W&L Computer Science Blog

January 19, 2009

T-Shirt Design Competition

The Computer Science Department is having a t-shirt design competition!

Rules (subject to change):

short or long-sleeve t-shirt
one color printed on a solid color t-shirt
options for printing are front/back/sleeve (probably only 2 of those 3)
keep it clean!

Submission (subject to change): Send the images (in some commonly used format, like jpg, png, tiff) to Derek Pinkham (pinkhamd@wlu.edu) Include explanation, if necessary, such as which image is on the front and which is on the back.

Please let us know if you have any other ideas/suggestions. You’ve been coming up with some great ones!

January 8, 2009

HCI REU Program

The Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program at Iowa State University hosts a summer Undergraduate Research Experience, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. This is a ten week internship where students take short courses in HCI and work in interdisciplinary teams on research projects. Housing and meals are provided, as well as a stipend. More information about this program can be found at http://www.hci.iastate.edu/REU/

The application deadline is February 15, 2009.

Note that the program starts May 27, which may cause a problem with your spring courses.

January 8, 2009

Fight Bots!

These robots were created by students in Prof. Levy’s spring 2008 course CSCI 250: Robot and Mind. Students built the robots using the popular Lego Mindstorms NXT platform and controlled the robots using the Python programming language. The control computer communicated with the robots using a wireless Bluetooth connection. The setup allows students to apply skills learned in their other computer science courses to robotics and frees them from the constraints imposed by the processor and memory limitations of the robot hardware.