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Emily Morehouse, a recent graduate of the department, received the Governor's Young Entrepreneur Award recently!

http://www.flgov.com/2016/09/20/governor-rick-scott-recognizes-emily-morehouse-with-young-entrepreneur-award/

Navid Amini, PhD | University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Navid Amini from UCLA is giving a talk in Love 353 at 11:15am tomorrow (Feb 13th). The title of the talk is : From Childhood Obesity to Elderly Falls and Everything in Between. http://cs.ucla.edu/~amini/

Navid Amini, PhD | University of California, Los Angeles Here you will find information about my research projects, ongoing clinical trials, what I teach, and my academic service.

Computer Science at FSU

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Computer Science at FSU Computer science at Florida State University offers students a wide variety of learning and research opportunities.

Steve Wozniak

We have a renowned visitor/speaker in November: Steve Wozniak will be speaking at FSU's Donald L Tucker Civic Center on November 5th at 3:30 pm. Just in case you did not know, in 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. Buy your tickets here: http://www.ticketmaster.com/Steve-Wozniak-tickets/artist/2025172

Steve Wozniak on Ticketmaster

Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities

http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the-most-popular-introductory-teaching-language-at-top-us-universities/fulltext (We have two courses in the department on Python Programming - bit.ly/pythonclass - being offered in fall).

Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities Eight of the top 10 CS departments in the U.S., and ~62% of the top 40, teach Python in introductory courses.

ACM ICPC Problems for 2014

2014 ACM ICPC World Final problems are out: https://icpc.kattis.com/problems

ACM ICPC Problems for 2014 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated as ACM-ICPC or just ICPC) is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world.

UW CSE News » Responding to the Explosion of Student Interest in Computer Science

http://news.cs.washington.edu/2014/05/19/responding-to-the-explosion-of-student-interest-in-computer-science/

UW CSE News » Responding to the Explosion of Student Interest in Computer Science At this week’s 10th Anniversary Summit of the National Center for Women & Information Technology, UW’s Ed Lazowska and Stanford’s Eric Roberts discuss “Tsunami or Sea Change? Responding to the Explosion of Student Interest in Computer Science.”

FSU computer science feeds job pipeline

http://on.tdo.com/QQie6I

FSU computer science feeds job pipeline If Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants a can't-beat-this example of what he wants higher education to do — graduate students and help them land good-paying jobs — he need look no further than the computer science department at Florida State University.

Mosley Ventures

Don't miss out on an opportunity to hear practical career advice from a serial entrepreneur, John Vecchio, this Thursday April 17 at 11am in 301LOV.

http://www.mosleyventures.com/

Mosley Ventures VC funding in the Southeast

Congratulations to Esther Diaguila (our CS Undergraduate adviser) for winning the FSU Undergraduate Advising Award for 2013-2014!

It's Better To Be A Software Programmer Than A Doctor In 2014

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/be-a-software-programmer-not-a-doctor-2014-2

It's Better To Be A Software Programmer Than A Doctor In 2014 US News has released its list of the 100 best jobs in 2014, and the No. 1 job on the list is: software developer.

FSU and FAMU receive state grant to fund opportunities in IT, computer science / More FSU News -...

The Board of Governors awarded $3 million to a joint initiative proposed by FSU Computer Science, College of Communication (IT), and FSU/FAMU College of Engineering (ECE) for "Expanding North Florida's IT Career Pathways", which intends to expand the capacities of the institutions to recruit, retain and graduate students in computer science and information technology. http://fla.st/PCTfmU

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Team Peyman won the 3Day startup that happened recently in Tallahassee (Peyman is a CS PhD Student). 4 out of the 5 team members were CS Majors: Peyman Fraizan, Ryan Kuhl, Lina Volkova, Emily Morehouse, and Frank Valcarcel. The team built an application named Limestone, which is a personalized Internet aggregator. Together they wrote over 2000 lines of code and made 50 commits in just 2 days! Congratulations, Entrepreneurs.

ACM @ FSU

Its time for our next Programming Competition, please get registered: http://fsu.acm.org/events/spring-2014-programming-contest/

ACM @ FSU ACM Chapter for The Florida State University

Margareta Ackerman

We are excited to welcome our new Faculty member: Dr. Margareta Ackerman; an international Machine Learning, IR and Clustering Expert. http://bit.ly/1oKk5FQ

Margareta Ackerman I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego, and I got my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Professor Shai Ben-David. My research interests span Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Game Theory, Auomata Theory, and Bioinformatics. The focus...

We have some excellent young computer scientists visiting (Security + Big Data) this semester. Make sure you don't miss their talks. Security Talks: Feb 3rd, Feb 6th, Feb 13th, and Feb 21st; Big Data Talks: Feb 10th and Feb 16th. All talks are at 11:15am, 499 Dirac.

Five faculty members in the department of Computer Science received recognition for winning awards in the University's Prestigious category: Piyush Kumar (AFOSR Young Investigator Award), Ashok Srinivasan (Fulbright Award), Andy Wang (NSF CAREER Award), David Whalley (Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award), and Zhenghao Zhang (NSF CAREER Award). The department of Computer Science is one of the top ranking departments at FSU in terms of the percentage of faculty winning awards in the Prestigious category. (http://www.cs.fsu.edu/site/news.php?id=93)

President Obama calls on every American to learn code

http://bit.ly/1bx46pz

President Obama calls on every American to learn code President Barack Obama asks every American to give it a shot to learn to code, kicking off the Hour of Code campaign for Computer Science Education Week 2013...

Photos taken by Melina Vastola of Melina's Photography.

Interested in Computer Science for your undergraduate studies? Even in today's job markets, computer science graduates come out on top according to the latest reports. The Florida State University offers bachelor degrees in computer science, computational biology, and computer criminology. We also offer a minor which can bolster the resume of any college student!

Visit our webpage at http://www.cs.fsu.edu/