Professor appointed associate editor for prestigious journal
John F. Conley, Jr., professor of electrical and computer engineering, was appointed associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, the flagship journal of the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
It’s business as usual for online Hackathon club
The coronavirus pandemic didn’t stop the OSU Hackathon Club from holding BeaverHacks Spring 2020 on March 27-29.
Researchers win award for paper on deep learning
A collaborative project with researchers at Oregon State University and University of Southern California received Best Paper Runner-Up Award at a top conference for computer architecture. The research examines if machine learning can also teach us anything about computer architectural design. Ting-Ru Lin (University of Southern California), Drew Penney (Oregon State University), Massoud Pedram (University […]
Research to support mobile health technologies wins award
Minsuk Kahng and colleagues at Georgia Institute of Technology and Western Washington University were recognized by the prestigious journal, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, for their research that impacts mobile health technologies. “I’m honored that our paper has been nominated for the best paper. Our work addresses an important challenge of supporting analysis of […]
Oregon State Security Club team brings home another win
For the third consecutive year, a team of Oregon State University computer science students placed first regionally in the Cyberforce Competition hosted by the Department of Energy on November 15-16, 2019. They competed against 17 teams at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington. The team placed sixth in the nationwide competition, which included […]
New grant: Gender-inclusive open source through gender-inclusive tools
“Open source software is changing the technology and workforce landscape. Our work will help open source software tools and technology support diverse cognitive styles that will help bring diversity in thought by enabling diversity in open source contributors.” – Anita Sarma, associate professor of computer science in the College of Engineering at Oregon State. Principal […]
Teaching computer science concepts with Connect Four and more
Researchers at Oregon State University are taking an innovative approach to teaching computer science concepts to middle school students using tabletop games such as Connect Four and Battleship. Working in partnership with teachers and administrators at Linus Pauling Middle School in Corvallis, Oregon, the team will develop and investigate a new curriculum to teach algorithmic […]
Google funds research to improve K-12 computer science education in Oregon
Oregon does not have a policy to support computer science education, even though computing jobs are the No. 1 source of all new wages in the U.S. economy, according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine, which tracks labor demand. To face this challenge, Jennifer Parham-Mocello, assistant professor of computer science in the College of […]
Amazon Prime Air funds autonomous drone research
Yue Cao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, is collaborating with Amazon Prime Air to make UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) delivery a reality. Prime Air promises to deliver a package to the customer within 30 minutes after receiving the order. Cao will help develop an advanced propulsion system that […]
Reflections on my time at the Open Source Lab
Guest post by Travis Whitehead Working at the Open Source Lab has been the highlight of my computer science experience at Oregon State University. It was just by chance that I came across a job listing for the OSL. I had never heard of the organization, and it certainly was not a factor in my […]