Recent News
Here's what is happening in the Computer Science department.
Recent News Stories
| Nov 10 2009: | Faculty and administrators within the UA’s interdisciplinary School of Information Sciences, Technologies and Arts are planning workshops to determine areas of focus in developing a new undergraduate curriculum. Learn more | |
| Nov 06 2009: | Wesley Kerr wins 1st prize in the Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, & Computer Science division of the Graduate and Professional Student Council's 2009 Student Showcase held Nov. 6 and 7. Learn more | |
| Nov 04 2009: | Based on a casual conversation at the 2008 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Computer Science Associate Department Head and Senior Lecturer Dr. Suzanne Westbrook helped bring the first K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop to Tucson last month as an extension of this year's Grace Hopper conference. Learn more | |
| Oct 31 2009: | On Halloween, the team of Computer Science students Fei "Bill" Peng, Brian Lindsay, and Jeffrey Truman took 2nd place in the Rocky Mountain regional of the ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest. The "Ancient Chinese War Dogs," CS students Silviu Smarandache, Josh Snider, and Jonathan Nation, captured fourth place, solving four of the problems. Learn more | |
| Oct 29 2009: | Chiefly concerned with understanding how processes work, computation has garnered a reputation for not being a true science. But Richard T. Snodgrass, a UA computer science professor, has received a National Science Foundation grant to work to change that. Learn more | |
| Oct 21 2009: | Christian Collberg, a UA professor who recently published a book about software security has launched a lecture series featuring experts on computer security issues. Learn more | |
| Oct 19 2009: | Loren Chea is selected as the Outstanding Senior for Computer Science! | |
| Oct 13 2009: | Paul Cohen and Carole Beal won a $256,000 award from DARPA for a nine-month seedling project on robot language learning entitled, "Wubble World, Phase II" | |
| Sep 23 2009: | Suzanne Westbrook and Saumya Debray receive $800,000 CPATH-2 grant Learn more | |
| Sep 23 2009: | Rick Snodgrass and Peter Denning of the Naval Postgraduate School receive $800,000 CPATH-2 grant Learn more | |
| Sep 22 2009: | Christian Collberg putting together a security seminar sponsored by Cloakware Inc - more to be announced Learn more | |
| Sep 15 2009: | Grant awarded from the United States - Israel National Science Foundation (co-PIs: Amir Herzberg Bar Ilan University and Shafi Goldwasser from MIT the Weizmann Institute) Learn more | |
| Sep 11 2009: | Christian Collberg interviewed for Network World Learn more | |
| Aug 17 2009: | Christian Collberg Interview in UANEWS Learn more | |
| Aug 05 2009: | Christian Collberg publishes Surreptitious Software Learn more |
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