This page lists noteworthy items of achievement
by CS faculty, staff, and students.
(An older archive of headline items can be found
here.)
CS student honors
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2008
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!
Students Engaged in Research and Creative Work
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008
Each year the Office of Student Research holds an all-day
"conference" showcasing student research and creative work.
This year a number of CS students participated;
here is a complete list.
Grad Student receives multiple awards
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008
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!
Prestigious award for CS alum
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2008
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!
CS Professor Roadtrip
Posted: Wed, 19 Mar 2008
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).
CS Jobs Are Plentiful
Posted: Tue, 29 Jan 2008
The scares of CS jobs being offshored or eliminated
are a thing of the past. Demand is high and so then
are salaries! Here's
an ACM report providing evidence of the strength of the
IT field right now.
CS Prof Plays in State Soccer Final
Posted: Tue, 29 Jan 2008
Prof. Rahman Tashakkori led a Boone area team to the
NC Adult State Cup Men's Over 30 Championship in a snowy
Greensboro on Jan 19, 2008. After two regulation
periods, and two overtime periods, and 4 penalty
shootout kicks, the Boone and Raleigh teams were still
tied. Unfortunately, the last kick went in the favor
of the Raleigh team.
But, WAY TO GO, RT! Here's a photo (5MB JPEG)!
CS Professor Presents Work
Posted: Tue, 29 Jan 2008
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.
CS Professor and Graduate Student Paper
Posted: Thu, 1 Nov 2007
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.
CS alum is top PhD at Clemson!
Posted: Tue, 13 Mar 2007
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.
CS "Bytes" Back
Posted: Fri, 2 Mar 2007
The evidence keeps pouring in - Computer Science is a
HOT area to study. Below are two recent articles.
Check the "More headlines" link at the end of this
section for the November posting on this topic. And
look at the old archive for the Fall 2005 posting!! There's jobs, there's internships, there's YOU?!?
CS Grad Student gets funding
Posted: Fri, 2 Mar 2007
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.
Everybody Knows Ray
Posted: Thu, 15 Feb 2007
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
Appalachianstudent newspaper
article on Ray's weather, computer science, and business
passions.
6 CS faculty and a CSEMS undergraduate scholar have
collaborated on 4 papers that will
be presented at the ACM SouthEast conference in
Winston-Salem in March. Congratulations to
Drs. Fenwick, Kurtz, Norris, Parks, Tashakkori, and
Wilkes as well as Mr. Mitchell Jareo!!
Dr. Tashakkori publishes paper
Posted: Tue, 6 Feb 2007
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!!
Drs.
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.
Dr. Parks makes front page of student newspaper!
Posted: Fri, 10 Nov 2006
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.
"Computer Science Still a Good Career!"
Posted: Thu, 9 Nov 2006
The offshoring of computing jobs has created the
illusion of computing being a bad career choice.
However, the reality is much different. More good news
comes in:
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.
A team of Appalachian students participated in the
ACM regional programming contest on Saturday,
Oct. 28th. They finished in 26th place out of 138
teams! Way to Go! Here are the
final results.
Dee Parks was an invited "Distinguished Professor" at the CRA-W CAPP (Computing Research Associates
Posted: Mon, 23 Oct 2006
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.
Supercomputing 2006 Education Outreach Workshop in Tampa, Florida
Posted: Mon, 23 Oct 2006
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.
Posted: Mon, 23 Oct 2006
Rural Sourcing Inc. is considering the
High Country as a partnership location. Computer Science is involved in this dialogue!
International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
Posted: Mon, 23 Oct 2006
Graduate student 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).
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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.
