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