Fall Research Speaker Series in Full Swing

  You’re invited! Please join us every Monday this semester for our Research Speaker Series. Talks begin promptly at 3:45pm in SSMB 129. Whether you are interested in cybersecurity, spatial computing or real-world data science – our speaker series has you covered! Special guest speakers include Nafees Bin Zafar (CS@CofC alum and Academy Award winner),…

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First Classes of Data Science Graduate Program Held

The initial week of courses is coming to an end for the first ever Data Science Graduate Program class. The Computer Science Department welcomes our new graduate students and wishes them the best of luck! For more information about our new graduate program, please visit our Data Science Department website. Data Science Grad Students on…

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Dr. Jim Bowring’s “TheVaccinator” Certified by HIMSS

Healthercare IT News announced in March that TheVaccinator, a computer program designed by Dr. Jim Bowring, Professor of Computer Science at the College of Charleston, has been certified by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Immunization Integration Program. The initiative, according the HIMSS website, is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approved…

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Plan to Attend One of These Outstanding Research Speaker Series Events!

There is still time to attend one, or all, of the remaining upcoming Computer Science Speaker Series presentations. Between now and November 28th, the Computer Science Department is hosting guest speaker, Dr. Ioannis Karamouzas, Assistant Professor at Clemson University as well as showcasing three faculty members from the College of Charleston as part of the…

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Aspen Olmstead Nominated as a 2017 International Academy, Research, and Industry Award Fellow

The IARIA Nominations and Election Committee is pleased to announce that Dr. Aspen Olmstead has been nominated for a reward recognizing his continuous contributions in supporting IARIA scientific events. The IARIA Board initiated the Fellowship program in 2007 for a very limited number of outstanding contributors and is intended to recognize: outstanding scientific research results endorsed…

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Paul Anderson and Walter Blair Present Paper at 17th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering in Washington, DC

On Monday, October 23, 2017, Professor Paul Anderson and Walter Blair, a student in the Computer Science Master’s program, presented a paper on Streamlining the Genomics Processing Pipeline via Named Pipes and Persistent Spark Datasets with colleagues Leonard de Melo Joao and Larry Davis at the 17th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering in Washington, DC. …

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ACM Recognizes Renée McCauley as a 2017 Distinguished Member and Pioneering Innovator

ACM Recognizes 2017 Distinguished Members as Pioneering Innovators that Are Advancing the Digital Age Global Roster Selected for Outstanding Scientific, Engineering and Educational Contributions to Computing NEW YORK, NY, NOVEMBER 8, 2017 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 43 Distinguished Members for outstanding contributions to the field. As a group, the 2017 Distinguished…

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Computer Science Students Accompany Dr. X to the 2017 GENI Regional Workshop

On November 3rd and 4th, Professor Xenia Mountrouidou (Professor X) and two students, Nate Smith, a junior in Computer Science, and Blaine Billings, a sophomore in Computer Science and Mathematics, attended the 2017 GENI Regional Workshop (GRW) at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The GRW Regional Workshop serves both a general audience and members…

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