Events | Department of Computer Science

Internship Information Sessions

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Ann Zsilavetz • 0 Comments

The Computer Science Department will be holding two informational sessions about internships this semester.

Dates and times are as follows:

Wednesday, 10/29, 12 – 1 PM

Wednesday, 11/5, 6 – 7 PM

Both sessions will be held in Forcina 408.

If you plan on applying for an internship at some point in your curriculum, you must attend one informational session prior to submitting your application. Additional info sessions will be planned in future semesters. (If you don’t plan to do an internship as a capstone experience, you do not need to attend a session.)

Computer Science Colloquium: October 24

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Ann Zsilavetz • 0 Comments

The second Computer Science Colloquium of the semester will be held on Friday, October 24. Mr. Matthew Tom-Wolverton (TCNJ ’10) of Tumblr will give a talk entitled “Behind the Scenes at Tumblr”. An abstract of his talk can be found below.

Please join CS faculty and students in Education Building 113 from 12:30 – 1:30 PM for this talk. Pizza and refreshments will be provided.

Abstract:
Curious about what it’s like to work on a site that has millions of users every day? I’ll give you a peek into life at Tumblr, my experiences scaling our advertising, and some of the other things I’ve done and learned here, as well as the journey of how I wound up here in the first place.

Bio:
From the early days programming BASIC on an Atari 800XL, to his college years (TCNJ Class of ’10!), to currently leading the Ads Engineering team at Tumblr, Matthew has always had a passion for building cool stuff. His tools of choice include PHP, vi, and the Canon 6D. http://wolf.tw/

Spring 2015 Registration Newsletter

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Ann Zsilavetz • 0 Comments

Attention CS Major and Minor Students:

It’s that time of the year again! If you haven’t done so already, start thinking about registration for next semester.

Advising Window: October 28 – November 4

Note: some faculty members may offer advising appointments before the window begins, so check your email.

Registration Window: November 4 – 14

It is the policy of the CS department that all majors should meet with their academic advisors before registering for classes. A registration hold has been automatically placed on your account and will be removed after the advising meeting. Please watch for an email from your advisor asking you to make an advising appointment. Check PAWS for information on your advisor and registration date and time.

Please view the department’s registration newsletter regarding upcoming advising and registration windows.

You can view the department’s Spring 2015 Registration Newsletter here.

Couldn’t get into the courses you wanted?

Complete the CS Department’s Qualtrics Survey in order to get on the waiting list.

Don’t forget to fill out all of the required information!

Computer Science Colloquium: September 5

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Ann Zsilavetz • 0 Comments

The Computer Science Department will be holding the first colloquium of the academic year on Friday, September 5. Dr. David G. Cooper, adjunct professor and instructor of CSC 320: Information Retrieval, will be giving at talk entitled “Affect Detection for a Classroom Computerized Geometry Tutoring System”. Dr. Cooper’s biography and an abstract of his talk can be found below. Please join Dr. Cooper, faculty, and students on Friday in Forcina 408 from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. Pizza will be provided and all are welcome to attend.

Abstract:

Minimally invasive sensor technology is mature enough to equip classrooms of up to 25 students with four sensors at the same time while using a computer based intelligent tutoring system. The sensors, which are on each student’s chair, mouse, monitor, and wrist, provide data about posture, movement, grip tension, arousal, and facially expressed mental states. Accurate affect detection can provide an intelligent tutoring system with cues to give feedback to individual students using the system. We discuss a method to clarify classifier ranking for the purpose of affective models. The method begins with a careful collection of a training and testing set, each from a separate population, and concludes with a non-parametric ranking of the trained classifiers on the testing set. The talk will conclude with a discussion of future directions that affective sensing could go for education and beyond.

Bio:

David G. Cooper is a lecturer at Ursinus College in the Math and Computer Science Department and at The College of New Jersey in the Department of Computer Science. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on computational affect (emotion) detection. He earned his B.S. in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon University. While working as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin, David was on a team to prototype distributed data fusion software for helicopter communication, and was able to test the software while in flight on a Black Hawk helicopter. David’s research has ranged from human robot interaction in the Robot Tug of War project to emotion detection for a computerized geometry tutor for middle and high school students.

Dr. Salgian to Present in Athens, Greece

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Ann Zsilavetz • 0 Comments

On September 18, Dr. Andrea Salgian will present her paper “Teaching Robots to Conduct: Automatic Extraction of Conducting Information from Sheet Music” at the 40^th International Computer Music Conference in Athens, Greece. This year’s conference will be jointly held with the 11^th Sound and Music Computing Conference and will run September 14 – 20. Dr. Salgian’s paper was accepted for presentation by the International Computer Music Association (ICMA), an international organization of individual researchers and institutions who are involved in the technical, creative, and performance aspects of computer music.

