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]]> en Mon, Apr 28, 2008 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Mr. Mitchell Jareo IV (an S-STEM scholar) and Mr. Noah Smith received the Computer Science Department Outstanding Senior award.
Mr. Josh Kelley (an S-STEM scholar) received the Walter C. Connolly Award for Physics and an NC Space Grant.
Congratulations to all graduates and honored students, and especially to these! ]]> Mon, Apr 14, 2008 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php here is a complete list. ]]> Mon, Apr 14, 2008 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Mr. Chris Ellsworth (BS '03, MS '08) was recently receieved the Outstanding Science Thesis award by the Graduate School. He also received the 2007-08 Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research award. Chris' faculty mentor was Prof. Barry Kurtz. Great work, Chris! ]]> Wed, Mar 19, 2008 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Mr. Andy Dalton (BS '00, MS '04) was recently awarded the Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award by the College of Engineering and Science at Clemson University. And more recently he also received the University level award, the highest honor a research student at Clemson can receive! Mr. Dalton has been accepted onto the faculty at Western Carolina University upon completion of his degree. Way to go, DOCTOR Dalton! ]]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Prof. Jay Fenwick and Prof. Rahman Tashakkori are carpooling to the ACM Southeast conference in Auburn, Alabama. Prof. Fenwick will be presenting Student Development of Web Services for the STEM Disciplines co-authored with Prof. Barry Kurtz.
Prof. Tashakkori will be presenting Grid Computing: Student Research Experiences also co-authored with Prof. Kurtz as well as Mr. Darren Greene (MS '07). ]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php an ACM report providing evidence of the strength of the IT field right now. ]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php But, WAY TO GO, RT! Here's a photo (5MB JPEG)! ]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Prof. Frank Barry presented Beyond Paper and Pencil with "Exposition" - An Online, Customizable Assessment Tool for Music Theory at the National Conference of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction in Salt Lakey City in November 2007. ]]> Thu, 1 Nov 2007 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Dr. Rahman Tashakkori presented Image Processing in a Grid Environment at the 2007 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications, (GCA'07), WORLDCOMP'07, in Las Vegas on June 25-28, 2007. The paper was co-authored by Mr. Darren W. Greene, Prof. Barry L. Kurtz. ]]> Tue, 13 Mar 2007 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Mr. Andy Dalton, a 2000 BS alum and a 2004 MS alum, was selected to receive the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award from the School of Computing at Clemson University. ]]> Fri, 2 Mar 2007 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php

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There's jobs, there's internships, there's YOU?!? ]]> Fri, 2 Mar 2007 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Mr. Kendal Brooks received a Graduate Student Research Grant from Appalachian's Office of Student Research as part of an equipment upgrade needed to facilitate his research on high performance knowledge discovery of sports data. Mr. Brooks is working under the direction of Dr. Rahman Tashakkori. ]]> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Dr. Ray Russell may be best known in the High Country because of his Ray's Weather Center, but the Computer Science (and Math) departments get to lay first claim! Ray has distinguished himself as a teacher, scholar, and administrator at Appalachian. Here is The Appalachian student newspaper article on Ray's weather, computer science, and business passions. ]]> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Dr. Tashakkori is the director of the department's CSEMS program of scholarships and student mentoring that is funded by the National Science Foundation. Here is the AppState news article and the The Appalachian student newspaper article. ]]> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Drs. Fenwick, Kurtz, Norris, Parks, Tashakkori, and Wilkes as well as Mr. Mitchell Jareo!! ]]> Tue, 6 Feb 2007 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Dr. Tashakkori co-authored a paper with MS graduate Adam Reagan entitled Fuzzy Sectorization in Knowledge Discovery of Digital Mammograms in the IEEE Southeast 2007 Conference being held in Richmond, VA. Congratulations!! ]]> Wed, 24 Jan 2007 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Google, Inc. has announced plans to build a server farm in nearby Lenoir. Here's a link to a Charlotte Observer article. ]]> Thu, 11 Jan 2007 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Dr. Cindy Norris has received a grant paying her expenses to attend the premier computer science education conference, SIGCSE. ]]> Thu, 11 Jan 2007 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Barry Kurtz and Jay Fenwick along with several other co-authors that includes our graduate student Mr. Chris Ellsworth will be presenting their paper Inter-University Software Engineering using Web Services at the 2007 SIGCSE computer science education conference. ]]> Fri, 10 Nov 2006 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Dr. Dee Parks made the front page of the Thursday, Nov 9 issue of the student newspaper The Appalachian. The article talks about the growth and change of the Web and speaks directly about how Dr. Parks' general education course provides Appalachian students with the new skills needed to succeed in this new technology world. Read the article yourself here. ]]> Thu, 9 Nov 2006 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php     The director of an ACM (a leading IT professional society) jobs task force reports that computing professions are as healthy as they've ever been.
    Due to high demand, India is now exporting back some of the offshored jobs!
    Microsoft's Bill Gates says more IT graduates in the U.S. are needed.
    Joe Chase, acting Dean of the College of Information Science and Technology at Radford University in Virginia, recently spoke to a group of students about their bright prospects.
 
Here is more detailed info on all this good news! ]]> Tue, 31 Oct 2006 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php final results. ]]> Mon, 23 Oct 2006 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Dee Parks was an invited "Distinguished Professor" at the CRA-W CAPP (Computing Research Associates, Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, Cohort of Associate Professors Project) workshop in Sanibel, Florida. The goal of the project is to increase the percentage of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) women faculty with the rank of full professor by forming and mentoring a cohort of women from the associate professor ranks. This, the third instance of CAPP, has been expanded to include associate professors with education as their primary function. Dr. Parks was invited to serve as a mentor to the education group. See the CAPP web page for more info. ]]> Mon, 23 Oct 2006 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Frank Barry and Rahman Tashakkori of CS along with Steve Williams of Chemistry, Trina Palmer of Math and Sciences, and Chris Badurek of Geography and Planning have been selected to serve as faculty team leaders at the Supercomputing 2006 Education Outreach Workshop in Tampa, Florida. See the SC'06 Education website for more info. ]]> Mon, 23 Oct 2006 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Rural Sourcing Inc. is considering the High Country as a partnership location. Computer Science is involved in this dialogue! ]]> Mon, 23 Oct 2006 Headlines http://www.cs.appstate.edu/rss/headlinesHTML.php Darren Greene presented the paper High Performance Image Content-based Search at the International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition held in Las Vegas. The paper was co-authored by Dr. Rahman Tashakkori, Prof. Barry Kurtz, and Mr. Steven H. Heffner (a 2005 B.S. gradaute). ]]>