Computer Science alumnus Brian Sutton was awarded the 14th Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis this summer.

Congratulations to CS Faculty members who have received new research funding in the month of October! CS faculty members received awards as principle investigators and as collaborative partners from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease.

Ramakrishnan is one of 84 professionals worldwide to be recognized as a 2009 Distinguished Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS '09) was held this September in London, UK.

"The Impact of Virtualization on Modern Computing Environments"
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Computer Science faculty members featured in Scientific American.

The Graduate School has named Hussein as October's "Featured Graduate Student."

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The week of September 14th was a busy week for Computer Science majors thinking about future career opportunities.  On Monday, September 14, the Computer Science Resources Consortium fall luncheon and Career Fair were held in Owens Banquet Hall.  The CSRC welcomed 10 new companies: Abraxas Corporation, Comcast, CSC, ExcelaCom, G3 Technologies, General Dynamics AIS, OPOWER (Positive Energy), Qualcomm, SAIC, and Sapient.

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Thomas Scogland has been awarded a prestigious 3-year National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship.

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Frances E. Allen, IBM Research Emerita, will be the first speaker in the Distinguished Lecture Series this Friday.

HPCwire posted an article on the release of the 5^th annual Green500 listing, a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world.

Virginia Tech, an emerging leader in high-end computing research, had a substantial presence at this summer's IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IEEE IPDPS), held May 25-29, 2009, in Rome, Italy.

Dr. Butt will join Eighty-eight of the nation’s brightest young engineers (between the ages of 30-45) at the NAE’s 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

On Friday, May 15, the Department of Computer Science celebrated Spring 2009 commencement at a reception honoring undergraduates, graduates, friends, families and faculty. Approximately 65 students completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and 35 graduate degrees were awarded. Special guest at the reception was Mrs. Anne Gorsline, wife of the first department head, Dr. George Gorsline. Dr. Barbara Ryder, Head of the Department of Computer Science, welcomed the guests and spoke about the department's accomplishments in the past year. more

On Friday, May 15, 2009, nine undergraduate Computer Science majors accepted an invitation to join the prestigious honor society Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. John Paul C. Vergara, a 1997 Ph.D. alumnus of the Computer Science Department has recently been appointed Vice President for Administration and Planning at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.

On Tuesday, May 5, 2009, Jennifer Kammer was awarded the C. T. Tate Distinguished Senior Co-op Award by Career Services. 

The Computer Science Department is proud to announce that two faculty members, Dr. Ali Butt and Dr. Adrian Sandu, are recipients of College of Engineering Faculty Awards.

Tejinder Judge, a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Computer Science, was recently invited to be a speaker at the 6th annual CRA-W Grad Cohort held in San Mateo, CA. She is one of the eight student speakers invited to present at this workshop

On Thursday, April 9, 2009, Upsilson Pi Epsilon (UPE) inducted one of its largest groups of initiates.  Twenty-one students were inducted for the 2008/9 academic year.

Rajesh presented his winning presentation entitled “A Scheduling Framework for Resizable Parallel Applications.”