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February 25, 2021
Prof. Hridesh Rajan will serve as the General Chair for SPLASH 2021, the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity. The conference to be held in Chicago, IL from Sunday, October 17, 2021 to Friday, October 22, 2021 is a premier forum at the...
February 24, 2021
On February 19th, the Department of Computer Science gave a virtual talk to the students enrolled in robotics and programming classes at Aplington-Parkersburg High School. The students heard talks from Assistant Professor Chris Quinn, Professor Wallapak Tavanapong, and Assistant Professor...
February 16, 2021
The Computer Science Department is sad to learn of our colleague, Dr. Giora Slutzki, who passed away on February 14, 2021. Dr. Giora Slutzki dedicated his life to the university and department during his long career at Iowa State University. We will deeply miss his contributions, wisdom, quick-...
February 12, 2021
The Computer Science Department is sad to learn of the passing of our former faculty, Dr. Alan Selman, who passed away on Jan 22, 2021. Dr. Alan L. Selman is a pioneer in the field of structural complexity and made seminal contributions while laying the foundations of the field.
After...
February 12, 2021
Alumnus Srinivas Aluru, Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering within the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named ACM Fellow with the Association for Computing Machinery. Aluru is one of 95 named to this year's...
February 08, 2021
Associate Teaching Professor Adisak Sukul has been selected as a Google Cloud Faculty Expert for 2020-21 for the second continuous year. The Google Cloud Faculty Expert rewards Google Cloud’s top faculty advocates with professional development, recognition, networking opportunities, and access to...
January 15, 2021
ISU Department of Computer Science congratulates the following students for winning the Teaching Excellence or Research Excellence award for Fall 2020:
Teaching Excellence Awardees
Tenson Cai "has proven to be extremely dependable and efficient. He had to manage and coordinate the...
January 15, 2021
Associate Professor Jin Tian has been invited to join the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Program on Causality at the University of California, Berkeley. The program will take place from January 11 through May 13, 2022.
The Simons Institute...
January 14, 2021
To recognize the best teaching, advising, and mentoring across the university, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) partners with ISU Learning Communities, Multicultural Student Affairs, Student Government, and the Graduate and Professional Student Senate for the...
January 04, 2021
The 2019 National Academies report, Quantum Computing: Progress and Prospects, states that quantum computing has the potential to "transcend current computational boundaries" and "transform our understanding of the universe." Public and private investments in quantum information science are...
December 14, 2020
Iowa State University’s Software Analytics and Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory in collaboration with Laboratory for Parallel Programming, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany released the open-source profiling and parallelization framework DiscoPoP, a contribution to HPC and parallel...
December 14, 2020
Since Randy Bryant’s 1986 seminal paper on Binary Decision Diagrams, a data structure that can compactly encode many boolean functions of interest, BDDs have had enormous success in practical applications, including hardware and software verification, model checking, and general exhaustive...
December 14, 2020
Kingland Professor Hridesh Rajan served as the general chair for the SPLASH 2020, the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity which will be held November 15 through November 20. SPLASH is one of the premier conference on the...
December 14, 2020
Professor Jack Lutz and Affiliate Assistant Professor Neil Lutz discovered a strong, information-theoretic connection between classical and algorithmic fractal dimensions. This connection is analogous to Levin's famous coding theorem in algorithmic information theory. The key to the...
December 11, 2020
by Nikki Cypser, Lean TECHniques
Lean TECHniques coordinated a student project with the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University (ISU) during the Fall 2020 semester. A group of five seniors worked on an augmented reality (AR) app for rental concierge. The collaboration...
December 07, 2020
Hridesh Rajan, the Kingland Professor of Data Analytics or Cognitive Machine Learning and chair of computer science, has been named AAAS Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Rajan is one of six Iowa State researchers named to this year's...
November 13, 2020
Iowa State University’s Laboratory for Molecular Programming reveals a ”blind spot” in the analysis of very large systems and offers a way to close the gap. When computer scientists want to confirm that a molecular programmed system behaves as intended, they often turn to simulation,...
October 30, 2020
Iowa State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has announced the appointment of Kingland Systems Professor of Data Analytics Hridesh Rajan as chair of the Department of Computer Science.
October 28, 2020
David Fernández-Baca, professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dale D. Grosvenor Chair award.
September 11, 2020
Assistant Professor Qi Li along with Assistant Professor Sihong Xie from Lehigh University have received a new NSF grant starting this Fall. The grant developed algorithms, systems, and theories for exploiting data dependencies in crowdsourcing. Data are abundantly available to...
August 28, 2020
ISU Department of Computer Science authors have had two papers receive an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award. Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT) encourages SIGSOFT-sponsored conferences to designate a number of...
July 30, 2020
Graduate student Rangeet Pan earned second place at the ACM Student Research Competition at 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2020 for his work that shows that fixing certain bugs decreases the robustness of deep neural networks. Rangeet Pan is a Ph.D. student...
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