Computer Science News

- - Tanushree Mitra among first to receive research grant providing access to Facebook data
    The assistant professor of computer science and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center is also one of only two women to receive the Social Media and Democracy Research Grant. Mitra and her team will study how misinformation and other problematic content spread on the platform.
- - Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team places second in first year of EcoCAR Mobility Challenge
    The team will receive a 2019 Chevy Blazer in August 2019, which they will modify to incorporate their designs from year one.
- - Na Meng receives NSF CAREER award to improve the programming environment
    Meng’s project, titled “Data-Driven Debugging of Complex Program Changes,” will span five years with the goals of increasing programmer productivity and improving software reliability.
- - Hokies are finalists in NASA contest to design space helmets of the future
    Seven Hokies spanning a variety of majors - and dubbed the HokieNauts - are among the 12 finalists in a national NASA-sponsored competition to design informational digital displays to fit inside an astronaut’s helmet.
- - Dimitrios Nikolopoulos named John W. Hancock Professor of Engineering
    Nikolopoulos will rejoin the Department of Computer Science later this summer. He brings to Virginia Tech a world-class record of scholarship, teaching, service, and outreach, most recently serving as a professor of high performance and distributed computing at Queen's University Belfast.
- - In memoriam: Lawrence Sewell, computer engineer who designed, built Math Emporium computer system
    Sewell, a retired Virginia Tech computer engineer, designed and built the Math Emporium’s massive core computer system that encompasses online textbooks, practice problems, asynchronous tests and quizzes, and assignments for more than 8,000 math students annually.
- - New master's degree for Innovation Campus
    The degree is designed to prepare graduates for mid-level and advanced positions in industries related to computing technology.
- - Beyond Queen’s stomp-stomp-clap: Computer scientist finds social media boosts engagement during live shows
    Sang Won Lee, an assistant professor of computer science in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, and his collaborators tested some theories about not only engaging large audiences, but sustaining that engagement in a live music performance.
- - Board of Visitors sets university budget at $1.66 billion for 2019-20 fiscal year; strategic plan approved
    This budget increase reflects changes in nongeneral fund revenues for 2019-20 and the outcomes of the 2019 General Assembly session that will impact the 2019-20 General Fund appropriation.
- - Virginia Tech Beyond Boundaries Scholars program inspires and empowers
    Hundreds of students across the classes of 2021 and 2022 have benefited from the Beyond Boundaries Scholars program, which in August will expand to benefit incoming members of the class of 2023.
- - Class of 2019: Nicholas Hardy, computer as self
    "Computer as self" is a riff on the Japanese metaphor for rice as identity. And it can easily be applied to Hardy, a computer science major and Japanese studies minor.
- - College of Science seniors Aimee Maurais and Arianna Krinos eye future with research positions at MIT
    Graduating College of Science seniors and research collaborators Aimee Maurais has been named the 2019 Outstanding Senior in the College of Science and Arianna Krinos has won the 2019 College of Science Senior Undergraduate Research Award.

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