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Welcome to the Department of Computer Science e-newsletter. This bi-weekly newsletter will list all upcoming CS events and announcements every other Monday. |
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Philly Ruby Group Meeting
Tuesday, May 10
6 to 8 p.m.
University Crossings 149
Drexel's Math and Computer Science Society (MCS) is hosting the monthly Philadelphia Ruby User Group meeting. Come out and meet with professional Ruby users and web developers from the Philadelphia area. Interact with working web developers and see presentations on web development technologies, techniques and more! This week's presentation is on OmniAuth with Thibaut Assus. Be sure to RSVP here for prizes! Learn more about the Philly Ruby Group here.
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DGDG: Philly Game Jam post-mortem and Digital Game Plu-thunk
 Wednesday, May 11 6 to 8 p.m.
University Crossings 149
The Drexel Game Dev Group is returning from the Philly Game Jam! Members will be having a post-mortem about the game created over the weekend in only 48 hours. Also scheduled is a Digital Game Pluthunk! Bring in a favorite digital game such as a flash game, arcade game, facebook game, etc., and discuss why the game makes for good game design. There will be a competition to see who can present the game with the best design aspects. Free pizza and soda provided.
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Intersection of Technology and Trading: Fall/Winter Co-op Opportunities at SIG
Thursday, May 12 4:30 p.m.
Rush Building 014
Are you an Undergraduate iSchool student, Computer Science or Computer Engineering major looking to co-op during the Fall/Winter 2011-2012 term?Join us for a panel discussion including SIG hiring managers and current software developer and infrastructure co-ops. Refreshments and pizza will be served. Please RSVP online here. For more information and to explore our job opportunities, please visit www.sig.com/campus. |
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MCS: Student Faculty Forum
Thursday, May 12 5 to 6 p.m.
University Crossings 153 Drexel's Math and Computer Science Society (MCS) will be hosting a Student/Faculty Forum. All CS/SE students are welcome to attend and ask questions about the program, as well as discuss classes, coursework and other concerns. Food will be provided. Click here for more information about MCS. |
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Senior Design Presentations
Tuesday, May 17: 6 to 9 p.m. in Stein Auditorium, Nesbitt Hall
Wednesday, May 18: 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in University Crossings 153
Senior Design is the capstone experience for all Computer Science and Software Engineering majors in senior year. Student teams create a project developed by CS faculty or external stakeholders and present the final product at the end of spring term. All students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend the final presentations. To view this year's projects, click here. To view the presentation schedule, click here.
Final Four Presentations
The final four teams will face-off for the chance to enter College of Engineering's competition. Students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend the competition Tuesday, May 24, in Stein Auditorium (Nesbitt Hall) between 6-9 p.m. Dinner will be available between 5-6 p.m
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Digital Gaming Seminar: Dr. Eric Klopher
Tuesday, May 17
7 p.m.
Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone
Drexel's School of Education will launch its fourth seminar in the four-part "Digital Games: Teaching, Learning and Assessment Seminar Series" with Dr. Eric Klopfer, associate professor and the director of the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program and the director of The Education Arcade. His seminar series talk will be centered around mobile learning and games in particular Augmented Reality Gaming (ARG) and the implications for teaching, learning, and assessment especially in K-12. He will also talk about the research around ARG, levels of gameness, and ways to develop ARG technology. Please RSVP to aroutis@drexel.edu with your name, organization, and email. Free to the Drexel community and surrounding universities.
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Upsilon Pi Epsilon 29th Induction Ceremony
Wednesday, May 18 4:30 to 5 p.m. (Reception)
5 to 6 p.m. (Induction)
Location TBA
Drexel's Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and Information, Science and Technology students will be inducted in Upsilon Pi Epsilon. All family, faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend. Click here to learn more about UPE.
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MCS: CompUtition
Thursday, May 19 5 to 6 p.m.
University Crossings 153
Drexel's Math and Computer Science Society (MCS) is hosting a CompUtition for all students. The CompUtition is a programming competition where contestants form teams to solve programming problems. The teams that solve the most problems win prizes. Teams can be any reasonable size, or you can work by yourself, but each team only gets to use one computer. Most programming languages can be used. Food and beverages will be available.
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WiCS: Trip to Google in NYC
Friday, May 20
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Drexel's Women in Computing Society (WiCS) invites you to attend a trip to Google office in New York. The trip involves Google's NY office tour and a tech talk at Google. A bus will be reserved for the attendees for the travel. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP for the trip here. |
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CS Colloquium: Jonathan M. Smith
Monday, May 23
11 a.m. to noon
University Crossings 153
Drexel's CS Department welcomes Jonathan M. Smith from the University of Pennyslvania. Dr. Smith will be discussing, "The Nebula Future Internet Architecture: A Research Agenda." For more information about the talk, click here.
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Random Hacks of Kindness Hack-a-thon
Saturday and Sunday, June 4-5
University Crossings 149, 153, 149
Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is the brainchild of a dedicated team from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and The World Bank that organizes "hackathon"- marathon hacking events in multiple global locations bringing together developers from all over to hack on real-world problems. In each hachathon, participants work on various problem set for two days and are awarded for their amazing work by the RHoK panel. This year, Drexel is hosting the Philadelphia-area RHoK hackathon. This is a wonderful opportunity for a programmer/designer to contribute to solve a global challenge. Click here to register for the hackathon. Visit the RHoK website to learn more about the hackathon.
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Advising Notes
CS/SE Freshmen/Sophomore Advisor: Undergrad Advising Center
CS/SE Upper Level Advisor: Andrea Negro
Registration (Summer Term)
Summer registration opened May 2; however, depending on your classification, you may have a different registration date than other students. Your specific date is listed below:
Seniors - May 9
Honors - May 11
Juniors - May 12
Pre-Juniors - May 17
Sophomores - May 20
Freshman - May 25
Note: Students on co-op cannot be added to classes until the week before the term starts. Feel free to contact your assigned advisor if you need any help registering or working out a plan of study. For additional advising information, click here.
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Search the CS Website for Jobs
Graduation is quickly approaching! Still searching for a job? The CS Department can help you prepare: visit our job opportunities site at http://www.cs.drexel.edu/jobs to view the latest positions available in the computing industry.
Four new opportunities posted since April 25, 2011:
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DGDG Needs Your Input
The Drexel Game Developers Group (DGDG) has returned from GDC 2011 in San Francisco and needs your help to make game development at Drexel better! Please take a minute to complete a short survey about game development at Drexel so DGDG knows what to improve in meetings and for events and activities. The survery will only take five minutes and can be found here. Questions? Contact Keith Ayers, President of Drexel Game Developers Group, by email at GameDev@drexel.edu. |
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PSPE Reading Chapter Engineering Scholarship
Deadline: May 27, 2011
The Reading Chapter of Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers will be awarding a $2,000 scholarship for 2011-2012. The Scholarship is a one time only grant to be provided to an undergraduate engineering student who will be enrolled in the first semester of their second last or final year in the fall of 2011. Academic success, character, personal merit, commitment plus school and community involvements will be the basis for the award. For more information on application requirements or to apply please go to http://www.pspe.org/reading/reading.shtml. For further questions please contact Kenneth Gabel. |
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