Each year the Computer Science department takes a trip to the Consortium of Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) south eastern regional conference. This year the conference was held in North Charleston South Carolina, at the College of Charleston’s north campus. While the focus of the conference is Computer Science education, one of the more fun…
Computer Science is stereotypically a male dominated field. However, this was not always the case. Many of the pioneers in the field have been female. One of the biggest names from the field is Grace Hopper, a Navy Rear Admiral who developed the very first compiler for a programming language. She is even the individual…
The 2015 rankings from the Princeton Review are in, and Roanoke College once again finds itself among the 379 Best Colleges. In addition to this ranking, the Princeton Review has named Roanoke College as a great school for majors in Computer Science. This is the fourth consecutive year that the Computer Science department has received…
Which major prepares you for the best jobs? It partly depends on how you define “best jobs” but CareerCast ranks jobs on the basis of work environment, income, outlook, and stress. These are broken down into subcategories (for “stress” they use level of risk, toughness of deadlines, and 9 other factors), the scores are added…
Many of our best students were honored at the 2013-14 Roanoke College Awards Banquet on April 2. Senior Scholar awards went to TJ Kemper in Computer Science, Jon Marino in Mathematics, and Rachel Andrews in Physics. Maya Shende won the Frank Munley Physics Award, and Connor Sampson the Physics Society Award. Jon Marino won the…
Mercer University held its eighth annual programming competition on March 1st, 2014. At this competition, teams were given 13 programming problems to solve in five hours. Teams were scored not only on how many problems they were successfully able to solve, but also how long it took to compute a solution and the number of…
On February 27, MCSP students Maya Shende, Thomas Lux and Randall Pittman described the results of the research they carried out last summer and last fall to an interested and enthusiastic crowd in Massengill Auditorium. First, Ms. Shende described her work with Physics professor Dan Robb on simulating the neural network underlying the breathing rhythm,…
There’s a new sheriff in town! Dave Taylor is now the chair of the MCSP Department. Trexler Hall second floor has taken on a new look, as students have commemorated Dr. Taylor’s rise to power with a poster. The good citizens of the newly renamed Taylor Town seem to be taking the change in stride…
Roanoke College had a strong presence at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America in Baltimore January 15-18. Dave Taylor, Karin Saoub, Adam Childers, Jan Minton, Anil Shende and Roland Minton all attended. Karin Saoub presented “A Tour Through Graph Theory: Projects for a Liberal Arts Math…
Roanoke College sophomore computer science majors Randall Pittman and Thomas Lux won the student research competition at the Southeastern Region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges at Furman University (Greenville, SC) on November 15-16, 2013. Junior physics major Maya Shende placed second in the competition. In addition, the programming team of Pittman, Lux,…
