"Computer Science at MSU: where computation is a science and an art"
News & Updates
The department will once again serve as a host site for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympian on Thursday, February 4, 2010. See the NACLO link on the left for more information.
Graduate student Dana Reinhard won this year's technical writing contest
Details for the 2009 Technical Writing Contest have been posted. Three prizes totalling $225 will be awarded for the best examples of student writing. See the webpage for more information.
Prof. Rebecca Bates was awarded a Fulbright scholarship. She will be on sabbatical in Brazil during the 2009-10 academic year.
The department hosted the second round test of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympian on Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Two Minnesota high school students taking the test at MSU were in the national top 100.
Dr. David Haglin will be the guest speaker for the Computer Science Seminar on Wednesday, February 11, 2009. Dr. Haglin's presentation is titled "Large and then Frequent: Finding Colossal Closed Itemsets in Microarray Data".
Dr. Jie Wang served as the guest speaker for the Computer Science Seminar on Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Dr. Wang's presentation was titled "Matrix Decompositions in Privacy Preserving Data Mining".
Dr. Mats Heimdahl from the University of Minnesota Software Engineering Center served as the guest speaker for the Computer Science Seminar on Wednesday, November 19, 2008. Dr. Heimdahl's presentation was titled "Safety and Software Intensive Systems: Challenges Old and New".
Mr. Tim Grittner served as the guest speaker for the Computer Science Seminar on Wednesday, November 5, 2008. Mr. Grittner's presentation was titled "Parallel Area Search".
Mr. Phil Germann from IBM Corporation served as the guest speaker for the Computer Science Seminar on Wednesday, october 22, 2008. Mr. Germann's presentation was titled "Petaflop Supercomputing: Roadrunner, Bluegene, and the Future."
Mr. David Semple from Daktronics served as the guest speaker for the Computer Science Seminar on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. Mr. Semple's presentation was titled "Software Quality in Industry."
In partnership with the Southern Minnesota Subsection of the IEEE, Mr. Paul Ulland and Mr. Dave Foye served as guest speakers for the Computer Science Seminar on Monday, October 13, 2008. Their presentation was titled "Coulee Subsection PACE Activity: K-12 Robotics."
Dr. Rebecca Bates served as the guest speaker for the Computer Science Seminar on Wednesday, October 8, 2008. Dr. Bates' presentation was titled "Modeling Human Interaction: Analyzing Recorded Meetings for Improved Speech Understanding Systems."
Dr. David Haglin served as the guest speaker for the Computer Science Seminar on Wednesday, September 24, 2008. Dr. Haglin's presentation was title "Variable-grain and Dynamic Work Generation for Minimal Unique Itemset Mining."
The new Software Engineering major began Fall 2008.
The new Computer Science department began on July 1, 2007.
