What is Senior Honors? In the spring of every year juniors in Computer Science are invited to submit an Honors Proposal. On the basis of these proposals persons are invited to participate in the Honors program. The Honors program at Oberlin is campus-wide in the sense that almost every department and program has some sort of procedure for determining Honors at Graduation.
2009 CMU Programming Contest
March 31st, 2009
This past Saturday (March 28th), Oberlin Computer Science’s Team O(Bees) competed at the 2009 Carnegie Melon Invitational Programming Contest. Michael Brooks and Katie Kuksenok competed against almost 30 other teams from schools around the region. They successfully solved 7 out of the 8 problems and took second place in both the “doubles division” as well as 2nd in the overall contest.
OCWiC workshop
March 4th, 2009
On February 27-28, the 3rd Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWiC – pronounced “Oh-quick”) was held in the Mohican Resort and Conference Center. Thanks to a generous donation from Susanne Hambrusch (from Purdue University) the department was able to send 2 students to attend. As you can see below, Emma Anderson ’09 and Elara Willett ’10 had a great time.
Emma and Elara at OCWiC 2009
OCWiC brings together women majoring in computer science and related fields together with women teaching or working in computing careers. It is an opportunity for the community to get to know each other, meet possible mentors, and encourage young women in computer science to complete their studies and explore possible career paths by meeting women leaders from business, industry, and academia.
For more information see the OCWiC Website.
2009 Denison Programming Contest
March 2nd, 2009
On February 28, two intrepid teams of students competed in the 20th annual Denison University Programming Contest. This year there were 16 teams from 9 schools competing in a 4-hour contest.
O(bees)
The “O(bees)” (Joe Kramer-Miller, Katie Kuksenok, Michael Brooks, and Michael Stevenson) took first place, solving 4 out of the 6 problems in just over 90 minutes. The coaches were watching the scoreboard as other teams kept creeping closer and closer. In the last 40 minutes, it looked like one of the Denison teams was going to pass them, but they held onto the lead until the very end.
Foo of Oberlin
Our other team “Foo of Oberlin” consisted of Thomas Ramfjord, Brendan Chambers, Zack Levine, and Jules Wellinghoff. They also solved 4 problems and took third overall.
Congratulations to all of our students on an excellent job!
If you are interested getting involved in programming contests, get in touch with either Professor Donaldson or Kuperman (the coaches) or check out the Competitive Programming Exco!
See more photos in the gallery: 2009 Denison Programming Contest
On-campus summer research in security
February 22nd, 2009
Professor Kuperman is looking for students interested in working with him on 2 projects related to computer security this summer. You would be paid for 8-10 weeks of work, up to 40 hours per week with some flexibility as to scheduling.
One project needs students with a strong C programming background and comfort working in Unix environments.
The second project will be building a custom server to be used as part of labs in future security courses. A good background in Linux/Unix is needed, and experience setting up custom systems/distributions would be great.
If you are interested in either or both of these projects, or have questions about them, send email to Benjamin.Kuperman@oberlin.edu by Thursday, February 26.
2008 ACM Programming Contest
November 1st, 2008
On November 1, two teams of Oberlin students competed in the regionals for the 2008 ACM International Programming Contest.
Foo of Oberlin (Ted Warner, Katie Kuksenok, and Michael Brooks) did well at the Programming Contest today. They solved three of eight problems and placed first among 40 teams competing at the Youngstown site and 14th among 124 teams overall in the Regional. One of the problems they solved was solved by only four other teams, two from CMU, one from Waterloo, and one from Purdue.
Student webmaster position
September 25th, 2008
The Oberlin Archives are looking for a student assistant/webmaster for this semester. You’d be responsible for creating and editing web pages, writing guidelines for website modification, and assisting with other Archives tasks.
See the job posting or contact Kenneth M. Grossi, Acting College Archivist for more information.
Sign Up for the Programming Contest ExCo!!!
September 4th, 2008
Registration for the totally awesome programming ExCo is now open.
For more information or to register go to:
http://occs.oberlin.edu/~kkukseno/exco/
Sundae Friday!
September 2nd, 2008
Sundae!
It’s Sundae Friday!
Join us this Friday (Sep 5) for a welcome back celebration for the Computer Science and Mathematics students and professors. 4:20pm in the King/Rice courtyard.
DLSim presents at the Ohio 5 conference
August 20th, 2008
Many of you know (or will get to know) DLSim in CS 210, where it has been used for many years as a tool for building and simulating logical circuits. The newest version of DLSim (version 3) has some exciting new features that make it possible to simulate much more complex examples, even an entire CPU!