http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ NC State University - Department of Computer Science RSS channel Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:10:00 EST en-us Congratulations to PhD student Sihan Li and associate professor Dr. Tao Xie on winning the 2013 IEEE Software Best Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013) to be held later this month. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1497 Fri, 17 May 2013 08:00:00 EST The Spring 2013 Diploma Ceremony on May 10th at Providence Baptist Church was one of the largest on record for the department. Alumnus Nate Johnson, meteorologist and executive producer at WRAL-TV, delivered the keynote address. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1496 Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:00 EST Several graduate students from the NC State Computer Science Department were recognized recently for their participation in the University’s Preparing Future Leaders (PFL) programs. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1495 Thu, 16 May 2013 08:00:00 EST A paper co-authored by Dr. Injong Rhee has been selected to receive the 2013 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Networking. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1494 Wed, 15 May 2013 08:00:00 EST Are veteran programmers out of step with emerging technologies? Not according to Dr. Emerson Murphy-Hill. His research shows that older programmers (ages 37 and older) sometimes have an edge in knowledge over their younger counterparts. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1490 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Do you like to play video games? Then join us in the Hunt Library Auditorium to learn about the video game development process, and see (and play!) examples of the games that students created this year at NC State. It’s free and open to the public. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1487 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Please join us for the Spring 2013 Department of Computer Science Diploma Ceremony on Friday, May 10th at 2 PM at Providence Baptist Church. This year's keynote speaker is alumnus Nate Johnson, meteorologist and executive producer at WRAL-TV. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1484 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Tammy Coates, the Computer Science Department’s nominee for the College of Engineering 2013 Award for Excellence. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1481 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST You’re invited! All CSC students, faculty, staff, friends and family are encouraged to attend the annual ACM/AITP Year-end Pig Pickin’ on Friday, April 26 from 4 – 6 p.m. at the Monteith Research Center (MRC) on Centennial Campus. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1480 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Please join us as the NC State Computer Science Senior Design Center students showcase their work during our annual “Posters & Pies” event on Friday, April 26th in EB2 and Hunt Library on NC State’s Centennial Campus. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1479 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Five extraordinary women with ties to computer science at NC State have been selected as mentors/role models for SHE++. This program connects technically inclined high school and middle school girls with female college students and recent graduates. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1478 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Several NC State Computer Science students finished strong in two cyber security competitions. One NC State team is advancing to the regional finals of the 2013 National CyberWatch Center Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition on April 10-12. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1477 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Dr. Tao Xie, associate professor of computer science, will present his work on Pex4Fun at the Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) on April 23-24 in New York. He is one of only two university researchers to present his work. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1476 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Dr. James Lester recently received an award worth almost $47,000 to support his research on learning environments across disciplines with technology. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1475 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Eric Whitmire, a junior majoring in Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering is one of three recipients of the Goldwater Scholarship for 2013-2014. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1474 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Four students in the NC State Computer Science Department have been selected to receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships valued at more than $122,000 each. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1473 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST The Taming the Data invited-speaker series welcomes Dr. M. Tamer Özsu, professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, on Friday, April 12th at 11:00 a.m. in 3211 in EB2. The event is free and open to the public. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1472 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Dr. Donald Bitzer, Distinguished University Research Professor in the NC State Computer Science Department, has been inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame. Bitzer co-invented the flat plasma display panel in 1964. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1471 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Computer Science PhD student Ignacio Dominguez on being named one of 15 NC State Outstanding Teaching Assistants by the University Graduate Student Association. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1470 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Dr. Robert Fornaro, professor of computer science at NC State, has been selected to receive the 2013 Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award from the IEEE Computer Society. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1468 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:00:00 EST Several faculty and staff members in the NC State Computer Science Department are working with the NC Division of Employment Security to assess the automatability of the organization’s workflows. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1467 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:00:00 EST Dr. James Lester has been named Distinguished Professor in Computer Science at NC State University. