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Jayhawks were large and in charge at the first ever Code-A-Thon hosted by the Kansas City Federal Reserve. There were 15 students – the most of any of the four area participating universities – representing KU’s technology-focused degrees at the competition.

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EECS Professor Suzanne Shontz has been elected Secretary of the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering for January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2018.  SIAM is the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and is a professional society that focuses on research in applied mathe

Hardware accelerators and coprocessors are attracting a great deal of interest, but the effort required to program heterogeneous systems has limited their impact.

IEEE bestows IEEE Life membership on its members as proof of their strong sustained commitment to the profession. In January 2017, EECS Professors Gary Minden and Glenn Prescott will become Life Members of IEEE. They have each made long term contributions to the profession.

Professor Luke Huan will lead the Computational Chemical Biology (CCB) Core.

Heechul Yun A paper by Assistant Professor Heechul Yun was selected as “Editor’s pick of the year 2016

KU’s Information Security Club, the Jayhackers, participated in the 2016 Central Area Networking and Security Workshop at Fontbonne University in Clayton, Missouri (CANsec). The event brings together researchers and practitioners in network and security-related fields in the central U.S.

As an KU EECS senior David received the GEM Fellowship, which is awarded to select highly qualified underrepresented engineering and computer science graduate students who are strongly goal-oriented and bring business skills and vision needed to guide technology-based corporations of tomorrow, th

The first three students were chosen to participate in Jayhawk Scholarship for Service CyberCorp program for its inaugural class of 2016-2017.