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CS Students Participate in National Cyber League Season Games

During the Fall 2016 semester, the Department of Computer Science had students participate in the National Cyber League (NCL).  The NCL provides an ongoing virtual training ground for collegiate students to develop, practice, and validate their cybersecurity skills using next-generation high-fidelity simulation environments with individual and team games.  The content of the competition involves solving…

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Announcing Participants of the Spring 2017 Computer Science Research Speaker Series

The Department of Computer Science at the College of Charleston is excited to announce participants of the Spring 2017 Computer Science Research Speaker Series A 13 week series, each week a CofC faculty or guest speaker will discuss professional, ethical, legal, and social issues and responsibilities in computing.  This semester, the department will host four…

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Where In The World Is CS Faculty: Dr. Bowring Attending Data Infrastructure Building Blocks Workshop

Dr. Jim Bowring, Associate Professor and C. Richard Crosby Distinguished Teaching Co-Chair, will be attending the 1st National Science Foundation (NSF) Data Infrastructure Building Blocks Workshop (DIBBs17) in Arlington, VA, on January 11-12, 2017. Bowring’s current active project, “Collaborative Research: Cyber-Infrastructure for Interpreting and Archiving U-series Geochronologic Data,” is funded by NSF’s DIBBs program.  An…

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DATA 101 Students Compete in 2nd Annual CofC Data Science and Analytics Competition

The department’s Data Science program, directed by Dr. Paul Anderson, held the second annual CofC Data Science and Analytics Competition last week.   Teams consisting of Data 101 students competed to develop a solution for a real-world business question. This year’s question was focused on sports analytics, where the team tried to beat bookies and…

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Student Spotlight: Maz Little, Research Accepted at International Conference for Internet Technology & Secured Transactions

Congratulations to Maz Little for the acceptance of his research, “Temporal Resource Scheduling Equity,” to be presented at the 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST).  The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from December 5-7, 2016.  Little will present remotely and will be published in the IEEE digital library. Little…

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Department Excited to Host Keynote Speaker Dr. Xiangyang Li from Johns Hopkins University on November 21st

The Department of Computer Science is excited to host the keynote speaker for the CS Research Speaker Series, Dr. Xiangyang Li, Program Director, Master of Science in Security Informatics (MSSI) at Johns Hopkins University.  Dr. Li’s presentation will take place on November 21, 2016 at 3:30PM in Harbor Walk West, Room 217. Dr. Xiangyang Li…

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Dr. Munsell’s Research on Autism Detection Selected for Publication in Nature Journal

The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Brent Munsell’s research on “Brain Characteristics in the First Year Predict Early Autism Diagnosis” has been selected for publication in the science journal, Nature.  His research used neuroimaging data acquired at six months and twelve months to predict if a 24 month child will have…

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Department Hosted 16 Teams for the Annual International Collegiate Programming Contest

The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) coordinates the annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), which is the premier competitive programming competition in the world. In 2015, the College of Charleston won first place in ICPC’s Southeast Division II which included 60 teams from 20 universities. The winning team consisted of three senior computer science students,…

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Graduate Student, John Anderson, Accepted ‘Best Extended Abstract Award’ at IEEE International Conference on Information Society

The department is excited to announce graduate student, John Anderson, accepted ‘Best Extended Abstract Award’ at the  IEEE International Conference on Information Society (i-Society-2016) for his paper, Decentralised, Dynamic Network Path Selection in High Performance Computing. Back in July, the department announced eleven student research papers that were chosen for presentations at the IEEE i-Society…

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