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1466 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:00:00 EST Drs. James Lester and Bradford Mott have received more than $478,000 to support their research in simulation-based combat medic training. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1465 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Dr. Robert St. Amant on receiving the 2013 Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award for the College of Engineering. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1464 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Dr. Xuxian Jiang, and PhD students Wu Zhou, Yajin Zhou and Michael Grace in the NC State computer science department, for winning the Best Paper Award at the CODASPY 2013 Conference in San Antonio, TX. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1463 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Zhe Zhang, a Ph.D. student in the NC State Computer Science Department, on being awarded a prestigious 2013 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1462 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:00:00 EST Dr. Emerson Murphy-Hill becomes the 23rd NSF CAREER Award winner for the Department of Computer Science at NC State. He is the 21st CAREER Award winner currently on staff, one of the highest concentrations of any department in the nation. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1461 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:00:00 EST NC State’s Video Game Design Program has been recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the top 15 undergraduate programs to study video game design for 2013 in the US and Canada. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1460 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:00:00 EST The Fujitsu Lab of America, Inc. is supporting Dr. Tao Xie’s research on the inter-application of mobile applications. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1459 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:00:00 EST Dr. Tiffany Barnes recently received $150,000 to enhance the STARS Alliance through the “Beauty and Joy of Computing” project. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1458 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:00:00 EST The Computer Science Department welcomes Jessica Bishop (Duke Energy), Clay Johnson (The Boeing Company), Carole LeMay (Design Access, Inc.), and Chonly Wang (OnWire Consulting Group) to our Strategic Advisory Board (SAB). http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1457 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:00:00 EST The Power of Procrastination! The Fidelity Investments "Leadership in Technology" Speakers Series welcomes Jorge Cham, founder of PhD Comics, on March 26th @ 6 pm in the Hunt Library Auditorium. Talk, reception & book signing - free & open to the public! http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1456 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:00:00 EST Dr. William Enck becomes the 22nd NSF CAREER Award winner for the Department of Computer Science at NC State. He is the 20th CAREER Award winner currently on staff, one of the highest concentrations of any department in the nation. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1455 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:00:00 EST “Materialized Views (Foundations and Trends in Databases)”, a new book co-authored by Dr. Rada Chirkova, an associate professor in the NC State Computer Science Department, is available from Now Publishers. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1454 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:00:00 EST Dr. Tao Xie’s collaborative work with Microsoft Research on Pex for Fun is featured in “daily edventures” blog. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1453 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:00:00 EST Cisco Systems, Inc. is continuing support of an internship program in the NC State Computer Science Department for four students to participate in Cisco Software Application Support plus Upgrades (SASU) projects and /or conduct research for SASU. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1451 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:00:00 EST Dr. Frank Mueller has been awarded $225,000 from the National Science Foundation to support his research proposal titled “Bringing the Multicore Revolution to Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems.” http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1450 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:00:00 EST Computer Science students Khalia Braswell and KaMar Galloway are using technology to educate and inform peers on health-related issues. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1448 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to professor Carla D. Savage on being named the tenth Secretary of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1446 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:00:00 EST Building a Business on Artificial Intelligence! The Fidelity Investments "Leadership in Technology" Speakers Series welcomes Brian Hamilton, Co-founder & Chairman of Sageworks, on February 21st @ 6 pm in 1231 EB2. Event is free and open to the public. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1444 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:00:00 EST PhD student Acey Boyce will talk about recent strides in serious game research, and showcase his Bead Loom Game on February 2 during the Carolina Games Summit to be held at Wayne Community College. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1442 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:00:00 EST Computer Science graduate student Sagar Jauhari is the recipient of a Graduate Industrial Traineeship from SAS Institute. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1441 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:00:00 EST The Taming the Data invited-speaker series welcomes Dr. Richard Snodgrass, professor of Computer Science at the University of Arizona, on Friday, January 25th at 11:00 a.m. in 3211 in EB2. The event is free and open to the public. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1440 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:00:00 EST Leveraging education and a passion for soccer, NC State computer science alumnus Romulo Manzano is transforming lives on an international scale! http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1438 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:00:00 EST How do ordinary mortals compute? Dr. Robert St. Amant, associate professor of computer science, will discuss his new book, “Computing for Ordinary Mortals”, on January 22 in the Hunt Library as part of the NCSU Libraries Fabulous Faculty Series. