CCSIA accepted as a member of the CyberWatch Consortium

Dec 5, 2011 -- We are pleased to announce that the Hood College Center for Computer Security and Information Assurance of the Department of Computer Science has been accepted as a member of the CyberWatch Consortium. Funded by the National Science Foundation, CyberWatch is a consortium of higher education institutions, businesses, and government agencies whose mission is to improve the quantity and quality of the information assurance (IA) workforce.

Center for Computer Security and Information Assurance (CCSIA) established by Hood College

Hood College has established a Center for Computer Security and Information Assurance in the Department of Comptuer Science. The purpose of the Center is to promote research, education, and sound internal practices in computer security and information assurance. The center coordinates educational programs and practices in information assurance, and interacts with local area businesses, laboratories, and government agencies.

New graduate students attend orientation

More than a dozen new CS & IT graduate students filled the computer science department's office during the Graduate School Orientation for the Fall 2011 semester.

CS majors Jacobson & Hill present research at NIST SURF Colloquium

Nathan Jacobson presented his summer research project "Access Control Policy Tool (ACPT)" to the PLenary Session of the SURF Colloquium held at NIST on August 2, 2011. Jennifer Hill reported on her project "Creation of an Evaluation Interface for Human Assessments of Machine Translations" at the Colloquium sessions.

Xinlian Liu returns from professional visits in China

In June, Professor Xinlian Liu attended a professional conference in Zhengzhou, China. He also visited the National Meteorological Center in Beijing, where he worked for 3 years before coming to the States, and the site of Tianhe-1A, the fastest supercomputer in China.

Hood College Commencement, 2011

Sixteen BS Computer Science students and several MS recipients participated in Commencement 2011.

Hood CS Robotics wins at international competition.

On May 5, 2011, Hood CS Robotics won the mobility challenge of the Virtual Manufacturing and Automation Challenge at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation held in Shanghai. Scott McLemore (BS '11) was the sole member of Team Hood. We believe he was both the only single-member team and the only undergrad-only team in the competition. Scott worked on and developed robotic mobility and navigation algorithms to solve problems for this international competition for 4+ months as his senior project and he clearly did a magnificent job.