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12/1/09: CS Halloween Pictures on Facebook
Check out pictures of students and staff from this year’s CS Halloween Costume Party. Winners include Andy Younge (Dr. Gorilla), John Neville (Ghostbuster), Josh Sweeney (Viking), and Roxanne Canosa (Geisha). Make sure to add us as a friend and join our group. directory |
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11/9/09: Virtual Theatre at TEDxRochester
CS Students involved in the Virtual Theatre project demonstrated motion capture technology at the TEDxRochester event at GEVA Theatre on November 2, 2009. Motion captured on site at GEVA, as well as on campus were used to drive the motions of avatar actors on the virtual stage in real time. (more) directory |
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10/20/09: CS Undergraduate Quarterly '091
The Computer Science Department has released its quarterly newsletter. In it you will find important dates, articles, and information. (PDF) directory |
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10/15/09: New CS faculty
Dr. Xumin Liu and Dr. Matthew Fluet joined the CS faculty this year. Xumin received her Ph.D. in CS from Virginia Tech and Matthew received his Ph.D. in CS from Cornell University. Find out more about their experiences, research interests, and teaching philosophy. (more) directory |
Matthew Fluet (left), Xumin Liu (right) |
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10/1/09: Welcome new students
The B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences welcomed new first year students at this year’s college fair. Highlights of the event include a photo booth, balloon artist, Wii games, Rock Band, and Abbotts Frozen Custard. The CS Department would like to welcome all new students and hope you enjoy your time here at RIT. directory |
Ryan Murphy, Joe Viola, Evan Starkman |
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9/30/09: Fall Career Fair coming soon
RIT’s Fall Career Fair will be held on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm in the Gordon Field House. More than 500 employer representatives from 165 companies across the nation participated in last year’s Career Fair and more than 2,200 students and alumni attended this event. (more) directory |
Photo by A. Sue Weislerr |
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9/13/09: NSF research for undergraduates
CS students from RIT and a number of other Universities are working together this summer to create visual and audio simulations of galactic phenomena such as colliding black holes. The simulations have enormous amounts of data and students need to think of ways to access these large-scale data sets rapidly and securely. Professors Raj, Bailey, Bischof, and Kwon are helping the students tackle these difficult problems. (more) directory |
Virginia Allen (RIT), Loren Abrams (Loyola Marymount U), Mike Schermerhorn (U of R), Kwesi Amable (RIT) |
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9/12/09: Student starts photo-mosaic business
Seong Yup Yoo knows about details. The 24-year-old fifth-year computer science major at RIT is also the founder and CEO of Mosaically Inc., a company that takes hundreds of user photos and makes them into one larger photograph. He then ships a large, detailed photograph to the consumer. (more) directory |
Photo by Max Schulte |
