Congratulations to Looney the Robot, who medaled in five events at the RoboGames competition held in the Bay Area. Looney received a gold medal in the lift-and-carry event by carrying a container of 10 batteries across an uneven surface. Looney was programmed by Hunter Lloyd and students taking CSCI 455, Robotics. More information. [May 2012]
Computer Science Dept.
357 EPS BuildingMontana State University
Bozeman, MT 59717
Tel: (406) 994-4780
csinfo@cs.montana.edu
Department Head:
John Paxton
Computer Science Department
Congratulations to Brendan Mumey who received the College of Engineering's Excellence in Research Award for 2011 - 2012. Brendan spent Fall Semester as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Aalto University in Finland and Spring Semester at The University of Arizona on sabbatical. Brendan's research areas include green networking and computational biology. [May 2012]
A multidisciplinary team is preparing a robot to compete in a NASA sponsored competition later this month. The team includes CS students Seth Berardinelli, Alison Figueria and Logan Warberg. Hunter Lloyd is a team advisor. The robot has been featured on the MSU front page as well as on local television. [May 2012]
Congratulations to the following graduate students and faculty members who won department awards for outstanding contributions during the 2011-2012 academic year. Rafal Angryk: Outstanding Faculty Research Award. Hunter Lloyd: Outstanding Faculty Service Award. Adib Roy: Outstanding Teaching Assistant. Mike Schuh and Shane Strasser: Outstanding Ph.D. Researchers. Binhai Zhu: Student Selected Professor of the Year. [April 2012]
Congratulations to undergraduate CS students Rachael Luhr and Stephani Schielke. Rachael and Stephani were part of a six person team that received the Best Group Talk Award at the Montana Space Grant Consortium's Student Research Symposium. The group reported on their experiences designing a high altitude balloon payload. [April 2012]
The Journal of Computational Biology accepted a paper entitled "Comparing Pedigree Graphs". Collaborating authors include Binhai Zhu, former undergraduate student Bonnie Kirkpatrick who earned a Ph.D. at UC-Berkeley and is now a post-doc at the University of British Columbia, and 1985 Turing Award winner Richard Karp of UC-Berkeley. The Turing Award is the Computer Science equivalent of a Nobel Prize. Congratulations! [April 2012]
Stephani Schielke will be recognized by the Women's Center with a Student of Achievement Award on March 29th. These awards recognize women who promote diversity and equality, demonstrate leadership abilities, excel in their school work and serve as strong role models for their peers. Stephani is AWC president, a past ACM president and regularly tutors other students. Congratulations, Stephani! [March 2012]
At their March meeting, the Board of Regents conferred the title Professor Emeritus of Computer Science upon Denbigh Starkey. Denbigh was commended for serving as Department Head for 18 years, for publishing introductory textbooks that impacted the pedagogy of the field and for being an outstanding teacher. Congratulations, Denbigh! [March 2012]
Clem Izurieta has been awarded two incubation grants from the Institute on Ecosystems. The ~$40K grants will enable full NSF proposals to be developed on the topic of climate change. The interdisciplinary proposals will be developed in collaboration with The University of Montana. Congratulations Clem! [March 2012]
Congratulations to Nick Wills, a Computer Science senior who received an MSU Alumni Association / Bozeman Chamber of Commerce Award for Excellence. These awards are given to the top 40 graduating seniors who combine academic excellence, campus leadership and community service. Article. [February 2012]
Rafal Angryk (PI), Piet Martens (co-PI) and John Paxton (co-I) have been awarded a 3 year, $1,125,000 NASA grant for Interactive Search through the Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO). Each year, the grant can employ 2 undergraduate students, 5 graduate students and a full-time post-doctoral research associate. Research will be conducted in the Data Mining Laboratory. Congratulations! [February 2012]
Hunter Lloyd recently competed in an international programming contest sponsored by Aldebaran Robotics and finished second. Hunter's entry, the Legend of Looney, is an adventure game where a lost robot must find its way home. For finishing second, Hunter receives a week-long trip to visit Aldebaran Robotics in Paris, a free upgrade of a NAO robot, and an autonomous charging prototype that allows a robot to recharge without human intervention. Congratulations, Hunter! [February 2012]
Brendan Mumey (PI) and Clem Izurieta (co-PI) have been awarded a 3 year, $360,000 NSF REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) grant entitled Research in Networking and Networks with Applications to Sustainability. For the next three summers, up to 10 undergraduate students will conduct research at Montana State University. Congratulations Brendan and Clem! [February 2012]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
