Computer Science - Department News
- October 2009
The CS department hosted a site for the ACM Regional Programming Contest on Saturday, October 31st. The region is made up of 7 states and 2 provinces. A total of 203 teams participated. As is common, the competition was dominated by larger schools, with Madison, Minnesota and Nebraska taking 8 of the top 10 positions.
UW-Parkside had two teams:
The Parkside Rangers, consisting of Gurjeet Singh, Will Soderberg and John Tritten, solved 3 problems in 5 hours, placing 43, well within the top 25% of all teams.
The Parkside Beta Edition, consisting of Adam Boesch, Adam Ketterhagen and Jake Zalokar, solved 1 problem and placed 121.
Congratulations to both teams for a job well done!
- May 2009
Professor Susan Lincke received a three year, $150,000 National Science Foundation award for an audit and case study and to develop service learning on information security. This proposal considers how professional security standards can be scaled down for small organizations or businesses, and implements these as student-led projects via service learning. The projects will develop comprehensive security materials scaled down and tested for use with small organizations or businesses. - April 2009
A 2003 alumnus, Karen Scarfone from The National Institute of Standards and Technology received the 2009 Federal 100 Award. Presented by Federal Computer Week, the award honors the top professionals in the federal information technology community.
Karen, a project manager, was named for her prolific output of easy-to-understand technical security manuals which have helped numerous government organizations make their Web servers and mobile devices more secure. She has written or co-written 33 publications in the past two years, mainly covering incident response, host security, and telework security. In 2008, there were 4 million Web page requests for her publications. Scarfone also used her technical expertise to help update the widely used Common Vulnerability Scoring System that measures vulnerabilities.
- January 2009
School of Business and Technology has designed and launched a webmercial about the programs available in the School. Congratulations to Business Professor Abey Kuruvilla and his committee for a job well done. - October 2008
Professor Hansen visits IndSearch's brand new campus on the edge of Pune and plants a tree in their "Biodiversity Campus."
- October 2008
Visiting Professor Friedhelm Seutter enjoys a Green Bay Packer game with his wife Rita.
- June 2008
UW-Parkside Computer Science Professor Susan Lincke has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure. Congratulations Susan! - June 2008
The CS department welcomes Heather Miles as the new System Administrator while saying good-by to Karen Larson who is retiring. Heather earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from UW-Parkside in 2002, and holds certificates in Unix Administration and Entrepreneurship. She also attended Gateway Technical College where she studied Computer Information Systems -- Network Specialist. Ms. Miles has a wealth of computer work experience at Modine Manufacturing Company and UW-Parkside (1996-Present). Most recently, she has been the system administrator for UW-P's Facilities Management. She is looking forward to working with the students, faculty and staff in this new setting. Please welcome her. - May-June 2008
The Computer Science Department has the pleasure of hosting the USACO (USA Computing Olympiad) summer training camp from May 28 through June 5. During the camp, high school students from all over the nation who have placed well in the online contests come together to learn and to compete for the four places on the USACO team that will go to Egypt for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in August. UW-Parkside was privileged to host IOI in 2003. - Apr 2008
The UW-Parkside Rangers Robot Programming team placed 3rd out of 16 teams at the MICS Robotics Basketball contest held Friday 4/11/08 at UW-LaCrosse. The team consisted of Victor Bittorf, Velimir Genov and Will Soderberg.The contest was a double elimination event, so every team had to lose twice to be eliminated. The Rangers won their first two contests handily and the third making the winning basket as time expired. The fourth match was between the only two remaining unbeaten teams, and unfortunately, the Rangers lost and then lost their next match to end in third place. The first place team was from Minot State and the second place team was from St Scholastica in Duluth. Congratulations for a job well done.
- Sep 2007
Professor Stuart Hansen of the Computer Science Department recently received a $515,888 grant from the National Science Foundation S-STEM program for student scholarships. The grant is a joint award with faculty in Biological Science, Chemistry, Physics and Geoscience. The grant will provide two years of financial support for science students, including major portions of their tuition and on-campus living expenses. Funding will begin in the Fall 2008 semester.For details including eligibility and the application process, please see Science Scholars