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1437 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Matthew Sessoms, a recent MS graduate, and assistant professor Dr. Kemafor Anyanwu Ogan in the NC State Computer Science Department, on winning the Best Paper Award at JIST 2012 in Naro, Japan. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1436 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:00:00 EST Dr. Frank Mueller has been awarded $60,000 from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the US Department of Energy to support his research proposal titled “Application Skelleton Generation for Exascale HPC.” http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1435 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to PhD student Brian Bouterse and Dr. Harry Perros for winning the Best Paper Award at the IEEE CloudNet 2012 Conference in Paris, France. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1433 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Sarat Sreepathi, a PhD student in the NC State Computer Science Department, on winning the Gold Award in the ACM’s Student Research Competition at the SC 2012 Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1432 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:00:00 EST More than 180 students received their diplomas during the Fall 2012 Diploma Ceremony on December 14th at Providence Baptist Church. Computer science department alumna LTC Tanya Markow delivered the keynote address. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1431 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:00:00 EST Healing Healthcare! The Fidelity Investments "Leadership in Technology" Executive Speakers Series welcomes Brad Wilson, President & CEO of BCBSNC, on January 24th @ 6 pm in 1231 EB2. Event is free and open to the public. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1430 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to PhD students Matthew Fendt, Brent Harrison, Stephen Ware and Rogelio Cardona-Rivera; and Dr. David Roberts for winning the Best Paper Award at the Fifth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2012). http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1428 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Munindar Singh has received $55,000 from Xerox Corporation to support his research on the challenges of using social computing in the service marketplace. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1427 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Frank Mueller has been awarded $666,666, part of a $1.9 million grant from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (US Air Force), to support his research proposal titled “Co-Design of Hardware/Software for Predicting MAV Aerodynamics. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1426 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:00:00 EST NC State gamers take on UNC in the first ever GeForce GTX Call of Duty Rivalries Competition. The event takes place Thursday, December 6, at 7 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Talley Student Center at NC State. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1423 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:00:00 EST Just how secure are web-based “cloud browser” services? Dr. William Enck's collaborative research efforts have found open doors to large-scale anonymous computing! http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1422 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST “Designing for Network and Service Continuity in Wireless Networks”, a new book written by Dr. Rudra Dutta, an associate professor in the NC State Computer Science Department, and one of his former PhD students, Parth H. Pathak, has been published. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1421 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Tao Xie, associate professor of computer science at NC State, has been recognized as a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1420 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST After studying computer science at NC State, entrepreneur, Strategic Advisory Board member and cloud computing expert Troy Tolle enjoys the ability to innovate and create something that never existed. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1418 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST Please join us as the NC State Computer Science Senior Design Center students showcase their work during our annual “Posters & Pies” event on Friday, November 30th in EB2 on NC State’s Centennial Campus. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1417 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST Well-grounded in the history of our department, Dr. Robert Fornaro will be soaring to new heights in retirement! http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1416 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST Please join us for the Fall 2012 Department of Computer Science Diploma Ceremony at 2 p.m. on Friday, December 14th at Providence Baptist Church in Raleigh. This year's keynote speaker is alumna U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, Tanya Markow. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1414 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST Researchers at NC State have developed a new software program called “WiFox” that can improve WiFi performance in highly-populated spaces by up to 700%. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1413 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST NC State is one of eight U.S. colleges, including two chosen by gamers, to compete in the first-ever GeForce GTX Call of Duty Rivalries Competition. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1412 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Drs. Rada Chirkova, Vince Freeh, Christopher Healey, Mladen Vouk and Laurie Williams who have been awarded 2012 IBM Faculty Awards totaling over $126,000. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1409 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Xuxian Jiang advises Android users to be cautious when downloading and installing apps (particularly from unknown sources). http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1408 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Rada Chirkova, associate professor of computer science at NC State, has been recognized as a Senior Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1407 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST Professor Carla D. Savage is one of four faculty from NC State University to be named to the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1406 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST Computer Science Ph.D. students successfully defend their Ph.D. dissertations... http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1405 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST How NC State launched the cloud computing revolution, improved educational opportunity and eased the pressure on school budgets. