Computer Science
Award-Winning Filmmaker Alex Gibney to Discuss His Creative Process Oct. 7
Film screening and reception will kick off a yearlong speaker series combining technology with the visual arts Alex Gibney, an Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy award-winning documentary film director, writer, and producer, will be on campus Oct. 7 to discuss the creative process behind his filmmaking. This event is part of a yearlong speaker series bringing [...]
Imogen Cain ’12 Works on Project Merging Art and Computer Science
Art major and Division I athlete writes about her research exploring the complex patterns in visual structures Imogen Cain ’12 (Perkasie, Pa.) is working as an EXCEL Scholar on an interdisciplinary project led by Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II ’36 Professor of Art; Chun Wai Liew, associate professor and head of computer science; and [...]
James Stoholski ’09 Keeps His Eye on the Ball
He writes about using mathematics and computer science to design a baseball statistical model to examine how different strategies affect a game Using 2008 Major League Baseball statistics, James Stoholski ’09 (Perkasie, Pa.) created a computer simulation which analyzes common baseball strategies and their usefulness for scoring runs. A double major in mathematics and computer [...]
Dean Weiss ’11 Looks for Ways to Prevent the Breakdown of Roadways
Computer science major writes about his EXCEL research with Kristen Sanford Bernhardt, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering Dean Weiss ’11 (Potomac, Md.) used his skills as a computer science major to help Kristen Sanford Bernhardt, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, explore new ways to operate and maintain a system of roadways. [...]
The Technical Side of Art
Computer science major Haruki Yamaguchi ’11 writes about his part in the Knee Deep and Risin’ exhibit Miguel Haruki Yamaguchi ’11 (Akashi, Japan) spent the summer using his expertise as a computer science major to help put together the multimedia exhibit Knee Deep and Risin’ running through Dec. 20 in the Grossman Gallery. He worked [...]
Collaborative Research Explores How Products Affect Environmental Policy-making
Professors Chris Ruebeck, Sharon Jones, Jeff Pfaffmann, and Kristen Sanford-Bernhardt create an interdisciplinary experience for students By Elizabeth Kemmerer A group of professors and students from economics and business, computer science, and engineering is using an interdisciplinary approach to see how environmental policy-making is affected by the life cycles of products. According to Sharon Jones, [...]
Knee Deep & Risin’ Combines Art, Environment, and Technology
Exhibition by Jim Toia, director of Community-Based Teaching, runs Nov. 4 – Dec. 20 Knee Deep & Risin’, a multimedia exhibition by Jim Toia, director of the art department’s Community-Based Teaching program, and Noah Vawter, a doctoral student at MIT, will run Nov. 4 through Dec. 20 in the Grossman Gallery of the Williams Visual [...]
Students Will Compete in Computing ‘Battle of the Brains’
International Collegiate Programming Contest will take place Oct. 25 A team of Lafayette students will be challenged to use their programming skills, creativity, and business sense as they compete in the regional round of the world’s most prestigious computer programming competition. Sponsored by IBM, the 33rd annual Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest [...]
Putting Hydrogen on Wheels
Building a hydrogen-powered car with Professor William Hornfeck. By Shailesh Shrestha ’11 This summer, Shailesh Shrestha ’11 (Pokhara, Nepal), who is pursuing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. degree with a computer science major, is working as an EXCEL scholar with William Hornfeck, professor of electrical and computer engineering, to build [...]
George Armah ’08 and Timothy Zirkel ’08 Win Student Scholarships from Apple Inc.
Both will attend World Wide Developers Conference in June George Armah ’08 and Marquis Scholar Timothy Zirkel ’08 have been accepted into the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) Student Scholarship Program sponsored by Apple Inc. The scholarships provide an all-expense paid trip to WWDC 2008, which runs June 9-13 in San Francisco. Participants have the [...]
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