National Computer Science Week
The week of December 7, 2009 has been designated National Computer Science Education Week by U.S. House Resolution 558. This week was selected because December 9th is the birthday of Grace Murray Hopper, one of the pioneers of computing.
In support of this event, the Computer Science Department at the
University of Maine offers the following events, including
Capstone presentations on Friday.
All events are free and open to the public.
Please check for updates on the CS Web site:
http://www.cs.umaine.edu/
Details and additional events are being added.
Monday, December 7th.
Minerva's Machine.
5:30pm. Neville Hall, Room 120.
This video is all about women in computing and also about the gender gap in computer science.
Tuesday, December 8th.
COS 431 Operating Systems Projects Exposition.
6:00pm--8:00pm. Neville Hall, Room 120.
Students from the COS 431 course will display their projects and explain them to interested people. Feel free to come any time during this period and stay as long as you like.
Wednesday, December 9th.
History of Computing---a lecture by Dr. George Markowsky.
MOVED TO Thursday due to weather!
5:30pm--7:30pm. Neville Hall, Room 120.There will be special attention given to the contributions of Grace Murray Hopper to computer science. Also, the student chapter of the ACM will supply pizza and drinks for this event. This talk is aimed at a general audience. No prior computer science background is necessary.
Thursday, December 10th.
COS 125 Introduction to problem solving through python programming exposition.
11:00am--1:00pm. Wells Conference Center, Room 3.
Students from COS 125 will present their projects. Come to encourage these beginning CS students and help select the winner of the first prize in the competition. Cookies and punch will be available. Feel free to come any time during this period and stay as long as you like.
History of Computing---a lecture by Dr. George Markowsky.
(Moved from Wednesday due to weather.)
5:30pm--7:30pm. Neville Hall, Room 100.There will be special attention given to the contributions of Grace Murray Hopper to computer science. Also, the student chapter of the ACM will supply pizza and drinks for this event. This talk is aimed at a general audience. No prior computer science background is necessary.
Friday December 11th.
Artificial Intelligence: What is it and what can it do?---a lecture by Dr. Roy Turner.
1:00pm--2:00pm. Neville Hall, Room 120.
Discover what AI can really do and what AI research is going on at the University of Maine. This talk is aimed at a general audience. No prior computer science background is necessary.
Computer Science Capstone Project Presentations
2:00pm--6:00pm. Neville Hall, Room 120.
Students will be presenting their final projects. Please come and learn about their work. There will be brief breaks between presentations so that the audience may arrive and depart as needed to accommodate schedules.
2:00pm. Sudarshan Chawathe.
Introduction, setup, and informal discussion.2:30pm. Adi Levy.
Teaching Alice and Scratch.3:00pm. Timothy Wagner.
ITUBA: a customer relationship management application.3:30pm. Joseph Bane.
MPIpe: a generic parallel pipeline environment.4:00pm. Paul Dube.
A network information system.4:30pm. Shara Marquis.
Market My Menu's checkout process.5:00pm. Justin Chiavacci.
Gene simulation.5:30pm.
Closing reception.