07/08/08: New Job/Internship Openings
Click on the JOBS button for a listing of job and intership openings. A technical publications internship at Autodesk is the latest posting.
05/05/08: CS Department Celebration
The CS Department End-Of-The-Year Celebration is Thursday, May 15 at
noon in Darwin 102. The Ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Networks Group will
be presenting their work followed by Department Award presenations.
FREE Pizza and soda will be served.
ATTENTION GRADUATING SENIORS: Bring
your cap and gown for our traditional CS photos!!
05/05/08: New CS Club Officers
Congratulations to the 2008-09 Computer Science Club Officers!
President: Travis Stark
Vice President: Joe Muller
Treasurer: Eric Milliren
Secretary: Stephanie Schmidt
Fun Police: Ryan O'Donnell
Webmaster: David Turover
Chief of Advertising: Karrah Cunningham
04/28/08: CS 2008 Programming Contest Winners!!
Last week's programming contest was a great success with 15 teams battling it out. A big congratulations to our winners:
215 and below category
1st place: Eric Milliren and David Albert
2nd place: Scotty Peters and Patrick Abold
315 and above category
1st place: Joe Muller and Susie Skocypec
2nd place: Forest Hovarth and Travis Stark
3rd place: Doug Horn and David Turover
Special CS and IT category
1st place: Lincoln Peters and Andru Luvisi
04/15/08: CS Graduates with Distinction
The CS Department has awarded Matt Ford, Vince Inglima, Lincoln Peters, Susie Skocypec, and Jonathan Smolenski with Graduation with Distinction Honors. Graduation with Distinction honors are awarded to undergraduate students who are judged by the faculty of their department to have made outstanding contributions to their department in academics, service, and other areas. Congratulations!!
04/15/08: Jonathan Smolenski to carry Student Banner
Congratulations to our own Jonathan Smolenski for being selected as the student banner carrier in the commencement ceremonies on May 24. This honor is in recognition of Jon's many contributions in the CS Department and the School of Science and Technology. Congratulations, Jon!!
04/15/08: CS Colloquium on Game Programming this week!
Jason Shankel will be speaking in the CS Colloquium this Thursday at noon in Darwin 102. Jason will be meeting and talking with students after the Colloquium in Darwin 101 (at about 1pm). Free pizza and soda will be served. Don't miss this chance to talk with a real game developer!
04/07/08: Seawolf Day a Great Success!
Thank you to the outstanding CS students Jeff, Jon, Joe A., Matt, Joe G., Derek, Lincoln, Stephanie, Karrah, Jenna, and Erik for their wonderful help!!
03/27/08: Microsoft Live Programming Contest
Check out the Microsoft Live@edu Mashup Contest.
03/27/08: LugRadio Live USA 2008
LugRadio Live USA 2008 is April 12 and 13 at the Metreon in San Francisco. See the conference website http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/register for more information on this Linux and open source event.
03/18/08: Draft CS Fall 2008 Schedule
Check out the draft schedule for this fall 2008 semester. Please email Dr. Stauffer with any questions/comments/concerns asap.
03/18/08: National Graduate School Achievement Program
Are you considering graduate school (you should!)? There is a new program at SSU to support highly motivated and high achieving students that are underrepresented in the professoriate. For more information contact Jeff Davis (davisje@sonoma.edu).
03/17/08: Senior Focus Group - Thurs, April 3 at 11:00-noon in Darwin 29
Are you graduating this Spring, Summer or Fall? Please attend the CS Senior Focus Group session to provide your feedback and assessment of the CS Department and major. The session will be facilitated by a faculty member from outside of the CS Department and all data will be kept anonymous. The CS Department values your candid feedback as part of our continued desire to be our best.
03/06/08: The CS Department at Montclair State University
is organizing an 8-week undergraduate research program in imaging and computer vision problems, June 23-Aug 15, 2008. Applications are due March 20. Check out the Montclair iMagine site for details. See the National Science Foundation for other Reseach Experience for Undergraduate (REU) programs in CS.
