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2012-2013 CS Scholarships

The CS Department is pleased to offer the following scholarship opportunities for undergraduate computer science majors: RightNow Technologies, Sonderegger, TicketPrinting.com and TicketRiver.com, yaSSL, and Zoot Enterprises.  In order to apply for any of these scholarships you must complete

  1. The College of Engineering application - due Friday, February 3, 2012.
  2. The Computer Science application - due Friday, February 3, 2012.

If you are eligible, we strongly encourage you to apply.  For more information, see http://www.cs.montana.edu/scholarships [January 2012]

Fall 2012 Sabbatical

Congratulations to Rafal Angryk, who has been awarded a Fall 2012 sabbatical.  Rafal will visit The University of Minnesota to co-author a textbook on spatio-temporal databases with Dr. Shashi Shekhar. [January 2012]

Pure Gold Award

Congratulations to James Blazicevich for receiving a Pure Gold Award on January 18th for his contributions to University Printing Services.  James is a Computer Science major and is the first person affiliated with the department to receive such an award.  Information.  [January 2012]

ACM Regional Programming Contest

Saiichi Hashimoto, David Stevens and Nick Wills competed in the ACM Regional Programming Contest at Colorado State University on Saturday, October 29th.  This team of CS seniors finished first at the CSU site and 5th in the region.  This is the best finish ever by an MSU team.  Congratulations!  More information.  MSU article.  [November 2011]

AAC Contract

Richard Wolff, Brock Lameres  from Electrical and Computer Engineering and Brendan Mumey from Computer Science were recently awarded a $175K contract from Advanced Acoustic Concepts (AAC) to develop algorithms and refine efficient implementations of some of AAC's computational ocean models for naval applications.  [October 2011]

Navy Phase II STTR Contract

The Computer Science Department’s Numerical Intelligent Systems Laboratory, under the direction of Professor John Sheppard, recently was awarded a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) contract titled, “Dynamic PHM Modeling.” MSU's small business partner is Impact Technologies. MSU will receive approximately $287,000 over 27 months to develop approaches for health assessment and system-level prognostics of electronics. The joint research includes developing strategies for combining data-driven and physics-based models for electronics prognostics as well as incorporating the results of the research into standardization projects within the IEEE. This project is funded by the US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) out of Lakehurst, NJ. [October 2011]

International Engineering Certificate

The Board of Regents recently approved an International Engineering Certificate that may be earned by any student majoring in Computer Science.  Informational sessions will be held Wednesday, October 19th at 5:00 p.m. in Roberts 321 and Thursday, October 20th in EPS 108.  More information. [October 2011]

IEEE AUTOTESTCON 2011 Best Paper Awards

PhD student Shane Strasser and Prof. John Sheppard received the Diagnostics and Health Assessment Track Best Paper Award at AUTOTESTCON in Baltimore, MD for their paper, “Diagnostic Alarm Sequence Maturation in Timed Failure Propagation Graphs.” PhD students Michael Schuh and Shane Strasser received the Best Student Paper Award at AUTOTESTCON for their paper, “Ontology-Guided Knowledge Discovery of Event Sequences in Maintenance Data.” This latter paper was also co-authored by Profs. John Sheppard, Rafal Angryk, and Clemente Izurieta. AUTOTESTCON is the premier conference on automatic test systems for the aerospace and defense industries. Congratulations to all! [September 2011]

VOEIS Grant Leadership

Clem Izurieta has been appointed as the lead MSU PI for an EPSCoR Track II National Science Foundation grant entitled Virtual Observatory and Ecological Informatics System or VOEIS.  VOEIS includes both public sector and industry partners from Montana and Kentucky.  Cyberinfrastructure is being updated to support an ecological informatics system and integrated water quality sensors.  MSU's portion of the grant this year is 570K.  Congratulations, Clem! [September 2011]

NAO Robots

The CS Department recently acquired 8 NAO Humanoid Robots.  These robots are the standard platform for the International RoboCup soccer competition.  If you would like to help program these robots to play soccer, or to perform in other humanoid challenges, please contact Hunter Lloyd.  The robots will also be used in the Spring 2012 offering of CSCI 455, Robotics.  [August 2011]

CS Alumni Network

There is a departmental linkedIn group entitled Montana State University Computer Science Alumni Network.  The group is open to alumni of the department, as well as current and former faculty, staff, advisory board members and supporters.  If you are a member of one of these groups, please consider joining!  [July 2010].