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6th Annual Alumni Symposium

Our grads rock.  No seriously, they really do! Many of them have found some pretty sweet gigs at places here in Charleston such as Benefitfocus, Santee Cooper, Medical University of South Carolina, SPAWAR, Bibliolabs, and SPARC. Others have ventured outside … Continue reading

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30th Annual High School Computer Programming Competition

On Friday, February 24, 2012 – Saturday, February 25, 2012 the College of Charleston’s Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Chapter hosted the 30th Annual High School Computer Programming Competition with eleven teams from South Carolina and North Carolina competing. The competition … Continue reading

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Students attend Carolinas Women in Computing Conference

Seven computing majors and one CofC faculty member attended the Carolinas Women in Computing 2012 conference held at IT-oLogy in Columbia, SC, February 17-18, 2012. Pictured are students Lee Blackwell, Tatiana Taylor, Melissa Wiel, Nadia Rodriguez, Lisa Smith, Joye Nettles, … Continue reading

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Summer Undergraduate Research Program Opportunity

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New CSCI Course Offering – Spring 2012

Junior and Senior Computer Science majors — Are you looking for an interesting class for Spring 2012?  Dr. Anderson will be co-teaching a Special Topics course with Dr. Shedlock of the Biology Department.  CSCI 490-02: Vertebrate Genome Lab.  The course … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs: Computer Science is a Liberal Art

Computer science has been informed by the liberal arts. Now it is time for the liberal arts to include computer science for all who seek a liberal education. Like language, science, history, philosophy, and math, computer science embodies a set … Continue reading

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Students Edward Pharr and Chad Freeman make headlines at MUSC

Computer science students Edward Pharr and Chad Freeman make headlines at the Medical University of South Carolina. http://www.musc.edu/catalyst/archive/2011/co10-7computer.html Edward is working toward an MS in Computer and Information Sciences. Chad is a senior, completing a BS in Computer Science. Mark … Continue reading

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Analytics is a Sexy Major (When hell freezes over)

Analytics may soon be able to reveal in the enrollment data that the freeze has started. The movie Moneyballs (Brad Pitt, Robin Wright and Jonah Hill) may do for analytics programs what The Social Network did for computer science – … Continue reading

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Students Create Android Gaming App

Students in our game programming class (CITA 210) have created a new video game for Android phones. Adolfo Rico Motis, Corneliu Illisescu, and Carlos Rodriguez Flick prototyped “Okho” while taking CITA 210 in Fall 2010. They continued development and finally … Continue reading

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A New Undergraduate Research Opportunity: BiRG

Are you interested in an exciting and challenging undergraduate research opportunity? You may want to consider joining the new Bioinformatics Research Group (BiRG). Our research interests include: • high performance computing, • pattern recognition, • data mining, evolutionary • computation … Continue reading

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