CS Student Places Third in National Code War
On Saturday, January 28, 2012, the first annual Windward International Collegiate Programming Finals were held. Three Purdue teams advanced to the semifinals of the national code war, and Junior Computer Science major Nathaniel Cherry placed third in the national finals.
Local News Features LWSN Video Wall Art
Lafayette-area newspaper Journal and Courier published a January 20, 2012 article about the display of artwork by Petrônio Bendito on LWSN's video wall. It describes the collaboration between the art and design professor and Purdue Computer Science's Assistant Department Head Tim Korb that resulted in this exhibition.
French University Offers Summer Program for CS Undergraduates
Université Joseph Fourier, located in the alpine city of Grenoble, France, will be offering a Summer Bachelor Program that may be of interest to undergraduate Computer Science majors. The program takes place from June 4, 2012 through July 13, 2012 and includes interactions with French science students.
Purdue and Ativio Partner to Train Students in Working Internationally
In Fall 2011, four Purdue Computer Science students took part in a pilot class in international collaborative software development. Under the direction of Chris Riester, President and CEO of Ativio, and CS Professor Buster Dunsmore, the class worked with other CS students in both India and Botswana.
Cyber Center Joins $3 Million NSF Research Project
The Cyber Center in Discovery Park, along with researchers at two other universities, has been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study assured data provenance. Professor Elisa Bertino is the current interim director of the Cyber Center and the principal investigator on the project.
Purdue ACM Holds Fall 2011 Poster Session
On the afternoon of Friday, December 2, Purdue ACM held a poster session to celebrate its accomplishments throughout the Fall 2011 semester. In addition to displaying several posters of current ACM projects, the special interest groups also demonstrated their work.
Insights Highlights CS Student and Lawson Video Wall
Insights magazine, the flagship publication of the Purdue College of Science, features two major stories about the Department of Computer Science in its Fall 2011 edition, including an article about the Lawson Computer Science Building's new video wall and a piece by junior CS major Darshana Umakanth.
Purdue CS Alumnus Elected AAAS Fellow
Dr. Alan Hevner, an alumnus of Purdue Computer Science (B.S. 73, M.S. 76, and PhD 79), was recently elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society.
CS Students Attend 2011 Grace Hopper Conference
Several Computer Science students recently attended the 2011 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, including undergraduates Samantha Walker and Gunjan Raghav and graduate students Aditi Gupta, Ruby Tahboub, Brittany Coffey, Nesreen Ahmed, Hoda Eldardiry, Hyo J. Lee, and Pinar Delul.
Hoffmann Honored by the Solid Modeling Association
At the 2011 SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physcial Modeling, Professor Christoph Hoffmann was honored with the Pierre Bézier Award "for rigorous codifications and extensions of solid modeling theory, for concepts and techniques that improve its robustness and versatility, and for contributions to geometric constraint solving."
Purdue ACM SIGBOTs Take Second Place at VEX Robotics Competition
The SIGBOTs of the Purdue University ACM chapter recently travelled to Florida for the third annual Vex Robotics All-Star Challenge, where they took second place in the competition and received the Judges Choice Award.
CS Students Compete in Cluster Challenge
From November 14 through November 18, 2011, five Computer Science students participated in the Student Cluster Competition at SC11 in Seattle. The CS majors on the team were seniors Alex Bartol and Michael Heffernan and juniors Joad Fattah, Andrew Huff, and Tyler Reid. They were joined by John Blaas, a senior in Computer & Information Technology.
Clifton Receives 2011 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award
Purdue Computer Science congratulates Professor Chris Clifton, who was recently awarded the 2011 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award! The award is given to someone who has made major service contributions that have promoted data mining as a field and ICDM as a premier conference.
Purdue Computer Science Ranked 18th Worldwide
The 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has ranked the Purdue University Department of Computer Science 18th out of 100 computer science programs at universities worldwide.
Bhargava Honored at Inventors Reception
On Wednesday, November 2, 2011, the Purdue Research Foundation hosted its annual Inventors Recognition Reception to honor Purdue researchers whose discoveries were patented during the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Among those being recognized this year was Computer Science Professor Bharat Bhargava.