CS Announces Open Faculty Position Search

The Computer Science Department announces an open faculty position search. The Computer Science Department at Portland State University invites applications for a junior tenure-track faculty position to begin Fall 2010. Specific areas of computer science under consideration include: artificial intelligence and machine learning; multi-core architectures and parallel programming; visualization and graphics; security and cryptography. Exceptional applicants in other areas or at other ranks will also be considered. For further information, or to apply for the position, please see: http://hire.cs.pdx.edu

Tom Shrimpton Receives Best Paper Award

Tom Shrimpton has been given the Best Paper Award at the 17th International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption for his paper entitled “Attacking the Knudsen-Preneel Compression Function”. The paper is co-authored with Onur Ozen and Martijn Stam of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Tom will also appear as an invited speaker at the conference. Congratulations, Tom!

For more information, please see: href=http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~teshrim

CS Curriculum and CS Minor Revisions

We have substantially revised the Computer Science curriculum to make it easier for our undergraduate majors to complete their required classes, and for new students to enter the program at an appropriate point. Students who already know beginning programming, including the concepts of conditionals, loops, procedures, and arrays, may now begin with CS 162, regardless of which language they learned initially. Freshmen may start the discrete math sequence with CS 250, without prior programming experience.

The Computer Science minor has been modified to allow students to complete it more easily. The minor consists of 36 credits, some of which can be obtained by taking some of the CS junior cluster courses. See: http://cs.pdx.edu/user/degreesminor for more details.

Please contact our undergraduate coordinator at uc at cs.pdx.edu (replace the word at with an @ sign in this email address) if you have any questions