Those who have worked on programs for manipulating graphs in CSC 212 may be interested in the current programming contest being sponsored by the Mathworks. Simply put, the goal is to develop an algorithm that can compute 2D node coordinates to display a graph while minimizing the number of edges that cross.
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/contest/contests/38/rules
You can view [ >> more ]
November 2nd, 2012 · Tags: Uncategorized
We got this email from Aigerim:
I just heard about this code camp for female students by Square. The deadline is tomorrow, the actual 3-day event is in early January in San Francisco. All expenses will be paid.
Sounds amazing, as students will learn a lot, and get to see the inner workings of one of the hottest startups here. Everyone should apply!
https://form.squareup.com/form/05fcb163a02
Bests,
Aigerim
November 1st, 2012 · Tags: Competitions, Internships, Scholarships
From Emily, Zella and Lucy, CS liaisons:
Hi CS students,
We would like to invite you to participate in the CS Sweatshirt Design Contest. Whoever designs the best sweatshirt will have their design featured on all the sweatshirts, and will get their own sweatshirt free.
All entries are due by November 9th, and should be submitted via email to one of the CS liaisons.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Good luck!
Emily, Zella, and Lucy
October 31st, 2012 · Tags: Competitions, Events
An interesting article brought to our attention by Joe O’Rourke:
http://chronicle.com/article/Rebooting-Recruiting-to-Get/135282/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
“[…] An increasingly rare breed—women majoring in computer science. Nationwide, women earned only 18 percent of the bachelor’s degrees awarded in computer science in 2010, according to the National Science Foundation. That’s less than half the proportion in 1985, when 37 percent of those degrees went to women.”
October 31st, 2012 · Tags: Articles
and not on 10/10/12 as previously advertised!
Sorry for the typo! (still 8 places available for CS majors!)
October 30th, 2012 · Tags: Events
The physics dept. is organizing a workshop on wearable electronics. Computer Science majors are invited to participate, but the number of seats is limited. The CS Department will cover the $10 fees for the first 12 CS majors who register with Dominique Thiebaut (dthiebaut@smith.edu).
Wearable Electronics Workshop
October 29th, 2012 · Tags: Courses, Events
An email received from Abby Azari:
Hello!
My name is Abby Azari and I am the current science editor for Smith Scientific. Smith Scientific is a rather new club, our first semester was last year. We are a science journal for Smith College written by students! It is our goal to write quality science articles that reflect the [ >> more ]
October 26th, 2012 · Tags: Articles
(mail received from Melanie Kurek, of MPR):
Good Morning,
My name is Melanie Kurek and I work for Mathematica Policy Research (MPR), a social policy and research firm headquartered in Princeton, NJ. We are interested in recruiting undergraduate students from your school for multiple Research Assistant/Programmer vacancies across all 5 of our office locations (Princeton, NJ; Washington, [ >> more ]
October 24th, 2012 · Tags: Jobs
Summer Intern
Join FPI’s team of interns who work with our custom programming team developing world class applications, interfaces, and functionality to meet the needs of our clients.
Our team develops new applications and features to provide enhanced functional capabilities to our customers, through accurate, timely and effective application design, coding, testing and implementation. Systems are developed [ >> more ]
October 23rd, 2012 · Tags: Internships, Jobs
Please come to our Fall Presentation of the CS Major, 10/24/12, 12:10 p.m., in FH241. Chinese food served. All welcome!
