by the China Computer Federation (CCF), the largest national professional association (a sister society of IEEE Computer Society) in China, established in 1956, to receive the 2014 Annual Award for Overseas...
September 19, 2014
The paper "Automated Requirements Analysis for a Molecular Watchdog Timer", by Samuel J. Ellis, Eric R. Henderson, Titus H. Klinge, James I. Lathrop, Jack H. Lutz, Robyn R. Lutz, Divita Mathur, and Andrew S. Miner, received the IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award "for Excellence in Software: Theory and...
July 28, 2014
Dr. Yan-Bin Jia has been awarded a $499,889 grant from the National Science Foundation for his proposal, From Impact to Impulsive Manipulation.  Abstract is following:  When people work, they often take advantage of impacts between objects, for example, a worker impacts a nail with a...
July 10, 2014
Dr. Kathryn Stolee has been awarded a $72,950 EAGER grant from the National Science Foundation for her proposal, Demonstrating the Feasibility of Automatic Program Repair Guided by Semantic Code Search. This grant is in collaboration with Dr. Claire Le Goues at Carnegie Melon University and Dr....

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