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1404 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 08:00:00 EST Researchers from NC State and IBM have developed a new natural language processing tool that can be used to ensure that software developers have a clear idea of the security policies to be incorporated into new software products. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1402 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. R. Michael Young, Professor of Computer Science, and Mr. Tim Buie, Associate Professor of Graphic and Industrial Design, were honored for their contributions to the Libraries’ mission, vision, and strategic initiatives. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1401 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST The Fidelity Investments "Leadership in Technology" Executive Speakers Series welcomes James Stikeleather, Executive Strategist, Innovation for Dell, on November 15th @ 6 pm in 1231 EB2. Event is free and open to the public. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1399 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST PhD student Zhe Zhang is the recipient of a prestigious IBM PhD Watson Solutions Scholarship valued at $10,000. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1398 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Christopher Healey's 'Tweet Viz' tool offers a new way to assess the Presidential Debates, allowing users to gauge the overall public sentiment based on Twitter activity! http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1397 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST The Taming the Data invited-speaker series welcomes Denise Hatzidakis, chief technology officer for Premier Healthcare Alliance on Friday, October 19th at 9:30 a.m. in 3211 in EB2. The event is free and open to the public. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1396 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Tao Xie has received more than $100,000 in support of two research proposals. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1395 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST Drs. Xuxian Jiang and Peng Ning recently received $150,000 from the US Army – ARO to build a hybrid computing testbed. The testbed will help detect emerging mobile threats and improve research and education in information security at NC State. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1394 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST The National Science Foundation recently awarded Dr. Will Enck, assistant professor of computer science, a $167,000 grant to study the security of mobile browsers and the mobile specific websites they access. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1393 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST Drs. Emerson Murphy-Hill and Sarah Heckman recently received an NSF Award of $250,000 to support their research on program analysis tools which will enable software developers to make progress towards creating more reliable and on-time systems. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1392 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Xiaosong Ma has been awarded more almost $15,000 in supplemental funding to support her joint faculty appointment with NC State and Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL). Total funding for this current project is over $80,868. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1391 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST Several NC State Computer Science students finished strong in the ACM ICPC North American Qualifier Competition last month. These students, now competing in teams of three, will advance to the Mid-Atlantic Regionals to be held on November 10th. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1390 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Denae Ford, a junior in the NC State Computer Science Department, on receiving one of 25 Facebook Scholarships to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1388 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST An emerging problem in the world of casual games is the use of bots, or automated accounts that pose as players to amass online “rewards” needed to advance. NC State researchers have developed a technique for detecting bot accounts. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1386 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST The Fidelity Investments "Leadership in Technology" Executive Speakers Series welcomes Paul Jones, director of ibilio.org, on October 18th @ 6 pm in 1231 EB2. Event is free and open to the public. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1384 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST Researchers at NC State, lead by Dr. James Lester, have received supplemental funding for their research on developing a game-based learning environment that will support middle school computer fluency education. Total funding exceeds $1 million. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1383 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST This summer at NC State, dozens of high school teachers came together with college level computer science faculty for a Tapestry Workshop to explore the intricate combination of motivating and educating high school students about computer science. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1382 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Drs. Christopher Healey and Robert St. Amant who recently received a $42,734 award from Soar Technology to support their research on system vulnerability detection. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1380 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Christopher Healey's visualizations provide a quick glimpse of trends in everything from football to elections to sentiments on Twitter. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1379 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST The researchers, including Dr. Nagiza Samatova, hope to use their new method to improve our understanding of hurricane behavior. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1378 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST The EYE Retreat is designed to help ease the transition for visually impaired students from high school or community college to a large university. Computer Science Lecturer Suzanne Balik helped at this year’s program by offering a mock college course. