MSUM ACM releases their new blog at http://msumacm.org aimed at inspiring students from departments related to Computer Science. The blog will feature interviews with computer science professionals located around the area and other articles related to improving skills related to the field. Submissions from members of MSUM ACM or otherwise are welcome. This group is a chapter of the Association […]
Andrew Chen, Computer Science and Information, Linda Winkler and Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, along with Daniel Heckaman, Chief Information Officer, applied to the Intel Corporation Galileo program and were awarded 20 development kits. The Galileo kit is an Arduino compatible development board that will be used to explore new directions in CSIS and Physics courses. The Galileo boards will […]
Seventeen MSUM Academic Service-Learning practitioners are taking the commitment to complete 125,000 volunteer hours very seriously. They, and close to 400 students, participated in a variety of service-learning activities this fall. The reasons to incorporate Academic Service-Learning include improving their student’s understanding of class topics, promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and learning more about social issues and their causes. […]
Dr. Yuri Boreisha, CSIS Department, has been awarded a Windows Azure Educator Grant by Microsoft. Boreisha will use the platform in his CSIS 405 E-Commerce Technologies course in Spring 2014.
Several Computer Science students attended the Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium held at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. While there they competed against 45 teams from universities across the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains states. The teams were given seven difficult problems and three hours in which to solve them. The team of Ashraf Kamel, Joseph Nosie, and Dan […]