The Wellesley Daily Shot highlighted the media and education impacts of TwitterTrails, the work of Takis Metaxas, Eni Mustafaraj, and several student researchers.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