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1377 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST Two members of the “Wanderful” team have close ties to the NC State Computer Science Department. The team has developed a new mobile app for Apple and Android phones that helps users explore local history and culture. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1376 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST This new software tool defines normal behavior for every virtual machine in a cloud computing infrastructure, and can then look for deviations and predict anomalies that could affect the system’s ability to provide service to users. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1375 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST For two weeks this summer, a team of 20 undergraduate students from the Universidad Católica Andres Bello (UCAB) in Caracas, Venezuela studied and worked with NC State computer science students, faculty and staff during a summer practicum. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1373 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST “Computing for Ordinary Mortals”, a new book written by Dr. Robert St. Amant, an associate professor in the NC State Computer Science Department, is scheduled for publication in late October. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1371 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST The National Science Foundation is supporting Dr. Kemafor Anyanwu Ogan’s research project which addresses optimization techniques for scalable semantic web data processing in the cloud. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1370 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:00:00 EST The NC State Department of Computer Science welcomes new faculty this fall - Dr. Tiffany Barnes as associate professor and Dr. Lina Battestilli as teaching assistant professor. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1369 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EST The 2012 Welcome Back Bash is planned for Monday, August 27th, from 5:30–8:00 p.m. The event is open to all engineering students, faculty and staff, and will be held outside on the Masnari Gateway and the brick oval at EB2 on Centennial Campus. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1368 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EST The NC State Computer Science Department congratulates Dr. R. Michael Young on his promotion to full professor and Dr. Xuxian Jiang on his promotion to associate professor! http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1367 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EST Storm Tracking - Graph theory makes mathematical connections between seemingly unrelated locations across the globe, revealing hidden links that could greatly improve scientists’ predictions of hurricane activity. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1366 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EST The Simons Foundation is supporting Dr. Carla Savage’s research project which takes a geometric view of lecture hall partitions and uses polyhedral geometry to investigate their remarkable properties. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1365 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EST Researchers from NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, UMASS, and the University of Kentucky are working together to design a blueprint for a future version of the Internet. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1364 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EST The Fidelity Investments "Leadership in Technology" Executive Speakers Series welcomes David Morken, Co-founder & CEO of Bandwidth, on September 18th @ 6 pm in 1231 EB2. Event is free and open to the public. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1363 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EST This fall, Barry Peddycord III is beginning his second year of doctoral work in NC State's Computer Science program. But, in an unexpected twist, he became inspired to include an educational focus to his computer science training. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1362 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EST Thanks to the continued generous support of Fidelity Investments, the series kicks off its sixth year this fall with an exciting slate of speakers including David Morken, Paul Jones & Jim Stikeleather! http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1361 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EST This summer, 24 middle school girls got to exercise their imaginations by creating games and doing other computer science activities during a gaming camp designed specifically for them. This camp was part of the College of Engineering’s Summer Programs. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1360 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:00:00 EST Cisco Systems is supporting an internship program in the NC State Computer Science Department for four undergraduate students to participate in Cisco Software Application Support plus Upgrades (SASU) projects and /or conduct research for SASU. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1358 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Tao Xie has received supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation to support his database application research. Total funding for this project is over $257,880. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1357 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Xuxian Jiang and other researchers at NC State have identified another threat to Androids called clickjacking. This malicious technique tricks users into clicking on something different that intended by using concealed links. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1354 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:00:00 EST This summer dozens of high school students got to exercise their imaginations by creating Android apps during the Computer Science Software Engineering Android Applications Workshop, part of the College of Engineering’s Summer Programs. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1352 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:00:00 EST U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Tanya Markow is using her skills and experience to help her pursue her dreams of becoming an astronaut. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1351 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Dr. Tao Xie, associate professor of computer science, on having three papers accepted for presentation at the 20th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012). http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1350 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to PhD students Yongmin Tan, Hiep Nguyen and Zhiming Shen, and Dr. Xiaohui (Helen) Gu in the NC State Computer Science Department, for winning the Best Paper Award at the ICDCS 2012 Conference in Macau, China. