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Osera, Honored Grinnell Lecturer, on Automation and Pedagogy with Soul

Mar 07, 2024
Peter-Michael Osera, assistant professor of computer science, gave the 2024 Grinnell Lecture, exploring program synthesis and what automation can reveal to us about the ways we teach and learn.
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Computer Science Students Track Biased Policing, Inform NAACP Advocacy

Feb 20, 2024
Eric Autry, Anthony Schwindt ’25 and Tanmaie Kailash ’24 are analyzing traffic stop data and helping Iowa civil rights organizations shed light on trends in racially biased policing.
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Preserving the Prairie … Digitally

Jan 30, 2024
Vivero Digital Fellow Mikey O’Connor ’24 has harnessed his passion for web development to advance the digital presence of Rootstalk, a journal that captures and explores the essence of the Midwestern landscape.
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Computer Science Poster Session Features Student Research

Nov 30, 2023
The Nov. 16 event offered a forum for students to present work from research, internships, and independent projects.
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Eikmeier, Rodriguez Present Harris Faculty Fellowship Research

Nov 20, 2023
The faculty members recently shared the exciting research they pursued during a yearlong leave funded by the Harris Faculty Fellowship.
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Grinnell Names Two New Endowed Faculty Chairs

Nov 14, 2023
Shuchi Kapila, professor of English, will hold the Maxeiner/Baumann-Payne Endowed Chair and Nicole Eikmeier, assistant professor of computer science, will be the first recipient of the new Luebke-Sproehnle Endowed Junior Faculty professorship.
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Grinnell Students Attend Grace Hopper Celebration

Oct 26, 2023
This year, GRH took place in Orlando, Fla. and featured presentations and professional development opportunities including some 30,000 guests and over 400 speakers. The donor-supported Diversity in Computer Science fund supported student participation in GRH. Students Mia Hines, Livia Stein Freitas, Dieu Anh Trinh and Hong Doan attended GRH with Computer Science Professor Nicole Eikmeier and look back at their time at the conference as informative and inspiring. 
Nicole Eikmeier and Leo Rodriguez

Harris Faculty Fellows Research Presentations

Oct 23, 2023
Please join us at 4:15 pm, Oct. 31 in Burling Lounge as we welcome our returning 2022-23 Harris Faculty Fellows, Nicole Eikmeier and Leo Rodriguez, who will present about the research they conducted during their yearlong research leave!
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Pictionary for Robots

Oct 19, 2023
In the first in a series of stories about Mentored Advanced Projects from summer 2023, follow Katie Shermak ’25 as she models human visual imagination in order to build better artificial intelligence.
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Computer Science Department Celebrates Outstanding Graduates

Jun 08, 2023
Sarah Oide ’23 and Eamon Worden ’23 have been recognized for their commitment to the discipline and contributions to the computer science department.

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