News and Announcements
Student poster wins award
Ben Fisk, a student in Dr. Iba's machine learning course, presented a poster at the southwest regional conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges. The poster -- Evaluating a Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm on the Chess Endgame Problem, co-authored with Kelsey Marshman, Daniel Rufener and Joel Stewart -- won a "best student poster" award at the conference. The judges commented that the project was very interesting and that Ben did a very good job explaining it. Congratulations to all four students!
NSF Scholarships
The National Science Foundation has awarded Westmont a grant of $287,500 to fund computer science scholarships over the next four years. The grant provides scholarships of up to $10,000 per year for students who demonstrate financial need and academic promise. Recipients will be selected during Connection Weekend, a recruiting event and scholarship competition to be held on campus early in 2008. More information.
Summer research
Several CS students were engaged in research last summer. Daniel Rufener worked with Dr. Iba studying service with the MÆDEN simulator. Mike Magnuson, Joel Stewart, Adrian Rogers, and Toby Lounsbury worked with Dr. Kihlstrom on the Starfish system. Michael Gardner worked on physics research with Dr. Rogers. And, Damian Durruty did research at another university.
Congratulations graduates!
Congratulations to the nine computer science graduates of the class of 2007! They are:
- Kristin Barquer
- Cuyler Cannon
- Annie Evans
- Josh Holm
- Mike Magnuson
- Stephen Raub
- JB Schiller
- Julia Willson
- Ryan Wisdom
Plans for new building
The plans for our new building are posted in the math/CS building (near Silvia's area and Dr. K's door). It is anticipated that we will break ground in October 2008. The building will house CS, math, physics, and psychology. It's going to be amazing!