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1349 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:00:00 EST The NC State Apache Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) has graduated from an incubator project to an Apache Software Foundation Top Level Project. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1348 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Xusheng Xiao, a PhD student in the NC State Computer Science Department, for having his paper recognized as ICSE SRC's “Best Project Representing an Innovative Use of Microsoft Technology.” http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1347 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:00:00 EST The “R Greenway” team developed a mobile app that helps people navigate the city’s trail network including trail routes, parking and weather forecasts. Team R Greenway took home the CityCamp Raleigh top prize, and $5,000! http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1346 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:00:00 EST Drs. Peng Ning and Ahmed Azab have been awarded $40,000 by the US Air Force – Research Laboratory/Intelligent Automation Inc. to support their research on trustworthy computing frameworks for embedded systems. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1344 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:00:00 EST The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has presented NC State PhD student Rahul Pandita and other members of the Semantic Data Mining Development Team an FDA Group Recognition Award. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1343 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:00:00 EST Khiry Arnold’s interactive Android video game “Pure Modness” was named a finalist in the 2012 LuLu eGames. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1342 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Michael Rappa, founding director of the Institute for Advanced Analytics and professor of computer science at NC State, has been named co-chair of the TechAmerica Foundation’s Big Data Commission. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1339 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Frank Mueller has been awarded more than $457,000 by the National Science Foundation to support his research on system performance analysis tools, specifically an analysis generator called “ScalaJack.” http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1335 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Rudra Dutta and other researchers at NC State have developed a technique to improve network performance by splitting bandwidth into channels of varying sizes according to the needs of users. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1334 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:00:00 EST Smartphones are everywhere – and so is mobile malware, especially on popular platforms like Android. Dr. Xuxian Jiang is leading a group of researchers who are developing effective solutions for malware attacks in the Android Malware Genome Project. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1332 Tue, 22 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Several graduate students from the NC State Computer Science Department were recognized recently for their participation in the University’s Preparing Future Leaders (PFL) programs. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1331 Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Nagiza Samatova, associate professor of computer science at NC State, has recently received almost $150,000 to support her research on Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) data analytics. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1330 Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Frank Mueller has been awarded $33,333 by Securboration, Inc. to support his research proposal titled “Operating System Mechanisms for Many-Core Systems (PICASO).” http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1329 Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:00 EST A team of 15 computer science students and design students at NC State worked together this semester to create a video game called NOL designed specifically for the Game Lab in the new James B. Hunt Jr. Library at NC State. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1328 Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Over 185 students received their diplomas during the Spring 2012 Diploma Ceremony on May 11th. Donald A. Thompson, Jr., President and CEO of I-Cubed, and former chair of the NC State Computer Science Strategic Advisory Board, delivered the keynote address. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1327 Tue, 15 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Daniel Lauck, Matthew “Alex” Poulos, and Anne Watson are the 2012 Computer Science Department’s Outstanding Seniors. Congratulations to these exceptional students! http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1326 Tue, 15 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Xuxian Jiang is developing new tools specifically designed to keep malicious code out of Department of Defense Android-based mobile application marketplaces. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1325 Fri, 11 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Twenty-four undergraduate students have been named members of the newly launched NC State University Department of Computer Science Student Ambassadors Program. They will begin their academic year of service with the Fall 2012 semester. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1324 Tue, 08 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Munindar Singh has received an additional $10,000 in supplemental funding from the University of California–San Diego/National Science Foundation to support his research on the OOI Cyberinfrastructure. Total funding for this project is $412,330. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1323 Mon, 07 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Sina Bahram, a PhD student in the NC State Computer Science Department, was honored by President Barack Obama as one of 14 “Champions of Change” at a White House ceremony on May 7 for his efforts to make STEM more accessible to people with disabilities. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1322 Mon, 07 May 2012 08:00:00 EST A student paper written on narrative characterization has won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2012 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative to be held in Istanbul, Turkey on May 26-27, 2012. