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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:35:07 EST 20 http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69363-why-an-informatics-degree/fulltext (Story Link: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69363-why-an-informatics-degree/fulltext) http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69363-why-an-informatics-degree/fulltext Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:09:37 EST http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12942.html (Story Link: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12942.html) http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12942.html Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:32:34 EST http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12750.html (Story Link: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12750.html) http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12750.html Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:11:10 EST http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12746.html (Story Link: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12746.html) http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12746.html Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:33:59 EST http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/news/news.asp?id=625 The U.S. House of Representatives has designated the week of December 6 as National Computer Science Education Week. The House resolution is intended to raise the profile of computer science as a transforming industry that drives technology innovation and bolsters economic productivity. Citing the influence of computing technology as a significant contributor to U.S. economic output, the House resolution calls on educators and policymakers to improve computer science learning at all educational levels, and to motivate increased participation in computer science. Several high-profile partners participated in the effort to move the House resolution, including the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Microsoft, Google, Intel, as well as the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), National Center for Women &amp; Information Technology (NCWIT), and the Computing Research Association (CRA). &ldquo;National Computer Science Education Week will help us draw attention to the need for an educational system that values computer science as a discipline and provides students with critical thinking skills and career opportunities,&rdquo; said Bobby Schnabel, Dean of IU&rsquo;s School of Informatics and chair of ACM&rsquo;s Education Policy Committee. &ldquo;Despite serious economic challenges confronting the nation, computer science-related jobs are among the fastest-growing and highest paying over the next decade,&rdquo; said Alfred Spector, vice president of Research and Special Initiatives at Google. &ldquo;These times require an increasing supply of diverse students exposed to rigorous and engaging computing courses at the K-12 level, and National Computer Science Education Week can help reinforce this effort.&rdquo; The first week in December was chosen for &ldquo;National Computer Science Education Week&rdquo; in honor of Grace Murray Hopper, one of the outstanding pioneers in the field of computer science, who was born on December 9, 1906. She engineered new programming languages and pioneered standards for computer systems which laid the foundation for many advances in computer science from the late 1940s through the 1970s. CSEdWeek is also on the following social media channels, where we encourage you to participate and help spread the word: -YouTube: (Story Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/CSedweek) http://www.youtube.com/user/CSedweek -Twitter: (Story Link: http://twitter.com/CSedweek) http://twitter.com/CSedweek use hashtag &ldquo;#CSEdWeek&rdquo; -Facebook: (Story Link: http://www.facebook.com/CSEdWeek) http://www.facebook.com/CSEdWeek -Flickr: (Story Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/csedweek) http://www.flickr.com/photos/csedweek use tag &ldquo;CSEdWeek&rdquo; Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:32:14 EST http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12608.html (Story Link: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12608.html) http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12608.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:47:27 EST http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12536.html (Story Link: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12536.html) http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12536.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:44:45 EST http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12458.html (Story Link: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12458.html) http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/12458.html Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:36:01 EST http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/news/news.asp?id=620 <img height="270" width="580" alt="Nine computer science undergraduates from the IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing traveled to Chicago recently to attend the Consortium of Computer Science in Colleges (CCSC) conference." src="/img/news/CCSC2009.jpg" /><br /><span class="caption) Back row: Joey Kendall-Morwick (coach), Carlo Angiuli, Victor Chernetsky, Jeff Catania, Dustin Dannenhauer, Griffin Anderson. Front row: Cassie Orr, Shruti Krishnan, Karys Grundman, Jeanette Booher, Suzanne Menzel (coach).</span> Nine computer science undergraduates from the IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing traveled to Chicago recently to attend the Consortium of Computer Science in Colleges (CCSC) conference, and a team of three won the annual programming competition while there. Carlo Angiuli, Karys Grundman, and Victor Chernetsky were the only team to solve seven complex problems, ranging from a game of Mousetrap to calculating the square root of a perfect square, to take first place in the competition. &ldquo;This marks the first time a group from IU has participated in a programming competition like this,&rdquo; said Suzanne Menzel, team coach and lecturer for the School of Informatics and Computing. &ldquo;This victory is particularly special because the group of students who made up the teams are all early on in their studies. I&rsquo;m so proud of all of our teams&mdash;they made a great showing, and promise to be fierce competitors in future.