News
| Congratulations to CS graduate students Anamary Leal, Chris Poirel, Greg Wilson, Patrick Butler, and Michael Stewart on recent fellowship awards! - 16 April 2010 The Department is proud to announce that it has been a very successful spring for several of our PhD students who received news of fellowship awards from the VT College of Engineering, National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense. Please join the Department in congratulating our outstanding students on their awards--we are thrilled at their accomplishments!! more | |
| Department Receives Funding From Microsoft Research and NCWIT Computing Higher Education Seed Fund - 30 March 2010 The new NCWIT award of $15,000 will support a series of annual summer workshops offering networking and professional development opportunities to high school teachers aimed at recruiting a more diverse population of women and minority students into undergraduate CS studies. more | |
| Virginia Tech Scholar of the Week - CS Associate Professor T.M. Murali - 25 March 2010 T.M. Murali, associate professor of computer science, has been recognized by The Office of the Vice President for Research as this week's "Virginia Tech Scholar of the Week." more | |
| Computer Science Professor Roger Ehrich Honored with emeritus status - 25 March 2010 Professor of computer science, Roger Ehrich, has been conferred the "professor emeritus" title by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. more | |
| Spring 2010 CSRC Career Fair - 02 March 2010 On Monday, February 18, the Computer Science Resources Consortium spring luncheon was held in Owens Banquet Hall at Virginia Tech, followed by the CS Spring Career Fair later that evening, which was also held in Owens Banquet Hall. At the luncheon, company representatives, faculty, and invited students heard presentations from undergraduate and graduate students working on a variety of research projects. | |
| Dr. Gregory D. Abowd speaking at CS Distinguished Lecture Series - 18 February 2010 Dr. Gregory D. Abowd of Georgia Tech will be speaking at the CS Distinguished Lecture Series. more | |
| Winter Research Awards - 16 February 2010 Congratulations to Drs. Fox, Butt, and Tilevich who have recently been awarded research funding. more | |
| Computer Science Student Research Accomplishments - 12 February 2010 The Department would like to congratulate and acknowledge the recent research accomplishments of Jacqueline Addesa, Gabriel Martinez, and Yinlin Chen. more | |
| Dr. Yang Cao Receives NSF CAREER Award - 27 January 2010 Dr. Cao is the Department's latest recipient of the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for his proposal titled "Multiscale Stochastic Simulation for Complex Biochemical Systems with Visualization Tools." more | |
| Fall 2009 Commencement Reception - 14 January 2010 The Department of Computer Science celebrated 2009 Fall Commencement for approximately twenty-three undergraduates and eighteen graduate students on Thursday, December 17, 2009. December graduates, their friends and family, and CS faculty and staff attended the CS Commencement Reception. more | |
| Fall 2009 Career Services Co-Op Recognition - 14 January 2010 On Monday, December 7, VT Career Services honored December 2009 graduates who participated in the Cooperative Education/Internship program. Graduating CS majors honored at the reception in the Smith Career Services Building were Justin Bolling, Jared Chelko, and Ramesh Srigiriraju. more | |
| CS Alumnus Starts Company to Develop iPhone Software for Special Needs Students - 24 December 2009 Margaret Ellis, a graduate of the CS Masters program, started the company DevelopEase that produces iPhone applications designed to assist students with special needs. more | |
| Two CS students receive ACM-W Scholarships to attend ACM CSCW 2010 Conference - 21 December 2009 Two Ph.D. students, Meg Dickey-Kurdziolek and Shaimaa Lazem, have recieved the Association for Computing Machinery Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) scholarships to attend the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. more | |
| CS Department Celebrates CS Education Week - 08 December 2009 The Department of Computer Science is celebrating National Computer Science Education Week, December 6-12. more | |
| Virginia Tech Alumnus awarded 14th Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis - 13 November 2009 Computer Science alumnus Brian Sutton was awarded the 14th Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis this summer. more | |
| New Awards for October - 11 November 2009 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. more | |
| Computer Science Professor Naren Ramakrishnan named Distinguished Scientist - 06 November 2009 Ramakrishnan is one of 84 professionals worldwide to be recognized as a 2009 Distinguished Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). more | |
| CS Graduate Student Guanying Wang wins “Best Paper Award” at MASCOTS ’09 symposium. - 06 November 2009 The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS '09) was held this September in London, UK. more | |
| THIS FRIDAY- Dr. Mendel Rosenblum speaking at CS Distinguished Lecture Series - 26 October 2009 "The Impact of Virtualization on Modern Computing Environments" | |
| Scientific American Article Features Work of CS Faculty - 26 October 2009 Computer Science faculty members featured in Scientific American. more | |
| CS Department’s Hussein Ahmed named “Featured Graduate Student” - 07 October 2009 The Graduate School has named Hussein as October's "Featured Graduate Student." more | |
| This Friday - Eugene H. Spafford speaking at CS Distinguished Lecture Series - 06 October 2009 | |
| Fall 2009 CSRC Career Fair and Luncheon - 02 October 2009 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. more | |
| CS Graduate Student Thomas Scogland Awarded 2009 NDSEG Fellowship - 17 September 2009 Thomas Scogland has been awarded a prestigious 3-year National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship. more | |
| Distinguished Lecture Series - 08 September 2009 Frances E. Allen, IBM Research Emerita, will be the first speaker in the Distinguished Lecture Series this Friday. more |
