The Wellesley HCI Lab presented a paper, GenomiX: A Novel Interaction Tool for Self-Exploration of Personal Genomic Data, at ACM CHI 2016.
Month: May 2016
On the last day of Spring Reading Period, a crowd of about 40 gathered for the First Annual Wellesley College Completely Serious International Conference and Symposium on Computer Science (CSICSOCS 2016). The CSICSOCS 2016 proceedings followed the double-blind publishing model: works have been anonymized to protect the authors. Our illustrious and extinguished speakers spoke on these cutting-edge research topics:
- Can I come back to you all on this? Torn between n-grams of commit messages / professor emails OR Becoming a Functional Adult with HOFL: Higher-Order Folding of Laundry OR doing a karaoke talk. I will figure it out by tomorrow!
- An Emoji-Based Lexical Analysis of This Text K. C. Just Sent Me
- Taking Down Capitalism Through CS, One Bank At A Time
- i’ll let you know the title once i know what i’m talking about
- A billion monkeys typing on a billion typewriters CAN write Shakespeare
- CS240: A Musical Review
- How I Put Up Capitalism with CS
- Pun Generator: The Fun Generator
Several more speakers gave rousing renditions of Slide Karaoke talks.
Following CSICSOCS, conference participants and others proceeded to Munger Meadow for the annual CS-Math Frisbee face-off. We think Math won again, but neither computer scientists nor mathematicians are particularly good with natural numbers much larger than 2, so who knows!
Photos by Lyn Turbak
CS and MAS faculty and senior majors and minors gathered at a luncheon in the Science Center Penthouse to celebrate the red Class of 2016. This year, we look forward to graduating 38 CS majors and 13 CS minors!
The CS department presented awards to seniors. Karina Chan received the Spirit Award for promoting CS community. Katherine Kjeer and Lily Chen received the Academic Award. Ye Eun Jeong received the Rhys and Laurel Price Jones Team Leadership Award, established by former colleague Rhys Price Jones and his wife Laurel.
Congrats class of 2016!
In what may be the first CS faculty appearance at the beloved event, Eni Mustafaraj and Takis Metaxas debuted at the 2016 Science Center Faculty Lip Sync in a performance of “Bad Self Portraits” with colleague Corri Taylor from Quantitative Reasoning.
Twelve Wellesley students traveled to Hamilton College in New York state to present research posters and participate in the programming contest at CCSCNE 2016 on April 29-30.
- Kasey Shen ’17 won 2nd place in the undergraduate research competition for her research poster on “Profiling Synchronization Patterns in Multithreaded Programs,” advised by Ben Wood. Congrats to Kasey!
- Whitney Fahnbulleh ’17, Amanda Foun ’17, and Diana Tosca ’18 presented their research poster on “Analysis of Video Watching Behavior in MOOCS,” advised by Eni Mustafaraj.
- Cece Tsui ’18 and Jacqueline Young ’18 presented their research poster on “Improving Searching and Zooming in App Inventor,” advised by Lyn Turbak.
- Elizabeth Hau ’16, WanYi Li ’16, Susie Carovillano ’16, Sunnia Ye ’17, Jessica Guo ’17, and Ye Eun Jeong ’16 represented Wellesley in the programming contest.
- Lyn Turbak tagged along to meet Hamilton himself.
Great showing, Wellesley!
Almost all the faculty made it to a faculty meeting at the same time! Ellen Hildreth and Orit Shaer were off doing real work, but beamed in briefly to say hi. The low-level hardware faculty were put in charge of the cold hard floor.