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!
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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.
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.
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.
Twelve Wellesley students traveled to Hamilton College in New York state to present research posters and participate in the programming contest at CCSCNE 2016 on April 29-30.
- Kasey Shen ’17 won 2nd place in the undergraduate research competition for her research poster on “Profiling Synchronization Patterns in Multithreaded Programs,” advised by Ben Wood. Congrats to Kasey!
- Whitney Fahnbulleh ’17, Amanda Foun ’17, and Diana Tosca ’18 presented their research poster on “Analysis of Video Watching Behavior in MOOCS,” advised by Eni Mustafaraj.
- Cece Tsui ’18 and Jacqueline Young ’18 presented their research poster on “Improving Searching and Zooming in App Inventor,” advised by Lyn Turbak.
- Elizabeth Hau ’16, WanYi Li ’16, Susie Carovillano ’16, Sunnia Ye ’17, Jessica Guo ’17, and Ye Eun Jeong ’16 represented Wellesley in the programming contest.
- Lyn Turbak tagged along to meet Hamilton himself.
Great showing, Wellesley!
The 20th Annual Ruhlman Conference on April 27, 2016 (program), featured talks, demos, and panels by a host of CS students.
The Ruhlman Explore Design Team (All Day)
Lauren Westendorf ’15, Computer Science and Asiya Yakhina ’16, Media Art and Science ADVISOR: Orit Shaer, Computer Science
Located in Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Ballroom during the Ruhlman Conference:
Establishing a Voice: Attempts to Be Heard (Short Talks) SCI-377
Beyond Boobtube: From NBC to Google
Sarah F. Bailin ’16, Computer Science/Cinema and Media Studies; Tara Gupta ’16, Media Arts and Sciences
BacPack for New Frontiers: An Interactive Museum Exhibit for Synthetic Biology SCI-104 (On-Location Presentation)
Rachel S. Kwon ’17, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences; Vivien Chen ’18, Computer Science; Samuila (Sam) Y. Mincheva ’17, Computer Science
Cracking the Code: Computers and You (Short Talks) FND-120
Tutor-Complete: An Educational Game and Intelligent Tutoring System for Languages and Automata
Katherine A. Kjeer ’16, Computer Science
Observing and Designing Experiences of Collaborative Learning in Computer Science
Natalie R. Sayed ’18, Computer Science
GenomiX: A Novel Interaction Tool for Self-Exploration of Personal Genomic Data
Christina S. Pollalis ’16, Political Science; Liliana N. Westort ’18, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Profiling Locking Patterns in Multithreaded Programs
Kasey Shen ’17, Computer Science
MuSme (Panel Discussion) SCI-104
Amal Tidjani ’18, Undeclared; Priscilla A. Lee ’18, Computer Science; Eileen Cho ’16, Neuroscience
Twenty Years of Ruhlman Under the Loop of Data Science (Panel Discussion) PNE-239
Hannah Murphy ’19, Undeclared; Meredith McCormack-Mager ’16, Mathematics; Kate Kenneally ’18, Computer Science; Whitney Fahnbulleh ’17, Media Arts and Science/Chinese Language and Culture; Clara Sorensen ’18, Biological Science; Mary Ruth Ngo ’17, Computer Science; Aline Mitsuzawa ’18, Undeclared; Jacqueline L. Hom ’18, Computer Science; Anne Schwartz ’18, Computer Science; Nina-Marie Amadeo ’18, Computer Science
On April 13, the Class of ’16 CS majors presented to other students and faculty at the Senior Poster Fair. This year’s graduating class includes 39 CS majors!
Sophomore and junior CS majors who attended and completed a questionnaire about posters were entered in a lottery for funding to attend the 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration. Sarah May ’17 was the lucky winner.
Photos by Shirley Lu ’15
The Wellesley HCI Lab presented their paper SynFlo: A Tangible Museum Exhibit for Exploring Bio-Design at the 2016 Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction at Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.