The department welcomed 22 teachers from middle and high schools in South Carolina for the annual workshop, “Adventures in Alice Programming.” From June 20-27, 2016, teachers learned the programming language and developed curriculum and lesson plans to integrate Alice into their discipline. Taught by Senior Instructor RoxAnn Stalvey, Alice is a 3D virtual worlds programming…
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Student Spotlight: Elaina Cole Receives NCWIT Collegiate Award Honorable Mention
Congratulations to Elaina Cole, CS student ambassador and undergraduate researcher at CIRDLES, on receiving the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Collegiate Award Honorable Mention for her research project, “Engineering an Open Source Coordinate System Converter.” The NCWIT Collegiate Award, sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Qualcomm, honors the outstanding technical accomplishments of…
Where in the World is CS Faculty: Dr. Jim Bowring and Gabrielle Cozart Attend C4P Community Development Event in Boulder, Colorado
Dr. Jim Bowring, Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator for CIRDLES, and Gabrielle Cozart, undergraduate researcher/lead developer for CHRONI, have been invited to attend Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences – Community Development Event (C4P-CDE). The workshop will be held June 20th-21st, 2016 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. The specific goals…
Dr. Brent Munsell’s Research Selected for Publication and Presentation with Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Dr. Brent Munsell’s research on “Identifying Relationships in Functional and Structural Connectome Data Using a Hypergraph Learning Method” has been selected for publication in the medical journal, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI). Munsell will also attend the 19th International Conference, MICCAI 2016, to present the publication in October, in Athens, Greece. The…