Computer Science

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More

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 More