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September 11, 2012
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $925,000 research grant to Computer Science faculty members Jack Lutz, Robyn Lutz, and Jim Lathrop, and Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology faculty member Eric Henderson for research in DNA nanotechnology.
DNA nanotechnology,...
July 16, 2012
Dr. David Weiss recently traveled to Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications (NUPT) to oversee the signing of the Sequential Undergraduate Plus Graduate Degree Program (3+1+1) in Software Engineering. Dr. Zhen Yang, President and Professor at NUPT signed the agreement on July 3. The...
May 22, 2012
Bryce Sandlund, Kerrick Staley, and Deveon Eilers returned to Ames from the ACM-ICPC World Finals in Warsaw with an honorable mention. The team from ISU was one of only 18 teams from the U.S. to qualify for the world finals. The top winner of the competition was from St. Petersburg State university...
April 30, 2012
Dr. Guang Song has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure for 2012, along with 13 other faculty in the LAS College.
Song studied theoretical physics for his bachelor's and master's degrees, working on computer modeling and simulation of relativistic heavy-ions collisions. The basic...
April 16, 2012
Carl Chang has been awarded the 2012 Richard E. Merwin Medal from the IEEE Computer Society. The award is for outstanding contributions and exemplary leadership and service to the IEEE Computer Society and the computing profession. The Merwin Award is the Society's highest level volunteer service...
March 28, 2012
Hridesh Rajan, an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Iowa State University, was recently awarded a Big-12 Fellowship to collaborate with researchers at University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin).
Rajan will work with Professor Don Batory and others at UT...
March 21, 2012
Tanmoy Sarkar, PhD candidate in Computer Science, won first prize in the ACM Student Research Competition at SIGCSE 2012. His research work, Dynamic Test Input Generation for Database Applications to Achieve High Mutation Score, addresses the problem of mutation testing for database...
November 22, 2011
Cross-college students Bryce Sandlund (LAS - Computer Science), Kerrick Staley, (ENGR - Computer Engineering), and Devon Eilers (BUS - Management Information Systems) teamed up to take the second place in the regional ACM-International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC), on...
October 21, 2011
At the LAS College Alumni Awards ceremony that took place Thursday October 20, Rebecca Taylor (BS 1984), an outstanding role model for entrepreneurship in technology, was recognized for her outstanding career achievements.
Rebecca Taylor is our B.S. alumna from 1984, and is now IEEE...
October 21, 2011
At the LAS College Alumni Awards ceremony that took place Thursday October 20, Norm Farrington (BS 1970 and MA 1972) was honored for his achievements and longtime relationship with the Computer Science department.
The winter 2008 edition of our alumni newsletter features Norm...
October 17, 2011
At the University Awards Convocation held on September 26, 2011, Professor Vasant Honavar was presented with the Margaret Ellen White Graduate Faculty Award. The award recognizes superior performance by faculty in training graduate students in research and scholarship leading to doctoral degrees at...
October 11, 2011
Professor Slutzki has been recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant titled "Secrecy-Preserving Reasoning: Foundations, Algorithms, and Software". The award is for a total of about $450,000 over three years.
Much of current research in the area of the Semantic Web aims at...
August 30, 2011
Dr. Harry Brearley, one of the founding faculty members of the Computer Science department, passed away August 26, 2011 at age 85 in Ames, Iowa. Brearley joined ISU in 1965 as a member of the electrical engineering faculty, and helped to found the Computer Science department in 1968. An active...
August 22, 2011
The poster "Ranking Docked Models of Protein-Protein Complexes Using Predicted Partner-Specific Protein-Protein Interfaces: A Preliminary Study" by Li Xue, Rafael Jordan, Yasser El-Manzalawy, Drena Dobbs and Vasant Honavar received the ACM Conference on...
July 20, 2011
The National Science Foundation is funding ISU Computer Science faculty, collaborators, and students to carry out a proof-of-concept research project on applying computer science methods to make DNA nanotechnology more predictable and safe. The ISU Computer Science faculty members on the...
June 14, 2011
Hridesh Rajan, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, was awarded a grant by the US National Science Foundation to improve multicore programming. This award is for a total of $400,000 over three years.
This project focuses on the problem of...
May 25, 2011
What's the value of a computer science education? Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce places mathematical and computer sciences at #3 in the top 10 paying majors, with only petroleum engineering and pharmacy and pharmaceutical services beating it in terms of future pay....
May 06, 2011
Dr. Vasant Honavar, Professor of Computer Science and Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, has been appointed to the board of directors for the ACM SIG on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
The ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and...
May 06, 2011
Dr. Vasant Honavar, Professor of Computer Science and Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, has been named a Fellow of the International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM). In the fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, and bioengineering, scientists regularly...
April 21, 2011
The ISU Game Development Competition ended Wed. April 19 with three teams taking home top prizes of $10,000 each. Full story here.
WINNING TEAMS
Mobile/Browser Category
First Place
"Colony Commander" by Mammalsoft
Team members:
Pat Clark,...
April 21, 2011
The Laboratory for Algorithmic Nanoscale Self-Assemply held a workshop at Simpson College on April 21. The lab is a collaboration that includes faculty members in computer science and the biological sciences at both ISU and Simpson. The main workshop participants were nine...
April 21, 2011
The Laboratory for Algorithmic Nanoscale Self-Assemply held a workshop at Simpson College on April 21. The lab is a collaboration that includes faculty members in computer science and the biological sciences at both ISU and Simpson. The main workshop participants were nine...
April 20, 2011
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has announced the following students are being initiated into Phi Beta Kappa on May 1:
CS Senior Minh Nhat Dong
CS Senior Stephen A. Mueller
CS Senior Amanda Leslie Ranard
CS Senior Nathan John Amundson
Congratulations...
April 06, 2011
The ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes for March 2011 notes that CareerCast.com has named Software Engineering the Best Job of 2011.
February 28, 2011
Software Engineering junior Katie Githens has been invited, with support offered, to attend and present at the 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Githens will present to the CTGDSD Workshop her experience with Computer Science 510X, a spring 2011 ISU course in...
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