Computer Science
CS News
- April 24, 2012
Spring 2012 Graduate Students Thesis Defense Schedule:
Vinay Kumar Nadipelly, Friday April 20 at 1:00pm in TCCW 301
Sunny Potay , Wednesday April 25 at 10:30am in COHH 3121
Sairaj, Thursday April 26 at 1:00pm in SH 1102
Anoop Rao Paidipally, Friday Aril 27 at 10:30am in TCCW 302
Sri Harsha Vege, Wednesday May 2 at 1:00pm in TCCW 301
Sruthi Pitla, Wednesday May 2 at 1:45pm in TCCW 301
Sriharsha Shesham, Friday May 4 at 1:00pm
Koushik Maddipudi, date and place to be announced later
- October 19, 2011
ACM meeting on Wednesday, October 19, 5:30pm-6:30pm, SH 1101. There will be a presentation
about "Flash, Arcade Machines, and Grassroot Movements".
FREE FOOD! Everyone is welcome!
- October 12, 2011
We held a local programming contest to select teams to attend 2011 Mid-Central ACM
Programming Contest at Murray State on November 5. Congratulations to following students,
they will represent WKU to attend the contest.
Team 1: Bryan Knowles, Phillip Armstrong, and Chaz Durbin
Team 2: Wesley Peden, Haley Peden, and Jon Owens
Team 3: Srujan Gopu, Sairaj Rachamadugu, and Manikantajiten Nallamilli
Programming contest preparation will be held in SH1103 on the following days at 4:30pm
to 5:15pm:
October 10th
October 11th
October 19th
October 26th
November 2nd
- September 23, 2011
ACM meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 5:00pm-6:00pm. Where:
SH 1101.
Agenda for the meeting:
Programming Competition and Teams
Dr. Li's talk about Computer Vision, Graphics, and Gaming
Pizza and Socialization
New ACM website: http://wkuacm.com
FREE FOOD! Everyone is welcome!
- September 12, 2011
ACM elections were held yesterday and this year’s officers were elected. Congratulations
to the winners!
President: Bryan Knowles
Vice President: Sairaj Rachamadugu
Treasurer: Soujanya Siddavaram Ananta
Secretary: Sindhu Murthyv
Webmaster: Jon Owens
We are forming ACM programming contest teams (it will be on Saturday, November 5).
If you are interested in attending programming contest, contact Bryan or Dr. Wang.
- August 18, 2011
New graduate students orientation meeting was held on Thursday, August 18 at 10:00
a.m. in Snell Hall 3110. Faculty and staff also attended the meeting.
- July 6, 2011
Dr. Rong Yang (the top middle picture), the Chair of the CAE committee (with Dr. James Gary and Dr. Robert Crawford), received the CNSS 4011 National Training Standard certificate on June 14, 2011
in Fairborn, Ohio. Department head Dr. Peter Hamburger also attended the ceremony on behalf of the university (the second from right of
the top left picture, the middle of the top row of the top right group picture). The
award recognizes Western’s successful development and offering of courseware in support
of critical information assurance education.
- May 29, 2011
Dr. Uta Ziegler gave an invited talk from the AMS special session on Topological Problems in Molecular
Biology, Iowa City, March 16-20.
- April 29, 2011
Eight teams from several regional High Schools came to Bowling Green on APril 29 to
compete in the Department's annual programming contest.About 20 students from several
regional High Schools came to Bowling Green May 7th to compete in the Department's
annual programming contest.
- April 28, 2011
Vijayeandra Parthepan sucessfully passed his thesis defenses. Mr. Parthepan is supervised
by Dr. Xing. His thesis title is "Efficient Schema Extraction from a collection of
XML documents". He passed the thesis defense on April 28, 2011.
- April 25, 2011
Four CS graduate students won 2nd prize in the 2011 "Idea State" competition held
April 23rd in Lexington. The competition, sponsored by the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
aims to encourage entrepreneurial ideas and economic development. Team members and
participants, from left to right, are project leader Sindhu Murthy, team coach and
CS Prof. David Erbach, Soujanya Ananta, WKU Center for Entrepreneurship Director Prof.
Wil Clouse, Pratyusha Challa, WKU Event Director Dr. Krist Schell, and Ian Burchett.
The students' project, named GetWellQuick, arose from a class project in CS 560 Software
Engineering. It is a design for a smart phone application to facilitate communication
between hospitals and patients who have recently been released but must continue to
take treatments.
- April 7, 2011
The GetWellQuick team from CS 560 (Software Engineering) visit Bowling Green's famous
ice cream store Chaney's Dairy Barn to celebrate their "Idea State" success. The team
entered the WKU stage for Kentucky's Idea State entrepreneurial competition with a
project called GetWellQuick. GetWellQuick is a design for a smart phone application
which helps promote communication between hospitals, physicians, and patients who
have recently been released from intensive care. The improved communication aims to
allow patients to be released earlier. This in turn allows patients to recuperate
faster in familiar surroundings, and allows hospitals to increase utilization of expensive
facilities. The team estimated that if 10% of Kentucky patients could be released
from hospitals 1/2 day earlier, this could save approximately $1 million annually
in health care delivery costs.
- March 14, 2011
There will be an ACM meeting on Monday, March 18. Dr. Gary will present "Introduction
to IPtables".
Where: Snell Hall 1108
When: March 18, @4:30pm.
Free pizza and soda!
- February 21, 2011
Three engineers from Fruit of Loom will give talk on Thursday from 4:00 to 5:00 in
Snell Hall 2113.
Where: Snell Hall 2113
When: Thursday, February 24, 4:00pm-5:00pm.
Title: Keyword Search Over Relational Databases
Abstract:
Keyword search over relational databases has recently received significant attention
both in academia and industry. Many solutions and many prototypes have been developed.
In this talk, engineers from Fruit of Loom will give an overview over keyword search
and its use at Fruit of Loom. The following topics will be covered in the talk.
- February 15, 2011
There will be an ACM meeting on Monday, February 21. Dr. Gary will present "Introduction
to Unix".
Where: Snell Hall 1108
When: February 22, @4:30pm.
Free pizza and soda!
- November 17, 2010
There will be an ACM meeting next Monday. We will celebrate the ACM programming contest
achievement and a guest speaker will present.
Where: Snell Hall 2113
When: November 22, @5:00pm.
Dr. Lance Hahn, Psychology professor, will give out a presentation. The talk is very
interesting.
Free pizza, ice cream cake, and soda!
- November 6, 2010
Teams from WKU won first, fourth, and fifth place in Murray site on Saturday, November
6. Three teams from WKU attended the 2010 ACM Mid-Central USA programming contest
in Murray on November 6. There were 14 teams competing in Murray site. The teams were
from seven universities, including Murray State, Phodes College, The University of
Tennessee at Martin, Union University, University of Evansville, University of Mississippi,
and Western Kentucky University. In total, 142 teams participated in the contest in
10 sites at the same time.
Our teams' performances were excellent. The WKU Tacocat team won first place in Murray
site and 36th place in the Mid-Central region, the Divides By 0 team won fourth place
in Murray site, and the Bartowsk was in fifth place in Murray.
Western Kentucky Tacocat: Charleston Durbin, Phillip Armstrong, Bryan Knowles
Western Kentucky Divides By 0: Brian Kaddour, Wesley Peden, Haley Peden
Western Kentucky Bartowsk: Robert Sivley, Becky Crouch, Paul Travers
