Computer Science | Grinnell College

On Thursday, March 4, Nathan Levin 2010, Andy Applebaum 2010, Alex Cohn 2011, and Jeffrey Thompson 2010 will describe their Summer 2009 Mentored Advanced Project, StatsGames.

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 p.m. in the Computer Science Commons (Noyce 3817). The talk will follow at 4:30 p.m. in Noyce 3821. Everyone is welcome to attend!

This Friday we will consider one of the famous pieces of writing on software engineering, by Frederick P. Brooks, a primary architect of OS/360.

Brooks, Frederick P., Jr. (April 1987). "No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering". IEEE Computer 20 (4): 10-19.

Grinnell College's CS Table is a weekly gathering of folks on campus (students, faculty, staff, alums, etc.) to talk about issues relating to computer science. CS Table meets each Friday at noon in JRC 224A, the Day Public Dining Room (PDR) in the Joe Rosenfeld '25 Center (JRC). All are welcome, although computer science students and faculty are particularly encouraged to attend.

The Spring 2010 theme of CS Table is Software Design.

Contact Professor Rebelsky for further information or for a printed copy of the reading.

On Thursday, February 25, Tony Pan 2010 will talk about his internship at Microsoft's Bing team last summer, including the application process, his projects, and other summer activities.

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 p.m. in the Computer Science Commons (Noyce 3817). The talk, Summer internship experience at Microsoft, will follow at 4:30 p.m. in Noyce 3821. Everyone is welcome to attend!

For Friday's CS Table, we will examine some Web security guidelines in some depth.

The Open Web Application Security Project (2010). OWASP Top 10 - 2010 rc1: The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks. Online document available at http://www.owasp.org/index.php/File:OWASP_T10_-_2010_rc1.pdf.

The reading is a bit longer than most, but can be skimmed fairly quickly by those who just want an overview.

Grinnell College's CS Table is a weekly gathering of folks on campus (students, faculty, staff, alums, etc.) to talk about issues relating to computer science. CS Table meets each Friday at noon in JRC 224A, the Day Public Dining Room (PDR) in the Joe Rosenfeld '25 Center (JRC). All are welcome, although computer science students and faculty are particularly encouraged to attend.

The Spring 2010 theme of CS Table is Software Design.

Contact Professor Rebelsky for further information or for a printed copy of the document in booklet format.

At noon on Friday, 12 February 2010, Computer Science table will consider the topic of Code Review. Our reading will be a code review document provided to us by a Grinnell alum. Note that the reading is proprietary, but not confidential. Hence, you are free to read and discuss it, but you should not distribute it to others. Contact Sam Rebelsky for a printed copy of the document.

Grinnell College's CS Table is a weekly gathering of folks on campus (students, faculty, staff, alums, etc.) to talk about issues relating to computer science. CS Table meets each Friday at noon in JRC 224A, the Day Public Dining Room (PDR) in the Joe Rosenfeld '25 Center (JRC). All are welcome, although computer science students and faculty are particularly encouraged to attend.

The Spring 2010 theme of CS Table is Software Design.

On Thursday, February 11, Professor Steve Cunningham will discuss the past, present, and future of computer graphics and graphics processors:

3D computer graphics is an enormous consumer of computing resources, and the market has responded to the continuing growth in demand for high-performance graphics by creating continually more powerful graphics processors. We will trace these parallel paths from the point where 3D graphics began to replace 2D graphics to the near-future state of 3D graphics, and show how the graphics processor is leading us to having usable laptop and desktop supercomputers.

Steve Cunningham is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at California State University, Stanislaus, and a past chair and president of the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics of the Association for Computing Machinery. His most recent book, Graphics shaders: theory and practice (with Mike Bailey), was published last year by AK Peters.

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 p.m. in the Computer Science Commons (Noyce 3817). Professor Cunningham's talk, 3D computer graphics and universal supercomputers, will follow at 4:30 p.m. in Noyce 3821.

At noon on Friday, 5 February 2010, Computer Science table will consider the topic of Pair Programming. Our reading will be

Wray, Stewart (2010). How Pair Programming Really Works. IEEE Software 27 (1), pp. 50-55. Available online at http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2010/0110/W_SW_PairProgramming.pdf.

Grinnell College's CS Table is a weekly gathering of folks on campus (students, faculty, staff, alums, etc.) to talk about issues relating to computer science. CS Table meets each Friday at noon in JRC 224A, the Day Public Dining Room (PDR) in the Joe Rosenfeld '25 Center (JRC). All are welcome, although computer science students and faculty are particularly encouraged to attend.

The Spring 2010 theme of CS Table is Software Design.

On Thursday, February 4, Professor Sam Rebelsky will lead a discussion of summer research programs in computer science, both on and off campus, that are open to our students. Other members of the department faculty will discuss the projects that they will direct this year.

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 p.m. in the Computer Science Commons (Noyce 3817). The discussion will follow at 4:30 p.m. in Noyce 3821. We encourage anyone who might be interested in summer research in computer science to attend!

On Friday, 29 January 2010 at noon, we'll have the kickoff meeting for the Spring 2010 Computer Science table. We'll chat about what happened during break, about the first week of classes, and about plans for the semester.

Grinnell College's CS Table is a weekly gathering of folks on campus (students, faculty, staff, alums, etc.) to talk about issues relating to computer science. CS Table meets each Friday at noon in JRC 224A, the Day Public Dining Room (PDR) in the Joe Rosenfeld '25 Center (JRC). All are welcome, although computer science students and faculty are particularly encouraged to attend.

Come join us for the final CS table of 2009. Friday, 11 December 2009 at noon in the PDR at the top of the stairs. Chat about how your semester has gone and what you're hoping to do over break, the insane amount of snow, cool topics in CS, what the iPhone Apps exco should build, and other topics of interest.

Grinnell College's CS Table is a weekly gathering of folks on campus (students, faculty, staff, alums, etc.) to talk about issues relating to computer science. CS Table meets each Friday at noon in Rosenfield 224A. All are welcome, although computer science students and faculty are particularly encouraged to attend.