Matt Cipollone '04 has taken a new position as a Software Consultant for Paramount Computing Associates, LLC. His client is currently Xerox Corporation in Rochester.

PCA is a systems consulting firm that provides project management, Information Systems & Technology architecture, and software development services in Upstate NY.

The Computer Science Department, as part of Alumni Weekend 2008, will host an open house for returning alumni on Saturday, June 7^th, from noon to 1:00 pm in room 117 in the new Walsh Science Center. Professors Harlan and Hunkins will be on hand to visit with alumns and to show off the Department's new facilities.

Bill Fulkerson '93 reports that he has been named a senior director at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. Bill graduated with a degree in Mathematics from St. Bonaventure, though we claimed him as an honorary CS major for he did a signicant number of courses with us.

Seniors Cory McClean, Alex Smith and Zach Wymer will demonstrate and discuss games they developed in Computer Graphics in a talk entitled "Checkers and Corio: Amateur Game Programming with OpenGL, " to be held Wednesday, January 30th, at 3:30 pm in Plassmann 103.

The 20th Annual High School Programming Contest will be held Friday, Feburary 15th. Information about the contest as well as online registration are available at the contest web site.

Paychex is hosting a Getting to Know Enterprise Development Event on both February 5th and 13th at its Information Technology building located at 675 Basket Road in Webster, NY. Bonaventure alum Eric Enser '01 has extended an invitation to our current senior computer science majors. Participants will receive a tour of Paychex's IT departments and learn about IT-related career opportunities at Paychex. They will have an opportunity to network with Development Managers and speak with college alumni in Software Development, Quality Assurance, and Project Lead positions.  A member of the senior management team will offer some words of encouragement to the group.

Fifty seven 6th, 7th, and 8th grade girls took part in St. Bonaventure University’s Sixth Annual Girls’ Day 2007 held Saturday, November 3^rd. Girls’ Day, which is sponsored by the University’s Computer Science Department and is designed to encourage young women to pursue careers in computer science, gave attendees the chance to participate in hands-on workshops covering topics such as robotics, podcasting, and 3-D programming.

The Sixth Annual Girl's Day at St. Bonaventure University, to be held Saturday, November 3^rd, will feature five hands-on workshops to introduce middle school aged girls to current software used by information technology professionals. This year's workshops introduce digital scrapbooking, AOL Instant Messenger, Alice, robot simulation, and social software such as podcasting, blogging, and wikis.

Mike Murphy '95, a software developer at BlueTie.com, reports that his company is aggressively seeking qualifed C++/Linux, Postgres, and JavaScript developers. He encourages qualified SBU CS students interested in a career in Western New York (Rochester) to apply.

The Computer Science Department of St. Bonaventure University will host its 6th Annual Girl's Day on Saturday, November 3. Middle school girls from Western New York and Northwest Pennsylvania have a chance to learn about careers in information technology from women professionals in the field. At the same time participants will attend hands-on, computer workshops presented by St. Bonaventure graduates and assisted by current St. Bonaventure students in areas such as web page design and and computer graphics.

Richard Zuber '07 accepted an offer from Syracuse Research Corporation as a software engineer. His new job involves developing software for cutting edge radar systems for the Department of Defense. He begins work August 13^th.

The Computer Science Department will hold an open house for returning alumns during St. Bonaventure University's Alumni Reunion Weekend Saturday, June 9, from 12:00 - 1:00 pm in De la Roche 103. All computer science alumns are invited to stop by.

Matt Cipollone '04 reports that several positions for both developers and quality assurance specialists are open in his division at Paychex. The positions will be filled in the next few months, and he encourages interested graduating computer science majors and recent alumns to apply.

Mike Nowak '92 was reassigned to Oracle's development organization, Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) in June, 2006. He is the author of a white paper, "Best Practices for Optimizing Availability During Unplanned Outages Using Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters."

Homecoming weekend, featuring a Bonas/Duquense basketball game, will be held on the St. Bonaventure University campus the weekend of Feburay 2 - 4. Computer Science alumni are encouraged to stop by the department and catch up with faculty on Saturday between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm.

Every member of the senior class of computer science majors at St. Bonaventure passed the Educational Testing Services Major Field Exam in Computer Science. The exam is a review of materials normally covered in an undergraduate computer science program. The Computer Science Department at St. Bonaventure requires seniors to take and pass the exam as part of its graduation requirements.