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Congratulations to Computer Science PhD student Arlen Cox, who has been awarded a Chateaubriand Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics by the Embassy of France in the USA. Arlen will spend 9 months studying and conducting research at École Normal Supérieure in Paris. Arlen is advised by Bor-Yuh Evan...

Westword interviewed the assistant professor about his Big Data work on patterns in terrorist activity.

This picture shows a subset of CU Boulder's X-Hab team together with the Kennedy Space Center Director, and NASA mentors. Their trip to The Kennedy Space Center was paired with participation in the RASC-AL competition where the group has won "1st place" and "Best Advanced Concepts" for their robotic-integrated bio-regenerative...

CU astronomy and astrophysics grad student Mark Dixon got a dose of inspiration from a computer science class taught by lecturer Gabe Johnson, developed a game with his brothers and won first prize in game design at Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition.

Congratulations to Ariel Aguilar, winner of the Colorado Engineering Council’s Silver Medal! The Silver Medal is the highest honor for students from the CEC. Each department nominates their one top student, based not only on scholarship, but also on achievements and involvement in community or college service, leadership and research...

Rally Software had a terrific debut on the NYSE today as its IPO came in above expectations at $14 a share. The Founder and CTO of Rally, Ryan Martens, is an alum with a B.S. in Civil Engineering from our College and an MBA from the Business School. He is...

CU Boulder Computer Science Professor Leysia Palen and University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering Professor Kate Starbird have received a Best Paper award at the 2013 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) conference, which is taking place February 23-27 in San Antonio, Texas. Their paper, "...

Computer Science doctoral student Charles Dietrich has created a new musical instrument incorporating a laptop and a camera. The instrument will make its debut in the next Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrK) concert on March 2. BLOrk will perform works by John Cage, Ornette Coleman and Pauline Oliveros as well as...

Congratulations to Candace Ghent, one of our SMART program students, for winning first place in the computer science category for the poster she presented at NC-LSAMP! SMART is the Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training program, and NC-LSAMP is the North Carolina Louis Stoke Alliance for Minority Participation. Way to...

Congratulations to PhD student John Giacomoni and Assistant Professor Manish Vachharajani! The company they founded, LineRate Systems, has been sold to F5 Systems. Over the last few years, they raised $5 million in capital and grew to 20 employees. F5 is an $8 billion networking company. There's a great article...