Computer
Science
News
Announcements
- The Computer Science Poster Session will be held December 12th from 2:00pm - 5:00pm in Sarkey's conference rooms A and B. Students need register their poster on the Computer Science wiki by Monday, December 1st 2008.
- OU Computer Science undergrads Caleb Eggensperger, Sean Lavelle, and Peter Reid, competing under their team name, Irony Barbecue, placed ninth of sixty teams from colleges throughout Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana in the 2008 ACM Programming Comptetition, October 18. Results.
- Dr. Amy McGovern received the Alumni Teaching Award for Spring 2008 for Artificial Intelligence.
- Average starting salary for Computer Science graduates is $60,416.00. Source: "University of Oklahoma Career Services".
- Dr. Amy McGovern received a 5-year NSF CAREER award on Developing
Spatiotemporal Relational Models to Anticipate Tornado Formation.
- Dr.
Andrew Fagg and Adam Brown from School of Art, have been selected to teach a Presidential Dream Course in Spring 2009, entitled, "Sm[ART]
Spaces". This
course will bring together students from computer science, engineering,
and the arts to explore the technological, social, and artistic
implications of embedding throughout our environment small devices that
are capable of sensing, computing, communicating and acting.
Students
- Kelly Tran earns the 2008 Outstanding Senior Award for the College of Engineering.
- Christopher Utz, Mohammed Javed , and Shengguan Qian received $250 scholarships from the School of Computer Science Advisory Board at the spring meeting. The scholarships were presented by Advisory Board Chair Roger Rowe, and Director Le Gruenwald.
- Kieu Oanh (Kelly) Tran received the Ronnie Irani International Student Leadership Scholarship for 2008-2009. This scholarship is recognizes an international student who has demonstrated leadership skills by initiating unique programs, leading others towards achievement in areas which benefit the entire university community, and any other innovative program established as a result of the applicant's initiative, creativity, and commitment.
- OU graduate Anita Vallur was nominated for Rookie of the Year at National Instruments in 2007.
- CS Minor David John Gagne II won OU's Rita H. Lottinville prize.
- CS junior Susan Collins received
the AFCEA ROTC Scholarship. This
scholarship rewards both academic excellence and outstanding leadership.
- Computer Science senior, Adrianna
Krueger, saves
young boy's life.
- CS Graduates (2005)
Andres Hill and Mike Prosser were both nominated for Rookie of the Year
at National Instruments.
- Di Wang has been awarded
an OU Computer Science PhD Fellowship.
- Michael
Tweeten and William Dabney earn "Outstanding Seniors" in Computer
Science for the 2006-2007 academic year.
- William
Dabney received an honorable mention in the 2007 National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Faculty
- Professor Andrew H. Fagg
was awarded a subcontract from Northwestern University's project on
"Developing a Bidirectional Central Nervous System Interface for
Robotic Control" (funded by the NIH). The ultimate goal of this work is
to develop prosthetic limb interfaces that connect directly into a
patient's neocortex.
- Dr.
Dean Hougen
had the honor of being selected to serve as a member of the site visit
team
for the Alberta
Ingenuity Centre
for Machine Learning.
- Drs. Qi
Cheng and Dean
Hougen have been promoted to rank of Associate Professor.
- The
University of Oklahoma's Instructional Innovation program has
awarded Dr.
Yifei Dong and Dr. Xun Ge (Department of Educational
Psychology)
funding for their ongoing project, "OpenSEED: Empower Software
Engineering Education Using Open Source Software Development Approach".
- Dr. Mohammed
Atiquzzaman won the "Regent's Award for Outstanding
Research
and Creativity".
- Dr. S.
Lakshmivarahan was
recognized this month for his 28 years of excellent service to the
University of Oklahoma.
- Dr.
Sudarshan Dhall was
recognized this month for his 27 years of excellent service to the
University of Oklahoma.
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University of Oklahoma
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