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!
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:
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
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.
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.
CS faculty members Sohie Lee, Takis Metaxas, and Scott Anderson completed a collaborative indoor triathlon in Wellesley’s Givin’ it a Tri program on March 3, 2016, cheered on my CS students.
“Wellesley students are flocking to the computer science department, drawn in by the friendly faculty, innovative labs, and the promise of making a difference in the world through tech.” — Wellesley Magazine, Winter 2016
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