July 2nd, 1PM Volen 101
Reed is a Managing Director of Project 11, which manages the Boston TechStars
accelerator, and has invested in 31companies over the last 2 years. Reed is an MIT dropout and holds two software patents that perhaps should never have been granted.
June 25th, 1PM Volen 101
Francois is a social media marketing guru and the CEO of Human 1.0.
June 18th, 1PM Volen 101
Andrew Payne is a Boston area entrepreneur and angel investor. He’s co-founded three
startups (Open Market, Revenio, and FanSnap) and is an active investor and/or
advisor with a half-dozen other startups.
Every reunion, Saturday after the Barbeque, the CS dept hosts its visiting alumni for snacks and chats. This year we did it in the new Vertical Lounge, Volen 104. Here are some photos. A good time was had by all. Continue reading →
or “Applied Computer Science is Having an Impact on the Community”.
Jun 11th 1PM Volen 101
Nigel is Co-Chair, Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics at City of Boston.
June 4th, 2012. 1PM in Volen 101
Phil is a serial entrepreneur, CTO at four successful startups, executive at Lotus and APC.
PhD in Computer Science from University of Maryland.
New England Undergraduate Computing Symposium 2012
Celebrating Excellence and Diversity in Computing
Saturday, April 21, 2012 Brandeis University
The NEUCS organizing committee invites all undergraduates in computing sciences at universities, colleges, and community colleges in New England to participate in the fourth New England Undergraduate Computing Symposium. Organized annually to celebrate Excellence and Diversity in Undergraduate Computing.
Undergraduates are invited to share exciting projects they’ve been working on over the past year. These projects can be creative homework assignments from classes, independent research projects, senior honors thesis projects, software built for fun, or any other computing project including such areas as biology, physics, social networks. Students can share their projects during the poster sessions by presenting posters or demos on laptops. Several student talks will be selected for 10-minute presentations from submitted abstracts.
Tim Hickey honored for teaching
Dean of Arts and Sciences Susan Birren announced today:
- Timothy J. Hickey, professor of computer science, was awarded the Lerman-Neubauer ’69 Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring.
Hickey, the 2012 recipient of the Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer ‘69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring, is a professor of computer science. This prize, established by Trustee Jeanette Lerman at the time of her marriage to Joseph Neubauer, requires its recipient to be not just an exceptional teacher, but also one who has had a significant impact on students’ lives as a mentor, advisor and friend. Continue reading →
Nianwen Xue has received a four-year $2.2M DARPA grant from the Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) Program to work on Chinese language resources and technologies.
Professor James Pustejovsky has just published a new book with Oxford University Press entitled “Interpreting Motion: Grounded Representations for Spatial Language” with Inderjeet Mani.