CS Department Newsletter
Programming team takes byte out of competition -- By Steve Koppes
Students are heading to April's world championship in Stockholm
Three teams of University of Chicago students tested their mettle last year against a deranged algorithms professor in a regional contest of computer programmers.
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Rovers and Martians and Compilers, Oh My!
The ICFP Programming Contest
The seven computers in the basement of Hinds that spent this July “churning away”, as John Reppy, Professor in Computer Science, put it, were neither supercomputers dedicated to cutting edge scientific research nor workstations pushing the frontiers of theoretical computer science.
Instead, they ran simulations for the eleventh annual International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) programming contest, a light-hearted contest...
The CS department Branches Out
Anne Rogers and Todd Dupont Start New Undergraduate Class
Computers often seem to work like magic to those who haven't spent their lives studying computer science. For Anne Rogers, Associate Professor in Computer Science, this is a major problem. How can a person, she asks, be well educated without understanding computers?
"Computers are everywhere and its not a good idea to think of them as magic. You can't walk ten...
Manticore Wins Big
NSF Awards $500,000 for Multicore Research
Ever notice how computers aren’t becoming faster the way they used to? It’s not just you: the NSF thinks so too, and recently awarded the Manticore project $500,000 to speed things up again.
The Manticore project, a joint collaboration between between faculty and students at the University of Chicago Computer Science and Toyota Technical Institute at Chicago, has received a...
Fun and Games, University of Chicago Style
New Game Construction Class a Rousing Success
Fun and games were in the air this spring in Computer Science Professor John Reppy's class, Game Construction, a new class teaching software engineering through computer games. The CSPP/College course offered upper-level computer science students the opportunity to turn their knowledge of graphics, physics, networking and AI into a playable computer game in one short quarter, bringing in field experts...
Five CS Undergrads Prove their Programming Mettle with Google Open Source Projects
Google Summer of Code Accepts Five CS Undergrads for Open Source Projects
"When I found out that I was accepted, I told everybody. I was not humble at all. Anybody that came up to me, I just wanted to ask them what they were doing this summer so I could tell them what I was doing," says rising fourth-year Pavel Krajcevski of this summer's Google Summer of Code, a Google-sponsored program...