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Autonomous Helicopter Aerial Imaging for Monitoring of Natural Reserves
Autonomous Helicopter Aerial Imaging for Monitoring of Natural Reserves Dr. Mahmoud Tarokh and his team of two graduate students, Paulo Merloti and David Pai, have successfully demonstrated in the field the autonomous helicopter project. The objective is to apply a robotic helicopter for environmental monitoring in the wetlands, particularly at the Tijuana River National Estuary.…
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Meadowbrook Middle School’s AVID Class Visit to the Computer Science Department
Poway Meadowbrook Middle School’s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, under the direction of Ms. Kay McHeffey, visited SDSU on November 29th, 2010. In addition to the typical SDSU tour, the class stopped by the Computer Science Department to hear about computer science opportunities and participate in a research demonstration. Prof. Marie Roch talked about…
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Thank you Northrop Grumman!
We would like to give a big Thank You to Northrop Grumman Company (NGC) for their $2000 donation to the Computer Science department. Desiree Galenti came personally to SDSU to deliver the check and to discuss future possibilities of partnering on visibility, educational and recruiting opportunities. Hopefully some future events would include tech talks, showcase…
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Class of 2011 Outstanding Graduate
Congratulations go out to Christopher Tooley for being named the most outstanding graduate of 2011 for the Computer Science Department. Christopher entered SDSU in 2009 and was immediately recognized as an outstanding CS major. He has gotten a full time job at Northrop Grumman doing Android work as well as security enhancements for the software…
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Students Compete in Regional Programming Contest
On November 13, students Yana Byrne, Daniel Simaan, and Aaron Smith represented SDSU at the IBM-sponsored Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest regionals. In the ICPC competition, teams of three students apply their programming skills and maintain their mental endurance to solve complex, real world problems. Tackling these problems is equivalent to completing…
