May 25th, 2009
CSCI Class of 2009
Join us in wishing congratulations and best of luck to the Oberlin College Class of 2009. Pictured to the right are graduating students who majored in Computer Science at our departmental open house this past Sunday.
From left to right they are the following: Tom Wilson, Rebecca Linick, and Clayton Thurmer.
May 25th, 2009
Save the Date!
Our 25th Anniversary Symposium will be held April 23-25, 2010. We’re inviting all our CS alumni and other interested folks to join us. You’ll have a chance to meet with the current faculty and students and catch up with your old friends.
All events will take place on the Oberlin College campus. More details to follow.
May 24th, 2009
To celebrate our 25th anniversary, the Department is establishing an endowed fund to support Oberlin student / faculty research, and to fund visits by outside speakers to campus.
We are seeking to raise $50,000 by the time of our 25th Anniversary Symposium and Celebration next April.
You can do your part by pledging now at our Development Fund Website.
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April 24th, 2009
Join us for a Reception on Wed 4/29/2009 4:00 King 223 before the Talk at 4:30 in King 221.
Modeling Across The Curriculum
Tony Starfield has earned a reputation as the best modeling instructor in the world. Starfield constantly refines group activities that one student describes as “partly fun mind-benders and partly challenging real-world conservation scenarios.” Starfield’s illustrious career has included hands-on contributions to engineering, applied mathematics, and biological modeling, and he brings those experiences to the classroom. Tony Starfield will be the Fall Instructor for CSCI 190 – How to Model it and CSCI 390 Seminar in Modeling for the Natural and Social Sciences
April 21st, 2009
Join us on Thursday, April 23rd to hear Antonio Garcia Castaneda (Oberlin Class of 2001) give a talk on “Everything you ever wanted to know about the games industry* … but had no one to ask.”
Antonio has worked in the video game industry for 8 years, most recently for Sony. He is currently a graduate student at the University of London.
Reception at 4:00pm in King 223, Talk follows at 4:30pm in King 221.
April 15th, 2009
Come to our info session to hear about
* types of CS graduate programs
* what one does in graduate school
* what kind of funding is available for this extended education
* application processes
* how and when to register for GREs
Pizza will be provided in King 223 at noon on Wed. 4/22/09
Sign up in the CSCI office King 223 or email jackie.fortino@oberlin.edu if you plan to attend.
April 1st, 2009
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.
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.
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.
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