Computer
Science
News
Seminars
Scholarships and Awards
Announcements
Students
- Congratulations go out to the following CS students who will be honored at the Campus Awards Ceremony Friday, April 3rd at Holmberg Hall:
Jacob Bryant Elliott(PE-ET Top 10 Senior Honor Society, 2009-2010, The President's Award for Outstanding Juniors, Big Man on Campus )
Kelly Tran( Big Woman on Campus )
Susan Collins( Outstanding Senior in Computer Science )
- MS students Emmanuel Goossaert and Rajibul Alam take second place in the
2009 American Meteorological Society Artificial Intelligence
Competition.
- OU Computer Science undergrads Caleb Eggensperger, Sean Lavelle, and Peter Reid, competing under their team name, Irony Barbecue, placed ninth of sixty teams from colleges throughout Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana in the 2008 ACM Programming Comptetition, October 18. Results.
- Kelly Tran earns the 2008 Outstanding Senior Award for the College of Engineering.
- Christopher Utz, Mohammed Javed , and Shengguan Qian received $250 scholarships from the School of Computer Science Advisory Board at the spring meeting. The scholarships were presented by Advisory Board Chair Roger Rowe, and Director Le Gruenwald.
- Kieu Oanh (Kelly) Tran received the Ronnie Irani International Student Leadership Scholarship for 2008-2009. This scholarship is recognizes an international student who has demonstrated leadership skills by initiating unique programs, leading others towards achievement in areas which benefit the entire university community, and any other innovative program established as a result of the applicant's initiative, creativity, and commitment.
Faculty
- Dr. Deborah Trytten was awarded with the "OU Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award". The award presentation will be at the Faculty Tribute, April 23, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. in the Sandy Bell Gallery, Mary and Howard Lester Wing, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
- Dr. Amy McGovern received a 5-year NSF CAREER award on Developing
Spatiotemporal Relational Models to Anticipate Tornado Formation.
- Dr.
Andrew Fagg and Adam Brown from School of Art, have been selected to teach a Presidential Dream Course in Spring 2009, entitled, "Sm[ART]
Spaces". This
course will bring together students from computer science, engineering,
and the arts to explore the technological, social, and artistic
implications of embedding throughout our environment small devices that
are capable of sensing, computing, communicating and acting.
- Dr. Amy McGovern received the Alumni Teaching Award for Spring 2008 for Artificial Intelligence.
- Professor Andrew H. Fagg was awarded a subcontract from Northwestern University's project on
"Developing a Bidirectional Central Nervous System Interface for
Robotic Control" (funded by the NIH). The ultimate goal of this work is
to develop prosthetic limb interfaces that connect directly into a
patient's neocortex.
- Dr.
Dean Hougen
had the honor of being selected to serve as a member of the site visit
team
for the Alberta
Ingenuity Centre
for Machine Learning.
- Drs. Qi
Cheng and Dean
Hougen have been promoted to rank of Associate Professor.
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Educating bachelors,
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and doctoral
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