Top 10 Tips for New Engineering Students (and Even Returning Ones)
Story by Hanna Anderson As a freshman, or maybe even a sophomore, college can seem a bit daunting. Classes are harder and larger, there are three-hour labs, recitations, financial aid, football games, pressure to start research, Greek life, midterms, new friends and 10 weeks later there’s finals week. All of these events and aspects can pile […]
EECS’s Tom Dietterich at the Forefront of AI Dialog
Could artificial intelligence take over the world? The question captured the attention of the media this year when Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk spoke publically about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI). Gates said he is “concerned about super intelligence,” Hawking warned that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of […]
Danny Dig Receives Google Faculty Research Award
Danny Dig, assistant professor of computer science at Oregon State University, was awarded a Google Faculty Research Award for a project to improve responsiveness of Android apps. Google selected 113 proposals of the 805 submitted this summer on computer science topics such as systems, machine learning, software engineering, security and mobile. “The biggest significance of […]