Computer Science

Four new majors will be offered to Elon University students starting in the fall. Early childhood education is an addition to the School of Education’s programs; information science replaces the current computer information systems major in the Department of Computing Sciences; and public health studies, and arts administration, are both interdisciplinary majors within Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences.

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.

Elon University students in a spring semester computer information systems class are learning more about the Alamance County community as they work together to design websites for local agencies that help the mentally and developmentally disabled.

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.

The International Federation for Information Processing Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2011) has accepted for presentation the co-authored work of Elon senior Kate Vogt, Elon assistant professor Duke Hutchings, and collaborators from Virginia Tech. The paper is titled "Co-located Collaborative Sensemaking on a Large High-Resolution Display with Multiple Input Devices."

Tony Crider, an associate professor of physics, and Megan Squire, an associate professor of computing sciences, led a workshop titled "Reacting to the Past: The Pluto Debate" on March 25 at a conference on Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices.