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Adam Wu wins the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Natural and Computational Sciences.
Aaron Dufour, a double major in Computer Science and Physics, is this year's recipient of the Park Undergraduate Award.
Evan Callaway, a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics, is a Spring 2012 PBK initiate.
2 Guys 1 CPU (Pozulp and Schaff) won with what was voted the best overall app while SilverLight (Wang, Qi, and Xu) won with what was voted the most technologically interesting feature.
Meet the Dilligs. The successful husband-and-wife team arrived on campus with impressive teaching experience, robust enthusiasm, and a sizable research grant.
Computer Science was recognized with the Academic Department Award for the 2012 Image Awards.
Weizhen Mao is one of three recipients of the Arts & Sciences Faculty Awards for Teaching Excellence for 2012-13.
Evgenia Smirni is one of 20 W&M faculty members to receive a 2012 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence.
Sometimes the guys on Team Gold say “worlds.” Other times, they say “finals.” Both terms refer to the World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery’s International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) to be held in May in Warsaw, Poland.
It is rare for a research group to have more than two papers accepted for the research track in the same year for the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), but this year the SEMERU group at William & Mary had three research papers accepted for ICSE 2012.
Collin McMillan and Eddy Zhang, doctoral students in the Department of Computer Science, have been selected for the 2011 Stephen K. Park Graduate Research Award.
A team of student computer scientists will represent William & Mary at an international competition in Poland this May after racking up a College-best showing at a preliminary event in November.
Recently seven W&M Computer Science students attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference in Portland, Oregon, and returned fully inspired about the field and their future careers.
This year, two teams from William & Mary participated in the ACM Regional Programming Contest. One team may have performed well enough to qualify for the International competition.
Malcom Gethers has become the Department of Computer Science's first-ever Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Doctoral Scholar.
Sarah Kunkler's t-shirt design was the top vote-getter in the second annual election to chose a design for the limited-edition 2011-2012 Computer Science T-shirt.
Collin McMillan, Judith Providence, and Jennifer Thorne are the recipients of NASA Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate STEM Research Fellowships by Computer Science Department.
Take a look at the progression of technology over the past 36 years, and you'll see Computer Science professor Robert Noonan there every step of the way.
Bo Wu is the recipient of a Research Fellowship from the IBM Center for Advanced Studies (CAS).
Xipeng Shen has been selected to receive the prestigious Department of Energy Office of Science Fiscal Year 2011 Early Career Research Award.
Eddy Zheng Zhang has been selected as a recipient of the 2011 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. While the department has been the home of two prior finalists (Anne Huang, B.S. '05, and Meghan Revelle, Ph.D. '10), Eddy is the first William & Mary student to be a recipient of this prestigious scholarship.
Professor Phil Kearns is to receive a 2011 Thomas A. Graves, Jr. Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching.
The Board of Visitors at its meeting on April 15, 2011, approved the recommendation of Provost Michael Halleran that Haining Wang be designated the Wilson P. and Martha Claiborne Stephens Term Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science for a three-year term, effective with the beginning of the 2011-12 academic year.
George Albert (Bert) Cortina and Harry Gao have been selected for the 2010/11 Stephen K. Park Undergraduate Scholarship Award. The award is presented annually at the Department of Computer Science diploma ceremony to at least one student earning a B.S. in Computer Science at William & Mary.
Mark Nauta and Jennifer Thorne have been selected as Phi Beta Kappa Spring 2011 Initiates, the highest academic honor awarded to liberal arts students in the United States.
Isil and Tom Dillig are currently doctoral students in the Stanford Computer Science Department. They have accepted offers to join the Department of Computer Science at William & Mary as Assistant Professors, starting with the Spring 2012 semester.
Computer Science doctoral student Fengyuan Xu is one of two recipients of the 2010-2011 Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring in the Natural and Computational Sciences. Fengyuan will be the first Computer Science graduate student to receive this award.
“There are a lot of different things you can do with this degree that never would have crossed my mind when I graduated,” says Kara Snyder Smith '05.
Computer Science and Mathematics double major is admired for his tenacity in researching difficult problems.
Heng Yin (Ph.D., 2009) has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant for "Binary and Virtualization Centric Malware Defense." Heng is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University.
Zia-ur (Zia) Rahman, a former member of the Department of Computer Science, was killed December 16 in a single-car accident when his car ran off an icy road and struck a guardrail on Interstate 81.
Gang Zhou has been awarded a Faculty Interdisciplinary Initiatives Grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Humanities.
Already an accomplished researcher, Harry Gao is on his way to an impressive computer science career.
Rance Necaise (Ph.D. '98) is the author of the new book "Data Structures and Algorithms Using Python" (Wiley, 2010). Rance's new book gives programmers complete coverage of abstraction and basic data structures and algorithms in the Python language.
George Albert (Bert) Cortina has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Membership in Phi Beta Kappa, founded at William & Mary in 1776, is the highest academic honor awarded to liberal arts students in the United States.
William & Mary students performed well at the ACM Regional Programming Contest held at Christopher Newport University.
Kevin Howell was the top vote-getter in a closely contested election to chose one of three designs for the limited-edition 2010-2011 Computer Science T-shirt.
A paper by Lei Lu with Andrew Caniff, Ningfang Mi, Lucy Cherkasova, and Evgenia Smirni won the Best Student Paper Award at the 22nd International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 22) that was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 7-9.
A paper on which Prof. Gang Zhou collaborated has won the Best Paper Award at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2010).
