Associate Professor
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P) (609) 771-2933
Yearly Archives: 2016
Dr. Monisha Pulimood
Associate Professor & Chair
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P) (609) 771-2788
Dr. Dimitris Papamichail
Assistant Professor
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P) (609) 771-2042
Dr. Ying Mao
Assistant Professor
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E) maoy@tcnj.edu
P) (609) 771-2789
Dr. Jikai Li
Associate Professor
Forcina 459
E) jli@tcnj.edu
P) (609) 771-2973
Dr. Deborah Knox
Associate Professor
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P) (609) 771-2193
Dr. Michael Bloodgood
Assistant Professor
Forcina 454
E) mbloodgood@tcnj.edu
P) (609) 771-2806
Angela Huang Selected to Participate in International Mentoring Workshop
Article written by Dr. Deborah Knox
“Have you considered advanced work in programming languages?” began the email Angela Huang, Class of 2017, received in September. Our faculty are always on the lookout for opportunities for TCNJ Computer Science students, and this particular email encouraged and guided Angela to prepare an application to attend the 6th ACM SIGPLAN (Special Interest Group on Programming Languages) Mentoring Workshop. After writing her essay on what she hoped to gain from the workshop and working through some editing suggestions from Dr. Knox to strengthen her impact statement, Angela submitted her application in mid-October.
She received an invitation to attend the workshop and professional conference with a full scholarship, including registration fees, travel, and accommodations. The Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) will be held in Paris, France, immediately before the Principals of Programming Languages Conference (POPL) during January 2017. PLMW encourages senior undergraduate students to explore careers in programming language research. The workshop will provide Angela mentoring for a research career in order to help her imagine how she might contribute to the research community. Last year, the Workshop included sessions focused on topics such as how to succeed as a graduate student, how to write research papers, and how to decide on a research career in academia or industry.
In addition, during PLMW, Angela will listen to presentations given by world leaders in programming language research and engage in professional discussions. PLMW is sponsored by NSF, ACM SIGPLAN, Amazon, Facebook, Jane Street Capital, Microsoft, and Google. During the technical POPL conference, Angela will gain new insights as both theoretical and experimental papers will be discussed, with topics ranging from formal frameworks to experience reports.
Angela looks forward to the workshop: “I believe that when trying to get a sense of a particular research area, nothing can replace the impact that face-to-face interaction with real researchers in the field can have. Getting my questions answered by some of the field’s experts, receiving advice from current graduate students, and meeting with students at similar stages in their research careers are all valuable interactions that this workshop openly offers.”
Congratulations, Angela, for being selected to participate in this international opportunity!
We look forward to hearing about your experiences at the workshop and conference.
CLOSED: Spring 2017 Registration Wait-list
Attention students: The Spring 2017 wait-list is now closed. We will be working through the list of students who have already signed up on the wait list and have begun signing students into seats where possible. Once we have finished, we will release any available seats.
If you have signed up for the wait list, please continue to check your email this week in case we need to contact your regarding your submission.
The registration period for Spring 2017 courses is November 1 – 11, 2016. Some seats have been reserved for CS majors in all CSC courses. Please review the registration newsletter for additional information on options courses offered in Spring 2017.
After your registration window opens, if the class you need is closed, put yourself on the wait-list using the Qualtrics form below.
Link to the Spring 2017 registration wait-list: https://tcnj.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3QqsTNURj8oR8y1
Be sure read all directions and to enter all the information requested.
We will not be signing students into courses until Monday, November 14, after the registration window closes. Please do not email the department for updates before this time. We will enroll students into any unfilled seats in order, based on their registration times and time they registered on the wait list.
Please be sure that your intended course does not conflict with a course in your current schedule, and that you are willing to drop conflicting courses to make the change. If you have a full course load or time conflict and do not indicate courses to drop on your wait-list submission, your submission will be disregarded.
As always, please have a back-up plan in case you are not able to get into your preferred courses.
CS Majors & CS Minor Win Prizes at HackRU
CS seniors Kevin Bohinski, Matthew Rasa, and David Vassallo, along with CS minor Patrick Monaghan, won two awards at the hackathon held at Rutgers University on October 22 and 23.
Their team, which competed against 47 other teams, won “Best Health Hack sponsored by Merck” and “Best Kiosk Hack sponsored by the New Brunswick Office of Innovation”. Together, they created an Amazon Alexa Skill named “Medecho” using Amazon’s Alexa platform, a voice only intelligent personal assistant. This skill connected to the FDA’s open source data API and the Twilio API to create an all voice medical assistant.
New Brunswick’s Office of Innovation has asked the team to iterate upon the project and to work with Robert Wood Johnson to implement the functionality in information kiosks across the city.
Each student received an Amazon Echo and a monetary prize of $256.
Congratulations to Kevin, Matthew, David, and Patrick!
More information on the team’s Medecho project can be found here: https://devpost.com/software/med-echo
Photos from HackRU can be found on the Major League Hacking facebook page.