02/26/08: SSU Philosophy Lecture Series for Spring 2008
The SSU Philosophy Club is proud to announce the Philosophy Open Lecture Series for spring 2008. These lectures are free and open to everyone.
02/24/08: 2008 Summer Abroad Research Program
in Europe for undergraduates.
02/15/08: North Bay .NET User Group Inagural Meeting
Are you interested in .NET-related technologies? The inagural meeting of the North Bay .NET User Group is this Tuesday, February 19 at 7:00pm at O'Reilly in Sebastopol. There will be presentations on ASP.NET, AJAX, and C#3.0. See the meeting announcement for details.
02/13/08: Welcome to our new Administrative Coordinator
The Computer Science Department is pleased to welcome Gina Voight to our front office. Gina brings her wealth of experience from the Math Department and across campus to us. Stop by Darwin 116 and welcome Gina!
01/31/08: Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates in CS
The CS Department at Humboldt State is hosting a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates this summer. See the program information site for more details. Deadline to apply is Monday, March 3.
01/29/08: Looking for a way to distinguish yourself upon graduation?
Want an "in" on a job? You should add CS 385 Adhoc Wireless Sensor Networks and/or CS 340 Computer Security to your schedule this spring. If you don't "need" another elective to meet the minimum major requirements, you should still consider taking the class and perhaps opting for a Credit/No Credit grading basis. We need our majors in these courses!!! Please consider adding them!!
01/24/08: New departmental server cWolf
Our departmental server, linux.cs.sonoma.edu, formally retired on 23 January 2008. All accounts have been migrated to our new server, cWolf.cs.sonoma.edu, a 64-bit Intel-based dual-processor box with 4GB of RAM and over three Terabytes of disk-space. User-names on cWolf.cs.sonoma.edu are identical to those on linux.cs.sonoma.edu---your initial password has been set to your student-id. Please login to cWolf and change your password as soon as it is convenient to do so. Direct your suggestions, questions, and problems to Roger Mamer (roger.mamer at sonoma dot edu.)
01/23/08: Spring 2008 Greetings from the CS Chair
01/22/08: SSU student winner
in 2007 IBM Master the Mainframe Student Contest. Our own Kevin Tharp was a Part 2 winner and received a PART 3 honorable mention in the IBM Academic Initiative Master the Mainframe student challenge. Well done, Kevin!
11/20/07:The Imagine Cup
Check out the Microsoft's Imagine Cup Student Technology Competition.
11/13/07: Congrats to our SSU Programming Team!
Lincoln Peters, Brian Rackle, and Christopher Hoffman placed 34th out of 77 teams and 4th among 9 CSU teams (behind much bigger programs at Sac State, SJSU and Chico) in the Regional ACM Programming contest held at Stanford last Saturday. Greg Robinson and Tony Chen also participated as alternates. C++Wolves rule!!
11/13/07: Teknovus Meeting
Teknovus hosted an interesting recruiting luncheon and presentation today. CS student Joel Binalimbing won an iPod Nano. Cool!
08/30/07: 2007-08 CS Club Officers Elected
Congratulations to our new officers: President: Jonathan Smolenski, Vice President: Derek Samson, Treasurer: Ben Gerhardt, Secretary: Leela Norton
08/02/07: CS Tutors needed
Are you interested in making a few dollars while helping out fellow students? Tutors are currently needed for all CS courses in the Fall. Stop by the Tutorial Center on the first floor of Salazar for more information.
07/20/07: Changes in CS Curriculum
The CS Department is implementing a revised curriculum effective Fall 2007. Current majors can find out more by reviewing the overview of changes document, prerequisite chart, and transition worksheet. Questions? See Gayle in the Department Office to make an advising appointment with Dr. Stauffer.
05/21/07: Computer Club Spring Newsletter
The CS Club published the Computer Science Spring Newsletter. Read about department happenings.
05/21/07: Photos from CS Dept Celebration and CS Club BBQ
Roger has placed his pictures at http://www.cs.sonoma.edu/~rmamer/pictures. Check out more picnic photos.