Forty teams from three states gathered at Harbor Walk East on February 21, 2020 for the 38th Annual High School Programming Competition. After tours and welcoming remarks, the teams started practice rounds in their assigned classrooms. An hour later (and after some pizza) the competition began. Ultimately, team Hampton Inn & Suites from Panther Creek…
Category Archives: Computer Science Student News
Spring Speaker Series starts today!
All are welcome to join the Computer Science department for our Research Speaker Series, Mondays at 4:15pm in SSMB 129. All presentations will be held in the School of Science and Mathematics Building auditorium at 202 Calhoun St…
Fall Research Speaker Series in Full Swing
You’re invited! Please join us every Monday this semester for our Research Speaker Series. Talks begin promptly at 3:45pm in SSMB 129. Whether you are interested in cybersecurity, spatial computing or real-world data science – our speaker series has you covered! Special guest speakers include Nafees Bin Zafar (CS@CofC alum and Academy Award winner),…
First Classes of Data Science Graduate Program Held
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…
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…
International Computer Science Students Visit, Study at CS@CofC
On June 22nd, three international students visiting from the University of La Rochelle in La Rochelle France, will present their research presentations based on their summer work here at the College of Charleston. Jia Jun Chai, Maël Gaonach, and Meven Turmel, arrived on April 8 to begin their respective 12-week study abroad programs here and…
CS Student, Faculty attend Global Environment for Network Innovation Regional Workshop and Summer Camp
Lancie Affonso and Jody Mullinax received funding from the NSF to attended a week long Global Environment for Network Innovations GENI Regional Workshop (GRW) and Summer Camp 2018 at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, which took place May 14-18, 2019, to develop virtual cybersecurity labs to be used in the College’s Introduction to Cybersecurity courses (CSCI…
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…
Senior Projects, Posters, and Capstone Demonstrations Featured During 2018 Harbor Walk After 5 Event.
On April 25th, the Department of Computer Science faculty, staff, and students participated in Harbor Walk After Five, an annual event that wraps up the spring semester and centers on senior capstone projects, poster sessions, demonstrations and ‘industry projects’ presentations. The event, which took place in Harbor Walk West, Rooms 213, 211, and 217 and Harbor Walk East…