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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...
December 08, 2010
Electronic Design magazine includes John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry in their 2010 Engineering Hall of Fame for the design and construction of the first electronic digital computer, the ABC Computer. Inductees of Electronic Design's Engineering Hall of Fame are innovative...
October 27, 2010
A patent for CS alum Mike Rothschild (BS, 2009) has finally been issued by the U.S. Patent Office. First reported on by the LAS College in 2008, Rothschild first started working on an idea concerning data encryption while at a work study program with IBM in 2006.
He suggested taking...
October 05, 2010
David Weiss, the Lanh and Oanh Nguyen Endowed Chair of Software Engineering in the ISU Department of Computer Science, delivered a keynote address at the recently held Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSoft), the premier Brazilian event for software.
CBSoft...
October 04, 2010
Professor Jack Lutz has agreed to contribute to the book Alan Turing: His Work and Impact. This book will be a compilation of many of Turing's most important papers, accompanied by commentaries from present-day scientists. The book is planned for release in late 2011, in time for the 2012...
September 02, 2010
Hridesh Rajan was honored at the ISU 2010 Fall Convocation with the Early Achievement in Research Award. Rajan is also the recipient of a recent NSF grant for his work in programming languages and a 2009 NSF CAREER Award. Rajan directs the laboratory for software design at ISU, which conducts...
August 23, 2010
Jivko Sinapov, Computer Science Ph.D. candidate with a co-major in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), is the recipient of a Best Student Paper Award at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) for his paper "The Odd One Out Task: Toward an Intelligence Test for Robots...
August 18, 2010
Vasant Honavar, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery, and collaborators Craig Fontenot (an ISU alumnus), and Peter Demitry of Collaborative Health Solutions (CHS), LLC, Austin, TX, have received a 2011 Grow Iowa Values Fund...
August 06, 2010
Hridesh Rajan, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, recently won an NSF award to improve modularization and reasoning mechanisms for Aspect-oriented programming languages, which is a longstanding challenge.
A software system consists of several parts called modules...
August 06, 2010
Professors Fernandez-Baca and Eulenstein were recently notified that their proposal, "Algorithmic Foundations of Phylogenetic Tree Reconciliation," has been funded by the National Science Foundation. The award is for a total of $450,000 over three years.
A phylogenetic tree represents the...
August 02, 2010
Computer Science Collaborates with Design College and the Motorola Foundation for Game Development Competition
July 15, 2010
Dr. Les Miller and Kofi Whitney, Ph.D. candidate in Human Computer Interaction, started a project in the 09-10 school year as part of Dr. Miller's efforts to bring computer science to middle and high school students. Students from Perry Middle School and High School joined Dr. Miller's class,...
May 10, 2010
Dr. Giora Slutzki delivered an invited talk at the Amir Pnueli Memorial Symposium, hosted by the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, May 7-9. He presented his forthcoming work (with Jia Tao and Vasant Honavar) on Inverting Proof Systems for Secrecy under OWA, which...
April 29, 2010
Chris Johnson, Lecturer for the Department of Computer Science, held workshop sessions in conjunction with the Program for Women in Science and Engineering's Taking the Road Less Traveled, A Career Conference for Girls in April.
Chris Johnson, whose work with PWSE is supported by...
April 27, 2010
The Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory hosted sixteen young women (middle school girls aged 8-12) who participated in the Spring 2010 "Taking the Road Less Traveled" conference organized on April 15 by the Iowa State University Program for Women in Science and Engineering. The conference...
April 26, 2010
Chris Johnson has been named a 2010-2011 Miller Faculty Fellow for his proposal, Modeling Reality: Bringing Market Relevance to an Undergraduate Curriculum in Interactive 3-D Gaming and Computer Graphics. The proposal developed out of educational needs Johnson identified while preparing a new...
April 26, 2010
Dr. Robyn Lutz presented "Software Product-Line Engineering for Sustainable, Long-lived Systems" and discussed research and career opportunities with students (above). The event took place at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO, on April 16. Dr. Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel (...
April 07, 2010
Connor Schenck, a second-year computer science student from Ankeny, has been named a Goldwater Scholar for 2010-11. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award in mathematics, natural sciences and engineering. Schenck is one of only nine computer science majors nationwide to be...
April 04, 2010
David Elbert from the Des Moines Register recently reported on CS student Brad Dwyer's nomination for a Technology Association of Iowa Prometheus Award this spring. Dwyer was nominated for developing a Facebook game called "Hatchlings."
The announcement is also available through the ...
April 02, 2010
Chris Johnson is the recipient of a 2010 Women's Enrichment Fund Mini-Grant for his proposal, Not Just Nerds: Reintroducing Computer Science with Collaboration and Creativity. This project, in partnership with the Program for Women in Science and Engineering, is designed to introduce...
March 10, 2010
Pictured from left to right: Dr. Junho Kim, Dr. Suntae Hwang, Dean Duckjoon Chang, ISU CS Department Chair Carl Chang, KMU President Sung Woo Lee, Dean Chong-Woo Woo, Chairman Jae-il Han.
Department Chair Carl Chang recently visited Korea to finalize a partnership with Kookmin...
March 08, 2010
Dr. Guang Song, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and faculty member of the Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics and the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) graduate Program, has received an NSF CAREER award for his project on building a computational framework...
March 08, 2010
Dr. Ting Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has received an NSF CAREER Grant for his project on advanced decision procedures for words, trees, and lists.
The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the NSF's most prestigious...
February 22, 2010
The annual undergraduate trip to Cargill IT headquarters in Minneapolis, MN took place on January 28 and 29, 2010. Students from three colleges-LAS, Business, and Engineering-took advantage of the opportunity to see IT at work in the corporate world and interact with employees at Cargill. For...
February 03, 2010
Gloria Cain, undergraduate advisor for Computer Science, is the recipient of a 2009 CYtation award from the ISU Professional and Scientific Council. The CYtation Awards recognize staff members who go above and beyond the call of duty, do something extraordinarily well, or make a significant...
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