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1321 Thu, 03 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to PhD students Michael Grace and Wu Zhou and Dr. Xuxian Jiang in the NC State Computer Science Department, for winning the Best Paper Award for their research on Android mobile in-app advertisements at the WiSec 2012 Conference. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1320 Thu, 03 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Tao Xie has received more than $16,000 in supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation to support his software testing research. Total funding for this project is over $279,000. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1319 Thu, 03 May 2012 08:00:00 EST Students from the Computer Science Department and the College of Design have been collaborating on “NOL”, a game being designed for play on a prototype of a 21-foot-wide, high-def video wall that will be the centerpiece of the Hunt Library’s Gaming Lab. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1318 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EST Please join us for the 2012 Department of Computer Science Spring Diploma Ceremony on Friday, May 11th at 7 p.m. at Hope Community Church. This year's keynote speaker is Donald A. Thompson, Jr., CEO of I-Cubed. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1317 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EST NC State researchers, led by Dr. Rudra Dutta, have developed a more efficient data transmission approach that increases the average amount of data that can be transmitted within a multi-hop wireless network by 20-80 percent. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1315 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EST Come to the Game Development Showcase to see how Computer Science and Graphic and Industrial Design students are collaborating on a game called "Nol" that is designed for play in the new Hunt Library's game lab on the 21 ft.-wide Christie micro-tile video display. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1314 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EST Please join us as the NC State Computer Science Senior Design Center students showcase their work during our annual Posters and Pies event on Friday, April 27th in EB2 on NC State's Centennial Campus. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1312 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to Andrew Sleeth, admissions specialist in the Computer Science Department Graduate Office, who is a recipient of a College of Engineering 2012 Award for Excellence. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1311 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EST You're invited! All CSC students, faculty, staff, friends and family are encouraged to attend the annual ACM/AITP Year-end Pig Pickin' on Friday, April 27 from 4 – 6 p.m. This year's event is going to be held at the Monteith Research Center (MRC). http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1310 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EST The National Institute of Standards & Technology is supporting Dr. Tao Xie’s research on the security and privacy of information sharing. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1309 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Christopher Healey and his team have paved the way for clearing up some of the mystery behind the world of electronic messages. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1308 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EST PhD candidate Piyali Dey has been selected to attend two national workshops designed to support and mentor women in their graduate school studies. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1307 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EST NC State is among six research laboratories and seven universities that are collaborating on the SDAV Institute, a project that hopes to improve the tools and techniques needed to access, organize and glean information from huge volumes of digital data. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1306 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EST Several computer science students were part of a team that spent this year’s spring break in the Silicon Valley visiting a variety of start-ups and entrepreneurial-minded companies. The trip was sponsored by NC State’s Entrepreneurial Initiative. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1305 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Emerson Murphy-Hill is one of ten worldwide winners of a Microsoft Research SEIF Award. The award, valued at $25,000, provides seed funding for innovative research that advances the state of the art in software engineering. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1304 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST Associate professor Christopher Healey has received $51,299 in supplemental funding from UNC-Chapel Hill via Sandia National Laboratories to support his dataset visualization research. Funding for the project now totals over $131,000. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1302 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST PhD student Robinson Udechukwu has received a GEM Fellowship to support his graduate studies. The goal of the GEM Fellowship is to increase the participation of underrepresented groups at the master’s and doctoral levels in engineering and science. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1301 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST The NC State lablet, which is funded by a $2.5 million grant from the NSA, will be focused on the development of a Science of Security and a broad, self-sustaining community effort to advance it. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1300 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST NC State researchers have found that including ads in mobile applications (apps) poses privacy and security risks. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1298 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Frank Mueller has been recognized for his service to the IEEE by being named a member of the IEEE Computer Society’s Golden Core. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1297 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST PhD candidate Bushra Anjum has been selected to attend three national workshops designed to support and mentor women in their graduate school studies. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1296 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST Ramya Gopalan have been selected to attend the CRA-W Graduate Cohort Workshop on April 13-14 in Bellevue, WA. The workshop is a program for women designed to build and mentor a national cohort of graduate students. