Computer Science - Department News
- 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
Prof. 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
- May 2007
Student David Taylor-Fuller co-published with Dr. Susan Lincke and presented a paper entitled "A QoS Comparison of 4G First-Come-First-Serve Load Sharing Algorithms involving Speech and Packet Data" at the IEEE Electro-Information Technology Conference (EIT) in Chicago.Graduate Andrew Holland co-published a paper with Dr. Susan Lincke entitled: "Configuring a Lab to Support Community-Based Security Audit Projects". This was presented at the IEEE TridentCom: International Conf on Testbed and Research Infrastructures.
- April 2007
Graduate students Reetika Kumar and Virat Tiwari co-published a paper with Dr. Susan Lincke entitled "Security of Information Systems in Schools: A Study conducted on the overall security of systems in local schools". This was presented at the 2007 Security Conference, in Las Vegas NV.
