Hope College is hosting a Computer Science NSF REU summer undergraduate research program in the summer of 2006. They have support for at least five undergraduate researchers who are not Hope students, and so students are encouraged to consider this opportunity to be involved with computer science research. They have a special initiative to encourage the participation of participants from underrepresented groups. Application materials and other information are available on their webpage at http://www.cs.hope.edu/reu.

HealthFinders Collaborative is a local organization that has opened an affordable health clinic here in Rice County that serves the underinsured and uninsured residents of Rice County. The HealthFinders Coordinator, who is actually a Carleton alum, needs somebody proficient in Microsoft Access to "show her the ropes," so that she can more efficiently run patient queries, and so on. Do you have experience with Microsoft Access that could be put to good use? If so, contact Carleton student Ben Pacht (pachtb@carleton.edu).

Andrew Tannenbaum, the well-known computer scientist who has written a number of textbooks, is looking to take on a Ph.D. student at Vrije University in Amsterdam. For more information, check out http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/jobs/.

Interested in working on computer science research this spring? Click above for more information.

Susanne Hambrusch, the head of the CS department at Purdue University, will be on campus this Friday afternoon (February 17). If you are interested in meeting with her, contact Amy Csizmar Dalal as soon as possible.

Advising Days are here! Click above for descriptions of the 200 and 300 level computer science courses that will be offered this spring.

Symantec is hosting its first university programming competition in February 2006 to encourage innovation and creativity in the software engineering discipline. Upon commencement of the competition, entrants will have one week to program an artificial life-form that must survive and thrive within a virtual world. The entrant that builds the most efficient and robust virtual organism will win the competition, as well as one of several exciting prizes including meeting Symantec's CTO. For more information, visit http://www.symantec.com/specprog/university . First prize is $10,000!

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Secure Computing, located in the Twin Cities, has hired a number of our graduating computer science majors. Dave Diehl of Secure Computing will be visiting our department and giving a talk. This is a great opportunity for you to learn more about the field of computer security, as well as to make a connection with a potential job opportunity. The talk will be on Thursday, February 9, at 4:30 pm in CMC 209. Cookies will be served. Click above for more information about the talk itself.

Do you want to learn more about research that Carleton students are doing, and at the same time help your fellow students win a research contest? Carleton computer science majors Jamie Olson and Anna Ritz have been selected to present their work at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Research Contest. In order to prepare for the big event, Anna and Jamie are going to give practice versions of their presentations to the department. Come and show your support, learn about their research, and provide constructive feedback so that they can win the contest! The practice presentations will be on Tuesday, February 7, at 3:30 PM, in CMC 206. Cookies will be served. See you there!

The School of CTI at DePaul University and the Department of Radiology at Northwestern University (NWU) invite students to apply to the second summer of an NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) students in Medical Informatics. Click above for more information.

Carleton computer science alum Jennifer Wightman ('97) tells us that there are a very high number of open positions at her company, Kroll Ontrack. Click above for more information.