Computer Science

Megan Squire, associate professor in the Department of Computing Sciences, traveled to South Bend, Ind., from May 30-June 2 to lead several panels and workshops at the 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems.

Duke Hutchings, assistant professor of computing sciences, has been awarded patent #7,624,354 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

On, April 17, 2010, Dave Powell presented a paper co-authored with Joel Hollingsworth at the annual ACM Southeast Conference at the University of Mississippi. The title of the paper was "Teaching Web Programming Using the Google Cloud". This conference is the oldest continually running conference of the Association of Computing Machinery.

The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing International Conference on Security and Management has accepted for presentation the co-authored work of Elon senior Jonathan Citty and Duke Hutchings, assistant professor of computing sciences, titled "Design & Evaluation of an Image-based Authentication System for Small Touch-screens."

Duke Hutchings, assistant professor of computing sciences, on April 17 presented his paper, "Controlling Information Display in Larger Pixel Spaces: A Study of Window Snipping by Multiple-monitor Users," at the 48th Association for Computing Machinery Conference at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

In recognition of over 15 years of professional commitment, leadership and service to the Decision Sciences Institute, Southwest Region, Lynn R. Heinrichs has been selected to receive the organization's 2010 Distinguished Service Award.

Lynn R. Heinrichs, associate professor of computing sciences and business, served as a panel moderator and workshop presenter at the 2010 meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Southwest Region (SWDSI) in Dallas, Texas, March 2-6.

Megan Squire, associate professor of Computing Sciences (with colleagues from Syracuse University, University of Notre Dame, and University of California, Irvine) convened an invitation-only research workshop February 10-12, 2010 at the University of California, Irvine. The Workshop on the Future of Research on Free and Open Source Software was attended by 50 researchers, and fully funded by a grant from the Computing Community Consortium, an arm of the Computing Research Association.

Family and friends of Matthew J. Ford ’04 gathered in Loy Center on Wednesday afternoon to plant a tree in memory of the computing sciences major, who died a year ago to the day in a Burlington, N.C., industrial accident.

The Belk Library staff and ACM Club members teamed up to host game night on Friday, Sept. 18, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Belk Library.