Computer Science

Peter Lindstrom ’94, Julie Dyke Ford ’95 and Christopher Nave ’04 received the 2015 Elon College Distinguished Alumni Awards during a special April 30 ceremony.

This Friday, the Belk Library will be open for a fun night of games!

FREE Food! Games! Prizes! 7PM March 6th

The paper is on how the open source software community of developers uses insults, double entendres, and gender-based stereotypes in their workplace dialogue.

 

The newest cohort of scholars will participate in a program that helps faculty integrate sustainability into an existing course.

Six female leaders in technology discuss the under-representation of women in technical roles, and what can be done to encourage participation by women

Megan Squire in the Department of Computing Sciences is the principal investigator for a three-year, $240,028 grant.

As a growing number of grade schools complement traditional textbooks with computer tablets, senior Jeff Stern is using a top Elon University award to research the way children retain information from the two types of media.

Daniel M. Russell, über tech lead for Google Search Quality & User Happiness, encouraged School of Communications students to stay on top of changes to search engine technology as he offered advice for delving deeper into online queries.

Elon University students in a Winter Term "Burst the Bubble" course welcomed local children and their parents to campus in late January for activities that exposed youth to the academic and career possibilities of programming and software design.

The first paper is on the new tools and artifacts used to study software development empirically, while the second paper describes how to use text mining techniques on the StackOverflow software development website.