Check up on what some former students of the Computer Science Department are doing now in these recent Alumni Notes.
Andrew Davis, CS major graduating on May 18, was named by the CS faculty as the recipient of the John W. Sawyer Prize in Computer Science for 2009.
Dan Applegate, CS and Theatre double-major graduating on May, was featured in the Graduation Issue of the Old Gold & Black in "A tribute to the graduating class of 2009."
 Congratulations to Rachel Black and Swayze Smartt for being awarded 2009 Wake Forest College Research Fellowships to participate in computer science research this summer. Rachel will be working on a project which focuses on variation in biological modeling algorithms. Her mentor will be Professor John. Swayze will investigate Wii remote-based virtual reality environments to enhance physical and occupational therapy on children with disabilities. His mentor will be Professor Pauca.
Congratulations to Sebastian Berisha for his award winning poster at the 2009 Graduate School Research Day held on Monday, March 6, 2009. Sebastian's poster presented his thesis research, under the direction of Professor Pauca. He is analyzing image processing techniques to determine forest coverage from satalite images.
Career Opportunities with CGI. John Goodwin. Tuesday, February 17 at 11:00 a.m. Manchester 241.
 WFU Physics and Computer Science Colloquium: Current Trends in Parallel Numerical Computing and Challenges for the Future, Professor Jack Dongarra, University Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Thursday, February 12, at 4:00 PM in Olin Physical Laboratory Rm 101.
The Office of the Provost and the Department of Computer Science at Wake Forest are sponsoring a Workshop on High Performance Computing on February 12 - 13.
Upsilon Pi Epsilon induction ceremony - Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 11 a.m. in Manchester 336.
Congratulations to Dr. Yue-Ling Wong on the publication of her second textbook, Digital Art: Its Art and Science, published by Prentice Hall. The book is the third book of the digital media series. The book series will also be translated into Simplified Chinese and reprinted by Pearson Education Asia.
2nd year grad student Dustin White presented a Brown Bag Seminar on the Google Summer of Code – how to apply, what makes a good application, and what it is like working on a Google Summer of Code project. The seminar was presented on Nov. 13.
EuroTour 2008: Wake Forest offers more than 400 semester, summer and year-long study-abroad programs in 200 cities in 70 countries. Twenty-five students spent five weeks this summer traveling through Europe for cross-cultural study in computer science [taught by Dr. Turkett], costume history and art and architectural history.
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Burg on the publication of her book, The Science of Digital Media, published by Prentice Hall.
Congratulations to Dr. Yue-Ling Wong on the publication of her book, Digital Media Primer, published by Prentice Hall. Dr. Wong's book is being used as the textbook for the CSC 108 class this semester. The book will also be translated into Simplified Chinese and reprinted by Pearson Education Asia.
Congratulations to Dr. Errin Fulp who has been named as the first recipient of the Shively Family Faculty Fellowship, recognizing outstanding achievement in teaching, research, and service in the College.
Congratulations to Dr. William Turkett who was named by the Graduate School as the recipient of the Graduate Student Association Teaching Award.
Congratulations to Brian J. Gray on the successful defense of his master's thesis on May 2, 2008. His thesis is titled "Multi-Lenslet High Dynamic Range Image Processing" and was written under the supervision of Dr. Paúl Pauca.
Congratulations to Jason M. Fye on the successful defense of his master's thesis on May 2, 2008. His thesis is titled "Elucidation of Transcriptional
Regulatory Relationships Via Information Theoretic Clustering and Consensus
Nucleotide Motif Extraction" and was written under the supervision of Dr. William Turkett, Jr.
Congratulations to M. Graham Lopez on the successful defense of his master's thesis on May 1, 2008. His thesis is titled "A Computational Method to Explore the Time Evolution of Protein Cavities" as was written under the supervision of Dr. Jacquelyn S. Fetrow. Graham will be pursuing a PhD in physics at Wake Forest this coming fall.
