Computer Science

Megan Squire, an associate professor in the Department of Computing Sciences, recently published "Repositories with public data about software development" in the International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes.

The Computing Sciences Department had ten majors graduate in 2010. The graduates were in high demand and at graduation seven had accepted full time IT employment and two had accepted graduate school. The seven students that went into the IT workplace accepted jobs at IBM, Credit Suisse and UNC Greensboro. The two students who went to graduate school for an advanced CS degree went to Georgia Tech and Wake Forest.

Elon sophomore Carter Kozak, a major in computing sciences, earned one of 114 competitively awarded student positions at the International TeraGrid conference held Aug. 2-5, 2010 in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Megan Squire, associate professor in the Department of Computing Sciences, traveled to South Bend, Ind., from May 30-June 2 to lead several panels and workshops at the 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems.

Duke Hutchings, assistant professor of computing sciences, has been awarded patent #7,624,354 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

On, April 17, 2010, Dave Powell presented a paper co-authored with Joel Hollingsworth at the annual ACM Southeast Conference at the University of Mississippi. The title of the paper was "Teaching Web Programming Using the Google Cloud". This conference is the oldest continually running conference of the Association of Computing Machinery.

The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing International Conference on Security and Management has accepted for presentation the co-authored work of Elon senior Jonathan Citty and Duke Hutchings, assistant professor of computing sciences, titled "Design & Evaluation of an Image-based Authentication System for Small Touch-screens."

Duke Hutchings, assistant professor of computing sciences, on April 17 presented his paper, "Controlling Information Display in Larger Pixel Spaces: A Study of Window Snipping by Multiple-monitor Users," at the 48th Association for Computing Machinery Conference at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

In recognition of over 15 years of professional commitment, leadership and service to the Decision Sciences Institute, Southwest Region, Lynn R. Heinrichs has been selected to receive the organization's 2010 Distinguished Service Award.

Lynn R. Heinrichs, associate professor of computing sciences and business, served as a panel moderator and workshop presenter at the 2010 meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Southwest Region (SWDSI) in Dallas, Texas, March 2-6.