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The 4th annual Student Research and Creative Arts symposium began March 30
and ended April 2nd. The Student Research and Creative Arts symposium provides a
platform to showcase student work from class, from independent and/or
collaborative research, or results from experimental learning. The symposium
has as its purpose to develop and strengthen ties across the University. It
achieves this by providing students, faculty, administration and staff an
opportunity to learn about the types of student research occurring at Park
University.
Modeled on a conference environment, the symposium provides opportunities for
students to share their work in an oral or poster presentation.
On April 22, the annual Honors Convocation was held in the Breckon Sports Center to recognize
the outstanding efforts of students during the 2008 - 2009 year. These ICS students were presented
with awards during the event: Azbilegt Chuluunbat, Rodrigo Neri, Dawn Oji and Sean Staten
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Wen Hsin, Azbilegt Chuluunbat, Dawn Oji, Rodrigo Neri, John Dean
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Azbilegt Chuluunbat, Dawn Oji, Rodrigo Neri
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The ACM student club hosted its first programming contest on Jan 31, 2009.
There were a total of 11 contestants who were required to write computer programs to solve as
many problems correctly as possible within three and a half hours.
At the end of the competition, Leonardo Sa and Kirill (Chris) Shatrov (Team 1)
earned first place and $50 each. Sean Staten and Steven Tuckness (Team 3) earned
second place and $35 each. Rodrigo Neri, Nathan Stahr, and Philip Degrace (Team 5)
earned third place and $25 each.
Three alumni from the ICS department (John Nickell, Aris Czamaneski, Bavitha Vinod) and
2 faculty (John Dean, Wen Hsin) served as judges. John Cigas
provided the problem set and the systems for judging and
scoring.
The ACM student club gratefully thanks the ICS faculty and alumni for their support of the event.
To view more pictures of the event Click Here.
Students in Park University's Information and Computer Science Department participated
in the annual Association for Computing Machinery Mid-Central Region Programming Contest
in Maryville, Mo. on November 1st 2008. A total of eleven teams participated, including three from Park and teams
from Northwest Missouri State University and the University of Central Missouri.
During the contest, teams wrote computer programs to correctly solve as many problems as possible
within five hours.
Despite many of the NMSU and UCM teams consisting of graduate students, according to Wen Hsin, Ph.D.,
associate professor of information and computer science, and coach of the Park teams, Park's "Team Pirate"
earned a second place finish while "Team Blackbeard" and "Team Kidd" earned honorable mention.
Pictured in the adjacent photo are, back row, from left: Rodrigo Neri (Pirate), Hsin, Sean Staten (Blackbeard),
Benjamin Shinyambala (Kidd), Nneka Oji (Blackbeard), Leonardo Sa (Pirate); front row, from left:
Austin Honeycutt-Otte (Kidd), Azbilegt Chuluunbat (Kidd) and Jake Anderson (Pirate).
Not pictured is John Cigas, Ph.D., associate professor of computer and information science,
regional director of the contest.
On September 10, 2008, Dan Connolly from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
spoke at Park's ACM Club meeting. His presentation, entitled How Fast Does the Web Change,
addressed the history of the World Wide Web and the W3C and gave some insight into where the web is headed.
Peruse his presentation slides.
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