Congratulations to Richard Hummel on the successful defense of his master's thesis on April 29. The title of his thesis is "Parallel Stream Processing Techniques for Low-Latency Firewalls." His advisor is Professor Fulp.
Congratulations to Dr. Pauca and Dr. Turkett for receiving funding from the Science Research Fund for their projects titled "A Novel Framework for the Rapid Development of Scientific Software" and "A Robotics Test-Bed for Evaluating Plan-Sharing in Domains with Uncertainty" respectively.
Collquium: Micro-CT/SPECT Imaging of Mice: Computational Challenges; Professor Jens Gregor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee - Knoxville; Tuesday, April 29, 2008; 4:00 p.m., Manchester Hall, Room 024.
Collquium: Ontologies for Knowledge Management and Learning on the Semantic Web; Professor Darina Dicheva, Department of Computer Science Winston-Salem State University; Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:30 p.m., Manchester Hall, Room 024.
Chris Weitzen has been awarded a Richter Scholarship for this summer by the Graduate School. Chris is working with Dr. Errin Fulp, and Chris will travel to Japan this summer. Chris will be investigating the implementation of a proxy agent for the interaction between consumer web services and ubiquitous devices. Slow speed wireless devices, coupled with high speed backbone connections point towards a unique environment for next generation of computing. This environment is emerging in the United States, but already exists in Japan. This research involves not only traditional computer science network research, but also important cultural ramifications for both Japan and the United States.
Computer Science Graduate Students Karode, Lopez, and Saldana receive recognition at the 8th annual Graduate Student Research Day.
Tuesday, March 18, 11:00 - 12 noon: The Babcock Graduate School will present its Master of Arts in Management to Computer Science students in Winston 234. The program helps science majors build solid, marketable business fundamentals that will open new opportunities.
Brown Bag Seminar: Virtually, Solaris. Speaker: Jason Schroeder, Systems Engineer and OS Ambassador, Sun Microsystems. March 25 at 3 p.m. in Manchester 024.
Brown Bag Seminar: Fortran Co-arrays: Parallel Programming in the Next Fortran Standard. Dr. Xiao Dong, Post-doctoral Associate, Dept. of Computer Science. Thursday, March 27. 11:00 a.m. Manchester 241.
Tuesday, April 1, 11:00 - 12 noon: CS Brown Bag Seminar in Manchester 241 with Mike Rollins of I.S. on Web Application Security. Web applications can often be the subject of serious attacks aimed at gaining access to secured resources. Enforcing security of such resources is an important concern of Wake Forest Information Systems. We will cover several web security issues that must be addressed at the application development level, including SQL and PHP injection.
Life After Graduation: A Career at Milliken & Company. Tuesday, March 4, 11 a.m. Manchester 241 Speakers: Todd Martin (WFU alumnus) and Dodi Leslie of Milliken. Todd and Dodi will tell how Milliken helps new employees transition from the college environment to the corporate environment. Milliken is currently recruiting full-time and intern-programmer positions.
February 28: UPE induction of new members ceremony in Manchester 336 at 11 a.m.
Brown Bag: February 26 at 11 a.m. in Manchester 241 with graduate students Sebastian Berisha and Dustin White: "Linux Day: Troubleshooting the standard load."
Brown Bag on Feb. 19 at 11 a.m. in Manchester 241 with Patrick Sullivan from Career Services on "I need an internship. I need a job. What should I do?"
Fast Fourier Transforms on Graphics Processing Units. Speaker: Dr. Nikos Pitsianis, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science Duke University Thursday, December 6, 2007 4:00 p.m., Manchester Hall, Room 241.
"Applications development for the field and laboratory biological science". Speaker: Jeff Muday - WFU Department of Biology. Afternoon seminar - Tuesday, November 27 4:10 p.m. in Manchester 244.
