February 22nd, 2017
Congratulations to all our students who participated in the Spring 2017 Denison ACM Programming contest. Oberlin was represented by 24 students. Two of our teams placed in the top 10! Special congratulations to 2nd place team: Oberlin’;DROP TABLE TEAMS;– consisting of Anders Cornell, Jakob Cornell, Ben Levin, and Nathan Paige and 8th place winners: The Flying Rainbow Ninja Unicorns, consisting of Adina Johnson, Serafina Nix, Maya Shanmugam, and Olivia Vasquez.
October 31st, 2016
This past weekend, 5 teams of Oberlin students competed at the Youngstown ACM programming contest. All of our teams performed well, and our top team — Oberlin Prime — was ranked third at our site.
Oberlin Prime (Nathan Paige, Bobby Dorwood, Sage Jenson)
Congratulations to everyone!
The whole team, plus Tom, plus creepy little girl statue.
September 8th, 2016
The Computer Science Dept has scheduled several informal lunch times in Stevenson. All CSCI Majors are welcome to attend. Stop by and join your fellow students and CSCI Faculty for lunch and socializing. Mark your calendars for Feb. 13, 2017 ( more dates to follow) 11:30-1:30
Students will use their meal plans. Any student that is not on a meal plan, should register with Jackie Fortino in King 223.
September 8th, 2016
The Computer Science Dept. will be hosting some open discussion forums throughout the semester. All CSCI Majors are invited to attend. These will be opportunities for students and faculty to come together and have open and frank conversations about topics affecting the department, the campus and the greater Oberlin community. We welcome hearing your opinions and concerns, and will respond as best we can to any questions you may have. These forums are not motivated by any particular incident. Rather, they are a way for us to keep the lines of communication open and to help maintain the community we’ve built together in the CSCI Dept. PIZZA will be served, so please RSVP to the email you have received.
August 22nd, 2016
Yum!
Join the Math and CSCI Department for an Ice Cream Social to start off the year right!
Wednesday, August 31 4:30 Rice Courtyard (King 2nd floor rain site) ice cream social
April 19th, 2016
Computer Science Department 2016 Honor Presentations
April 25 & April 26
King 243 4:30 -6:00 p.m.
Monday April 25
4:30 Conrad Schloer
5:00 Max Grusky
5:30 Nathan Klein
Tuesday, April 26
4:30 Sam Rossin
5:00 James Quintana
5:30 Gabriel Appleby
Join us for the presentations and refreshments
April 4th, 2016
This past weekend (April 2nd) was the 10th Annual Ohio Wesleyan Programming Contest. We sent 4 teams, all of whom did great, solving at least half the problems. Oberlin Alpha and Oberlin Prime took first and second place respectively, out of 12 teams total. Congratulations to our teams!
March 18th, 2016
Abby Marsh, Carnegie Mellon Graduate Student and Oberlin College 2013 Alumni will talk about her Graduate School research and life as a graduate student.
Are you considering graduate school? Do you wonder what computer science research looks like? computer science is an extremely diverse discipline, containing many exciting research areas, and a doctoral graduate degree is the best way to begin your research career. This talk will give an overview of different fields in computer science research, and discuss human-computer interaction (HCI) research in depth. We will cover the graduate school experience, especially what life is like for a PhD student, the expectations of grad school, and the thrilling world of publishing research. Students are encouraged to ask questions. Join us on Thursday, April 7 4:00 for refreshments followed by the talk at 4:30 in King 239
March 3rd, 2016
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 4:30 King 239
Join us for a talk with Richard Townsend; Columbia University:
Pure Laziness: An intro to the Haskell Programming Language
High-level programming languages such as Python and Java increase programmer productivity by abstracting away low-level details like memory management and computer architecture. However, most of these languages still force the programmer to think like a computer; we must tell the computer exactly how to solve a problem via ordered sequences of statements and explicit looping constructs. Functional languages like Haskell provide an alternative approach: instead of telling the computer how to perform a computation, you simply describe the computation itself and let the language do the work. This approach leads to more intuitive programs and higher programmer productivity in the long run. My talk will serve as an accessible introduction to the Haskell language, covering its clean syntax, lazy semantics, and pure functional model. My hope is to engender interest in other programming styles, and show that learning a vastly different programming language can lead to new problem solving techniques applicable throughout a computer scientist’s career.
Refreshments at 4:00 in King 225
February 18th, 2016
Bring your questions build answers!
Monday February 22 4:30-5:30 King 239
Oberlin Alum Seth Wimberly and Ted Warner will talk about what it is like to work at Google and some of the cool stuff that the full time engineers and interns work on. They will share opportunities Google has for technical students. There will be food and swag for all! Resume Review drop-in office hours in King 225 Tuesday Feb. 23 2-5pm.
RSVP: https://goo.gl/sB5rwH