SPARC (Student Project Arena for Research and Collaboration) Lab in 210 Smith Hall
On Tuesday, Sept. 20, the ribbon was cut on the new facility, which features inspiring quotes on the wall, rolling whiteboards, comfortable furniture, and screens for sharing ideas. Department Chair Kathleen McCoy envisions the SPARC Lab providing valuable opportunities for students to learn how to work together and "become good computer scientists."
"I think we're going to see great things coming out of this space," she says. "It will be a place where a lot of good work will get done."
Pollock is a Distinguished Professor!
Lori Pollock has been named Alumni Distinguished Professor
effective Sept. 1.
"Lori has a rich record of accomplishment, and she is a role model for faculty in both her accomplishments and how she approaches the job," said Errol Lloyd.
"She has been recognized locally and nationally for her contributions to computer science education, her research, her service to the profession, and her mentorship of students and young faculty."
It's official: CISTERS is now an ACM-W chapter
CISTERS is a well established group that brings together women in technology-driven fields at the University of Delaware. CISTERS now has become an official ACM-W student chapter.
A sub-group of the Association of Computing Machinery, ACM-W celebrates, supports, and advocates for women in computing, providing a wide range of programs and services and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women.
Putting Software on a Diet
James Clause Lori Pollock are partnering to address the needs of software engineer to understand how and why the decisions they make affect the energy consumption of their applications, and to have tools to discover and apply the modifications that would improve the energy usage of their applications.
News Journal story
Naked Eye 3D TV
Professor Jingyi Yu has something up his sleve for couch potatoes. His startup aims to make it a reality.
Big Data For Better Medicine
Professors Cathy Wu and Vijay Shanker
receive National Institutes of Health funding to facilitate translation of biomedical data. Two new grants from NIH are to continue building the capacity to use big data for precision medicine, aimed at
designing individually targeted therapies for maximal efficacy and minimal side effects.
UD to host International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval
Professors Ben Carterette (CIS) and Hui Fang (ECE) are co-organizing the conference to be held Sept. 13-16. Information Retrieval is the computing discipline behind web search engines of all kinds.
GPU Programming Hackathon Video
Live video of the Hackathon at UD, May 2-6, 2016, at UD co-organized by our Sunita Chandrasekaran. Participants (UD student teams and others) are developing and testing their code on the worlds second largest supercomputer.
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