Computer Science

Applications are now available to work for the Computer Science Department next year.  We are getting rid of the Lab Assistant and Grader positions and have now replaced them with a new position called Course Staff.  If you are interested in Prefecting for next year the job has remained the same.  The full job description can be found in the application.  We have two application deadlines:  an "Early Decision" deadline of Sunday, April 8 at 10 pm and a "Standard Decision" deadline of Friday, April 13 at 10 pm. 

Congratulations to Kiran Tomlinson, a junior Computer Science and Mathematics major, who has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the Goldwater Scholarship Program! The Goldwater Scholarship Program, one of the oldest and most prestigious national scholarships in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics in the United States, seeks to identify and support college sophomores and juniors who show exceptional promise of becoming this Nation’s next generation of research leaders in these fields. Way to go, Kiran!

Still looking for that exciting summer job?  Well, look no further!  Contact Mike Tie (mtie@carleton.edu x4067 cmc305).  Mike is looking for three Assistant System Administrators to help him setup labs and classrooms for the upcoming school year.  There will be some programming, writing documentation, building web pages, lots of software installations and imaging.  Help faculty and summer researchers with anything and everything related to computers.  You'll work with linux, Windows, and OSX. No experience needed; you will be trained as you go.  The positions are budgeted for 10 weeks of the summer, and that leaves you time to still enjoy a summer vacation.  And best of all, you get to continue working for Mike during the school year.

The Google Policy Fellowship program is now accepting applications for the summer.  Deadline to apply is March 20, 2018.

Summer project:  Weather Station Programmers
(Tom Baraniak, Physics & Doug Foxgrover, ITS)

Would you like to be part of the longest research project at Carleton College, going back to 1881?

The Career Center will be hosting an Internship Information Session with a student panel on Tuesday, February 20 from 12:05-12:45 pm in Leighton 402.  Megan Zhao '19 who is a Computer Science major here at Carleton will be on the panel.

Summer REU Opportunity at UNC Charlotte on Socially Relevant Computing + Making Future Communities.  Site participants will have the opportunity to explore and advance the state of the art in cyber-physical systems, security, computer vision, visualization and visual analytics, and human-computer interaction to address real-world problems with broad societal impact.  Priority deadline is February 16, 2018.

The Horizons Fellowship is a fully-funded opportunity that supports 200 outstanding undergraduate and graduate students (of any year) in their pursuit to combine technology into their existing course of student.  The Horizons Fellowship gives Computer Science majors the ability to learn about real-world technology and build advanced software products. 

The University of Iowa Computing Conference will be held February 23-24, 2018.  The conference is student-run and organized, and is intended to be fun and educational event for all student interested in Computer Science.  If you register by February 14 you are assured a swag bag and t-shirt. 

David Barbella, '08 who is currently teaching at Earlham College in Indiana is looking for an undergraduate student outside of Earlham to work on his team this summer.  David is running an REU program in artificial intelligence and natural language understanding this summer.  Application deadline is February 23, 2018.

Josh Davis will be teaching a new course spring term called Quantum Computing.