Congratulations to Elaina Cole, CS student ambassador and undergraduate researcher at CIRDLES, on receiving the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Collegiate Award Honorable Mention for her research project, “Engineering an Open Source Coordinate System Converter.” The NCWIT Collegiate Award, sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Qualcomm, honors the outstanding technical accomplishments of…
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Where in the World is CS Faculty: Dr. Jim Bowring and Gabrielle Cozart Attend C4P Community Development Event in Boulder, Colorado
Dr. Jim Bowring, Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator for CIRDLES, and Gabrielle Cozart, undergraduate researcher/lead developer for CHRONI, have been invited to attend Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences – Community Development Event (C4P-CDE). The workshop will be held June 20th-21st, 2016 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. The specific goals…
Dr. Brent Munsell’s Research Selected for Publication and Presentation with Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Dr. Brent Munsell’s research on “Identifying Relationships in Functional and Structural Connectome Data Using a Hypergraph Learning Method” has been selected for publication in the medical journal, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). Munsell will also attend the 19th International Conference, MICCAI 2016, to present the publication in October, in Athens, Greece. The…
Professors Receive NSF Award to Investigate Boot Camp vs University Classroom
Congratulations to Dr. James Bowring, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and Dr. Quinn Burke, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, on receiving an award funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their research proposal, “Collaborative Proposal: Boot Camp or University Classroom? Investigating the Effectiveness of Coding Boot Camps in Developing a Diverse Software Development Workforce.” The proposal…
Student Spotlight: Eliza Starr, First Freshman Computer Science Intern at Boeing
Eliza Starr has accepted a summer 2016 internship with Boeing’s Charleston IT group. The first freshman intern hired by the IT group, Starr will be involved in web development and several projects throughout the summer. Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space, and security systems, frequently partners…
CofC At Forefront of Big Data Education
NetworkWorld.com has listed the Data Science Program at the College of Charleston as one of eight universities currently at the forefront of big data education. Data science is consistently ranked as one of the top fields to watch in the next decade. The undergraduate program offers opportunities for research, internships, and study abroad experiences. Our recent graduates have…
Department Gearing Up For New Signature Spring Event, #CSatCofC After Five
On Thursday, April 21, 2016, the department will host local industry leaders for our new signature Spring event, #CSatCofC After Five. The event will showcase presentations by student groups that have teamed with up with tech companies to solve a company problem. The participating companies that collaborated with our students comprise our Joint Industrial Advisory Board. The department…
Dr. Olmsted and Master’s Student Selected “Best Paper” at 2016 Cloud Computing Conference
Professor Aspen Olmsted and master’s student, Gayathri Santhanakrishnan, were selected as “Best Paper” for “Cloud Data Denormalization of Anonymous Transactions.” Selection was based on reviews of the original submission, camera-ready version, and presentation during the 2016 Cloud Computing Conference in Rome, Italy. In the paper, Dr. Olmsted and Santhanakrishnan investigated the problem of representing transaction data in PAAS…
The Department Hosted Ten Alumni at 10th Annual Alumni Symposium, A Decade of Excellence
On Friday, March 18, 2016, the department held the 10th anniversary of the Computer Science Alumni Symposium. Department Chair, Dr. Sebastian van Delden, started the symposium with a warm welcome and presented Symposium Chair, Dr. Jim Bowring, with an award thanking him for his dedication over the years to the alumni symposium series. This year’s…
Where in the World is CS Faculty: Dr. Olmsted Presenting and Panelist at the Cloud Computing 2016
Dr. Aspen Olmsted will be presenting two papers, and serving as a panelist at the Cloud Computing 2016 conference in Rome, Italy from March 20-24, 2016. The papers were co-authored with masters students in Dr. Olmsted’s Secure Data Engineering Lab. Gayathri Santhanakrishnan co-authored “Cloud Data De-Normalization: Investigated Data Modeling in the Cloud” and Santoshi Devata co-authored “Non-Functional Requirements…