Students interested in participating in mentored research for CS credit should attend the Demo Day kick-off meeting on Thursday, January 8, 2009 in 3365 TMCB.  In the short meeting, several professors will introduce their research projects and give interested students the chance to join their research groups. more

Dr. Mike Jones' Tree Animation group took home the first place prize at this semester's Demo Day competition more

We will have the pleasure of hearing from two speakers at this week's colloquium.  Please see both posts to read the abstract and bio of each.

Adam W. Bargteil: Physics Based Animation 

Abstract: Physical simulation has been an important part of computational science for fifty years.  It has allowed engineers to determine whether a bridge would collapse or an airplane would fly, facilitating new designs, saving many dollars and potentially many lives.  Over the last decade physical simulation has proved to be an important tool in computer animation, generating a wide variety of extremely realistic motion of complicated, high degree-of-freedom systems... 

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We will have the pleasure of hearing from two speakers at this week's colloquium.  Please see both posts to read the abstract and bio of each.

Mary Hall: Autotuning in the Multi-core Era 

Abstract: We are entering an era where every computer, whether embedded,  laptop, desktop, server or supercomputer, is a parallel computer. Technology trends and concerns about both design complexity and power have pushed computer architecture in this direction, but now there is an enormous burden on software developers to exploit this parallelism or risk slowing down yesterday's applications on tomorrow's hardware. This talk will describe autotuning, a new approach to software technology to ease the programming burden in the multi-core era... 

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Maria Soledad (Sole) Pera will defend her MS Thesis on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 10:00 am in the CS Conference Room. The title of her thesis is "Improving Library Searches Using Word-Correlation Factors and Folksonomies." Please click more for an abstract of her thesis. Sole's advisor is Dr. Dennis Ng.

 

All are encouraged to attend! 

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Cui Tao will defend her PhD Dissertation on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 3:00 pm in the CS Library. The title of her dissertation is "Ontology Generation, Information Harvesting and Semantic Annotation for the Hidden Web." Please click more for an abstract of her dissertation. Cui's advisor is Dr. David Embley.

 

All are invited to attend! 

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Terry Wilcox will defend his MS Thesis on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 4:00 pm in the CS Conference Room. The title of his thesis is "Dynamic Load Balancing of Virtual Machines Hosted on Xen." Please click more for an abstract of his thesis. Terry's advisor is Dr. Phil Windley.

 

All are encouraged to attend! 

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Lei Wang will present his PhD Dissertation Proposal on Friday, December 19, 2008 at 9:00 am in the CS Library (3361B TMCB).  The title of his proposal is "End-to-end Performance of Link Layer Fair Rate Control in Wireless Mesh Networks."  Please click more for an abstract of his research.  Lei's advisor is Dr. Daniel Zappala.

 

All are encouraged to attend! 

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Lei Wang's Research Area Exam will take place on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 9:00 am in the CS Conference Room (3365 TMCB).  Lei's advisor is Dr. Daniel Zappala.

 

All are encouraged to attend!

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Rob Nelson, Technical Director for Avalanche Software, an internal Disney Interactive studio based in Salt Lake City, will be on campus on Thursday, December 4.  His address is entitled, "A Day in the Life of Video Game Development, aka Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know about Making Games" more