The 2024 CS Halloween Party was held on October 29 @ Professor Matthews’ house. Check out these party pics!
2024 CS Halloween Party
Danish Bokari ’24, Lakpa Sherpa ’25 and Mohamed Soliman ’27 are winners at the SOLVE 2024 Hackathon!
The first ever W&L SOLVE Hackathon was held in the IQ Center, May 12-13, 2024.
A hackathon is an event where individuals or teams come together to collaboratively work on solving problems or creating innovative projects within a limited time frame. The SOLVE 2024 event was an interdisciplinary student-focused gathering for any undergraduate student from W&L.
A grand prize of $1,000 was awarded to three separate teams judged to have created the best products or for embodying the spirit of the competition. Danish Bokhari ’24, Lakpa Sherpa ’25 and Mohamed Soliman ’27, who created EcoEats, a food app designed to revolutionize the way we eat and live sustainably, were one of the three winning teams.
Congratulations Danish, Lakpa and Mohamed!
Click here to read the full Columns article:
https://columns.wlu.edu/wl-holds-inaugural-solve-2024-hackathon-event-on-campus/
2024 Game Demo Day
Students in Professor Matthews CSCI 319 Video Game Design class showcased their final games at the end of winter term.
Game Demo Day took place on Saturday, April 13 from 10:30am – 12:30pm in the Science Center Great Hall.
It was a great turnout as lots of people came and played video games!
CS’s Capture the Flag (CtF) event
On November 2 , the Computer Science Department held its first ever Capture the Flag event.
Capture the Flag (CtF) in computer security is an exercise in which participants attempt to find text strings, called “flags”, which are secretly hidden in purposefully-vulnerable programs or websites.
From unraveling cryptic codes to identifying vulnerabilities in simulated systems, student teams showcased their skills in ethical hacking and digital defense. CS’s CtF served to foster a dynamic cybersecurity community on campus.
The success of this initial session set the stage for future exciting and intellectually stimulating CtF competitions!
2023 CS Halloween Party
The Computer Science Dept. Halloween party took place on Nov. 7. The party, held at Professor Matthews’ house, was fun and festive!
Check out these party pics!
W&L’s Lakpa Sherpa ’25 and Ignas Volcokas ’25 – 2nd place winners at Hackathon
Lakpa and Ignas came in second for best education hack at Hoo Hacks 2023 with their EsyLearn project.
During the hackathon, Lakpa and Ignas  were inspired to produce a personal learning assistant that would accept and adjust to the learning needs of its user. Â
EsyLearn communicates with users via a web interface where the users can easily speak and get responses back, just like talking to another human being. Through natural language processing, it provides responses both in text and audio for better understanding. Within 24 hours, Lakpa and Ignas essentially created a virtual assistant that is as smart as Jarvis in the Iron Man Movies.
Congratulations, Lakpa and Ignas!
You can learn more in the W&L feature story and in the Hook Hacks project gallery.
Computer Science Game Demo Day 2022!
Mark your calendar for Game Demo Day!
Students in Professor Matthews CSCI 319 Video Game Design class will showcase their final games.
Game Demo Day will take place on Saturday, April 9 from 10:30am – 12:30pm in the Science Center Great Hall.
Everyone is welcome!
Computer Science Senior Celebration, 2021
The CS Department celebrated the Class of 2021 in a subdued, very-computer-science-y way this past Monday (5/17) at the Event tent in the Dell. Senior gifts were handed out and a (slightly competitive) computer science version of Pictionary was played… Fun!  Here are a few pics, courtesy of Professor Matthews:
Check out CSCI 319 Video Game Design Final Projects!
The students of CSCI 319 – Video Game Design have turned in their final projects! See their hard work at https://student-games.academic.wlu.edu/ under the Fall 2020 Games Page. Instructions for how to run the programs can be found on the page, see individual game pages for how to play. Windows OS does not need to install anything, Mac OS may need to install pygame (instructions also on the page).
Highlights from the 2018 Computer Science Senior Reception
