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Students Excel in University Programming Contest
Last Thursday, Sept. 13, 20 UK students competed against each other in a campus programming contest. The students, most of them CS majors, were each given six problems to try to solve individually within three and a half hours.
The most recent paper by Prof. Grzegorz “Greg” Wasilkowski, Liberating the dimension for L2-approximation, is among the Top 25 Hottest Articles in Journal of Complexity for the periods January to March 2012 and April to June 2012.
Mattei Wins Best Student Paper Award
Nicholas Mattei, Judy Goldsmith, and Andrew Klapper win the Best Student Paper award at FLAIRS-25 for their paper "On the Complexity of Bribery and Manipulation in Tournaments with Uncertain Information."
Manivannan Appointed as Editor of Prestigious Journal
Dr. Dakshnamoorthy Manivannan, an associate professor in the Department, has been appointed as an editor of the prestigious journal IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
Dr. Jane Hayes Raised to Full Professor
Dr. Jane Hayes of the Computer Science department has been voted by the Board of Trustees to be raised to the level of Full Professor. This is the highest non-administrative title for an academic.
Hussam Wins College of Engineering Staff Excellence Award
The Computer Science department would like to congratulate Hussamuddin Nasir for winning the College of Engineering Staff Excellence Award. This recognition is awarded annually to staff members based on the employee's exceptional dedication to his job, positive attitude, and exceptional job performance.
Wasilkowski Wins Best Paper Award
Professor Wasilkowski and his co-author, Professor Plaskota from the University of Warsaw, Poland, are co-winners of the very prestigious "Journal of Complexity Best Paper Award in 2011."
CS Students Graduate at May Commencement
A large number of PhD, MSc and undergradute students from the Computer Science participated in the May 2012 Commencements where the academic degrees were conferred upon them by the University of Kentucky.
CS Department honored at College of Engineering Awards Banquet
At the 46th Tau Beta Pi Awards Banquet for the College of Engineering, faculty and students alike were honored for their excellence within the department of Computer Science.
CS senior Scott Wagner wins Student Venture Challenge
Stadionaut, a mobile application development startup, took the grand prize in the first-ever iNet Venture Challenge, a business competition for University of Kentucky student entrepreneurs held at the Alumni House the end of March. Computer science major Scott Wagner was one member of the winning team that received the $2,000 first prize for their business concept for Stadionaut LLC.