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…
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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…
Computer Science Undergraduate Students Developing Software
Undergraduate Projects Improve Analysis of Geochronological Data Feb 2018. Undergraduate students in the Computer Sciences Department at the College of Charleston are developing open-source software applications and infrastructure aimed at improving access to and analysis of geochronological and other earth-science data. The students are working under the direction of Dr. Jim Bowring at the Cyber Infrastructure Research…
Blaine Billings Awarded the Naval Research Enterprise Internship
The Computer Science Department would like to congratulate Blaine Billings who has been awarded the Naval Research Enterprise Internship (NRIEP) 10-week summer internship at SPAWAR, San Diego, CA. NREIP provides an opportunity for students to participate in research at a Department of Navy (DoN) laboratory during the summer. The goals of NREIP are to encourage…
CSatCofC Students Win 2017 Wells Fargo Campus Analytics Challenge!
This March, Xandre Clementsmith, a freshman double majoring in data science and math, and Jacob Mattox, a junior double majoring in computer and data sciences, will head to California to claim their cash prize for winning the 2017 Wells Fargo Campus Analytics Challenge! During the competition, each team of students was provided with a large…
Computer Science Students Win First Place in Recent Mobile App Competition!
“Pick Up” smart phone app developed by two College of Charleston computer science students has won first place in the Charleston Defense Contractors Association Mobile App Competition. Students Tyler Newman and Ben Muldrow won “Best of Summit” as well as first place in the college category for their app called Pickup, a social app that allows users to create and join local…
Undergraduate Projects Fuel Access to Scientific Collections
Undergraduate students in the Computer Sciences Department at the College of Charleston are developing open-source software applications that make it easier to document and register scientific samples in the System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR) to improve discovery and access to these valuable research resources for future use. The students are working under the direction…
Computer Science students nab another site win at Southeast Programming Competition
Since 2015, the College of Charleston has been a host site for the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) in the Southeast region. Eighteen teams visited Charleston for the latest installment of the competition on November 11, 2017. The event is organized locally by Drs. Jim Bowring and Tony Leclerc,…
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