Engineering’s Lena Mashayekhy Wins Early Career Award

Engineering’s Lena Mashayekhy Wins Early Career Award

UD computer science assistant professor honored for excellence in cloud computing Lena Mashayekhy, an assistant professor in the University of Delaware’s Department of Computer and Information Sciences, has received the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career...
Detecting Hidden Threat

Detecting Hidden Threat

UD professor and post-doctoral fellow develop technology to help soldiers spot explosive devices Soldiers in combat have to constantly scan their surroundings for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), a signature weapon of modern warfare. These homemade bombs are often...

In Memoriam: Bobby F. Caviness

Bobby (Bob) F. Caviness, professor emeritus who shaped the University of Delaware Department of Computer and Information Sciences, died Jan. 11, 2018, at the age of 77. Prof. Caviness earned his doctoral degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 under the...
Five Decades of Computer Science

Five Decades of Computer Science

Emeritus professor Sandra Carberry reflects on successes, challenges The first time Sandra Carberry worked with a computer, she wasn’t impressed. It was 1961, and Carberry was a teenager attending an eight-week summer workshop on math and computers. These early...
Parallel Programming

Parallel Programming

UD professor edits textbook on high-performance computing methods From your smartphone to your laptop, today’s tech devices glean their computing power from multi-core processors. Supercomputers contain thousands of cores, and within three to four years a computer...
Computer Science for Everyone

Computer Science for Everyone

Two UD professors watch governor sign law requiring public high schools to teach computer science A new law will require every public high school in Delaware to offer at least one course in computer science. When Delaware Gov. John Carney signed the bill, two...