Archive for 2012Page 3
Ada Lovelace: To Dream Tomorrow
When: Monday, May 14, 2012, 1:30-2:20pm Where: Olin Hall 320 This documentary describes the life of Ada, Countess Lovelace (1815-1852), providing context for her seminal contributions to computer science: describing how a general-purpose digital computer could be programmed and providing the insight that algorithmic manipulation of symbols could be used for non-numerical purposes. This video […]
MCS Club Codefest
When: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 12:30pm-1:20 pm Where: Olin Hall 320 The MCS Club Codefest is a chance for any students to demonstrate their programming projects they have been working on. Come and see the following presentations! Lunch will be served. Ben Bickel (Computer Science ’12) A real-time strategy game for iPad and/or a […]
Holte Awarded Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor John Holte was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award by the North Central Section of the Mathematical Association of America. Professor Holte was given this prestigious award at the Spring MAA Sectional Meeting held April 20-23, 2012 at Concordia College in St. Paul, MN. The citation reads The North Central Section is pleased to announce […]
When is a knot actually knotted?
When: Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 11:30am-12:20 pm Where: Olin Hall 320 Presenter: Alexander M. Zupan, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Iowa Knot theory is the study of closed loops in 3-dimensional space, and two knots are considered to be equivalent if one can be deformed to match the other without passing it through itself. In […]
Programming in the Past, Present, and Future (Barbara Liskov video screening)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 1:30-2:20pm Olin Hall 320 In this keynote lecture from the 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Barbara Liskov reflects on her career, including in particular the work that lead to her receiving the 2008 A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious recognition for contributions to computer science. Barbara Liskov […]
GAC Idol: The MCS Victory Tour
Wed, April 11, 11:30am – 12:20pm Olin Hall 321 The MCS Department’s own superstar, Max Beyer (pictured here at Pi Day), won the GAC Idol contest held in conjunction with the Building Bridges conference on March 9th. Now he is bringing his act home to his adoring fans in Olin Hall. Pizza will be served.
Matt Knutson ’14 Earns a Free Blackberry Playbook with a Course Project
As an effort to promote their devices and App World, RIM offered free Blackberry Playbooks to Android developers for a limited amount of time. Computer Science Major Matt Knutson (’14) is one of many who submitted Blackberry Apps to the App World to receive a free Blackberry Playbook. What Blackberry App did Matt submit to […]
A Period-adding Bifurcation in a Pair of Coupled Neurons
When: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 11:30am-12:20 pm Where: Olin Hall 321 Presenter: Thomas LoFaro In this talk on work done with my thesis advisor Nancy Kopell, I will discuss a neurophysiological model of a pair of coupled neurons that exhibits a period-adding phenomenon in response to the variation of a parameter in the model equations. […]
Milo Martin ’96 Featured in New Scientist
Gustavus MCS alumnus Milo M.K. Martin ’96 is featured in an article in New Scientist describing a novel computer design intended for mobile devices that need brief bursts of intense computational performance. The paper describing this approach will be presented next week in the best-paper session of the High Performance Computer Architecture conference; the lead author, Arun […]
They Came, They Saw, and They Were Conquered. Again!
This past J-Term Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science Choong-Soo Lee hosted the second StarCraft II tournament for students. Computer Science Majors Cory Ruegg (2012) and Michael Patterson (2014) helped to promote the tournament in the Fall semester and over 20 students signed up for the tournament. Sixteen players were selected to compete in an […]