Justin Moore Awarded 2nd Place

Congratulations to Justin Moore, a Computer Science and Physics major, who placed 2nd in the ACM Mid-southeast conference for his work on stellar cluster expansion in the presence of dark matter. The research involved developing parallel solutions and interactive 3D visualizations, and was jointly supervised by Dr. Bill Baker and Dr. Hayden Porter.

Phi Beta Kappa Inductees

Congratulations to CS majors Joel Coffman and William Hendrix for being inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

New UPE Members

Congratulations to the 2007 inductees into the Delta Chapter of UPE:

Dr. Treu Starring in Rough Crossing

Dr. Kevin Treu is starring in the play Rough Crossing currently running at The Warehouse Theatre. Rough Crossing, a shipboard romantic farce, is a 1984 adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's The Play's The Thing. The story focuses on two authors, two actors and a composer trying to complete their new show before the ship they're on docks in New York.

The Warehouse Theatre
Friday-Sunday, Nov. 2-4
Call 235-6948 for tickets

ACM Lecture Series: Dr. Larry Hodges

ACM Lecture Series presents: "Should I Worry If My Best Friend is Digital?" by Dr. Larry Hodges, UNC Charlotte on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006 at 4:30pm, Riley Hall Room 204. Refreshments to precede the talk at 4pm in the CS Conference Room.

This talk will present a survey of recent research on the design, creation, evaluation, and application of Digital Humans.

CS Dept Fall Picnic

The Furman Chapter of the ACM will hold the annual CS Dept Fall Picnic on Thursday, September 21, at 5:30pm at the picnic shelter behind the Bell Tower. If you are a CS major or in a CS class (or just want to come out), we hope to see you there!

ACM Lectures by Dr. Myron Ginsberg

Dr. Ginsberg (High Performance Computing Research Corp.), whose research interests are in large-scale scientific/engineering computations and in benchmarking methodology for assessing the performance limitations of modestly and massively parallel computing systems, will discuss how the U.S. government is trying to motivate the development of innovative computer architectures to satisfy the current and future industrial, government, and academic needs for very large-scale computations. This lecture, The Quest for a Petaflop Class Computer for Large-Scale Scientific and Engineering Applications, deals with the roadblocks to creating such machines, examples of some current effots, and real-world applications that could benefit from the use of such computers. The lecture will be held in Riley Hall 106 at 11am on Wednesday, March 29th.

Dr. Ginsberg will also present Increasing the Half-Life of a Computer Scientist: A Career Guide to Survivability in the 21st Century in Riley Hall 106 at 4pm on Wednesday, March 29th. This presentation will offer some pragmatic guidelines to cope with career problems. Topics include: continuing education strategies; creating and utilizing a rolodex; necessity of lifetime professional activity; strategies to prevent and/or deal with periods of unemployment and career changes; vita and resume suggestions; the politics of hiring; becoming a chameleon for professional longevity; acquiring multidisciplinary experience.

Congratulations to Brittany Smith

Congratulations to Brittany Smith for receiving the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, established to endow a recognition program to foster excellence in science and mathematics. Congratulations is also extended to Brittany for receiving the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award in Computer Science for her presentation at the SC Academy of Science's Annual Meeting on March 10 of her paper entitled "Access Control on the Semantic Web."

Phi Beta Kappa

Congratulations to Computer Science majors Adam Murphree and Brittany Smith on their induction into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society for 2006.

New UPE Members

Congratulations to the 2006 inductees into the Delta Chapter of UPE:

ACM Lecture: Beyond Computer Animation

Dr. Judson Rosebush (Rosebush Visions Corp.), an award-winning computer animation director and producer, will address new technologies beyond computer graphics and computer animation. He will discuss the way these technologies will affect communications, ideas, and marketing in the 21st century. This includes the technologies and roles interactive CD-ROM, virtual reality, emerging multimedia, and high-definition TV are playing and will play in future communications. In addition, Rosebush will show clips from his most famous computer animations and discuss how they were produced.

The lecture will be held in Johns Hall 101 at 4pm on Monday, February 6th. Refreshments will precede the talk at 3:30pm in the CS Department conference room.

Dr. Treu in An Empty Plate

Come see Dr. Kevin Treu in An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf at the Furman Theatre, February 8-12, 14-18. Call the Theatre at 294-2125 for tickets or more information. This is a CLP event.

Student Awards

Congratulations to Tommy Morgan, Lauren Senesac and Patrick Smith. Tommy Morgan presented his paper A General, Reusable, Heirarchical Architecture for Solving Optimazation Problems at the ACM conference in Gatlinburg, TN, on November 11, 2005. Lauren Senesac and Patrick Smith presented their paper V-Entity: A Visual Architecture for Rapid Development of Serial and Parallel Applications at the same conference. Tommy's paper won first place and Lauren and Patrick won second.

Congratulations also to the programming team of Jimmy Murray, Tommy Morgan, William Hendrix and Joel Coffman who placed 2nd (out of 26 teams) at the CCSC-SE programming contest held in Hickory, NC, on Saturday November 12, 2005.

Bonfire

All CS majors and CS students are cordially invited to one of the CS Department's most enjoyable traditions-- a late-fall bonfire at Dr. Porter's house on the mountain. This event is scheduled for 5pm on Sunday, November 6.

StuFac

Wednesday, October 5th, 5:30 at the Rice Bowl will be the ACM's first StuFac of the year. Be sure to stop by.

ACM lecture

The ACM will be presenting a lecture by two CS alums, Gary Croucher and Don Law, at 4pm on Thursday, October 6th. They are working with Cyberguard, a network security company located in Florida. They will be meeting with the students for an information lecture/discussion, and may also interview some students for employment with Cyberguard.

