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Getting from here to there
Intelligent transportation systems enable people to make smart travel choices, whether it’s selecting an alternate route to avoid a minor traffic backup or figuring out the safest evacuation path during a hurricane.
Inspiring computer scientists
Lori Pollock is determined to challenge the perception that software engineers merely interact with their programming environment on their computers.
Better Coding
University of Delaware junior Zachary Senzer and senior Ryan Serva recently presented a research paper, “Automatically Mining Negative Code Examples from Software Developer Question and Answer Forums,” at the Fourth International Workshop on Software Mining in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Innovation Fellows
Jason Bamford, Zachary Jones, Ashutosh Khandha and Nadia Kiamilev recently completed training to join Epicenter’s University Innovation Fellows, a national program that empowers student leaders to increase campus engagement with innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity and design thinking.
Estuary games
Maggie Pletta, an environmental educator, wants children to learn about estuaries, bodies of water found where rivers meet the sea. Knowing kids learn from computer games Pletta partnered with UD professor Terry Harvey to provide a suite of computer games to incorporate into her work with the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve.
DelHack
UD hackathon taps students’ creativity under pressure. Among the top winners at the recent hackathon as a web app that tracks restaurant traffic, a glove that allows control of computer cursors, and a digital classroom enabling educators to crowdsource knowledge through open classrooms.
University of Delaware junior Zachary Senzer and senior Ryan Serva recently presented a research paper, “Automatically Mining Negative Code Examples from Software Developer Question and Answer Forums,” at the Fourth International Workshop on Software Mining in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Code Fun
Mel Jurist wants all kids to love engineering as much as she does, but she knows that’s a tall order.
Computer science honors
Professor Taufer is just one of 49 computing professionals this year to be named a distinguished scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s leading association of computing professionals.
Data science innovation
The ability to access, analyze and draw insights from massive amounts of data already drives innovation in areas ranging from medicine to manufacturing, leading to greater efficiency and a higher quality of life.
Chicken Fat
Just as poultry is steadily gaining in popularity on dinner plates, the chicken is growing in attractiveness as a biomedical model for studying health issues ranging from headaches and ovarian cancer to cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy.
Ask Watson
There’s a container revolution underway, but it doesn’t have anything to do with organizing your closet.
From genes to drugs
In his 2015 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced the launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative, a new research effort to revolutionize how we improve health and treat disease.