Sambridi Gautam, a sophomore in computer science, has been selected as a Microsoft Scholar. Each year, Microsoft awards the scholarship to a select few of the best and brightest computer science students from the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Read More

After serving as chair of the Computer Science Department for nine years, Dr. Tony Martinez is stepping down to pursue other duties in the department and his research in the department's Neural Networks and Machine Learning Laboratory. In a faculty meeting with the Dean and Assistant Deans from the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Dr. Parris Egbert was named the new department chair, effective June 1, 2008. Read More

Dr. Sean Warnick, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Brigham Young University, was selected as the 2008 Distinguished Visiting Professor (DVP) by the National Security Agency (NSA) this week. The position, administered by the NSA Enterprise Operations Research, Modeling, and Simulation (OR/M&S) Group, is highly competitive and is offered to a professor with a distinguished record in both decision science applications and student mentoring. Read More

At a recent "Communities for Decency" conference, Dr. Charles Knutson, a professor in BYU's Computer Science Department, urged parents to "seize control" in the battle to protect their children against Internet pornography.   ~As reported in the Deseret News

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