On July 12, Jessie Eaves received a certificate for her completion of the University Organizational and  Professional Development's (UOPD) Customer Service training. 

Professor Doug Bowman was awarded a Georgia Tech Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center's (GVU) Impact Award for "research leadership in the field of Human-Computer Interaction."

Congratulations to Cal Ribbens who was promoted to full professor. 

Congratulations to Wu Feng who was promoted to full professor.

Recent CS graduate Tam Ayers tried out Google Glass at the College of Engineering's May 18 ceremonies.

On Saturday, May 18, the Virginia Tech College of Engineering conferred degrees on the class of 2013, including approximately 95 Computer Science undergraduate students.  Graduate degrees were conferred at the Graduate Commencement on Friday, May 17.

Associate professor Denis Gracanin is a summer scholar-in-residence studying "Neuroeconomics of Social Decision Making in Autism Spectrum Disorders."

Co-directors of the Complex Networks and Security Research Lab, Drs. Wenjing Lou, associate professor of computer science, and Tom Hou, professor of electrical and computer engineering, along with Hui Li (Xidian University, China) and CS graduate students Wenjai Sun, Bing Wang, Ning Cao, and Ming Li received a best paper award for "Privacy-Preserving Multi-keyword Text Search in the Cloud Supporting Similarity-based Ranking" at ASIACCS.

Dr. Mary Miller, named 2013 Distinguished Alumna, was recognized at the College of Engineering's commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 18.  She had the honor of addressing the undergraduates at their commencement ceremonies. 

On May 16, 2013, professor Kirk Cameron won the Rising Star Award from the Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council (RBTC).  The award was presented during the RBTC's TechNite. 

Students from CS 1124 Media Computation and CS 4644 Creative Computing Studio students presented their work at the ICAT Day held on May 6, 2013. 

Associate professor of computer science Ali Butt was awarded funding from Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL) for his proposal entitled "A Staged Data Delivery Tool for HPC."  Butt is the sole PI on this award. 

PhD student Austin Cory Bart placed 2nd in the graduate Student Research Competition at SIGCSE 2013.  Cory's work was entitled "Wacky Writing: Enhancing the XO Laptop Platform to Motivate Creative Writing by Children."  Bart's advisors on this project are Lori Pollock at the University of Delaware and Eli Telivich (VT). 

Professor Osman Balci (director of the Mobile Software Engineering Lab), CS graduate student Kyle Schutt, and Carl Harris (alumnus and chief technology architect for Communication Network Services) worked with the Office of Emergency Management and the Virginia Tech Police Department to create VTGemini, an emergency preparedness iOS app.

On Friday, April 26, a Spring Awards Banquet was held to recognize faculty, staff, and student achievements from the 2012/2013 academic year.

On Thusday, April 25, the Computer Science Department held its 11th VTURCS Spring Symposium. Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research in Computer Science (VTURCS) encourages Computer Science undergraduate students to become involved in research. This year's symposium featured 26 projects, including nine capstone projects from the CS 4284 Systems and Networking Capstone course.

Associate professor of computer science Wu Feng and PhD student Balaji Subramaniam won a best paper award at the ACM/SPEC/ICPE conference (Association of Computing Machinery/Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation/International Conference on Performance Engineering).

The Virginia/Washington, D.C., affiliate of the National Center for Women in IT held its second annual Award for Aspirations in Computing ceremony March 23 at the Virginia Tech Research Center in Arlington, Va., honoring a high school teacher and 14 high school students for their efforts to, respectively, teach and learn computer science.

Steve Edwards' CS 1 course, CS 1114 Intro to Software Design, was recently named as one of 10 top technology courses "We Wish We Took in College."  You can read the article at TechSchool.com.

Libby G. Bradford, Director of External Relations and Undergraduate Studies, received a Dean's Award for Outreach Excellence at the Dean's Awards for Excellence Ceremony at The Inn at Virginia Tech on April 2, 2013.

Associate Professor Ali Butt was named a College of Engineering Faculty Fellow at the Dean's Awards for Excellence ceremony held at The Inn at Virginia Tech on April 2, 2013. 

Rising Junior Elena Nadolinski is the winner of a 2013-2014 Microsoft Scholarship.  Recipients are chosen based on their academic record and a desire to make contributions to the software industry.  After attending the NCWIT Summit in Tucson, Arizona, Nadolinski will travel to her internship at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.  Microsoft is a member of the CSRC.

CS PhD candidate Kevin Buffardi received the Virginia Tech Graduate Teaching Excellence Award for 2013.  With this award, he received a $1000 cash prize from the Virginia Tech Alumni Association. 

Second year computer science student Huanqing Liu was selected to present his research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research and at the ACC's Meeting of the Minds.

PhD student Bireswar Laha, advised by Doug Bowman, has received an IBM Fellowship Award.