Computer Science at St. Olaf
St. Olaf Computer Science (CS) is on the move! We have beautiful teaching spaces in the new Regents Hall "Link", a growing curriculum, and opportunities ranging from a breadth-first introduction to advanced interdisciplinary team projects, including the ongoing Beowulf clusters and the Palantir team. Combined with St. Olaf's approach to the liberal arts and any other interests or major one may have, the thinking skills, ethical analysis, empowering concepts and learning experiences offered by CS courses prepare students to make lifelong contributions to the twenty-first century world, whether in computing-related areas or in fields not usually associated with computing.
Contents
- Program description
- What CS is about at St. Olaf.
- Academics
- Courses offered, advising, major requirements, and more.
- People
- Faculty, students, and others involved in the program.
- Activities
- Some of what's going on in St. Olaf CS.
- Beyond St. Olaf
- Connection to the world: internships, jobs, St. Olaf hiring, etc.
Coming events:
Len Wyatt, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft will visit on Monday, Dec 3.
Talk: Big Data: Helping Users to See the Light, 4:45pm in RNS 203 on 12/3
Informal Q&A about working at Microsoft, 3:15-4:30 in RNS 203 on 12/3
News
Maggie Wanek '15 received an NSF-funded scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Baltimore in October.
The CSinParallel project was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant to produce new teaching modules for adding parallel and distributed computing to undergraduate CS courses. The project () is led by Prof. Dick Brown at St. Olaf and two other professors at Macalester and Calvin Colleges.
Eleven CS students participated in summer research during 2012, including eight full-time researchers at St. Olaf.
"Thing3," a new 64-core computer was added to the CS program's parallel and distributed computing resources in June, designed and constructed by Jay Petersen '13, Michael Stone '13, and Maggie Wanek '15.
