The Wellesley HCI Lab, with collaborators from the University of New Hampshire, presented a poster, Towards understanding collaboration around interactive surfaces: Exploring joint visual attention, at the 2016 User Interface Software and Technology Symposium in Tokyo, Japan.
Author: Editor (Page 7 of 9)
Wellesley MAS and LTS hosted an exposition and panel on Making & Fabrication for the Liberal Arts, featuring student and faculty demos. Orit Shair moderated a discussion including perspectives from panelists in industry and academia on the potential of making and fabrication techniques to support a range of education and research goals.
We are excited to welcome our newest colleague, Ashley DeFlumere, who joined the Computer Science Department as a Lecturer in Fall 2016. This Fall she is introducing a new course, CS 249, on Scientific and Parallel Computer. Ashley’s research focuses on systems, algorithms, and tools for parallel scientific computation, with a focus on load balancing computations and communications in heterogeneous environments. Ashley completed her PhD at University College Dublin and was most recently a visiting assistant professor at Mt. Holyoke College (also her alma mater). She also plays on the Ireland National Women’s Lacrosse team.
Please join us in welcoming Ashley to the department!
Members of Eni Mustafaraj’s CRED Lab engage in the serious and fun aspects of summer research (you decide which is which).
The Wellesley HCI Lab and the Tufts University Dev Tech group were awarded a collaborative NSF grant to develop reality-based interfaces for use in kindergarten science education. The project will help introduce biological engineering in early-childhood science curricula with reality-based interfaces that support concrete interactions to understand abstract science concepts.
The Wellesley HCI Lab presented a paper, GenomiX: A Novel Interaction Tool for Self-Exploration of Personal Genomic Data, at ACM CHI 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!