The initial week of courses is coming to an end for the first ever Data Science Graduate Program class. The Computer Science Department welcomes our new graduate students and wishes them the best of luck! For more information about our new graduate program, please visit our Data Science Department website. Data Science Grad Students on…
Category Archives: Accomplishments
Hackathon Happenings
Our Computer Science students have traveled far and wide to claim hackathon victories this academic year. We are so proud of you all! Here is a sampling of what our talented students have been up to: Giuliana Tosi and Luke McGuire (both Freshmen CS majors) took first place at Hack Soda City in Columbia, SC…
CS@COFC Student Receives Honorable Mention, Scholarship for Data Challenge
The Computer Science Department at the College of Charleston wishes to congratulate student Xandre Clementsmith who competed with teams from 45 universities in the 2018 Data Challenge, Spring 2018. For the Data Challenge competition, all student teams were provided with the same multiple data sets and questions from a non-profit partner, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS). Teams then…
CofC Student Presents Research at the 2018 New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference
Pangur Brougham-Cook, an undergraduate research student in the Acoustics and Music Interaction lab, and Dr. Bill Manaris (director of Computing in the Arts) just presented their research with JythonMusic (http://jythonmusic.org) at the New Interfaces for Musical Express (NIME) 2018 conference (http://nime2018.org). JythonMusic is an environment for music making and creative programming and is meant for use by…
Dr. Jim Bowring’s “TheVaccinator” Certified by HIMSS
Healthercare IT News announced in March that TheVaccinator, a computer program designed by Dr. Jim Bowring, Professor of Computer Science at the College of Charleston, has been certified by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Immunization Integration Program. The initiative, according the HIMSS website, is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approved…
CS@CofC Cyber Security Team Competes in 2018 Annual Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition (PCDC), Brings Home Award!
April 14-16, the CofC Computer Science Cyber Security Team competed in the annual Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition (PCDC), a state-wide event hosted by Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) in collaboration with the South Carolina Lowcountry Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). The competition was held at Trident Technical College in North Charleston and included both high school…
CSatCofC Students Win Big at Annual Hackathon
Congratulations to CofC Computer Science majors Shefali Emmanuel and Jasmine Randolph whose team won “Best Beginner Hack” in the Empowerment Track at the Fifth Annual Hackathon hosted by the University of Virginia. The overnight event, which took place March 24-25, requires teams of programmers to work collaboratively to create a web or mobile application/platform from…
CS Student Blaine Billings Wins First Place in Poster Session
Congratulations to Computer Science Sophomore Blaine Billings whose poster won first place in the ACM SIGSCE undergraduate poster session at last week’s Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. Billings’ poster presentation, Modeling Correct Operation of Webcams for Security Purposes, was delivered Thursday, February 22, 2018 from 1:45 PM – 5:00 PM…
36th Annual High School Programming Competition Held at CS at CofC
The Department of Computer Science at the College of Charleston is pleased to have hosted the 36th Annual High School Programming Competition on Friday, February 23rd from 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM, finishing with an awards ceremony. Prizes and swag were supplied by Soteria and NodeSC. This year boasted the highest number of registered teams, 35…
Cyber Security Infused Computer Science Program
On Tuesday, February 12th, 2018, the Faculty Senate at the College of Charleston cast the final vote to approve significant changes to the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree program. “Instead of creating a separate, niche cyber security degree, we instead want all of our computer science majors to have an understanding of the…