News & Events
Public Lecture by Lorrie Faith Cranor “Security, Privacy, and Usability: Better Together”
The Computer Science Department’s Class of 1960 Scholars Lecture Thursday, October 25 at 8:00 pm in Wege Auditorium (TCL 123) Security, Privacy, and Usability: Better Together Usable privacy and security research aims to consider security, privacy, and usability goals together in order to develop solutions in which… Continue reading »
Women in CS attend Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Baltimore.
Three students (April Shen ’13, Bryn Reinstadler ’15, and Abbie Zimmermann-Niefield ’15) and two faculty (Jeannie Albrecht and Andrea Danyluk) attended the conference. Prof. Andrea Danyluk gave a talk on “Undergraduate Research Experience Internships” with Jamika Burge of Information Systems Worldwide. Andrea and Jamika are co-directors of CREU (Collaborative Research… Continue reading »
Stephen Freund – International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV’12)
Stephen Freund will be in Istanbul, Turkey next week presenting a tutorial, “Dynamic Analyses for Data-Race Detection” at the Third International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV’12). … Continue reading »
Nick Arnosti ’11 presents paper.
Nick Arnosti ’11 presented a paper co-authored with Prof. Andrea Danyluk (and based on his honors thesis work) at the International Conference on Machine Learning. Jesse Davis ’02 and Nick Arnosty ’11… Continue reading »
New research on video games presented at ACM SIGGRAPH.
This summer, Associate Professor Morgan McGuire collaborated with colleagues at Vicarious Visions in Albany, NY to develop and present new research on video games in a course at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Creating visual effects that scale with resolution and hardware capabilities is… Continue reading »
Computer Science Department turns 25 this year!
The Computer Science Department will be celebrating it’s 25th anniversary this year – stay tuned for details about the celebration!… Continue reading »
Heeringa and McGuire receive tenure.
Following the recommendation of the Committee on Appointments and Promotions, the Williams College Board of Trustees has promoted both Brent Heeringa and Morgan McGuire to the position of associate professor with tenure. The promotion will take effect July 1, 2012. In total, eight professors… Continue reading »
Lorraine Robinson retires.
Longtime administrative assistant Lorraine Robinson retired in June after working in the Department of Computer Science for over a decade. Continue reading »
Department Bowling and Chinese
All majors are well to join the department for bowling and chinese on Friday, 06 April 2012 at 17.00. We will roll a few rounds at Mt. Greylock Bowl and then have Chinese food at Chopsticks. Continue reading »