You're Invited:
- Thursday, December 7: Triangle Alumni Holiday Party
In This Issue:
- Bansal receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
- Berg wins 2017 Helmholtz Prize
- Nemitz, Amert and Anderson earn Best Student Paper at RTNS 2017
- Students face off in the first ever Carolina Data Challenge
- Fifth annual HackNC unites hundreds of coders in Chapel Hill
- Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
- Be a part of the department's future
- Department News
Bansal receives DARPA Young Faculty Award for 2017
As a Young Faculty Awardee, Professor Mohit Bansal receives two-year funding for his project, “Life-Long Learning: Dynamically Revising Neural Networks via Commonsense and Conversational Feedback.”
Berg wins 2017 Helmholtz Prize
The Helmholtz Prize, formerly the “Test of Time Award”, is awarded to papers from at least ten years prior with significant impact on computer vision research. Professor Alex Berg received the award for a 2003 paper he co-authored, titled "Recognizing action at a distance."
Nemitz, Amert and Anderson earn Best Student Paper at RTNS 2017
Doctoral students Catherine Nemitz and Tanya Amert and professor James Anderson received the award at the International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems in Grenoble, France.
Students face off in the first ever Carolina Data Challenge
More than 120 students assembled from all over North Carolina to participate in a data science hackathon hosted in partnership with the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), the National Consortium for Data Science, the Odum Institute and Carolina Analytics & Data Science.
Fifth annual HackNC unites hundreds of coders in Chapel Hill
For the fifth year in a row, the Computer Science Club hosted the department's largest hackathon, HackNC, on November 4-5. If you'd like to have your company participate next year and hang out with some of the best hackers in the country, email sponsors@hacknc.com.
View photos from HackNC 2017 on Facebook
Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series
Six TCSDLS lectures have been scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year. Each lecture will be hosted or broadcast live at 4 p.m. in 011 Sitterson Hall. Refreshments will be served.
For lecture abstracts, speaker bios, and venue information, visit cs.unc.edu/tcsdls.
Broadening Participation in Computing
Speaker: Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd College
Host: NCSU (Blair Sullivan)
Monday, November 20, 2017
Broadcast live in SN011
4 p.m.
Humans, Machines, and Work: The Future is Now
Speaker: Moshe Vardi, Rice University
Host: Duke (Sudeepa Roy)
Monday, January 22, 2018
Broadcast live in SN011
4 p.m.
Speaker: Avrim Blum, Toyota Technical Institute at Chicago
Host: Duke (Kamesh Munagala)
Monday, January 29, 2018
Broadcast live in SN011
4 p.m.
Speaker: Richard Szeliski, Facebook Research
Host: Duke (Xiaobai Sun)
Monday, March 26, 2018
Broadcast live in SN011
4 p.m.
Speaker: Polina Golland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: UNC (Marc Niethammer)
Monday, April 9, 2018
Hosted in SN011
4 p.m.
Speaker: Chris Manning, Stanford University
Host: UNC (Mohit Bansal)
Monday, 16 April, 2018
Hosted in SN011
4 p.m.
Be a Part of the Department's Future
UNC CS is always looking to enhance the value of a computer science degree. To that end, we have developed a series of initiatives aimed at expanding the undergraduate student experience and increasing diversity in the department and the field. There are a number of ways that you can join us in these efforts, and we hope that you will be a part of them.
Read about the initiatives
Support the department
Department News
Visit the department website to learn about other accomplishments and updates from department personnel and alumni.
Alumni, don't forget to visit our alumni page!
There, you will find news and updates from your fellow alumni, job listings specifically targeting UNC CS alumni, upcoming alumni events in Chapel Hill or around the country, and other ways to stay connected.
