Author: Chris Coleman
Google Code Jam 2017 – UofU Competitive Coding Club Final Event
On FRIDAY, APRIL 7TH, 5PM IN MEB 3105, Competitive Coding Club partnered
with the U of U ACM will be hosting a kick-off event for this year’s
Google Code Jam! Make sure to register [1]early for the qualification
round, which is what we’ll be doing at the event.
PIZZA WILL BE PROVIDED!
This event will be sponsored by the School of Computing and the
Microsoft student partners group. Also, we’d like to thank Lucid
Software for all their help with our events this year. Additionally,
this will be the last Competetive Coding Club event this semester. Our
next meeting will be in Fall 2017!
Google’s Code Jam returns for the 14th year as one of the most
challenging programming competitions in the world. The contest consists
of multiple rounds of algorithmic puzzles, culminating in the World
Finals at Google’s office in Dublin, Ireland.
Mike Kirby honored at Celebrate U Event
Congratulations to Robert “Mike” Kirby who will be honored with a top faculty research award at this years Celebrate U: A Showcase of Extraordinary Faculty Achievements event. The event highlighted University of Utah faculty who reached a pinnacle of professional success in 2016. Faculty honored had authored a book, were primary contributors to a realized creative work, or were the top-funded researchers in their college.
Anand Venkat selected as recipient of the CoE Outstanding Dissertation
Anand Venkat (Ph.D.’16), a University of Utah computer science graduate, has been selected as recipient of the College of Engineering Outstanding Dissertation for 2016 for his dissertation entitled “An Integrated Compiler and Runtime Framework for Sparse Matrix Codes.”
Nominations for the award were submitted by the College’s six departments and were screened by a selection committee comprised of the director of graduate studies from each department. All dissertations were ranked by categories that included intellectual merit, its broader impact, and how well the research explored creative, original or potentially transformative concepts.
Venkat will be presented with the award at the College of Engineering Convocation ceremony on Friday, May 5.
He is currently working at Intel as a research scientist.
Aditya Bhaskara selected for Google Faculty Research Award
Congratulations to Aditya Bhaskara who has been selected for a Google Faculty Award this year, in Algorithms and Optimization. Google Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty members at top universities around the world. Faculty members apply for Research Awards by submitting a proposal.
The Google Research Awards program aims to identify and support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest.