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 […]
MSUM Ethics Day noon panel is open to the public Matt VonPinnon, editor of The Forum; Birch Burdick, Cass County state’s attorney; and Paul Richard, chief legal officer, Sanford Health, are among a dozen area business leaders who will share their experiences about ethics in the workplace during Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Ethics Day Thursday, March 21.
The ACM North Central Collegiate Programming Contest was held Nov. 12, and an MSUM team placed in the top 12% of the contenders. Two hundred-twenty teams from universities in Michigan to North Dakota and Kansas to Manitoba competed at 16 sites across the region. They worked to solve 10 computer-programming problems over a five-hour period. The MSUM team of Sam […]
Two teams of students from the Computer Science and Information Systems Department competed in Digi-Key’s Collegiate Computing Competition Oct. 14 at Digi-Key in Thief River Falls. Twenty-one teams from 12 universities spanning Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin attended. The MSUM team of Sam Sussman, Andrew Dahl, Matt Ehrichs, and Phillip McCorison finished in 2nd place, earning individual gift […]
Twelve Computer Science and Information Systems students attended the annual Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium, April 8-9 in Duluth. Activities included a computer programming contest, where student teams competed against each other to solve seven interesting and challenging programming problems. Andrew Dahl, Sam Sussman and Aaron Taggart took second place over a field of 39 competing teams from universities throughout […]