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CU Boulder Computer Science Professor Leysia Palen and University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering Professor Kate Starbird have received a Best Paper award at the 2013 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) conference, which is taking place February 23-27 in San Antonio, Texas. Their paper, "... Read more »

Computer Science doctoral student Charles Dietrich has created a new musical instrument incorporating a laptop and a camera. The instrument will make its debut in the next Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrK) concert on March 2. BLOrk will perform works by John Cage, Ornette Coleman and Pauline Oliveros as well as... Read more »

Congratulations to Candace Ghent, one of our SMART program students, for winning first place in the computer science category for the poster she presented at NC-LSAMP! SMART is the Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training program, and NC-LSAMP is the North Carolina Louis Stoke Alliance for Minority Participation. Way to... Read more »

Congratulations to PhD student John Giacomoni and Assistant Professor Manish Vachharajani! The company they founded, LineRate Systems, has been sold to F5 Systems. Over the last few years, they raised $5 million in capital and grew to 20 employees. F5 is an $8 billion networking company. There's a great article... Read more »

Congratulations to Herb Morreale (CompSci'91) for winning a 2013 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the College of Engineering and Applied Science! Herb has had a long and successful career as a local tech entrepreneur and has been a long-time friend and supporter of the department and our students. He has... Read more »

University of Colorado Boulder Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll likes to think in multiples. If one robot can accomplish a singular task, think how much more could be accomplished if you had hundreds of them.Read more »

Congratulations to Doug Smith and his team of CS students on their invitation to the ISC 2013 Cluster Competition! CU is the only US team to be invited to next year's international competition! Doug has led our teams in every competition so far. Now in its 28th year, ISC, the... Read more »

The annual award is given to a woman in computer science and/or engineering who has made significant research contributions and who has contributed to her profession, especially in the outreach to women. Assistant Professor Katie Siek will be presented the award at CHI 2013 in April 2013Read more »

The first Casey Feldman Award has been given to Sean Wiese for his work with Boulder Food Rescue, a local organization that rescues and redistributes perishable food "waste" to charities that serve homeless and at-risk individuals. The Casey Feldman Foundation has made possible a program at CU that offers stipends... Read more »

Computer Science PhD student Daniel Knights was selected as the winner of the College of Engineering and Applied Science's Outstanding Dissertation Award. The award was given at the May 2012 Engineering Recognition Ceremony. Dan's thesis, entitled "Predictive Modeling of Metagenomes," involves the use of machine learning and statistical techniques to... Read more »