http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/ Latest headlines from the School of Informatics at IU Bloomington. en-us Copyright 2005 Indiana University. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:13:02 EST 20 http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12458.html (Story Link: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12458.html) http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12458.html Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:36:01 EST http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/news/news.asp?id=620 <img height="270" width="580" alt="Nine computer science undergraduates from the IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing traveled to Chicago recently to attend the Consortium of Computer Science in Colleges (CCSC) conference." src="/img/news/CCSC2009.jpg" /><br /><span class="caption) Back row: Joey Kendall-Morwick (coach), Carlo Angiuli, Victor Chernetsky, Jeff Catania, Dustin Dannenhauer, Griffin Anderson. Front row: Cassie Orr, Shruti Krishnan, Karys Grundman, Jeanette Booher, Suzanne Menzel (coach).</span> Nine computer science undergraduates from the IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing traveled to Chicago recently to attend the Consortium of Computer Science in Colleges (CCSC) conference, and a team of three won the annual programming competition while there. Carlo Angiuli, Karys Grundman, and Victor Chernetsky were the only team to solve seven complex problems, ranging from a game of Mousetrap to calculating the square root of a perfect square, to take first place in the competition. &ldquo;This marks the first time a group from IU has participated in a programming competition like this,&rdquo; said Suzanne Menzel, team coach and lecturer for the School of Informatics and Computing. &ldquo;This victory is particularly special because the group of students who made up the teams are all early on in their studies. I&rsquo;m so proud of all of our teams&mdash;they made a great showing, and promise to be fierce competitors in future.&rdquo; The nine students who attended the conference were Griffin Anderson, Carlo Angiuli, Jeanette Booher, Jeff Catania, Victor Chernetsky, Dustin Dannenhauer, Karys Grundman, Shruti Krishnan, and Cassie Orr. The Consortium of Computer Science Colleges is a non-profit organization focused on promoting quality computer-oriented curricula, as well as effective use of computing in smaller institutions of higher learning which are typically non-research in orientation. They have annual conferences in each of their ten regions throughout the country. Founded in 2000 as the first School of its kind in the United States, the Indiana University School of Informatics is dedicated to research and teaching across a broad range of computing and information technology, with emphases on science, applications, and societal implications. The School includes the School of Informatics at IUPUI and the School of Informatics and Computing at Bloomington, where programs include computer science and informatics. The School administers a variety of bachelor and masters degree programs in computer science and informatics, as well as PhD programs in computer science, and the first-ever PhD in informatics. The School is dedicated to excellence in education and research, to partnerships that bolster economic development and entrepreneurship, and to increasing opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities in computing and technology. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:53:48 EST http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/news/news.asp?id=619 The IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing has received three grants that are aimed at fostering diversity and broadening participation in computing-related disciplines. The three grants, totaling $555,000, come from a variety of sources and are part of the School's ongoing initiative to become a national exemplar for diversity. The first, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE division-broadening participation in computing, is a part of the Alliance for the Advancement of African-American Researchers in Computing (A4RC) program. IU's portion of the $1.5 million, two-year extension grant is $427,000 and will be used to continue to increase the number of African-Americans pursuing advanced degrees in computing, particularly at the PhD level. Over the past three years, the A4RC team has laid the groundwork for this by building effective collaborations between historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and faculty and research teams. This two-year extension grant will enable the alliances with HBCUs to expand considerably while joining forces with the African-American Researchers in Computing group that supports PhD's already in the pipeline. The second grant, a one-year planning initiative worth $78,000, proposes the creation of the IN-STARS Alliance between Indiana University Bloomington, Purdue, Depauw, IUPUI, Notre Dame, Ivy Tech Bloomington, Butler, Rose-Hulman, IU Southeast and IPFW. This project will be based on the existing STARS model (Students &amp; Technology in Academia, Research &amp; Service), which is a national alliance of 20 institutions up and down the East Coast, formed to increase the participation of women, under-represented minorities, and persons with disabilities in computing disciplines through multi-faceted interventions and interactions. IN-STARS will enhance opportunities for traditionally underrepresented students (women and minorities) in computing by creating local networks of students within each institution -with online social networks and statewide conferences to bridge the local networks. Additional outreach will include pre-college programs, a series of statewide conferences for the different audiences, and programs for exploratory students already attending one of the participating alliance institutions. The product of this grant is expected to be a proposal submitted to NSF in May 2010 to support a three-year statewide initiative. Dennis Groth and Maureen Biggers are the co-PI's. The final grant is part of the new Department of Homeland Security VACCINE Center of Excellence in Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability. As part of the $50,000 IU portion of the grant, assistant dean for diversity Maureen Biggers will coordinate a Minority Serving Institution education piece for the Center. ``An important part of our strategic plan focuses on making the IUB School of Informatics and Computing a leader in diversity-both for our own students and faculty and for the computing and informatics fields nationally,'' said dean Bobby Schnabel. ``These three grants are instrumental in helping us achieve that goal, and will make significant strides to developing programs that will introduce the dynamic computing field to students who otherwise might not have the opportunity.'' Founded in 2000 as the first School of its kind in the United States, the Indiana University School of Informatics is dedicated to research and teaching across a broad range of computing and information technology, with emphases on science, applications, and societal implications. The School includes the School of Informatics at IUPUI and the School of Informatics and Computing at Bloomington, where programs include computer science and informatics. The School administers a variety of bachelor and masters degree programs in computer science and informatics, as well as PhD programs in computer science, and the first-ever PhD in informatics. The School is dedicated to excellence in education and research, to partnerships that bolster economic development and entrepreneurship, and to increasing opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities in computing and technology. 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Andrew will be sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA) for his work on Ruby, a dynamically-typed, pure object-oriented programming language. His work focuses on improving Ruby's performance, through compiler and optimization techniques, such as specialization. He also hopes to investigate parallel programming in Ruby, using Ruby's domain specific language idioms to experiment with parallel programming models. The NPSC fellowship will allow him more time to focus on his dissertation research. The fellowship will begin in the fall and run for six years from the start of his Ph.D. program. As part of the fellowship, Keep will receive a stipend, health insurance, a tuition waiver and the opportunity to spend two summers working at NSA. ``Andrew should be commended for this accomplishment,'' said computer science chair Andy Hanson. ``To be awarded this fellowship is a testament to the work he's been doing here, and the kind of exceptional student he is.'' ``The work that Andrew has been doing with me on developing compiler techniques to optimize Ruby is groundbreaking. It beautifully complements other effort in the Ruby community to enhance Ruby's performance and has the potential for far reaching impact, through published papers as well as the Ruby compiler that Andrew plans to release under an open source license,'' said Arun Chauhan, professor of computer science. The National Physical Science Consortium is a unique partnership between industry, government agencies and laboratories, and higher education. Established in 1987, the NPSC is headquartered in Los Angeles. The NPSC has one primary objective, and that is to increase the number of qualified U.S.-citizen Ph.D.'s in the physical sciences and related engineering fields, emphasizing recruitment of a diverse applicant pool of women and historically underrepresented minorities. NPSC accomplishes this objective by assisting corporations and government agencies and laboratories in awarding doctoral fellowships to outstanding U.S. students. Fri, 15 May 2009 09:42:50 EST http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10892.html (Story Link: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10892.html) http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10892.html Fri, 1 May 2009 12:45:28 EST http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10749.html (Story Link: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10749.html) http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10749.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:48:21 EST