Computer Science News

- - A sprint to the finish for Virginia Tech Blockchain Challenge finalists
    On May 9, five student teams will compete for $25,000 in prizes as part of their systems capstone course called Blockchain Technologies.
- - Computer scientists develop dynamic checklist so web designers can work more efficiently, creatively
    According to the "Checklist Manifesto," the New York Times bestseller by Atul Gawande, professionals who do highly technical work use checklists to guard against making avoidable mistakes. Virginia Tech researchers, in collaboration with Manhattan-based web design startup B12, took Gawande’s concept and applied it to web design.
- - Computer scientists develop software to smartly balance data processing load in supercomputers
    A team of researchers in the Department of Computer Science in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering is helping supercomputers to work more efficiently in a novel way, using machine learning to properly distribute, or load balance, data processing tasks across the thousands of servers that comprise a supercomputer.
- - Students take top prize in Solar Decathlon Design Challenge
    A team of Virginia Tech students from across several disciplines was named the Grand Winner at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Weekend in Golden, Colorado, April 12–14.
- - Virginia Tech joining IBM Q Network to accelerate research, educational opportunities in quantum computing
    Virginia Tech researchers and students will have direct access to IBM Q’s most-advanced quantum computing systems for research projects that advance quantum science, exploring early uses of quantum computing, and for teaching.
- - Amazon Research Award supports developing algorithms that tackle unfairness in recommendation engines
    While other research focuses almost exclusively on situations where group identities of users are known, Bert Huang, professor of computer science and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, and Ph.D. student Sirui Yao look at settings where they do not know, or do not trust, information about who belongs to what groups.
- - Software platform engages communities in school rezoning decisions
    An online interactive platform developed at the Discovery Analytics Center uses data analytics and machine learning to help stakeholders better understand school rezoning plans and potential effects on the community. Users can also share comments and concerns about proposed plans, propose changes to boundaries, and even create their own plans.
- - Virginia Tech leaders hold first Blacksburg town hall on Innovation Campus
- - Testing the water: Virginia Tech team launches system to predict water conditions
    A team at Virginia Tech is making it possible for water utility managers, such as the Western Virginia Water Authority in Roanoke, to predict water quality conditions - 16 days before they occur.
- - Virginia Tech researchers receive NSF grant to study the honey bee gut microbiome
    Researchers Lisa Belden, David Haak, T.M. Murali, and Richard Fell from Virginia Tech and Jenifer Walke from Eastern Washington University are collaborating to study the critical role of the honey bee gut microbiome in health and defense against parasites using a systems biology framework.
- - Blacksburg growth to fuel Innovation Campus
    The university’s new Innovation Campus in Alexandria — also part of the higher education package — will be fueled by growth in Blacksburg as well as at other universities around the state and beyond.
- - Anuj Karpatne appointed assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science
    A primary focus of Karpatne’s research aims to advance the novel paradigm of theory-guided data science, where machine learning methods are deeply integrated with scientific knowledge, or theories, that underlie real-world phenomena in physical and life sciences.

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