Computer Science News
- Congratulations to Professor Tzu-Yi Chen and her husband, Chris
Umans, on the birth of their first child, a daughter named Kira, on
Sunday, July 8, 2007. Mother and baby are both doing fine. (7/2007)
- Congratulations to Alex Haro, Tim Brown, and Kurt Ude for
winning the Hidden Agenda contest! This is the 3rd
year the contest has been run, and the first time a
Pomona team has won (instead of placing second).
Eventually there should be an official announcement on the web site
(www.hiddenagenda.com), but here are the basics: teams
of students designed assorted educational games for
7th graders, the best 5 were invited out to Austin to
present their game last week,
teachers/students/people-in-the-game-industry judged
the finalists, and the winning team got $25,000. :)
If you want to try out the winning game
(SlinkyBomb), it's been
installed on one of the new machines in the back of
the Unix lab. You can also see (the released versions
of) games from previous years' contests at
www.hagames.com (Elemental (originally called ChemPop)
was developed by John Plewe '03, and AlgebrArcade was
developed by Ben Swanson '06). A more detailed
writeup is now available(7/2007)
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We have now (1/2007) moved into our new home in the
Edmunds Building. Come visit our offices and labs up
on the second floor of Edmunds, right across fom the
Smith Campus Center. You will find beautiful and
spacious new labs and offices. (1/2007)
- The Computer Science programming team consisting of Alex Haro '08,
Frank Salim '07, and Michael Carter '07 entered
the Southern California regional ACM programming contest on Saturday,
November 11th, 2006, in Riverside. The team came in 15th out of 73
teams.
More details »
(11/2006)
- Computer Science is now Pomona's newest department. While
Computer Science has been a separate major for many years, the
creation of a separate department reflects the college's view of the
importance of Computer Science at Pomona. Next up will be our move to
the (currently under construction) Edmunds Building in January, 2007.
These are exciting times for Computer Science at Pomona! (7/2006)
- Shiri Azenkot '06 won first place and a prize of $500 in the
undergraduate research competition at the ACM SIGCSE conference in
March, 2006. More details » (3/2006)
- Congratulations are in order for our own Prof. Yi Chen, who
was recently awarded a prestigious five-year National Science Foundation Career
grant! Read more about it in this news
article ». Way to go Yi! (4/2005)
