Computer Science News

- - Students create rideshare app for designated driving
    This year at least seven Virginia Tech organizations have used Drop A Pin, an app created by Matt Sanford and Greg Smith that aims to make designated driving safer.
- - Class of 2018: FutureHAUS team member built college career on thinking big
    Matt Tucker's interest in technology started as a youngster. His grandfather would sit with him and the two would tinker with software.
- - Daphne Yao recognized for outstanding scientific contributions to computing
    Yao is one of 49 Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery being recognized for outstanding contributions to the field of computer science. The 2018 Distinguished Members are exemplars for their peers and represent ACM’s worldwide geographic reach.
- - Block.one CTO Dan Larimer to host discussion on the potential of Blockchain’s potential at Virginia Tech
- - Researchers bring Jedi powers to life with Force Push
    Force Push is a virtual reality technique that gives users the ability to move faraway objects with Yoda-like calm, nuance, and focus using an approach for remote object manipulation in VR.
- - Home of the future takes first place at international competition
    After years of research and development contributed by over 100 Virginia Tech students and faculty, the FutureHAUS Dubai team has officially built the world’s best solar home.
- - Researchers awarded NSF grant to build computational framework to test gene mutations in living cells
    Virginia Tech and Colorado State University researchers have been awarded a $1.52 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new algorithms and mathematical models with the goal of predicting the effects of novel combinations of gene mutations in living cells.
- - Arianna Krinos wins Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award for second consecutive year
    Krinos, a senior with triple majors, will be presented with the scholarship on Thursday by former NASA astronaut Michael J. McCully, who will then give a guest lecture that is open to the public.
- - Researchers create first-of-its-kind composable storage platform for high-performance computing
    Large-scale, advanced high-performance computing, often called supercomputing, is essential to solving both complex and large questions. But storage platforms essential for these advanced computer systems have been stuck in a rigid framework that required users to either choose between customization of features or high availability.
- - Naren Ramakrishnan reappointed Thomas L. Phillips Professor of Engineering
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1998, Ramakrishnan, who is also director of the Discovery Analytics Center, is one of the top researchers in the theory and practice of data analytics, the science of finding interesting and actionable patterns hidden in massive data sets.
- - House of the future and team that built it head to international competition
    FutureHAUS Dubai, an innovative, interdisciplinary, and ambitious project to design and build a futuristic, modular smart home, is the lone American team competing against 14 other university teams at the Solar Decathlon Middle East in Dubai.
- - Water experts to study emerging threat of antibiotic resistance
    Through the awarding of two contracts, the Centers for Disease Control is tapping the expertise of Amy Pruden and Marc Edwards in a wider effort to address emerging public health priorities.

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