Category: department news
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GAC Idol: The MCS Victory Tour
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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.
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Matt Knutson ’14 Earns a Free Blackberry Playbook with a Course Project
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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…
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A Period-adding Bifurcation in a Pair of Coupled Neurons
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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.…
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They Came, They Saw, and They Were Conquered. Again!
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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…
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Technology in Politics
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When: Thursday, February 9, 2012, 11:30am-12:20 pm Where: Olin Hall 320 Presenter: Matt Klaber Topics will include: ways in which technology is applied to political organizing specific example projects how a liberal-arts computer science major contributes to software development. Matt Klaber is Director of Research and Development at NGP VAN, the leading technology provider to…
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Chaos & Culture FTS Teach “Fractivities”
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The students in Tom LoFaro’s First Term Seminar, Chaos & Culturewere assigned the task of developing and presenting a classroom activity to teach a sixth grade student something about fractals. The students dubbed these lessons “fractivities.” Here are a few snapshots of the “fractivities” and us having fun doing them.
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Building a File System From Scratch
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When: Monday, November 20, 2011, 2:30-3:20 pm Where: Olin Hall 321 Presenter: Mark Gritter Designing a new file system isn’t a task to be undertaken lightly, but new technologies and new opportunities continue to drive innovation in file systems. Examples like Sun’s ZFS, Data Domain’s SISL, and the Tintri VMstore are all examples of modern…
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LoFaro to Host Minicourse at Joint Math Meeting in Boston
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Tom LoFaro will be hosting the MAA mini course Teaching Differential Equations with Modeling at the Joint Math Meetings in Boston January 4-7, 2012. Tom will be collaborating with Mike Huber of Muhlenberg College and Daniel Flath of Macalester College in this endeavor.
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Modeling Actual Evapotranspiration: Using Airborne Remote Sensing to Analyze Agricultural Water Stress
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When: November 16, 11:30-12:20pm Where: Olin Hall, Room 320 Presenter: Brandon Furey The objective of the land research group in the NASA Student Airborne Research Program was to develop tools to better monitor crop water status. This is useful to farmers to avoid over-watering so that irrigation can be more efficient. Water is becoming an…
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Screening: IBM’s Watson/DeepQA (David Ferrucci)
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When: November 9, 2011, 11:30am-12:30pm Where: Olin Hall, Room 320 We will screen a video of Dr. David A. Ferrucci’s keynote address, “IBM’s Watson/DeepQA,” which he gave at the 2011 Federated Computing Research Conference. (QA stands for “Question Answering.”) Ferrucci is an excellent speaker and provides an explanation of how his group at IBM tackled…