Computer Science News

- - 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.
- - On Veterans Day, volunteers to transcribe the candid views of World War II soldiers
    The three-day transcribe-a-thon will help capture 65,000 pages of handwritten reflections on everything from the quality of rations to the conduct of commanding officers.
- - Virginia Tech study identifies recurring elements in conspiracy theories to learn what people who propagate them are thinking
    For this research, Tanushree Mitra, assistant professor of computer science and faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, and post doc Mattia Samory analyzed more than 200,000 Reddit users and six million comments over a 10-year period, focusing on the key elements of a conspiracy theory.
- - Biocomplexity Institute Interim Executive Director plans to nurture, focus on team science
    Biocomplexity Institute's interim executive director's vision includes transdisciplinary team science and experiential learning.
- - Department of Computer Science welcomes Bimal Viswanath as assistant professor
    Viswanath’s research interests broadly cover security and privacy aspects of data-driven systems. He currently works on topics at the intersection of security and machine learning.
- - Immersive theatrical installation brings the works of Edgar Allan Poe to life
    A theatrical installation in the Cube of the Moss Arts Center titled "Poe's Shadows," opens on Oct. 31 and includes a series of short expert talks on related and complementary topics.

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