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Fall 2016 CS Colloquium Speakers

The Fall 2016 CS Colloquium series, organized by Hess Fellow Sravana Reddy, featured talks on everything from tools for social scientists and data scientists, computer security, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction.

 

Friday, Nov 4: Jordan Suchow, UC Berkeley
Experiment design, algorithm design, and automation in the behavioral and social sciences

Tuesday, Nov 8: Andrea Parker, Northeastern University
Community Wellness Informatics: Creating Technology for Health Equity

Friday, Nov 11: Abhi Shelat, Northeastern University
Secure Stable Matchings

Monday, Nov 14: Mor Naaman, Cornell Tech
Awareness, Coordination and Trust in the Peer Economy

Friday, Nov 18: Su Lin Blodgett ’15, UMass Amherst
Dialectal variation in social media: A case study of African-American English

Wednesday, Nov 30: Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Continuous Vector Representations of (Spoken and Written) Words

Friday, Dec 9: Emma Tosch ’08, UMass Amherst
Programming Language and Systems Research for Data Scientists

 

In addition, the department hosted a panel on graduate school in computer science with Danae Metaxa-Kakavouli, graduate student in CS and HCI at Stanford University (yes you may recognize those last names!), and Vicky Zeamer MAS ’15, currently a student in the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program.

Marissa Avila ’07 led a discussion of the Where’s Wellesley app.

Students and faculty form new Systems Reading Club

The new Wellesley CS Systems Reading Club, sponsored by Ashley DeFlumere, Ben Wood, and Christine Bassem (a.k.a. “ABC systems”) drew a range of students and faculty who met weekly to read and discuss classic or cutting-edge research papers in the area of computer systems, broadly defined.  Each week, one or two students led discussion about the week’s paper.  Topics included operating systems and virtualization, NASA hardware, quantum computing, distributed network protocols, reasoning about concurrency, voting system security, and more.  Hopefully we will be back for more in future semesters!

Daily Shot features Wellesley makers

Wellesley makers were featured in the Daily Shot.

Students hack for social good at CS Club’s WHACK Fall 2016

The student-run Wellesley Computer Science Club’s Fall 2016 WHACK hackathon drew 80 participants to hack for social good in partnership with several Boston area organizations.

Clara Sorenson ’18 and Anne Schwartz ’18 present Habitat Explorer at ACM ISS

Clara Sorenson ’18, Anne Schwartz ’18, and Eni Mustafaraj traveled to Niagara Falls in November, where Clara and Anne presented a poster on their work on Habitat Explorer at the ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces.  Habitat Explorer is a collaborative educational game for large-screen multi-touch displays that introduces children to basic concepts of data collection and data science.  Clara and Anne developed the game for the MultiTaction displays in the Wellesley HCI Lab during the 2016 Summer Research Program.

Wellesley at Grace Hopper Celebration 2016

Several Wellesley students, alums, and faculty converged in October for the 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.  Jenny Wang ’17 also caught up with C of CLRS.

Wellesley HCI Lab poster with UNH collaborators at UIST 2016

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.

Making and Fabrication for the Liberal Arts

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.

CS Faculty and Staff 2016-2017

Once more, a stunningly large number of CS faculty and staff all attended one meeting.  Susan Buck was off doing real work, but beamed in briefly to say hi.

Ashley DeFlumere joins CS Faculty

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!

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