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CIS class lends design skills to nonprofits

April 4, 2011

Elon University students in a spring semester computer information systems class are learning more about the Alamance County community as they work together to design websites for local agencies that help the mentally and developmentally disabled.

Seven Computing Sciences Majors Accepted to IT Summer Analyst Program at Credit Suisse

April 3, 2011

Credit Suisse is a world-leading financial services company with offices located around the world with offices in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. Over 25% of Credit Suisse employees are in information technology. In an effort to identify and potentially hire outstanding IT graduates from the class of 2012, Credit Suisse offers paid, ten week summer internship programs for rising seniors at selective locations to include Raleigh, North Carolina.

Senior Amy Eubanks Wins Best Poster ar 49th Annual ACM Southeast Conference

March 29, 2011

The 49th Annual ACM Southeast Conference was held at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia on March 24-26th, 2011. The conference presented a best poster award for student posters authored by graduate and undergraduate students without faculty co-authors. Amy Eubanks, a senior Computer Science and Mathematics major at Elon won the best poster award.

Joel Hollingsworth presents at ACMSE 2011

March 29, 2011

On March 25, 2011, Joel Hollingsworth presented a paper co-authored with Dave Powell at the 49th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Southeast Conference at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. The title of the paper was "Requiring Web-based Cloud and Mobile Computing in a Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum". This conference is the oldest running ACM conference.

Kate Vogt ’11, Duke Hutchings accepted to international human-computer interaction conference

March 29, 2011

The International Federation for Information Processing Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2011) has accepted for presentation the co-authored work of Elon senior Kate Vogt, Elon assistant professor Duke Hutchings, and collaborators from Virginia Tech. The paper is titled "Co-located Collaborative Sensemaking on a Large High-Resolution Display with Multiple Input Devices."

Tony Crider and Megan Squire present at AAC&U conference

March 23, 2011

Tony Crider, an associate professor of physics, and Megan Squire, an associate professor of computing sciences, led a workshop titled "Reacting to the Past: The Pluto Debate" on March 25 at a conference on Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices.

Shannon Duvall interviewed by WFMY News on Jeopardy IBM Challenge

February 16, 2011

Professor Shannon Duvall is an expert on Artificial Intelligence and has done extensive research on natural language dialog systems. On Feb. 15th, she was visited by a local news station, WFMY News 2, to get her reaction to the second day of the Jeopardy IBM Challenge.

Hollingsworth and Powell to give workshop at SIGCSE 2011

January 11, 2011

SIGCSE 2011 Technical Symposium is the largest annual event focused on computer science education and is being held March 9 - 12, 2011 in Dallas Texas. The four day event brings educators from around the world to present papers, posters, panels and workshops. Joel Hollingsworth and Dave Powell will present a three hour workshop titled "Developing an Android Mobile Application for the Google App Engine Cloud.