Computer Science News

- - 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?
- - Expert offers security tips for Cyber Monday shoppers to protect themselves from scammers
    Virginia Tech’s cybersecurity expert Gang Wang forewarns shoppers to be on the lookout for scammers on Cyber Monday.

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