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1295 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST For the second year in a row, NC State’s Video Game Design Program has been recognized by The Princeton Review as one of 32 “Top Undergraduate Schools To Study Video Game Design for 2012” in the U.S. and Canada. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1292 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST NC State alum Grant Williard is helping people learn to conserve energy with the help of his friend JouleBug, a little green online bug that lives in an iPhone app. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1290 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST The Fidelity Investments "Leadership in Technology" Speakers Series welcomes Dr. Saundra Williams, SVP & Chief of Technology and Workforce Dev. for the NC Community College System, on March 27th @ 6 pm in 1231 EB2. Event is free and open to the public. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1289 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST PhD students Titus Barik and Rogelio Cardona-Rivera shared their passion for their work in artificial intelligence in video games by presenting a talk at the Carolina Game Summit earlier this month. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1288 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST Congratulations to PhD students Wu Zhou and Yajin Zhou, and Drs. Xuxian Jiang and Ping Ning in the NC State Computer Science Department, for winning the Best Paper Award at the CODASPY 2012 Conference in San Antonio, TX. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1287 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST NC State's Digital Games Research Center to play key role in this multi-year competition designed to motivate interest in STEM learning among America’s youth by tapping into students’ natural passion for playing and making video games. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1285 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Bobby R. Johnson, Jr. and his wife, Donna, have made a matching gift pledge of $50,000 to help establish the Dr. Thomas L. Honeycutt Scholarship Endowment. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1282 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST For the third time in four years, Dr. Tao Xie, associate professor of computer science, has had two research-track papers and two tutorials selected for presentation at ICSE 2012, the premier international conference for software engineering. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1279 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST Computer science alumnus Marshall Brain (M.S. 1989) has been recognized as a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus by the College of Engineering. Brain is the founder of HowStuffWorks.com, author of more than a dozen books, and a popular TV and radio personality. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1278 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Michael Young from NC State's Department of Computer Science and Tim Buie from the NC State College of Design are working on techniques to help forensic scientists virtually recreate crime scenes in 3-D. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1277 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd. is supporting the research being done on smartphone efficiency and localization techniques by Drs.Kyunghan Lee and Mladen Vouk in the NC State Computer Science Department. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1275 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Emerson Murphy-Hill recently received an NSF Award worth more than $27,000 to support his work on a Doctoral Consortium during the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2012). http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1274 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST The Fidelity Investments "Leadership in Technology" Executive Speakers Series welcomes Bill Smith, President of Network Operations at AT&T, on February 16th @ 6 pm in 1231 EB2. Event is free and open to the public. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1273 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST The Computer Science Department welcomes Jerry Frederick (Bank of America), Mike Huska (Incential Software), Chuck Musciano (Martin Marietta Materials), and Gareth Stageman (Deutsche Bank Global Technology) to our Strategic Advisory Board (SAB). http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1272 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Xiaohui (Helen) Gu becomes the 21st NSF CAREER Award winner for the Department of Computer Science at NC State. She is the 19th CAREER Award winner currently on staff, one of the highest concentrations of any department in the nation. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1271 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST Computer science alumnus Gus Summers used his problem-solving skills to become the "turnaround guy“ as he took failing businesses and streamlined them until they were profitable again. He believes problem-solving skills are the key to success. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1270 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST The NC State Masters in Computer Networking is the 10th program at NC State to become affiliated with the Council of Graduate Schools Professional Science Master's (PSM) program. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1269 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Peng Ning's recent 2011 IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award makes his Open Collaboration Research (OCR) project, titled "Secure Virtual Machine Image Repository," the only project in IBM history to receive a 4th year renewal. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1268 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Nagiza Samatova, associate professor of computer science at NC State, has recently received more than $354,000 to support her research on developing advanced data mining algorithms for knowledge discovery from physical science applications. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1267 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST Dr. Xuxian Jiang knows how vulnerable your Android phone can be. Over the last 12 months, Jiang, an assistant professor in the NC State computer science department, and his students have uncovered at least 20 pieces of malware affecting Android phones. http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/ http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/news/news_item.php?id=1266 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST