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Nov. 3, 2021 -- In July 2021, the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) newly formed Industry Committee (CRA-I) launched a series of 75-minute virtual

Oct. 11, 2021 -- The National Science Foundation has awarded the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT an NSF Broadening Participation

CRA board approves Lyric Point Amid Other Efforts Two small businesses in Overtown will expand their operations in the historic district thanks to Board Chairman Jeffrey Watson and the Southeast Overtown / Parkwest Community Redevelopment Agency (“SEOPW”) (“CRA”) Board of Commissioners. The build-out has been approved for 7,000 square feet of leased and/or commercial space at Lyric Point. The development is a new two-story, 55,000 square foot commercial building located at 1...

News No Comments After traveling from Nigeria to earn a graduate degree at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Oluwaseun “Seun” Johnson is graduating this month with a master’s degree in information science and a new career at Intuit, Inc.  Johnson will begin his new job as a software engineer with Intuit in June and will be moving to Mountain View, California, where the company’s headquarters are located, later this year. “I feel happy that I am graduating,” Johnson said. ...

Date Time UO project finds communications risks in a Cascadia quake University of Oregon research inspired by an undergraduate has uncovered a communications hazard that could accompany earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone: Internet traffic and cell signaling facilities could be crippled. A project led by Juno Mayer, a computer science student, estimates that 65 percent of fiber links and cell towers, especially between Portland and Seattle, are at risk in the next 50 years. Scientist...

Housing and Development Newsletter As further evidence of the program’s impact, ERSP students have received the department’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award the past two years. The 2020 recipients, Andrew Gaut and Tony Sun, both of whom worked on a research project with assistant professor William Wang, were finalists for a prestigious national honor, the Computing Research Association’s Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award.  The NCWIT also commended Mirza for teaching an ...

 E-Mail Diba Mirza, an associate teaching professor of computer science at UC Santa Barbara, has received the Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research (MAUR) from the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). The national award recognizes four faculty each year who have demonstrated outstanding mentorship by providing high-quality research opportunities to students, recruiting women and other underrepresented students, and encouraging and advancing undergraduates in compu...

Share this article AUSTIN, Texas and BOSTON, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Alegion Inc., a leading training data platform provider for machine learning has appointed Dr. Carla Brodley to its Board of Directors. Carla is dean of Northeasterns Khoury College of Computer Sciences and executive director of Northeastern Universitys Center for Inclusive Computing. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Associa...

Richard Canevez, recipient of the prestigious Computing Innovation Fellowship ( CIFellows), has joined the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Social Sciences as a postdoctoral researcher. At UH Mānoa, Canevez will lead a study to examine the connection between communication technologies and the de-escalation of violence in social movements. “Recent social movement events illustrated the essential differences between violent and nonviolent movements. Movements that maintain a nonvio...

January 20, 2021 Left to right: James Allan and Brian Levine Professors James Allan and Brian Levine of the UMass Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) have been named Fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. The ACM Fellow recognition is the organization’s highest member grade, representing less than one percent of ACM members, who have been named for their “foundational accomplishme...