Computer Science
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Engineering alumnus elected to Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust
Technology entrepreneur Jeffrey J. Rothschild has been elected to a five-year term as one of the newest members of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust. His term begins July 1. Rothschild Rothschild, of Los Altos, California, is vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook. He is also a consulting partner… Read MoreMay. 1, 2014
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Engineering professors edit journal’s special issue on augmented reality
Vanderbilt engineering professors Jules White and Doug Schmidt, and University of Illinois professor Mani Golparvar-Fard, are guest editors of the February issue of Proceedings of the IEEE, the… Read MoreMar. 6, 2014
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Two Vanderbilt engineers named 2014 IEEE Fellows
Two faculty members at Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering have been named fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Gautam Biswas, professor of computer science and computer engineering, and Robert Reed, professor of electrical engineering, were announced this month as recipients of one of the association’s highest… Read MoreDec. 6, 2013
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Student to play for Colombian women’s soccer team at Bolivarian Games in Peru
Lina Granados Sophomore Lina Granados has been invited by the Colombian Soccer Federation to be part of the U-20 Colombian Women’s National Team that will represent Colombia during the 2013 Bolivarian Games held in Peru this month. Granados, a computer science major from Ashburn, Va., and a… Read MoreNov. 14, 2013
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Speaker creates game theory framework to tackle terrorism attacks
A computer software system based on game theory was installed nine months ago at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach – the eighth busiest ports in the world – to protect the area’s harbors against terrorism attacks. The anti-terrorism system, called Port Resilience Operational/Tactical Enforcement to Combat Terrorism… Read MoreOct. 31, 2013
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Founder’s Medal recipient chooses MIT over Microsoft
The number of graduating college seniors who get lucrative offers to work for Microsoft and turn them down has to be small, but Curtis Northcutt is part of that select group. Curtis Northcutt The Vanderbilt senior has decided to take his computer science degree to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology… Read MoreMay. 10, 2013
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CS professor Doug Schmidt appointed RTI board member
Real-Time Innovations, a real-time infrastructure software company in Sunnyvale, Calif., today announced in a company press release the appointment of Douglas C. Schmidt, a pioneer in the middleware industry, to the company’s board of directors. Doug Schmidt Schmidt is a professor of computer science, associate chair of the computer science… Read MoreApr. 18, 2013
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Patrick and Charlotte Fischer Computer Science Scholarship to be awarded in August
June 13, 2012 Dean Kenneth F. Galloway has announced that a Patrick and Charlotte Fischer Computer Science Scholarship will be awarded at the beginning of the 2012 fall semester. The scholarship has been established with gifts from both Patrick and Charlotte Fischer to provide need-based support for undergraduate study… Read MoreJun. 13, 2012
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Patrick Fischer, former computer science chair, dies
Patrick Fischer, who helped build the Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, and whose theoretical work helped make Internet searches possible, died Aug. 26 in hospice care in Montgomery County, Md. He was 75. An expert in informational systems for education institutions, computational complexity and interactive database systems, Fischer… Read MoreAug. 26, 2011