Computer Science News

- - Urban computing program provides Ph.D. students with valuable skills to address problems faced by cities
    The UrbComp certificate program is supported through a grant of nearly $3 million from the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program and administered through the Discovery Analytics Center.
- - Virginia Tech alumnus to speak about the new age of blockchain technology March 20
    Dan Larimer '03 will share his experiences as a serial entrepreneur at the forefront of cultural change and emerging technologies.
- - B. Aditya Prakash receives NSF CAREER award to find data-driven network strategies to enhance national security and public health
    The assistant professor of computer science and faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center is also committed to strengthening the big data and mining curriculum for Virginia Tech students.
- - Xun (Steve) Jian appointed assistant professor of computer science
    Jian’s lab seeks to discover how computer architecture can become more reliable and secure while maintaining high performance and energy efficiency.
- - With traveling clinic, Virginia Tech to take autism services to rural Virginia
    From spring through November, faculty and graduate students will drive an RV, converted into a mobile clinic, to far Southwest Virginia to offer therapy and other services for children with autism spectrum disorder.
- - Smartly containing the cloud increases computing efficiency, Virginia Tech researchers find in first-of-its-kind study
    Unlike the software-heavy virtual machines, containers share the core of the underlying operating system, which enables faster deployment of software programs without diminishing performance.
- - Matthew Hicks named assistant professor in Department of Computer Science
    Hicks’ research seeks to address challenges in developing improved security of low-level hardware code, hardware devices for security systems, battery-less devices, and approximate computing techniques used in studying machine energy efficiency.
- - Computer science graduate lives motto of Ut Prosim every day in Haiti
    In his “off hours," Mario Calixte travels on weekends throughout the country setting up computer labs and teaching elementary and high school instructors basic computer and Linux operating system skills, and how to use and integrate various educational computer-based applications into their curriculum.
- - Edward Fox named 2017 ACM Fellow for contributions to information retrieval and digital libraries
    Fifty years after joining the Association for Computing Machinery as an undergraduate, the Virginia Tech professor joins an elite group representing less than 1 percent of overall membership.
- - Virginia Tech team leads federal effort to forecast the flow of information online
    The quality of information shared on websites and social media has become an increasing concern for most Americans, but Virginia Tech scientists are spearheading a new effort to improve our understanding of how social information travels and transforms online.
- - Innovative partnership will extend cutting-edge flu forecasting research to millions
    The Biocomplexity Institute has a strategic partnership with AccuWeather that will place the institute’s disease surveillance platform EpiCaster on the AccuWeather platform.
- - Programming computer science graduates begins with educators
    Companies around the world are clamoring for professionals well versed in computer science. Which raises the question, if industry is starving for tech graduates, who is teaching them?

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