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Melanie Mitchell Publishes New Book
(3/12/2009) Melanie Mitchell's latest book, "Complexity: A Guided Tour" is now available. It can be purchased from Amazon.com.
From Amazon: "What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures like the immune system, the World Wide Web, the global economy, and the human genome? These are just a few of the fascinating and elusive questions that the science of complexity seeks to answer."
Bryant York Recognized for Outstanding Contributions to Society
(9/4/2009) Professor Bryant York recently received an Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Award from the University of Massachusetts Department of Computer Science for Outstanding Contributions to Society. He received the award for his leadership in computer science education, commitment to diversity in computing disciplines and continuing service to computing research nationally and internationally. Congratulations, Bryant!
CS Curriculum Revisions
Our faculty 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.
Sincerely,
Wu-chi Feng, Chair and Professor