Past Events Archive
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2009-12-09 Hopper Holiday
Wednesday, December 9th, Hopper Holiday!
Come and celebrate one of the first women in computing, Grace Murray Hopper '28, in the Computer Science Department Student Lounge.
Refreshments - cider, cookies, cupcakes, etc will be available from noon until 4pm.
All are invited to come and share laughter and good conversation!
2009-11-19 CS Alumni Panel
When: 5:00pm - 6:00pm Thursday, November 19th
Where: Multipurpose Room, 2nd floor of Main Building.
And Then: 6-7 pm, please plan to stay and enjoy some pizza and conversation with the CS faculty, students and Alumni.
Panelists include:
Dennis Slade '91, Money-Media- Senior Applications Developer/Analyst
Ethan Gold '97, Morgan Stanley- Directory & Identity Mgmt Software Engineer1)
Nikki Rosard '08, Microsoft- Software Development Engineer in Test 2)
Christopher Garrett, ZWorkbench, Inc.- President
Dan Leslie '01, Reflexions Data- Partner / Director of Business Development
Alex Smith '01, Reflexions Data- Director of Operations
Dana Tenneson '00, The Education Arcade- Programmer3)
Jay Johnston '06, Govega Consulting- Senior Software Engineer
Each of our panelists will give a brief introduction, followed by a synopsis of their career path leading up to their current position.
2009-10-13 Asprey Lecture Tiffani Williams
The Winifred Asprey Lecture Series in Computer Science
Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science in honor of Winifred Asprey '38 Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
Tiffani Williams, Texas A&M
Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 5pm
OLB, Computer Science 105
Tea reception in Student Lounge at 4:30pm.
Using the MapReduce Framework to Analyze Large Collections of Evolutionary Trees on Multi-Core Platforms
Evolutionary trees represent the genealogical relationships among a collection of organisms. Evolutionary trees have many benefits such as automating species identification, improving global agriculture, and understanding disease transmission. Current techniques to reconstruct the evolutionary tree for a set of organisms can easily produce tens of thousands of potential candidate trees. How can we produce an accurate estimation of the true evolutionary history for the organisms under investigation from such a large collection of trees?
In this talk, I will discuss our MrsRF (MapReduce Speeds up RF) algorithm, which is a multi-core algorithm for computing the all-pairs Robinson-Foulds (RF) distance between evolutionary trees. The novelty of our algorithm lies in how we use the MapReduce framework, which has been popularized by Google, to compare tens of thousands of evolutionary trees quickly on multi-core platforms. The talk will conclude by describing applications that utilize our MrsRF algorithm in order to reconstruct accurate evolutionary trees.
Bio:
Tiffani L. Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. She earned her B.S. in computer science from Marquette University and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Central Florida. Afterward, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico. Her honors include a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a McKnight Doctoral Fellowship. Her research interests are in the areas of bioinformatics and high-performance computing.
2009-07-28 Google Web Toolkit Tutorial
Details TBA.
2009-04-02 Video Games and 21st Century Learning
Video Games and 21st Century Learning
A lecture by James Paul Gee
Thursday, April 2nd, 5:30pm
Sanders Auditorium
James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University and is a member of the National Academy of Education. His books include: Sociolinguistics and Literacies, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy and Good Video Games, and Good Learning: Collected Essays. Professor Gee has published widely in journals in linguistics, psychology, the social sciences and education.
Sponsored by the Media Studies Program, Computer Science Department, Science Technology and Society Program, Anthropology Department, Cognitive Science Program, Education Department, and the Office of the Dean of Faculty.
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