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CS/MAS Class of 2017

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On May 5, 2017

In Awards/Honors, Faculty/Staff, News, Students

CS and MAS faculty and senior majors and minors gathered at a luncheon in the Alumnae Ballroom to celebrate the red Class of 2016. This year, we look forward to graduating 43 CS majors, 11 CS minors, and 18 MAS majors!

The CS department presented awards to seniors.  Jenny Wang received the Spirit Award for promoting CS community.  Tiffany Ang and Jenny Wang were recognized for their co-leadership of the student CS Club.  Sam Mincheva received the Academic Award.  Kim Asenbeck and Naomi Day received the Rhys and Laurel Price Jones Team Leadership Award, established by former colleague Rhys Price Jones and his wife Laurel.

Congrats Class of 2017!

Sam Mincheva ’17 presents thesis work

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On May 5, 2017

In News, Research, Students, Talks

Sam Mincheva ’17, the lone CS thesis student of 2017, presented their undergraduate honors thesis work, Sound Thread Local Analysis for Lockset-Based Dynamic Data Race Detection, at a lively and well-attended public talk on Friday, May 5. We hope public thesis talks become a tradition in the department.

Advisor Ben Wood and committee members Ashley DeFlumere, Lyn Turbak, and (doctored) Alex Diesl (Math) posed with Sam in the senior-pranked Chamber of CS after delivering the good news.  (No math faculty were eaten by the basilisk — Prof. Diesl had to run to another thesis defense immediately after Sam’s.)

Green class of 2017 transforms department into Chamber of CS

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On May 4, 2017

In Fun, News, Students

The green class of 2017 executed their senior prank to transform the CS department into a Harry Potter world for the last day of spring classes.

Photos by Doug Chudzik, Takis Metaxas

CS 240 staff debut “Callq Me Maybe” at SCI Lip Sync 2017

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On May 2, 2017

In Community, Faculty/Staff, Fun, News

Following in the footsteps of SCI Lip Sync greats Eni Mustafaraj and Takis Metaxas, the CS 240 Spring 2017 faculty team debuted at the 2017 Science Center Faculty Lip Sync with Callq Me Maybe (a.k.a., Conditional Recursive Procedure Call).  Video courtesy of Deborah Nickerson and the Science Center, Eni Mustafaraj, and Jamie Yip ’18.

CS 240 vocalists Ashley DeFlumere (also on fan-and-heatsink cowbell), Jean Herbst (also on hand-tuned disassembled computer guts and keyboard), and Ben Wood (also on DEC VT100 keytar), were honored to be joined by Lip Sync MVP Rita Purcell (on beat-the-bugs-out-of-it PC drums), who found time among her other acclaimed performances to round out the band at the last minute with no rehearsal!

Rumor has it latent talents are hiding among other CS faculty and will debut next year…

Andrea Jackson ’18 launches new Ruhlman analysis website

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On April 26, 2017

In Conferences, Faculty/Staff, News, Press, Students

A new interactive website developed by CS major Andrea Jackson ’18 enables interactive exploration and analysis of data about 20 years of Ruhlman Conferences and was featured in the announcement of this year’s Ruhlman Conference.  Andrea’s work is based on foundations developed by students in Eni Mustafaraj’s Data Analysis and Visualization course and students in Orit Shaer’s HCI Lab.  Eni’s students presented results from a class project last year at Ruhlman 2016.

Andrea carried the work further during the 2016 Summer Research Program with advisor Eni Mustafaraj. She presented work on the website at Tanner 2016 and launched it ahead of Ruhlman 2017.

Congrats on the launch!

 

Wellesley HCI Lab presents BacPack and HoloMuse at TEI 2017

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On March 24, 2017

In Conferences, News, Research

Members of the Wellesley HCI Lab traveled to Yokohama, Japan, in March for the 2017 International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions. They presented:

 

Two Wellesley CS alumnae receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

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On March 21, 2017

In Alumnae, Awards/Honors, News, Research

Two Wellesley alums affiliated with the Computer Science department were awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to support their graduate studies.  Several other Wellesley alums also received fellowships.

Su Lin Blodgett ’15 majored in Math and minored in CS after she discovered a passion for CS late during her time at Wellesley.  She is now a PhD student at UMass studying the use of statistical text analysis to answer social science questions.  She gave a Wellesley CS colloquium talk on her recent work last fall.

Emily Ahn ’16 majored in Cognitive and Linguistics Sciences with a CS concentration and completed an undergraduate honors thesis building a foreign accent classifier with Sravana Reddy.  She is now studying language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University.

Congrats to Su Lin and Emily!

2017 Wellesley Computer Science Seniors Summit and Alumnae Panel

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On March 6, 2017

In Alumnae, Awards/Honors, Community, News, Panels, Students

CS majors in the class of 2017 presented at the 2017 Wellesley Computer Science Seniors Summit, featuring a poster fair, talks, and a panel of distinguished alumnae working in technology (captured in video here).

Wellesley CS Club hosts WHACK: Hacking the Glass Ceiling

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On February 13, 2017

In Community, News, Students

The student-run Wellesley CS Club hosted the latest hackathon in their Wellesley Hacks! series, WHACK: Hacking the Glass Ceiling, on February 11-12.

Women in Game-Making

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On February 12, 2017

In Alumnae, Faculty/Staff, News, Panels, Students

Wellesley CS, MAS, and Cinema & Media Studies hosted a panel on Women and Game-Making featuring demos of student work and perspectives on the future of gaming from panelists from industry and academia.

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