CS News from E-net

• Tree planting honors computing sciences alum killed in 2008 Family and friends of Matthew J. Ford ’04 gathered in Loy Center on Wednesday afternoon to plant a tree in memory of the computing sciences major, who died a year ago to the day in a Burlington, N.C., industrial accident.
• Alexander Y. Yap publishes chapter in new book Alexander Y. Yap, associate professor of management information systems in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, has published a peer-reviewed book chapter titled "U-Commerce in the Financial Marketspace."
• Joel Hollingsworth presents at major computing sciences conference
• Elon faculty debate great texts Two Elon University faculty recently participated in a debate panel June 11-14 at Barnard College during the 9th Annual Summer Institute on Reacting to the Past.
• Junior Josh Chagani Wins LIN Scholarship Elon University junior Josh Chagani has been awarded the LIN Television Corporation Minority Scholarship and Training Program for 2009, a national award that will pay up to $20,000 annually in expenses for tuition, fees, books, room and board during his junior and senior years.
• Duvall presents at Fourth International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games
• Professor secures undergrad research funds from NSF The National Science Foundation has awarded a $16,000 grant to Elon associate professor Megan Squire to hire student researchers for an ongoing project initially funded by the NSF in 2007.
• Faculty and students kick off SURF 2009 Work by Elon University students and professors took center stage Tuesday morning in the opening hours of SURF 2009. More than 30 faculty members presented research in the second annual "Celebration of Faculty Scholarship," which segued into a special College Coffee in the Koury Business Center for dozens of students to share their research findings in a poster session that packed the building's concourse.
• Hollingsworth to present at WORLDCOMP'09
• Squire Conklin publishes journal article Megan Squire Conklin, an associate professor of computing sciences, has published an article titled "Integrating Projects from Multiple Open Source Code Forges" in the International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes.
• Shannon Duvall leads panel presentation at Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing Conference
• Kleckner presents at International Association for Computer Information Systems Conference
• Book project leader visits Elon students Richard "Rick" Watson, the co-leader of a nonprofit effort to produce free electronic and print textbooks for students in the developing world, visited Elon on Monday to share his vision and to seek partnerships at the university with which to expand the Global Text Project.
• Heinrichs presents at annual meeting of international association for computer information systems
• Two Elon teams to compete in IBM computer programming contestComputing sciences faculty member Joel Hollingsworth will lead two Elon teams to compete in the regional phase of the world's most prestigious computer programming competition. Fourteen colleges and universities will compete in the regional contest Oct. 25 at Duke University.
• Shannon Duvall publishes article in IEEE Potentials
• Megan Conklin organizes workshop for International Conference in Milan, Italy
• Heinrichs co-authors article on small business disaster planning
• Squire Conklin named to editorial board of new journal
• Hollingsworth presents at ACMSE 2008
• Conklin offers analysis for News 14 Carolina
• Elon professor granted space on TeraGrid network An Elon faculty member has been awarded storage space on a selective, federally funded computer server where scientists conduct research that requires vast amounts of electronic file space and computing capability.
• Computing Sciences Programming Teams Excel at Regional Programming Contest
• Heinrichs Invited to present at Delta Pi Epsilon
• Powell presents at University College London
• Megan Conklin awarded $100,000 NSF grantMegan Conklin, assistant professor of computing sciences, is the primary investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant titled "A Data and Analysis Archive for Research on Free and Open Source Software and its Development." Details...
• Computer Science Team Wins Triad Programming Contest
• Duvall presents workshop at SIGCSE
• Apartment for rent Semester lease
• Students, Faculty enjoy video game tourney
• Computing Sciences Programming Teams Excel at Regional Contest
• Conklin publishes book chapter
• Conklin publishes journal article
• Conklin, Crider quoted in YES! Weekly magazine
• Powell presents at GECCO 2006
• Conklin presents at International Conference in Italy
• Conklin to chair workshop, present paper
• Powell presents at International Software Engineering Conference in Innsbruck, Austria
• Hollingsworth paper to be presented at International Conference on Software Engineering
• Joel Hollingsworth Presents at Two International Conferences