Activities
St. Olaf CS students and faculty participate in a broad variety of activities, including internships, student work, guest speakers, interdisciplinary projects, undergraduate research, and getting together with others in the department for fun (and food!).
Note: This section is not yet complete---look for new pages in coming months!
Contents
- Summer Research in CS at St. Olaf, 2011
- 2011 summer research in CS
- Recent projects in CS
- Examples of recent and ongoing individual and team projects, featuring CS alone and in combination with other disciplines.
- Graduation Distinction in CS
- Seniors: Here's how to apply for CS Distinction
- CS Talks -- Fall 2010
- Upcoming CS speakers.
Coming events:
Len Wyatt, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft will visit on Monday, Dec 3.
Talk: Big Data: Helping Users to See the Light, 4:45pm in RNS 203 on 12/3
Informal Q&A about working at Microsoft, 3:15-4:30 in RNS 203 on 12/3
News
Maggie Wanek '15 received an NSF-funded scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Baltimore in October.
The CSinParallel project was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant to produce new teaching modules for adding parallel and distributed computing to undergraduate CS courses. The project () is led by Prof. Dick Brown at St. Olaf and two other professors at Macalester and Calvin Colleges.
Eleven CS students participated in summer research during 2012, including eight full-time researchers at St. Olaf.
"Thing3," a new 64-core computer was added to the CS program's parallel and distributed computing resources in June, designed and constructed by Jay Petersen '13, Michael Stone '13, and Maggie Wanek '15.
