More about Computer Science
Want to more about the nature of CS and CS majors in general? The pages below go into detail---enjoy!
Contents
- A History of CS at St. Olaf
- Read about the first three decades.
- Mission of the St. Olaf CS Program
- A concise statement of our CS program's mission, last revised in 2008
- What is Computer Science?
- The discipline of CS defined.
- CS and other computing fields
- Distinctions between CS and other computing-related disciplines and activities.
- List of principles of Computer Science
- These "recurring concepts" form a basis for CS1 and inform the entire program.
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.
