Dave Powell

The Senior Community Service Employment Program recently requested volunteer Elon students to provide computer job skill training to seniors. Two students, Caretta Davis and David MacLeod, in the CIS 211 Management Information Systems course taught by Professor Maureen Allen prepared and conducted workshops for 2.5 hours on April 4th and April 6th. The training provided the seniors the fundamental skills needed to use Google Gmail.

Credit Suisse is a world-leading financial services company with offices located around the world with offices in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. Over 25% of Credit Suisse employees are in information technology. In an effort to identify and potentially hire outstanding IT graduates from the class of 2012, Credit Suisse offers paid, ten week summer internship programs for rising seniors at selective locations to include Raleigh, North Carolina.

On March 25, 2011, Joel Hollingsworth presented a paper co-authored with Dave Powell at the 49th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Southeast Conference at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. The title of the paper was "Requiring Web-based Cloud and Mobile Computing in a Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum". This conference is the oldest running ACM conference.

Joel Hollingsworth and Dave Powell gave a three hour workshop at the 42nd Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) on March 11th in Dallas, Texas.

SIGCSE 2011 Technical Symposium is the largest annual event focused on computer science education and is being held March 9 - 12, 2011 in Dallas Texas. The four day event brings educators from around the world to present papers, posters, panels and workshops. Joel Hollingsworth and Dave Powell will present a three hour workshop titled "Developing an Android Mobile Application for the Google App Engine Cloud.

On December 14, 2010, five teams from CSC 420 Game Programming and Computer Graphics displayed the games that they specified, design, implemented and tested during the fall semester in Professor Duvall's class.

On Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010, Elon had four three-person programming teams excel at the IBM sponsored Mid-Atlantic ACM Regional Programming Contest. All four teams finished in the top 50% with two of the teams finishing in the top 25% of the 157 teams, representing over 40 universities.

During the past summer, the Computing Sciences department was proud to have three CIS and CS seniors complete ten week summer undergraduate research experiences at three different universities. Amanda Bienz did her research at Clemson University. She worked on a Virtual Patient project to allow students majoring in nursing to train by asking questions of a computer program instead of a professor. Amy Eubanks did her research at Elon University. She worked on an augmented reality application for mobile smart phones to persuade people to spend more time outdoors. Katherine Vogt did her research at Virginia Tech. She investigated the collaborative use of large display environments for sense-making and visual analytics.