"Directories according to LDAP: What, Why and How?". Speaker: Paul Whitener, WFU System Analyst. Brown Bag Seminar - Tuesday, November 20. 11 a.m. in Manchester 336.
Challenges in Service Oriented Networking. Dr. Adolfo Rodriguez, Senior Software Engineer and Lead Architect IBM WebSphere, Durham, N. C. Friday, November 16, 2007 4:00 p.m., Manchester Hall, Room 241.
“Distributed Data Parallel Techniques for Content-Matching Intrusion Detection Systems”, a paper by Chris Kopek, Errin Fulp and Patrick Wheeler, was selected for the Ellersick Award as the best unclassified paper for MILCOM 2007. 2000 papers were submitted, 500 accepted into the conference, and the paper by Kopek, Fulp and Wheeler was recognized as the best.
A listing of CSC-191 Special Topics courses for Spring 2008.
Photos from the Department of Computer Science Tailgate party for Homecoming 2007.
Upsilon Pi Epsilon induction ceremony was held on September 20.
Dr. Carl Langefeld of the Department of Biostatistical Sciences of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the recently founded Translational Sciences Institute will speak about ongoing projects in genetics, bioinformatics, data mining, and imaging on September 18, 11 a.m., Manchester 024 . The purpose of this talk is to inform faculty and students from Mathematics and Computer Science about potential opportunities for joint research and study.
"Agile Software Development: Software Engineering Based on Lean Principles" presented by Guy Beaver, Director of Sofware Engineering at Critical Point Group in Charlotte, NC Thursday, September 13, 4:30 p.m. in Manchester Hall 024.
Thursday, September 6 Richard Hummel, CS graduate student, presented an afternoon "Brown Bag" entitled "The Cell Broadband Engine: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." The program will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Manchester Hall 241. Light refreshments will be served.
Pictures from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Hooding and Awards Ceremony, Saturday, May 19, 2007. Amy Olex recieved the Gordon A. Melson Outstanding Master's Student award for 2007.
The Departments of Computer Science at Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State universities co-hosted the 45th annual meeting of the ACM Southeast Conference on March 21-23, 2007.
Congratulations to Dr. Fulp who received the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching at the 2007 Founder's Day Convocation. For more information visit:
http://www.wfu.edu/wowf/2007/2007.02.22.awards.html
Wake Forest Team places Second in the 2007 SIAM Text Mining Competition. The team members are Edward G. Allan, Michael R. Horvath, Christopher V. Kopek, Brian T. Lamb, and Thomas S. Whaples (all students in the Dept. of Computer Science) with Advisor, Michael W. Berry, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
ACMSE 2007: The ACM Southeast Conference is the oldest continuously running annual conference of the ACM. The 45th annual ACMSE will be held March 23-24, 2007, in the M. C. Benton Jr. Convention and Civic Center located in downtown Winston-Salem, NC. and is hosted by Wake Forest University and Winston-Salem State.
New divisional course to be offered Spring 2007 CSC 108-Introduction to Programming
Wake Forest Team places Second in the 2007 SIAM Text Mining Competition. The team members are Edward G. Allan, Michael R. Horvath, Christopher V. Kopek, Brian T. Lamb, and Thomas S. Whaples (all students in the Dept. of Computer Science) with Advisor, Michael W. Berry, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
New divisional course to be offered Spring 2007 CSC 108-Introduction to Programming.
Media Computation as an Approach to Attract and Retain Students; Mark Guzdial, Director of Undergraduate Programs; College of Computing, Georgia Tech; Tuesday, February 20, 2007; 11:00 a.m., Manchester Hall, Room 241.
CS students and faculty have access to Microsoft tools through the Academic Alliance: http://msdn03.e-academy.com/wfu_cs/. Contact Dr. Thomas (sjt@wfu.edu) if you have questions.
ACMSE2007 45th Southeast Conference of the ACM Winston-Salem March 23-24, 2007 hosted by Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State.
Scholarship opportunities for computer science majors. |