WICS Students Launch Ambitious Outreach Project
The Women in Computer Science (WICS) group is launching Project HATCH 2012, a 15-week effort to introduce computer science concepts to Elementary, Middle, and High School students from local schools. ...»
UO CIS Students Attend Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Students from the Computer and Information Science Department attended the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, this year from November 9-12 in Portland, OR. The Grace Hopper Celebration is a combination technical research conference, career fair, and forum for discussion of women in computing. It is the largest conference of its kind, last year attracting over 2000 attendees from around the globe. ...»
Turing-O-Lantern makes an appearance in the CIS front office
In anticipation of the 2012 Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Alan Turing we have a Turing-O-Lantern in our front office for the week prior to Halloween! This unique piece of pumpkin art is the work of Karen Luks, daughter of Emeritus Professor Gene Luks. And while this organic creation will ultimately be composted, it will live on exponentially in the Facebook and CIS web site realm. ...»