Computer Science @ Berry College

Spring 2013 Courses

Nadeem Abdul Hamid — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:26:15 +0000

Links to course websites for Spring 2013 CSC courses:

Also hosted on the CS Moodle this semester are the following MAT courses:

Please contact your instructor if you cannot access your course website.

PhysComp 2012 Student Projects

Nadeem Abdul Hamid — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:15:25 +0000

About a dozen students presented their final projects last week for this semester’s (Fall 2012) Physical Computing course. To view the portfolio of projects, please visit http://cs.berry.edu/physcomp2012.

Students participate in 2012 CCSC:Southeastern Programming Contest

Nadeem Abdul Hamid — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 02:24:44 +0000

Four Berry College Computer Science students participated this weekend (November 2-3) in the Nineteenth Annual Southeastern Small College Programming Contest, held in conjunction with the 26th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC): Southeastern Conference at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, GA.
This was the first time a team from Berry participated in the contest. The students, Brook Bowers, Zane Cochran, Mike Robb, and Daniel Vetter, placed 12th out of 29 teams in the three-hour competition. The team was sponsored and ‘coached’ by Dr. Nadeem Abdul Hamid, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Berry. Out of eight programming challenges, of varying degrees of difficulty, the team completed four problems successfully and submitted incomplete attempts at three others. Overall, it was a fun experience for the students and not a bad debut. They are already looking forward to next year’s contest!

(from left) Brook, Mike, Daniel, and Zane

Also, at the conference, Zane Cochran presented a paper, co-authored with Dr. Nadeem Abdul Hamid, Convex Hull Game: A Tangible Context For Algorithms And Computer Graphics. His talk was well-received and generated several very positive comments. The full paper has been published in the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (28:2, December 2012, 124-131) and a technical report is available on this site. Congratulations to Brook, Zane, Mike, and Daniel for representing Berry well!

Summer research experience – Adam Gillfillan, CS ’13

Nadeem Abdul Hamid — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:53:47 +0000

This summer, Adam Gillfillan (currently a senior Computer Science major here at Berry College), took part in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Empirical Software Engineering at the University of Alabama. The REU was a 9-week internship. In addition to a stipend, housing, food, and travel expenses were paid for.

Adam’s role as a research intern was to aid Dr. Jeffrey Carver and Dr. Nicholas Kraft in a study of the benefits of design patterns in the software development process. In addition to all the reading, studying, researching, and reporting he did for the particular research study, he also spent much of his time getting a taste of what graduate school is like. Two professional development workshops each week were aimed at preparing participants for the grad school application process as well as professional life afterwards. Adam also attended lab meetings and cohort meetings with nine other REU interns and two graduate assistants who were there throughout his stay at UA.

The culmination of the summer experience was a final project by Adam and three others in his group. For the project, two of the group members were tasked with implementing the “Game of Life” using MPI with no design patterns. The other two members were instructed to use design patterns. The goal of the study was to better understand the effectiveness of design patterns. Their poster presentation can be found here. The experiment was essentially a pilot study for Dr. Carver and his graduate assistant to use as the basis of a formal research paper.

Adam and his group members on presentation day: Chelsea, Kaleb, Adam, and Robert.

Adam’s engagement with his REU group is not over yet. He will be attending ACM SIGSOFT 2012 — the 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. This year it is being held in Cary, North Carolina, November 13 – 15.

Adam says, “My REU experience in Alabama was amazing. I encourage all undergraduate students to apply for an REU in their respective fields.”

Fall 2012 Courses

Nadeem Abdul Hamid — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:00:29 +0000

Links to course websites for Fall 2012 CSC courses:

Also hosted on the CS Moodle this semester are the following MAT courses:

Please contact your instructor if you cannot access your course website.

ACM Turing Centenary Celebration to Be Webcast Live

Nadeem Abdul Hamid — Thu, 31 May 2012 10:15:02 +0000

On Friday, June 15 and Saturday, June 16, more than 30 Turing Award recipients will gather to commemorate the 100^th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth with personal remembrances, talks, and panel discussions. And ACM plans to webcast the entire event live! http://turing100.acm.org/webcast.

Summer 2012 Opportunities

Nadeem Abdul Hamid — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:36:50 +0000

Need ideas for something to do this summer? Consider some of the following opportunities for CS students.

Local internship opportunities

There are at least two local (Rome, GA) companies that would love to have a student work on web-related development projects. Contact nhamid@berry.edu for more details.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) are a great way to spend the summer – participating in cool CS research with all expenses paid and a stipend in most cases.

REU in Biomedial Informatics - Extremely Fun and Well Paid Summer Research Internship at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). (Application deadline: April 6, 2012)
2012 ITI UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY This site was previously attended by a student last year and recommended by them (Applications due February 10, 2012)
REU in Empirical Software Engineering – at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. (The application deadline is March 15, 2012.)
Interdisciplinary REU: Computer Science and Ecology - at Harvard Forest in rural Massachusetts; an interdisciplinary project, involving computer scientists doing work in sensor networks and data provenance to capture, manage and process the data they collect. This is a great opportunity for students interested in a mixture of ecology field work and computer science research. (Application due Feb 3, 2012)
Other Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) sites can be browsed at http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_search.cfm (click on “Computer and Information Science and Engineering“)

Spring 2012 Courses

Nadeem Abdul Hamid — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:02:09 +0000

Links to course websites for Spring 2012 CSC courses:

Please contact your instructor if you cannot access your course website.

Course Offerings 2012-2013

Nadeem Abdul Hamid — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:35:14 +0000

Courses offered in the 2012-2013 academic year represent a phase-out of the old computer science curriculum. A general schedule of course offerings for the new computer science offerings is available for future planning.

Fall 2012:
- CSC 300 Professional and Social Contexts (1-0-1)
- CSC 350 Computer Organization & Architecture (3-2-4)
- CSC 420 Topics: Physical Computing (3-0-3)

Spring 2013:
- CSC 120 Designing Programs: Problem-solving and Abstraction (3-2-4)
- CSC 219 Discrete Structures (3-0-3)
- CSC 340 Operating Systems (3-0-3)
- CSC 490 Senior Project (3-0-3)

Welcome

Nadeem Abdul Hamid — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:38:46 +0000

Are you interested in developing creative, effective, and elegant solutions to computing problems? Designing and implementing software? Devising new ways to use computers? Learning how to utilize computational methods more effectively in your future career? Making a positive difference in the world in general? At Berry, we start you down the path toward whatever future you imagine. In today’s world, computing drives innovation in all fields and disciplines, and through our focus on firsthand learning and experience, you will be encouraged to become a producer and implementer of technological innovation rather than simply a consumer of technology.

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