&rdquo; The nine students who attended the conference were Griffin Anderson, Carlo Angiuli, Jeanette Booher, Jeff Catania, Victor Chernetsky, Dustin Dannenhauer, Karys Grundman, Shruti Krishnan, and Cassie Orr. The Consortium of Computer Science Colleges is a non-profit organization focused on promoting quality computer-oriented curricula, as well as effective use of computing in smaller institutions of higher learning which are typically non-research in orientation. They have annual conferences in each of their ten regions throughout the country. Founded in 2000 as the first School of its kind in the United States, the Indiana University School of Informatics is dedicated to research and teaching across a broad range of computing and information technology, with emphases on science, applications, and societal implications. The School includes the School of Informatics at IUPUI and the School of Informatics and Computing at Bloomington, where programs include computer science and informatics. The School administers a variety of bachelor and masters degree programs in computer science and informatics, as well as PhD programs in computer science, and the first-ever PhD in informatics. The School is dedicated to excellence in education and research, to partnerships that bolster economic development and entrepreneurship, and to increasing opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities in computing and technology. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:53:48 EST http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/news/news.asp?id=619 The IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing has received three grants that are aimed at fostering diversity and broadening participation in computing-related disciplines. The three grants, totaling $555,000, come from a variety of sources and are part of the School's ongoing initiative to become a national exemplar for diversity. The first, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE division-broadening participation in computing, is a part of the Alliance for the Advancement of African-American Researchers in Computing (A4RC) program. IU's portion of the $1.5 million, two-year extension grant is $427,000 and will be used to continue to increase the number of African-Americans pursuing advanced degrees in computing, particularly at the PhD level. Over the past three years, the A4RC team has laid the groundwork for this by building effective collaborations between historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and faculty and research teams. This two-year extension grant will enable the alliances with HBCUs to expand considerably while joining forces with the African-American Researchers in Computing group that supports PhD's already in the pipeline. The second grant, a one-year planning initiative worth $78,000, proposes the creation of the IN-STARS Alliance between Indiana University Bloomington, Purdue, Depauw, IUPUI, Notre Dame, Ivy Tech Bloomington, Butler, Rose-Hulman, IU Southeast and IPFW. This project will be based on the existing STARS model (Students &amp; Technology in Academia, Research &amp; Service), which is a national alliance of 20 institutions up and down the East Coast, formed to increase the participation of women, under-represented minorities, and persons with disabilities in computing disciplines through multi-faceted interventions and interactions. IN-STARS will enhance opportunities for traditionally underrepresented students (women and minorities) in computing by creating local networks of students within each institution -with online social networks and statewide conferences to bridge the local networks. Additional outreach will include pre-college programs, a series of statewide conferences for the different audiences, and programs for exploratory students already attending one of the participating alliance institutions. The product of this grant is expected to be a proposal submitted to NSF in May 2010 to support a three-year statewide initiative. Dennis Groth and Maureen Biggers are the co-PI's. The final grant is part of the new Department of Homeland Security VACCINE Center of Excellence in Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability. As part of the $50,000 IU portion of the grant, assistant dean for diversity Maureen Biggers will coordinate a Minority Serving Institution education piece for the Center. ``An important part of our strategic plan focuses on making the IUB School of Informatics and Computing a leader in diversity-both for our own students and faculty and for the computing and informatics fields nationally,'' said dean Bobby Schnabel. ``These three grants are instrumental in helping us achieve that goal, and will make significant strides to developing programs that will introduce the dynamic computing field to students who otherwise might not have the opportunity.'' Founded in 2000 as the first School of its kind in the United States, the Indiana University School of Informatics is dedicated to research and teaching across a broad range of computing and information technology, with emphases on science, applications, and societal implications. The School includes the School of Informatics at IUPUI and the School of Informatics and Computing at Bloomington, where programs include computer science and informatics. The School administers a variety of bachelor and masters degree programs in computer science and informatics, as well as PhD programs in computer science, and the first-ever PhD in informatics. The School is dedicated to excellence in education and research, to partnerships that bolster economic development and entrepreneurship, and to increasing opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities in computing and technology. 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