Department of Computer Science
Department Spotlights
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Congratulations to 2020 Dean's Award Recipients , articleCongratulations to our three computer science faculty members Kirk Cameron, Margaret Ellis, and Tanushree Mita, honored for their excellence by the College of Engineering for the 2020 Dean's Awards. They were recognized at the Department of Computer Science virtual awards banquet, along with other outstanding recognition of students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
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Department of Computer Science hosts virtual town hall , articleDepartment Head Cal Ribbens hosted the first Department of Computer Science Virtual Town Hall on Tuesday, May 26. He was joined by Assistant Department Heads Steve Edwards and Cliff Shaffer for updates on how the department is responding to COVID-19. Also, PhD student, Sathappan Muthiah in the Discovery Analytics Center shared about his COVID-19 research! A Q&A session concluded the town hall.
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Living his Best Grad Life: Kobla Setor Zilevu , articleAs a first-year Ph.D. computer science student, Kobla Setor Zilevu has some guiding words to offer fellow incoming graduate students. "The best piece of advice I can offer entering graduate students will be to enjoy the process and love what you are researching."
News from Computer Science
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Data visualization gets artificial intelligence boost with $5 million NSF grant , articleResearchers at Virginia Tech, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and University of Illinois at Chicago have been awarded a $5 million National Science Foundation to make artificial intelligence technologies broadly accessible.
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Virtual VE Day celebrates volunteers and more than 200,000 World War II document transcriptions , articleThe virtual event celebrated the completion of a crowdsourcing drive to transcribe handwritten survey responses from World War II soldiers as part of The American Soldier project.
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Students focus on COVID-19 impacts on sustainability, education, and society , articleStudents in the urban computing graduate certificate program gave their group presentations via Zoom at the end of semester 2020 Spring Retreat.