Richard Crosby started the Department of Computer Science in 1980, and 2015 was the department’s 35th anniversary! 2015 was a big year of accomplishments for the department: 13% increase of Fall enrollment from 2014 to 2015 31% of student body consisting of females Dr. Sebastian van Delden joins the department as Chair Two Assistant Professors…
Yearly Archives: 2015
DATA 101 Students Compete in Wells Fargo Campus Analytic Challenge and the Inaugural CofC Data Science and Analytics Competition
The department’s Data Science program, directed by Dr. Paul Anderson, was invited to compete in the Wells Fargo Campus Analytic Challenge from November 9th through November 30th. Students from thirteen top rated college and universities competed to develop a solution for a real-world business question posed by Well Fargo’s Enterprise Social Media and Enterprise Data and…
Where in the World is CS Faculty: Dr. Olmsted Presenting at 10th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2015)
Dr. Aspen Olmsted will be giving a keynote address at The 10th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2015) in London next Tuesday, December 15, 2015. His presentation will discuss “Secure Software Engineering Curriculum”. In his talk, Dr Olmsted will investigate the problem of teaching the secure development of cloud-based enterprise applications. He…
Graduate Student, Clinton Medbery, Presenting At ICITST; Receives Grant From Graduate Student Association
Congratulations to Clinton Medbery for the acceptance of his graduate project, “HeartSync: Mobile Pacemaker Failure Detector,” to be presented at the 10th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST). Medbery was awarded a Graduate Student Presentation Grant to conduct his presentation. ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of theory…
Interested In Getting Your Masters In Analytics And Data Science? Announcing A Joint 4+1 Program In Data Science And Analytics With The University Of San Francisco
The College of Charleston, School of Sciences and Mathematics, is honored to announce a cooperation agreement with the University of San Francisco (USF), College of Arts and Sciences, to offer a joint 4+1 program featuring data science and analytics. The 4+1 program will provide The College of Charleston Data Science graduates priority admission into…
We’re Expanding!!!
To meet the growing needs of the department, the College acquired additional space on the first floor of Harbor Walk East. Construction started in early November with plans to be completed by the 2016 Spring semester. The new space will include a lobby with a sitting area and research labs for Dr. Munsell, Dr…
Where In The World Is CS Faculty: Dr. Bowring Presents At The University Of Kansas
Dr. Jim Bowring, Assistant Professor and C. Richard Crosby Distinguished Teaching Co-Chair, was a guest speaker for the Geology Colloquium at The University of Kansas, Department of Geology on Thursday, November 19, 2015. Dr. Bowring presented “Advance Cyberinfrastructure for Geochronology as a Collaborative Endeavor”. Dr. Jim Bowring’s National Science Foundation-funded Cyber Infrastructure Research and Development…
#CSatCofC Won FIRST PLACE In ACM’s Southeast Region ICPC Programming Competition (Division II)
Over the weekend, November 14, the Department of Computer Science was one of four host sites for the Southeast Region of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored by CofC Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IBM. The department is happy to announce that the CofC team won FIRST PLACE in ACM’s Southeast Region…
Department Hosting Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
The Department of Computer Science will host the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored by CofC Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IBM, on November 14, 2016. ICPC is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world. Teams of three students write computer programs to solve a set of…
Dr. Munsell’s Research Published In IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Brent Munsell’s research on “Scalable High Performance Image Registration Framework by Unsupervised Deep Feature Representations Learning” has been selected for publication in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME). As one of the top journals in biomedical engineering, TBME is ranked No. 4 by Google Scholar, according to the H5-index among biomedical technology journals. “This…