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2010-11-04 Pre-Registration Pizza Party
Come find out more about all computer science courses for Spring 2011! See flyer for more details about event and newly added CMPU 250. Flyer PDF
2010-09-23 Gathering of CS students & faculty
23 September 2010 a Thursday afternoon (4:30-6:30pm) Gathering of All Computer Science faculty and students. Come have fun interacting with the profs and their families, meeting other students, majors and correlates, eating grilled food, dessert and side-dishes all provided, playing frisbee, musical instruments, etc. Bring a towel or blanket to sit on, frisbees to share, musical instruments, etc. Who’s bringing the good weather so we can gather on campus in the grassy area outside the TAs (see Linda in the departmental office for directions)? Raindate: Friday, 24 September same times, same place.
2010-09-20 ACM Lecture at Marist College
Sponsored by the
Poughkeepsie Chapter of the Association For Computing Machinery
and Marist College
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Program: Cryptography: From Enigma to Elliptical Curve Cryptography
Speaker: Donald Costello
Senior Lecturer and NCITE scholar
Department of Computer Science
University of Nebraska
Email: dcostello@cse.unl.edu
About the Topic:
The story of cryptography goes back 4000 years and some of the
mathematics employed goes back nearly as long. With the coming
of the computer age both the field of cryptography and the
mathematics supporting it have been reawakened.
This talk will address the history of cryptography beginning
with the Enigma used by Germany in WWII and broken by world
famous mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. It will
continue down to today’s advanced crypto systems such as RSA, PGP
and elliptic curve cryptography.
The lecture will point out the key role that cryptography plays
in the future of e-commerce and the new products and ways of
doing business that result when secure communications through
cryptography are available.
About the Speaker:
Don Costello's career has taken him many times from academia to
the business world and back.
He helped start three Computer Science Departments and three
University Information Technology facilities. He has taught both
undergraduate and graduate courses, and he has done research in
the areas of Statistical Computing, Performance Modeling,
Standards for Learning Objects, and Managing Intellectual
Property. He also held a four-year Carnegie Foundation grant to
investigate how IP is managed in universities around the world.
In his business career Don founded and sold two firms and has
consulted with over 100 firms throughout the world. Recent
consulting includes work on ERP systems and on SAP, as well as
being a technical consultant on .com and e-Learning projects. He
is also working on standards for modeling large systems needed to
support e-learning environments.
Don is a 40-year member of the ACM and is a fellow of the
British Computing Society.
When: 7:30 pm, Monday, Sept 20, 2010
Where: Performing Arts Room
(Room 346 in the Student Center)
Marist College, Route 9, Poughkeepsie, NY
Directions: Building 32 on the map at
www.marist.edu/welcome/map.html
Parking: Parking, on campus, on the west side of Route 9 can
be difficult. It may be easier to park on the east
side of Route 9, across from Building 25 on the
Marist campus map at www.marist.edu/about/map.html.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Dinner: 6 pm at The Mill House Panda, 289 Mill Street,
Poughkeepsie. Phone: 845.454.2530. For directions see
www.millhousepanda.com. The menu may be the Standard
Package at www.millhousepanda.com/Catering.html.
All are welcome to join us for dinner.
Refreshments are served after the meeting. For further
information, email collier@acm.org or call 845.522.1971.
P - L - E - A - S - E P - O - S - T
2010-05-10 Senior Project Presentations 2010
- Matt Baker will present on Monday, 10 May, at 11:30am in OLB 105
- Phil Tully will present on Tuesday, 11 May, at 1pm in OLB 105
- Toby Fox will present on Tuesday, 11 May, at 2pm in OLB 105.
Each presentation and associated opportunity to ask questions will last no more than an hour, so… come one, come All! Abstracts for all three senior projects are below.
2010-03-15 Poughkeepsie ACM Speaker Jon Bentley
Reposted here from Poughkeepsie Chapter of the ACM web site.
Poughkeepsie Chapter of the Association For Computing Machinery
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Program: Quicksort 2010: Implementing and Analyzing a Family of Functions
Speaker: Jon Bentley, Avaya Labs Research
About the Topic:
For half a century, the fastest comparison-based sort functions have been variants of Hoare’s classic Quicksort. But exactly which variants are best on today’s machines? This talk describes experiments to search for the fastest possible implementation of Quicksort; our hunt is a celebration of the Joy of Programming. We were surprised by the results: some old champions are now painfully slow, while long-discarded variants have become lightning fast. Along the way, we discovered a desperate need for a new cost model for sorting, and we laid the foundation for the Dual-Pivot Quicksort we wrote for Java Development Kit 7. We found that explicitly considering a large family (or product line) of algorithms is a powerful approach. (This talk describes joint work with Vladimir Yaroslavskiy and Joshua Bloch.)
About the Speaker:
Jon Bentley is a computer scientist at Avaya Labs Research. His interests include programming techniques, algorithm design, and the design of software tools and interfaces. He has written three books on programming and articles on a variety of topics, ranging from the theory of algorithms to software engineering.
Possibly his best known work is the book “Programming Pearls” (see www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/) which is based on the columns he wrote in the 1980's for the Communications of the ACM.
Bentley received a B.S. at Stanford in 1974 and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1976; he then taught Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon for six years. He joined Bell Labs in 1982, and retired in 2001 to join Avaya Labs.
Jon has hiked the Catskill 3500 peaks nine times (including once solo in the winter), the 46 4000-foot peaks in the Adirondacks, the 48 4000-footers in New Hampshire's Whites, and the five 4000-footers in Vermont's Green Mountains. He has made numerous rock climbing ascents, both frontcountry and backcountry, on at least two continents. He has numerous Medical Technician rankings, many of them relating to Wilderness EMT.
When: 7:30 pm, Monday, Mar 15, 2010
Where: Donnelly Hall, Room 225.
Marist College, Route 9, Poughkeepsie, NY
(Donnelly Hall is Building 6 on the Marist campus map at www.marist.edu/about/map.html.)
Parking: It will be spring break at Marist, so parking will be easy.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Dinner: 6 pm, Palace Diner, 194 Washington Street, POK, 845.473.1576
Menu: www.thepalacediner.com/menu_pg.htm
All are welcome to join us for dinner. (Go north on the Route 9 Arterial to the St. Francis Hospital exit, turn right, turn right again. The Palace is one block further along on the right.)
We thank Marist College for hosting the chapter's meetings.
Refreshments are served after the meeting. For further information, email collier@acm.org or call 845.522.1971.
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