News & Events
AIT Budapest Presentation by Ran Libeskind-Hadas
AIT Budapest is a study-abroad program specifically designed for computer science majors (and other students with strong interests in CS). The program offers small classes taught in English by an extraordinary group of Hungarian faculty, including Erno Rubik (of Rubik’s Cube fame), Gabor Bojar (founder of the first software company in Hungary), Gergely Vass (of Colorfront, a company that specializes in digital cinema post-production and a recipient of the 2010 Technical Emmy Award), Judit Csima (a theoretician at the nearby BME University and recipient of her department’s top teaching award) and others.
Professor Ran Libeskind-Hadas from Harvey Mudd College is a North American Co-Director for AIT and will be on campus to talk about the program and answer questions. We hope that you’ll join us for pizza on Friday at noon in the Computer Science Lounge (TCL, 3rd floor) and hear about this special program that has enrolled several students from Williams in recent years.
If you think you’ll attend, please email Amanda Turner (aturner@cs.williams.edu). This will help us determine how much pizza to order.
Courses – Winter Study 2014
Check out what Computer Science is offering for Winter Study 2014!
TA Applications due November 1!
The Computer Science Department is now accepting applications for teaching assistants and tutors for Spring 2013 semester. We are interested in finding TAs for classes ranging from our introductory classes to our upper-level core classes and electives. You may be a TA for any class you have completed (or CS 134), and we encourage even those early in the major or who have taken only one or two CS courses to apply. Please apply before November 1 by filling out the online form available.
Computer Science Spring Preregistration Info Session – October 28 at 9:00 pm
Grace Hopper 2013
Six students (Rebecca Lewis ’16, Christine Cunningham ’15, Jaclyn Porfilio ’15, Abbie Zimmermann-Niefield ’15, Jenna Maddock ’15, and Mia Smith ’16) as well as Research Associate Kelsey Levine and Prof. Andrea Danyluk attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
At the conference, Abbie presented a poster (“Performance and Energy Efficient Parallel Computation for Embedded Systems”) on the research she conducted last summer at Brown University.
Computer Science Department Open House
Visit the Computer Science Department for an open house on Tuesday, September 3 at 4:00 pm (Thompson Chemistry 3rd floor).
Meet with faculty to talk about classes, research and what it is like to be a Computer Science major.
We hope to see you there!
ECOOP13 – Best Paper Award
Stephen Freund and his colleague Cormac Flanagan (UC Santa Cruz) recently received the 2013 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Best Paper Award for their paper RedCard: Redundant Check Elimination for Dynamic Race Detectors. Freund presented that paper at ECOOP 2013 in Montpellier, France, in July.
Senior Honors Thesis Defenses on Monday, May 13
Thesis defenses are scheduled for Monday, May 13.
At 9:00 am light breakfast fare will be available in TCL 206 prior to the talks.
9:30 – 10:15 Donny Huang
10:20 – 11:10 Tommy Gaidus
11:15 – 12:00 April Shen
Break for lunch.
1:30 – 2:15 Jennifer Gossels
2:20 – 3:05 James Wilcox
Morgan McGuire featured in the May 2013 Communications of the ACM.
The research paper on GPU Ray Tracing (http://dl.acm.org/
This paper describes the key algorithms behind the NVIDIA OptiX product, which is a system for tracing geometric rays through space using massive parallelism on graphics processors. It has been applied to problems as diverse as real-time generation of photorealistic images, audio simulation, and collision detection. OptiX demonstrates that it is possible to create high-performance systems that are themselves programmable through the use of JIT compilation and eliminating the user program / system software boundary.
In his discussion of this work (http://dl.acm.