On Oct 5, 2013, 3 teams of Oberlin students competed at the 5th annual Muskingum University programming contest. Team “Albino Squirrels” (Jenny Ward ’14 and Nathan Klein ’16) took third place out of 15 teams from 6 institutions. Team “Uberlin” (Eli Stein ’14, Amanda Strominger ’15, Scott Hulver ’16) and “O(bees)” (Peter Fogg ’14, Oren Shoham ’14, Devon Wells ’14) also put in a strong showing.
Class of 2013
May 25th, 2013
Congratulations to the CS majors in the Class of 2013!
OCCS Class of 2013
We look forward to seeing you and your family during the department open house on Sunday as well as seeing you get your diploma during commencement on Monday. Congratulations from all of the CS faculty and staff!
On-campus summer CS research/systems opportunity
March 20th, 2013
I am looking for 2 students interested in doing paid, on-campus research/systems work with me this summer. I have funding to support 2 students for 10 weeks at up to 40 hours per week, and there is some flexibility in terms of schedule.
The primary project will be updating and improving XenLabs to get it ready for use in class next year. XenLabs is built on a Python/Xen/Linux base, and I expect that most of our work will be done at a scripting level. Useful background could include Linux/Unix experience, Python programming, shell scripting, security topics, system administration, and/or basic computer networking. However, this is an educational experience, so a 2xx level CS background and a willingness to learn is what is really needed.
If you are interested in working on this project, send an email to Benjamin.Kuperman@oberlin.edu with your relevant background (preferably sometime this week). Feel free to email or talk to me if you have questions about the project or just want more info.
Welcome Back CS Students!
February 4th, 2013
This Wednesday (Feb 6) the computer science department will be having a pizza social to welcome back all of our wonderful students!
It will be at 4:30pm in King 225 (new CS seminar room).
Be sure to sign up in the CSCI office or email Jackie to be put on the list by Tuesday at 3:30 so that we can be sure to have enough.
Best wishes for a great Spring 2013 semester!!!
New Course: Social Networks
November 4th, 2012
Introducing CSCI 345: Social Networks a new course for Spring 2013 by Visiting Assistant Professor Steven Crain. MWF 1:30-2:20
This is a course on the analysis of data gathered from social networks. It will focus on algorithms for efficient strange and analysis of “big data,” which is commonly associated with social networks. It will also survey applications of social network data, especially applications that support decisions based on such data.
Prerequisite: CSCI 241 or consent of the instructor.
“2010 – May – 18 – NodeXL – twitter social graph” by Mark Smith
Winter Term Organizational Meeting
November 2nd, 2012
The CS department will be hosting a winter term meeting on Tuesday, Nov 6 @ 4:30pm in King 237.
The purpose of this meeting is for students and faculty to come together to talk about possible group WT projects and see if any groups coalesce. Last year’s meeting led to Prestissimo… what will this year bring?
Programming Skills Workshop
October 29th, 2012
CSMC presents… Programming Skills Workshop!
Thinking about applying for jobs or taking the CS GRE for grad school? Worried that your data structures and algorithms knowledge is a bit rusty? Never fear, the CSMC is here for you!
We will be hosting a set of programming skills workshops this semester. During these workshops we will tackle a variety of problems, write our solutions on paper, and then discuss the solutions. As a group, we’ll learn what challenges we face, what approaches to take, and what solutions work the best. Most importantly, however, we will become the best programmers we can be.
First meeting will be Saturday, November 3 from 4-6pm in the CS conference room. Bring pencil and paper as we will be working out most of these problems by hand.
Your tree… it is unbalanced.
UPDATE: CSMC will be holding these workshops on a regular basis. See https://www.cs.oberlin.edu/~csmc/ for details.
Vim/Emacs Night
October 10th, 2012
Penguins love Vim and Emacs!
Vim and Emacs tutorial night — this Thursday, October 11 at 9pm in the downstairs lab (King 137)
Have you ever been programming in one of the CS labs and happen to see that the person next to you is coding in some kind of mysterious black window with wonderful, brightly coloured text everywhere? Do you admire how quickly and effortlessly they seem to be editing their files? Well, that mysterious and beautiful program is probably either Vim or Emacs! And you too could be dazzled with pretty colours and divided windows. You too could experience the joy of macros, meta keys and modes.
You’ll learn the basics of either Vim or Emacs — your choice. We’ll walk you through a tutorial, give tips and pointers, and give you some exercises to complete at the end of the night.
Presented by the CSMC – now with cookies!
2012 Denison Programming Contest
February 27th, 2012
This past weekend, 2 teams of Oberlin students competed in the 23rd annual Denison University Programming Contest. They won 3rd and 7th place out of 18 teams from Denison, Baldwin-Walace, Oberlin, Muskingum, Ohio Wesleyan, U of Toledo/LCCC, Wittenberg, and U of Akron. Teams of students competed to be the fastest (and most accurate) at solving 6 problems during the 4-hour contest.
Emma Conner, Alex Amlie-Wolf, Alvaro Atienza, Joaquin Ruales, and Zach Levine
Intro to Unix
February 21st, 2012
Unleash the power of computing!
There will be a student run Intro to Unix session on Thursday, February 23 at 9pm in the downstairs lab (King 135). Learn how to use the command line, copy files from your laptop, and other tricks to help you get your CS labs done faster.
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