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New Bachelor of Science in Data Science approved by USG for Fall 2024 – Jagwire Augusta
To meet the demands for data science professionals in Georgia and nationally, Augusta Universitys School of Computer and Cyber Sciences (SCCS) has announced the launch of a new Bachelor of Science in Data Science. The new data science curriculum was defined by the faculty of SCCS in collaboration with Augusta Universitys College of Science and Mathematics
BMCC Computer Science Major Dan Lin Awarded Highly Competitive Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate … – CUNY
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has selected Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) Computer Science major Dan Lin for its highly competitive 2024 Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. Lin, who plans to attend Columbia University, is one of just 60 winners from across the United States to be chosen for the award. Lin is also the only CUNY student to win this years transfer scholarship and one of just three winners from all of New York States community colleges
Erin Solovey Selected as Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow – WPI News
Erin Solovey, associate professor of computer science, has been selected as afellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for the 20242025 academic year. Solovey works at the intersection of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience, leveraging recent advancements in brain-computer interfaces to understand and adapt to a persons changing cognitive state in real-world contexts
NJIT names Temples Jamie Payton to lead its College of Computing – ROI-NJ.com
New Jersey Institute of Technology recently named Jamie Payton, chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University, to lead its Ying Wu College of Computing as dean, beginning July 1. Presently the largest college at NJIT, YWCC is a key element of the Newark-based Institutions drive to become a nexus of innovation under its new strategic plan
Five from UC San Diego Elected to National Academy of Sciences – University of California San Diego
The National Academy of Sciences has elected five University of California San Diego professors to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers.
K-12 Teachers invited to free workshop on campus – IU Newsroom
Local teachers have an opportunity to learn more about computer science coding and applications during a free workshop being offered at Indiana University South Bend. The workshop is designed for K-12 teachers
Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024 – MIT News
The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 members and 24 international members, including five faculty members from MIT. Guoping Feng, Piotr Indyk, Daniel J. Kleitman, Daniela Rus, and Senthil Todadri were elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Love of tech and desire to help draw student to nonprof-IT – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Lauren Rodriguez loved her experience with the nonprof-IT program, which pairs students with nonprofit organizations in need to information technology help. (UWM Photo/Troye Fox) Lauren Rodriguez knew she wanted a major related to technology, so she started her studies at UWM in computer science. Ive always been interested in computers and technology, so my major was going to be something related to that, she said.
Dominik Kempa Earns 2024 NSF CAREER Award – SBU News – Stony Brook News
Dominik Kempa, a professor in Stony Brook Universitys Department of Computer Science, has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for 2024. His project, Scalable and Flexible Indexing of Compressed Sequences, is supported by $600K in CAREER funding from the NSF. In 2022, Dominik was named a rising star in combinatorial pattern matching in Communications of the ACM
Resilience Realized: A&T Commemorates Spring 2024 Graduates – North Carolina A&T
EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (May 11, 2024) Many, if not most, of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State Universitys newest graduates began their higher education journeys in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic.