http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ UW Bothell Computing & Software Systems News Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Prof. Clark Olson will be presenting his paper, titled "Robust Registration of Aerial Image Sequences", at the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing through November 30, 2009 through December 2, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ The CSS Program is looking to fill a new position, that of Advanced Systems Engineer. This individual will act as part of the CSS faculty and staff team to design, plan, purchase and/or develop, configure, and maintain our academic computing environment, including undergraduate and graduate teaching labs and our research infrastructure. Position details and application procedures can be found on the University of Washington Employment Opportunities web site. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Prof. Bill Erdly continues his ongoing collaboration with the Tulalip Tribes, which has seen him participate in the founding of Tulalip Data Services, in the development of the Washington State Rural Broadband Cooperative. His work was recently featured in the Puget Sound Business Journal (check out the photo of Greg Keith, UW Bothell CSS alumnus). Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ We invite applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor position with expertise in Software Engineering for a full-time, nine month, academic year appointment beginning Fall 2010. For more information and how to apply, please visit our "Faculty Positions" page on our CSS website. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ We are now accepting applications for the Masters Preparation Sequence (MPS). For more information on how to apply, visit our Masters Preparation Sequence section within our Master of Science webpage. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Bachelor of Science students will be presenting the results of their capstone internships at the 2009 CSS Summer Undergraduate Colloquium, held 1:00pm - 4:30pm in UW1 rooms 010 and 020. Posters and presentations will range from medical ultrasound to renewable energy. Stop by and see what our students have been up to. Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Become our friend! We are proud to annouce the launch of our very own CSS Facebook Page. You can get the link from our CSS website homepage. Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Applications for the Master of Science in Computing & Software Systems (MSCSS) degree program are now available. Visit our Master of Science page on our website for more information. Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Our CSS 'Bits & Bytes' newsletter for Summer 2009 is now available. You can either stop by our office in UW1-360 to pick up a copy or download it at our CSS Newsletter page. Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Prof. Carol Zander just returned from being on a National Science Foundation (NSF) Review Panel for Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) type-1 grant proposals. The panel ran from July 13 through the 14. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Prof. Michael Stiber was elevated to Senior Member by the IEEE, the leading professional association for the advancement of technology. This reflects his "professional maturity and significant professional achievements." Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Celebrate the end of the Spring quarter, the school year, and the beginning of summer by joining your CSS friends for some food, fun, and a great time. The ACM will be hosting this event right after the Spring Colloquium (more information about the Spring Colloquium is below). Delicious food will be provided so some hungry! The event will start right after the Spring Colloquium at 1:00pm in UW1 Lower Level Vista (UW1-LL). Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:30:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Join us for a special lecture by Jason Bay, head of programming at Gripptonite, as he exposes the inside world of the video game industry. A jack of all trades, Jason has served as Lead Tester, Designer/Writer, Programmer and Lead Programmer within multiple game companies. A significant portion of this lecture will be reserved for Q&A with the audience. The event will start at 5:50pm in the Cascadia building (CC1-011). Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:30:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Join us for our Spring Quarter Colloquium! Seniors will be presenting their capstone projects. If you are interested in the CSS program, this is a perfect opportunity for you to see just what it is a CSS student can do! The event will start at 1:00pm in UW1 Lower Level Vista (UW1-LL). Thu, 28 May 2009 13:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Join us for a special lecture by Jason Bay, head of programming at Gripptonite, as he exposes the inside world of the video game industry. A jack of all trades, Jason has served as Lead Tester, Designer/Writer, Programmer and Lead Programmer within multiple game companies. A significant portion of this lecture will be reserved for Q&A with the audience. The event will be held on Tuesday, June 2 at the Cascadia Building 1, Room 011 (CC1-011) starting at 5:50PM. Wed, 27 May 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Professors Kelvin Sung and Michael Stiber have been promoted from Associate Professor to full Professor of Computing and Software Systems by UW President Mark Emmert, effective September 2009. This promotion recognizes both of their accomplishments in research, teaching, and institution building. It also represents the CSS Program's growing success and maturity as the founding UW Bothell technology degree. Congratulations to Profs. Sung and Stiber and thanks to all of the CSS faculty and staff who helped this process run so well! Mon, 11 May 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Professor Sung will organize the workshop, "XNA Game-Themed Applications for Teaching Introductory Programming Courses," at the Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games in Orlando, Florida. Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Professor Arnie Berger will be presenting a poster on Distance Learning at the 2009 UW Teaching and Learning Symposium. Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:45:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ If you've got questions about resume writing, then come join us at the Technical Resume Writing Workshop presented by our very own CSS alumna, Jamie Shay. It will be held on April 16 from 5:45pm to 7:50pm in UW1-010. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:45:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Professor Sung has been invited to offer a full-day workshop on "XNA Game-Themed Applications for Teaching Introductory Programming Courses" on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Professor Arnie Berger has been invited to talk at Digipen Institute of Technology on the subject of Reconfigurable Computing. Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Professor Sung will be presenting "Game-Themed CS Education: Empowering the Faculty" at the Microsoft External Research Symposium in Redmond. Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Professor Carol Zander and Kelvin Sung attended the annual SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) meeting, presenting a paper and organizing a panel. Professor Zander presented the paper, "CS1 Students Speak: Advice for Students by Students", co-authored with Brian Hanks, Laurie Murphy, Beth Simon, and Renee McCauley. Professor Sung organized the panel,"Introductory Programming Courses and Computer Games" with M. Lewis, S. Leutenegger, and M. Panitz. Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Professor Kelvin Sung is invited to the 3-day workshop, "XNA Games-Themed Applications for Teaching Introductory Programming Courses" at the Microsoft Mexico and Digital Arts University in Guadalajara, Mexico. Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Professor Kelvin Sung is invited to talk about "Top-Down Approach to Teaching Computer Graphics and Game Development," for the Institute of Technology Seminar at UW Tacoma. Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Prof. Clark Olson will be giving a lecture at UW Seattle on January 29th titled 'Computer Vision for Mars Exploration'. Prof. Olson has worked with NASA's JPL laboratories for several years on researching and improving computer vision techniques for the Mars Rovers. Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Professor Kelvin Sung has recently coauthored a book entitled "Essentials of Interactive Computer Graphics: Concepts and Implementation" K. Sung, P. Shirley, and S. Baer, "Essentials of Interactive Computer Graphics: Concepts and Implementation," A.K. Peters, December 2008. Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ The SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) provides a forum for educators to discuss issues related to the development, implementation, and/or evaluation of computing programs, curricula, and courses, as well as syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy. CSS Professor Carol Zander has been invited to the 2009 SIGCSE Symposium as a reviewer for the first video exhibition the Symposium has had. This venue will allow Computer Science Educators to exhibit video artifacts relevant to computer science education. Wed, 1 Oct 2008 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Dr. Clark Olson is on sabbatical for the 08-09 academic year. During his leave, Dr. Olson will be collaborating with researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on computer vision research. JPL has been developing a system for aerial mapping and recognition using multiple high-resolution cameras. Dr. Olson's research helps make it possible to construct three -dimensional maps and to perform recognition and tracking in the images. The results of this joint research venture will impact many various fields including geographical information systems, environmental management, consumer mapping websites, and aerial surveillance. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Dr. Munehiro Fukuda is visiting four research organizations in Portugal, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States in order to pursue two research goals: parallelizing various applications on top of his grid-computing middleware named AgentTeamwork and to explore new collaborative research projects on software environments that support multi-core processors. At Lisbon, Dr. Fukuda enabled an online war game to run its different strategic scenarios in parallel. At Keio University in Japan, he is parallelizing the data search and analyzing components of his collaborators' multimedia database system, currently shaping and idea to offload such data analysis of a serve onto multi-core clients. Dr. Fukuda will continue his work in this field by visiting a mobile-agent research team at the University of California, Irvine in April. Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:00:00 PST http://www.uwb.edu/CSS/newsandevents/ Dr. Michael Stiber, Professor in the Computing & Software Systems Program (CSS) at UW Bothell has accepted the position of Director of the CSS Program. Dr. Stiber has served as Associate Professor in CSS since 1997. His research areas focus on the intersection of Biology and Computer Science, investigating how biological systems can perform everyday computations. As the new academic year begins, Dr. Stiber will lead CSS in its involvement with the 21st Campus Initiative, creation of a new Science and Technology Program and many more changes to come as the UW Bothell campus continues its innovative development. Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:00:00 PST