Department News

There’s a new link on our department web page to AfterCollege, who has designed a job opportunities page particularly for Carleton computer science students. Go to our department home page, at http://www.cs.carleton.edu, then click “Career Resources,” and then click “Job Resource Center.” For more information about this website, click above to read the information that AfterCollege has asked us to forward along.

Fog Creek Software in New York City is looking for summer interns. They pay $750 per week, and that includes free housing, weekday lunches, round-trip airfare, and weekly cultural activities. Application deadline is February 1, though those who apply earlier have a better chance of getting an internship. So apply right away! Click above to see the information that they sent us, or visit the Fog Creek intern website.

Advising Days are coming soon: October 23-31. Click above for descriptions of the computer science and related courses (above CS 127) that will be offered this winter. In addition to your own advisor, remember that you can contact our Student Departmental Advisor (Debbie Chasman, chasmand@carleton.edu) if you have questions.

The annual Carleton All Math and Science Poster Session will be held this Friday, October 20, in Hulings Hall from 3:45-5:00 p.m. Come out and support your friends from across the sciences, and see the research that your peers have done.

The Economics Department is sponsoring an afternoon of interview workshops scheduled for Sunday, October 8. Jeff Gunia ’98, currently a Marketing Development Analyst at 3M Company, will be on campus to present his workshops on Behavior-based Interviewing and Case-based Interviewing. Computer Science students are welcome. Click above for more information.

Carleton’s Faculty Affairs Committee (FAC) is investigating a streamlined way of running electronic elections for various committee assignments. In recent years, faculty elections have been managed via surveymonkey.com, which lacks the features required by FAC’s new ideas. To make FAC’s ideas work, we will need a kind of web-based voting tool that does not appear to be available on-line for a low enough price. If you are interested in helping to develop such a tool and you have completed CS127, please contact Jeff Ondich (jondich@carleton.edu, CMC 327). Though no money is available for this project, you could receive credit for Independent Research (CS 292 or 392).

The Xi Chapter of Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science is now accepting applications for the Undergraduate Affiliate Research Award. This $250 award is designed to defray expenses associated with conducting an independent research project under the supervision of a faculty member. The deadline is Monday, October 16, 2006. For more information and an application, please see Amy Csizmar Dalal or go to the GWIS web site.

Carleton alum Kevin Dill ’92, of Blue Fang Games, will be visiting campus to talk with students about artificial intelligence in computer games. The talk will be on October 6, at 3:30 PM, in CMC 206. Additionally, Kevin would be happy to go to lunch with students. If you’d like to take Kevin to lunch in order to meet him (and bump elbows for a potential job?), email Dave Musicant (dmusican) to get on the list. For Kevin’s biography and more information about the talk that he will give, click above.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work at Apple? Come hear our very own Ben Kazez (’07) talk about his experiences working as a software intern at Apple this past summer. This is the perfect chance to find out what Steve Jobs is like, learn what software engineers actually do, and get a sneak peek at some of the new iCal features! 3:00-4:00pm, Thursday, September 21, in CMC 206. Refreshments will be provided.

Once again, Carleton will be assembling teams of students to participate in the ACM Programming Contest. The experience is totally fun, and you get to practice different styles of programming than you may experience in your courses. The contest itself will be held on Saturday, November 11, at Gustavus Adolphus College. Want to participate and show how awesome Carleton is? Contact Dave Musicant (email dmusican) with questions or to express your interest by the evening of Monday, September 18. If you want to learn more about the contest in general, check out the contest website. You don’t need to put in a lot of time into this: showing up at the main event and having fun is what matters most.