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Recent Loyola bioinformatics graduates Steven Reisman and Mike Shaffer receive Honorable Mentions for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

Recent Loyola bioinformatics graduates Steven Reisman and Mike Shaffer were selected as Honorable Mentions for the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Please join me in congratulating them on this distinction and wishing them well for the future!

Steven’s research project in Dr. Catherine Putonti’s lab takes an evolutionary perspective in identifying putative regions within in viral genomes [...]

During the GCASR 2013 poster session, Loyola CS students Thomas…

During the GCASR 2013 poster session, Loyola CS students Thomas…

During the GCASR 2013 poster session, Loyola CS students Thomas Delgado and Xian Yan presented the DroidWall project from the spring 2013 class Advanced Experimental Computing: Pervasive Systems. Loyola CS students Steve Reisman and Paul Stasiuk also had a poster each. Faculty mentors of the works presented are CS faculty Drs. Läufer, Putonti, and Thiruvathukal.

via Tumblr http://blog.cs.luc.edu/post/50222051590

Loyola CS faculty Dr. George K. Thiruvathukal appointed EIC of Computing in Science and Engineering

Please join me in congratulating my colleague Dr. George K. Thiruvathukal on his initial two-year appointment as editor-in-chief of the Computing in Science and Engineering magazine.

Co-published by the IEEE Computer Society and the American Institute of Physics, CiSE features the latest computational science and engineering research in an accessible format along with departments covering news and analysis, [...]

Loyola CS faculty Dr. Chandra N. Sekharan coauthored a book on Data Structures Featuring C++

Please join me in congratulating my colleague Dr. Chandra N. Sekharan on the publication of his book

Data Structures Featuring C++: A Programmer’s Perspective

Dr. Sekharan joined the Department of Mathematical Sciences in 1993, was a founding member of the Department of Computer Science created in 2002, and chaired the department from 2005 to 2012.

Dr. Sekharan has [...]

Loyola CS alum (BSCS 07) Erik Klimczak authored a book on creative design for software

Erik Klimczak graduated from Loyola in 2007 with his BS in computer science. His new book about the interplay between creative design and technology in software just appeared this month:

Design for Software: A playbook for developers.

More information on Erik’s work is available on his book’s companion site:

www.design4software.com

This area is of great importance not only [...]

Get your tickets for Urinetown!

Get your tickets for Urinetown!

As the semester begins to wind down, we at the Department of Fine and Performing Arts still have plenty of events ready to keep you entertained until summer. One of the most anticipated events of our 2012-13 season will be the mainstage theatre finale, Urinetown, opening next Friday, April 12th.

Running until April 21st, this “quirky [...]

Loyola CS Colloquium Mon 8 Apr 2013 1:15-2:15 pm LT-412 WTC

TITLE

Simulation & Analyzing the First Stars in the Universe

SPEAKER

Matthew Turk, PhDNSF Postdoctoral FellowCyberinfrastructure for Transformative Computational Science program Columbia University

WHEN

Mon 8 April 2013 1:15-2:15 pm

WHERE

Lewis Towers LT-412 (Linux Lab)Water Tower CampusLoyola University Chicago820 N Michigan Ave (use 111 E Pearson St entrance)

ABSTRACT

Did the first stars in the Universe form as lone giants, ending their lives by enriching their environments [...]

Loyola CS Colloquium Fri 5 Apr 2013 9:45-10:45 am LT-412 WTC

TITLE

Augmenting Human Cognition for Effective Visualization of Large Data

SPEAKER

Alark Joshi, PhDAssistant ProfessorComputer ScienceBoise State University

WHEN

Fri 5 April 2013 9:45-10:45 am

WHERE

Lewis Towers LT-412 (Linux Lab)Water Tower CampusLoyola University Chicago820 N Michigan Ave (use 111 E Pearson St entrance)

ABSTRACT

As datasets get larger, it becomes increasingly important to manage visual attention and augment cognition. My research has focused on developing novel [...]

Alternatives to Monographs

As you know, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to publish monographs. Academic and university presses find themselves under financial pressures, and libraries’ budgets are also being scaled back. In addition, there is the question of who is actually reading the long monographs we publish. Are there alternative forms for getting our research into the public eye? [...]