Gary Croucher has worked at Apple on the original Macintosh. Both Gary and Don have worked for many years with Encore, a speciality high performance computer company which was later purchased by Sun for their large data storage technology. They later ventured into their own consulting company, SalientSoftware, but have since gone to work with Cyberguard.

This will be an entertaining lecture. Please make plans to attend.

Annual ACM Picnic

The annual ACM picnic is scheduled for Thursday, September 22, at 5:30 at the picnic shelter behind the Bell Tower. We hope to see everyone there!

Kevin Treu Stars in "The Knight of the Burning Pestle"

Dr. Kevin Treu (middle) stars in the Upstate Shakespeare Festival production of "The Knight of the Burning Pestle." Image and article courtesy of The Greenville News.

Academic Awards

Congratulations to Kevin Smith for receiving the Faculty Award in Computer Science at the 2005 Academic Awards Banquet. Kevin was also awarded the Mathematics Faculty Award for Excellence.

Congratulations also to Adam Murphree who was honored with the Pipkin English Scholarship.

Track and Field

Congratulations to Tyler Johnson, Computing Business major, for finishing first in the Men's 1500 Meter Run during the Furman Track and Field Invitational on April 2 against Davidson, Mars Hill and The Citadel.

New UPE Members

Congratulations to the new inductees in the Delta Chapter of UPE:

Travis Cooper
Tyler Johnson
Ryan Kelly
Tessa Lynch
Tommy Morgan
Adam Murphree
Mike Root

Kevin Treu stars in Oleanna

Dr. Kevin Treu is starring in David Mamet's Oleanna at the Furman University Theater on February 9-12 and 15-19.

Announcing the 2005 ICT Student Design Competition

The ICT Competition is the first to invite students from around the world concerned with design, development and use of Information and Communication Technologies to apply their creative talents toward developing solutions integrating older persons seamlessly into the fabric of their communities. The ultimate objective is to use ICTs to include older persons in all social, cultural, and productive activities. ICCC's goal is to engage as many students as possible in this meaningful program. First place prize is $10,000.

See the website (http://www.international-iccc.org) for details.

CCSC Southeastern Programming Contest Winners

Congratulations to
Joel Coffman
William Hendrix
Tommy Morgan
Mike Root
for placing 3rd in the CCSC Southeastern Conference Programming Contest, November 5-6, 2004, in Spartanburg, SC.

Also, congratulations to
Rondey Smalls
who competed in the research paper contest, presenting his paper
"Research in Classification Algorithms for Bioinformatics."

Phi Beta Kappa Inductees

Congratulations to the following Computer Science Majors who were inducted in to Phi Beta Kappa on May 12, 2004.

Kevin Crosby
Brian Dandurand
Will Hawkins
Carl Johnson
Britt Lassiter
Greg Mason
Ted Willard

New UPE Inductees

Congratulations to the students below on their induction into the Delta Chapter of UPE.

Kevin Treu in Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol

Come see Dr. Kevin Treu as Jacob Marley in Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol. Evening performances - 8pm     December 4-6     December 11-13     December 18-20 Matinees - 3pm     December 14 & 21 Tickets are $25 for Friday and Saturday nights. Tickets for Thursdays and Sundays are $20 for adults and $15 for students/senior citizens. Seating is general admission. Student tickets can be purchased at the door for only $8. You must have your student ID and the show cannot be sold out. Box office hours are 11:00am-5:30pm Phone: 235-6948

CCSC Southeast Conference Results

Congratulations to Will Hawkins who won the student paper competition at the annual CCSC Southeast Conference. Will's paper detailed his work on creating the "LIMP" programming language.

Additional congratulations to the two teams who competed in the programming contest. Both teams solved 3 out of 6 problems, placing them in the upper half of the competition. (Final results will be posted when they are received.) The teams were as follows:
Team 1: Chris Flury, Taylor Geraldson, John Schaffer
Team 2: Will Hawkins, Hampton Catlin, Peter Kinnaird

Student paper selected for International SIGCSE Competition

Congratulations to Carl Johnson whose paper on P-ENTITY (a parallel extention of Java Bean's ENTITY concept to a data-flow parallel software architecture) was one of 15 papers selected to compete in the International ACM/SIGCSE undergraduate research competition this year.

CS Majors Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

Congratulations to Computer Science majors Will Lowry and Jacob Schroder on their inductions into Phi Betta Kappa.

New UPE Inductees

Congratulations to the following students who were inducted into UPE in 2003:

ACM Student Research Competition Winner

Congratulations to Michael Elder who won first place honors in the ACM Student Research Competition hosted by the ACM SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) 2003 Symposium on February 19-23. Elder, the top finisher of three finalists in the undergraduate category, focused his research on "Distributed STORMS (Strategy-Oriented Recursive Messaging Systems)". Students from universities across the US and around the world participated in the competition, which was held in Reno, NV, this year.

CS Student in 2003 Who's Who

Congratulations to Computing Business major Greg Mason who was named to the Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, 2003 edition.

Student Government Elections

Congratulations to Computer Science Major Patrick Kerley on his election as student body president.

Student ACM Papers

Congratulations to Jonathan Wyrick and Jacob Schroder for winning first and second place, respectively, in the regional undergraduate student paper competition associated with the ACM midsoutheast conference held in Gatlinburgh, TN, on November 24 and 25.

Jonathan Wyrick, the first prize award winner, was supported in part by the South Carolina Space Grant Program, and Jacob Schroder, the second prize award winner, was supported by the Furman Advantage program. Both students' research is being done in support of Dr. Hayden Porter's ongoing NASA research program.