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