A paper by Denys Poshyvanyk in collaboration with Béla Újházi, Rudolf Ferenc and Tibor Gyimóthy from the University of Szeged receives the Best Paper Award at the 10th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2010).
A paper by Malcom Gethers and Denys Poshyvanyk won the Distinguished Paper Award at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2010).
Prof. Poshyvanyk was awarded an NSF grant on Software Maintenance, which is a collaborative project with Huzefa Kagdi at Winston-Salem State University.
Prof. Denys Poshyvanyk was awarded an NSF grant to support a 3-year project on software traceability.
The award is given to a single Ph.D. student at the College of William and Mary for their exemplary achievement in graduate student research as demonstrated by the content of their dissertation.
Prof. Xipeng Shen offered appointment by IBM Canada.
Prof. Xipeng Shen was awarded an NSF Career grant to support his research on "Input-Centric Program Behavior Analysis and Adaption."
Zhichun Zhu (Ph.D. 2003) recently was awarded an NSF Career grant for a "Scalable and Universal Architecture for Next-Generation Memory Systems".
A paper by Eddy Zhang, Yunlian Jiang, and Xipeng Shen, won the Best Paper Award at the 15th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'10).
In the recent ACM Mid-Atlantic Regional Programming contest, a team consisting of Sarah Cameron, Kevin Cox and Joel Gillespie placed 14th out of 161 teams.
Gang Zhou, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Department, has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "Holistic Transparent Performance Assurance within the Crowded Spectrum." This is a three-year joint project with Dr. Guoliang Xing from Michigan State University.
The College of William and Mary invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Computer Science for Fall 2010.
Prof. Poshyvanyk has been awarded a three year NSF grant.
NSF has awarded an ECCS-IHCS grant on Multi-Scale QoS for Body Sensor Networks to Professor Gang Zhou. This 3-year project is in collaboration with both the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia.
The annual Park Undergraduate Scholarship Award was given in 2008/09 to Michael Liarakos and Katie Williams.
Malcom Gethers has been awarded a Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) Graduate Research Fellowship.
NSF has awarded a STEM grant on SCORE: Scientific Computing and Operations Research Education to Professors Larry Leemis of Mathematics and Robert Noonan (shown) of Computer Science.
Kevin T. Smith and Marc J. Balcer co-authored a new book, "Applied SOA - Service Oriented Architecture & Design Strategies".
Song Jiang, who received his doctorate from the department in 2004, was awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his proposal titled Building Virtual Devices with QoS Assurance in a Consolidated Storage Infrastructure.
Ningfang Mi was selected as the recipient of the Computer Measurement Group (CMG) Graduate Fellowship grant for 2009.
Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, and Evgenia Smirni, together with Lucy Cherkasova (HP Labs) won the best paper award at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference.
Song Jiang, who received his doctorate from the department in 2004, was awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his proposal titled Building Virtual Devices with QoS Assurance in a Consolidated Storage Infrastructure.
On Saturday, October 25, William and Mary participated in the annual ACM Mid-Atlantic Regional Programming contest.
Graduate student Eddy Zhang received the Best Student Paper award at the 5th International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 2008.
NSF has awarded Prof. Xipeng Shen a CCF grant on "Exploring and Exploiting Heterogeneous Cache Sharing in CMP Systems for Locality Optimization and Proactive Cache Management."
Bill Spracklin is a Computer Science major at the College, having transferred in after three years at nearby Thomas Nelson Community College.
Graduate sudent Meghan Revelle was selected as a finalist for the 2008 Google Anita Borg Scholarship.
The annual Park Graduate Research Award was given in 2007/08 to Bo Sheng.
Graduate student Ningfang Mi was recently received the Incogen Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Natural and Computational Sciences at the 7th Annual Graduate Research Symposium of the College of William and Mary.
Yunlian Jiang has been awarded CAS PhD Fellowship by IBM.
Qun Li, an assistant professor in the department, recently received an NSF CAREER grant titled Advanced Data Management for Sensor Networks.
Songqing Chen, who received his doctorate from the department in 2004, was awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his proposal titled Internet Resource Management to Deliver High Quality Live and On-demand Streaming for Wireless Clients.
Hans Boehm, a Senior Research Scientist at HP Lab, will talk on Getting C++ threads right on Fri, Nov. 16, at 3 PM in McGl 020.
The Robert C. and Muriel M. Jennings Scholarship fund was established to support worthy Virginia students.
Prof. Jeannette Wing of Carnegie-Mellon Univ. will talk on her vision of Computational Thinking on Fri, Nov 9 at 3 PM in McGl 020.
Prof. William Sanders of the Univ. of Illnois will talk on a Probabilistic Validation of Computer System Security on Thu, Nov 1 at 5PM in McGl 020.
Applications are invited for two tenure-track faculty positions in Computer Science for Fall 2008 at all academic ranks. We are interested in individuals with research expertise in all areas of computer science.
Prof. Zhou received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science under Professor John A. Stankovic from University of Virginia in 2007.
NSF has awarded a CNS-CSR grant on Behavior-Based Speculative Parallelization and Optimization on Desktop Multiprocessors to Prof. Xipeng Shen.
According to CNNMoney, starting salaries for CS majors last year were 5th highest, with only some engineering majors higher.
Jill Matthews received a Women in Science and Technology Scholarship for 2007-2008 from the Virginia Chapter of Business and Professional Women (BPW/VA).