computer science

Aug 28, 2017

Five NC State Engineering faculty members earn NSF CAREER awards

Five outstanding young faculty members in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University have been chosen to receive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. 

Aug 3, 2017

New tool increases adaptability, autonomy of ‘Skyrim’ nonplayer characters

A new tool can be used to create Skyrim nonplayer characters (NPCs) that allow for more variability and flexibility in game play. 

Jul 20, 2017

Classmates Ben Darnell ’02 and Mark Voelker ’02 emerge as open source software industry leaders

College roommates and fellow computer science majors Ben Darnell '02 and Mark Voelker '02 recently crossed paths within the open source software industry. Longtime open source enthusiasts, both have established themselves as significant contributors in this realm: Darnell as co-founder and chief technology officer of startup Cockroach Labs, and Voelker as chief OpenStack architect at VMware, a publicly-traded global virtualization technology company. 

Jul 18, 2017

Study finds gender bias in open-source programming

A study comparing acceptance rates of contributions from men and women in an open-source software community finds that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s – but when a woman’s gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. 

Jul 6, 2017

INTech camp teaches code, offers role models

Khalia Braswell, a 2013 NC State computer science graduate, started a nonprofit organization called INTech to expose middle-school aged girls to coding. 

Jun 12, 2017

Online graduate program made engineering alumnus a better problem solver

Alumnus Mike Hancock said earning an online Master of Computer Science degree from NC State’s College of Engineering equipped him with the knowledge and skills to be an efficient problem solver. 

Apr 27, 2017

Chi receives NSF CAREER award

Dr. Min Chi, assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). 

Dec 5, 2016

NC State chosen as new site for NSF center in phase II

NC State University has been selected as a new site of the existing Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR) IUCRC. The new NC State site, which opened on September 1, is hosted in the Laboratory for Science of Technologies for End-to-End Enablement of Data (STEED) in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering. 

Sep 14, 2016

Researchers eye gaming as tool for boosting computer science skills, diversity in middle schools

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from NC State and the University of Florida is launching an initiative that will use a custom-designed video game to boost computational thinking in middle school science classrooms.