April 29th, 2011
Tuesday May 3 King 221
4:30 Jason Kimmel -Models of Viral Marketing in Social Networks
5:00 Brendan Chambers – Towards Automatically Captcha Solving Using Biologically Inspired Algorithms.
Wed May 4 King 221
4:30 Thomas Ramfjord – Introduction to Audio Watermarking.
5:00 Kriti Godey – Recommending Healthy and Palatable Meal Plans.
April 7th, 2011
Junior CSCI majors with a minimum of an overall GPA of 3.5, who are interested in participating in the Honors program are requested to submit an Honors Proposal to Richard Salter, Department Chair outlining your project. The deadline for the submission is Friday, April 29, 2010. If you have any questions regarding the guidelines please contact your advisor or visit the Computer Science Department in King 223.
April 2nd, 2011
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Application is due by 3PM, April 8.
March 3rd, 2011
This past weekend 3 teams of Oberlin students competed at the 2011 Denison Spring Programming Contest. 18 teams of 3 students each from 9 nearby schools competed trying to solve 6 problems, in 4 hours, with only one computer per team!
Team Foo of Oberlin (Brendan Chambers, Thomas Ramfjord, Danny Spencer) and Team O(bees) (Veronica Colegrove, Emma Conner, Eston Schweickart) each solved 3 problems and Team Oberlin Oriented Programmers (Kaitlyn Price, Kiron Roy, Joaquin Ruales) solved 2. Much fun was had by all!
2011 Denison Spring Contest
March 1st, 2011
James Boerkoel, Univeristy of Michigan, will present his talk “Coordination Strategies for Multi-agent Scheduling. Thursday March 3, 2011 4:30 p.m. in King 221 – Refreshments @ 4:00 p.m. in King 223 CSCI Office.
The Simple Temporal Problem (STP) is a popular representation for solving centralized scheduling and planning problems. When scheduling agents are associated with different users who need to coordinate some of their activities, however, considerations such as privacy, autonomy, and scalability suggest solving the joint STP in a more distributed manner. In this talk, I will introduce multi-agent STPs and discuss recent advances in STP algorithms that exploit loosely-coupled problem structure. Building off these advances, I will discuss our distributed approach for solving the multi-agent STP, which includes exchanging summaries of local agent problems and then choosing temporal decoupling points that allow agents to independently manage their local schedules. I will discuss the advantages of our approach as well as future extensions and applications.
December 3rd, 2010
I am happy to announce the fifth year of Ohio Wesleyan University’s REU program in scientific computation, with projects in astronomy, computer science, mathematics, and physics. Attached is a flyer with information for you to share with students in your department. We hope that you will encourage your students to consider our program. Questions can be directed to Professor Brad Trees at brtrees@owu.edu or at the following telephone number, 740-368-3776.
Research Experience for Undergraduates, Summer 2011, Ohio Wesleyan University
Ohio Wesleyan University announces the fifth year of its NSF-funded REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program in scientific computation. Projects are available in astronomy, computer science, mathematics, and physics. The program is for ten weeks starting on May 16, 2011. Review of applications will begin March 14, 2011 and will continue until all positions are filled. For more information, including an on-line application form, please see our website at http://reu.owu.edu or contact Dr. Brad Trees at brtrees@owu.edu.
Thank you for helping us bring this opportunity to the attention of your students.
Kathy Boger
Administrative Assistant
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015
November 23rd, 2010
This past weekend, computer science major Becky Punch presented her paper “Illustrating Computer System Architecture with DLSim3” at the 2010 Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Mathematics (aka MCURCSM 2010).
This work was a collaborative project with CS professors John Donaldson and Rich Salter.
Becky Punch presenting at MCURCSM 2010
October 26th, 2010
http://www.oberlin.edu/career/students/wt_intern_about.html
October 22nd, 2010
Are you considering going to grad school to study CS? Come to our info session on Tuesday, Nov. 2 12:15 p.m. to chat with the CS professors about topics such as: - What CS grad school is like -- the first two years and beyond - What is CS research like? - Is grad school right for me? - Masters or PhD? - How do you apply? - How to choose schools/advisors? - Getting good letters of recommendation - Things you can do now to improve your chances of being accepted - and any other questions you might have Pizza will be provided. Sign up in the CSCI office King 223 or email jackie.fortino@oberlin.edu by Monday, Nov. 1 if you plan to attend.
September 26th, 2010
Vim Tips and TricksWhat: A brief introduction to a number of the more advanced features of the Vim text editor
When: Wednesday, September 29 @ 4:30pm
Where: King 135 (Downstairs CS Lab)
It will be good if you’ve used vi or vim previously (at least having worked through the tutorial). I’ll try and give you a taste of many features that I find useful/interesting and try to answer any questions you might have.