The department’s Data Science program, directed by Dr. Paul Anderson, held the second annual CofC Data Science and Analytics Competition last week. Teams consisting of Data 101 students competed to develop a solution for a real-world business question. This year’s question was focused on sports analytics, where the team tried to beat bookies and…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Student Spotlight: Maz Little, Research Accepted at International Conference for Internet Technology & Secured Transactions
Congratulations to Maz Little for the acceptance of his research, “Temporal Resource Scheduling Equity,” to be presented at the 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST). The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from December 5-7, 2016. Little will present remotely and will be published in the IEEE digital library. Little…
Department Excited to Host Keynote Speaker Dr. Xiangyang Li from Johns Hopkins University on November 21st
The Department of Computer Science is excited to host the keynote speaker for the CS Research Speaker Series, Dr. Xiangyang Li, Program Director, Master of Science in Security Informatics (MSSI) at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Li’s presentation will take place on November 21, 2016 at 3:30PM in Harbor Walk West, Room 217. Dr. Xiangyang Li…
Dr. Munsell’s Research on Autism Detection Selected for Publication in Nature Journal
The Department of Computer Science is excited to announce Dr. Brent Munsell’s research on “Brain Characteristics in the First Year Predict Early Autism Diagnosis” has been selected for publication in the science journal, Nature. His research used neuroimaging data acquired at six months and twelve months to predict if a 24 month child will have…
Department Hosted 16 Teams for the Annual International Collegiate Programming Contest
The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) coordinates the annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), which is the premier competitive programming competition in the world. In 2015, the College of Charleston won first place in ICPC’s Southeast Division II which included 60 teams from 20 universities. The winning team consisted of three senior computer science students,…
Graduate Student, John Anderson, Accepted ‘Best Extended Abstract Award’ at IEEE International Conference on Information Society
The department is excited to announce graduate student, John Anderson, accepted ‘Best Extended Abstract Award’ at the IEEE International Conference on Information Society (i-Society-2016) for his paper, Decentralised, Dynamic Network Path Selection in High Performance Computing. Back in July, the department announced eleven student research papers that were chosen for presentations at the IEEE i-Society…
Department of Computer Science Leading Edge Scholarship Is Officially Open!
Live the Code Life! Let us help you! The Department of Computer Science Leading Edge Scholarship application is now open! If you intend to major in computer science, data science, computing in the arts or computer information systems, then check out the CS Leading Edge Scholarship. With a computer science degree from the College of Charleston,…
Looking for a Career in Cybersecurity?
With never-ending cyber attacks on corporate and personal assets, society needs experienced, skilled professionals to protect and defend. According to the bureau of labor statistics, the job growth is 18% and with a 1.5 million predicted global shortfall by 2020, cyber security professionals will continue to be in high demand. Check out the following stats…
Alexandrea Mellen Talks App Development and Entrepreneurship
By Zachary Elmer April 15, 2013. That was the day Alexandrea Mellen’s life changed. As a spectator at the Boston Marathon, she walked by the finish line shortly before the first bomb went off. She remembered how people ran in to help those who were hurt after the event, and from then on she knew she…
CyberPaths: Broadening the Path to the STEM Profession Through Cybersecurity Learning
By Dr. Xenia Mountrouidou The project CyberPaths started from a need and perfect timing of events… or you could call it, a perfect storm! I was in a small teaching school, without sanitized cybersecurity labs, even worse I did not have a way to perform simple computer network experiments for my research and teaching. Receiving my…