Coauthored by TCNJ alumnus Laurence Agina and Dr. Teresa Nakra, Associate Professor in TCNJ’s Music Department, the paper was written as part of a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Students who majored in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Music, and Interactive Multimedia worked together in a semester-long class to build robots that could conduct a real orchestra and were later utilized during performances by TCNJ’s music ensembles. The culminating paper describes an algorithm that can parse sheet music encoded in MIDI files in order to extract conducting information such as tempo, dynamics, and entrance cues. This process is the robotic equivalent of a human conductor reading the sheet music and deciding which gestures to perform and when. Current TCNJ students continue to work on improving the conducting robots technology in mentored research projects.

For more on the International Computer Music Conference, please visit the conference’s webpage: http://www.computermusic.org/

Celebration of Computing, April 30

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Edward Kim • 0 Comments

Celebration of Computing
As we do every spring, the Computer Science Department will celebrate the achievements of our students at the Celebration of Computing event on April 30, 2014, 12pm – 4 pm in Forcina, 4th floor.

Please Come Celebrate With Us!
Celebrate the wonderful achievements of CS students!
Celebrate yet another awesome semester in CS!
Celebrate the last week of classes for Spring 2014!

LUNCH PROVIDED!!

The tentative schedule is:

Computer Science lunch and activities, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Forcina Hall 4th Floor
Presentation of CS Department awards, 1:00 pm, Forcina Hall 4th Floor
Presentation of Goldberg-Neff award, 1:15 pm, Forcina Hall 4th Floor
Capstone Experience Presentations, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, Brower Student Center
UPE Induction, 3:15 – 3:45 pm, Forcina Hall 4th Floor

Please follow the link below to complete a Qualtrics form to let us know of your participation so we can plan for the event, estimate space needs and order the appropriate quantity of food.

URL: https://tcnj.qualtrics.com//SE/?SID=SV_1XJIYmoLcu2VmjH

Access code: celeb14

Codebreaker, Feb 4 @7pm in Mayo Concert Hall

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Edward Kim • 0 Comments

The College of New Jersey Department of Computer Science Presents…

CODEBREAKER tells the remarkable and tragic story of one of the 20th century’s most important people. Alan Turing set in mo9on the computer age and his World War II codebreaking helped turn the 9de of the Second World War.
Instead of receiving accolades, Turing faced terrible persecution. In 1952, the British Government forced him to undergo chemical castration as punishment for his homosexuality. In despair, Turing committed suicide. He was only 41 years old.
Documentary elements seamlessly interconnect with drama scenes in CODEBREAKER to offer a three dimensional picture of Turing, his accomplishments, his tragic end, and his lasting legacy.

Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science, the School of Science, the Cultural and Intellectual Community Program Council, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon

Celebration of Computing, December 4th

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Edward Kim • 0 Comments

Celebration of Computing
As we do every fall, the Computer Science Department will celebrate the achievements of our students at the Celebration of Computing event on December 4, 2013, 11:30am – 4 pm in Forcina, 4th floor.

Please Come Celebrate With Us!
Celebrate the wonderful achievements of CS students!
Celebrate yet another awesome semester in CS!
Celebrate the last week of classes for Fall 2013!

LUNCH PROVIDED!!

The schedule for the afternoon is below:

11:30am — 3:00pm Computing related games and other activities (some with prizes) : Forcina, 4th floor
– WICS and ACM are planning games, puzzles, brain teasers and other fun activities. Try them out and you could win a prize!

11:30am — 1pm Lunch
1pm — 3pm Student Poster Presentations
3:00 pm — 4:00pm UPE Induction Ceremony
– New members will be inducted into the national honor society of Computer Science, Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE).
– Society membership is by invitation and based on academic standing (juniors and above) and performance within one’s academic class.
– The ceremony is open to everyone.

See last years celebration,

Career Mock Interview Event

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Edward Kim • 0 Comments

On Wednesday, 11/20, 1-4 p.m., the Computer Science Career Mock Interview Event will be held for 33 of our students. There will be over 50 interviews conducted. Companies participating in this event include

Johnson & Johnson (6 interviews)
Verizon Wireless (12 interviews)
Twitter (6 interviews)
CA (18 interviews)
Front Rush (5 interviews)
Vanguard (6 interviews)

Database multi-version concurrency

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Edward Kim • 0 Comments

This Friday, November 15th, two guest speakers will be talking about multi-version concurrency in Dr. Pulimood’s Database Systems class from 10:00 to 11:20 a.m. in Forcina 408. The speakers, Bruce Momjian and Jim Mlodgenski, are developers and consultants working with Postgres and open source.

This will be a technical presentation, and you are invited to attend the lecture and meet our guests.

Date: Friday November 15th
Location: Forcina 408
Time: 10:00 – 11:20 a.m.
Who: Bruce Momjian and Jim Mlodgenski, consultants and developers in Postgres and open source.
Topic: Multi-version Concurrency in Databases