Monday, November 23, 2009
ACM-W Scholarship Opportunities
Initially up to 12 such scholarships, of up to $500 each, will be awarded annually. ACM-W also encourages the student's home department to match the scholarship award and recognize the student's achievement locally within their department. Applications will be evaluated in 6 groups each year, in order to distribute awards across a range of conferences, with 1-3 awards given for each group of applications.
To get more information on the application process, go to: http://women.acm.org/scholarships.html
Upcoming deadlines
Application due by Dec. 1, 2009 for conferences in Feb. 1, 2010 - March 31, 2010
Application due by Feb. 1, 2010 for conferences in April 1 - May 31, 2010
Application due by April 1, 2010 for conferences in June 1 - July 31, 2010
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
CSGSO Student Speaker Series--David Einstein, K-SPR routing
This Friday (11/20) the Computer Science Graduate Student Organization (CSGSO) will have Student Speaker Series at 3pm in the CS Library. All faculty and students are welcome to attend! Light refreshment will be provided.
Speaker: David Einstein
Topic: K-SPR routing
In ad-hoc networks routing can be done by designating some of the nodes as gateway nodes. The goal of the k-SPR (k- Shortest Path Routing) problem is to find a set of nodes in a graph such that for any two nodes in the graph there exists a shortest path between the two nodes having a gateway node every k or fewer hops. We show that the the k-SPR problem is NP-Complete on chordal and bipartite graphs, and that it is NP complete for specific values of k on Planar and unit disk graphs.
Joint work with Mike Reick of Drake University.
Biography:
David Einstein received a BS in applied math from UMass Lowell in 1989. He is currently underemployed by Structured Decisions Corporation where he has worked as an operations researcher for the past 15 years. He has published a handful of papers on combinatorics, most recently "On Sara's Dove Bar Habit", a combinatorial analysis of domestic harmony, in the November 2009 American Mathematical Monthly.
P.S.
Thank you,
Beibei (Betty) Yang
CSGSO President
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Fwd: 2010 Games 4 Girls Programming Competition
Beibei (Betty) Yang
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell MA 01854
Email: byang1[at]cs[dot]uml[dot]edu
From: Harris, LaSonya <lharris2@illinois.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Subject: 2010 Games 4 Girls Programming Competition
To:
University of Illinois Computer Science Hosts Video Game Development Contest for College Women
The University of Illinois department of computer science is hosting an international video game development competition designed specifically for aspiring female video game developers. The Games 4 Girls contest invites teams of college-aged women to develop video games for their high school counterparts.
The competitions enables aspiring female game developers to get real world collaborative experience in software game development while providing new inspiration to middle- and high-school aged girls. The contest was conceived in response to research indicating that boys enjoy a relatively greater degree of confidence with computers because they spend more time as children playing computer games. Research suggests that this difference in confidence contributes to the gender imbalance seen within the growing field of Computer Science.
Winning teams can earn up to $2500 for their game.
What: Games 4 Girls Competition
When: Registration deadline is December 18, 2009
Where: Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science
201 N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
Contact: Sonya Harris, Coordinator of Outreach Programs
Visit http://cs.illinois.edu/outreach/games4girls for more information.
G4G on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=45107662416
Note: Total Registration is limited, so please register early.
Sonya Harris, Coordinator of Outreach Programs
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1314 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, MC 258
201 North Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL. 61801
Office: 217.244.4493/Fax: 217.244.6073
Cell: 217.898.9120
http://cs.illinois.edu/outreach
*If you would like for us to visit your class, please contact us - ChicTech Visit*
*Applications are now open for the Illinois Aspiration Awards for girls in 9th-12th Grades – visit www.ncwit.org/award for more info*
*FREE TechJunket Workshop - Nov. 14th from 2p-4p - for all high school students*