Computer Science at St. Bonaventure University

ABOUT US:

The Department is located in the newest building on campus, the Walsh Science Center, and provides students with up-to-date labs and equipment, which they use to work on many projects. Some of these projects include graphics and animation, web application development, robot-human interaction, user interface design, and large-scale distributed computing.ed computing.

Program graduates are then well prepared to master the ever-changing technology in the computer industry. Alumni working in the industry frequently recruit new graduates, resulting in clusters of Bonaventure alumni at several companies.

Current News:

Dan Eiseman ’10 Presents at National Conference

June 21, 2010

Senior computer science major Dan Eiseman presented a report on his three year project to develop a software testing suite at the 2010 Association for Computing Machinery’s Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. The conference, held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 11 – 13, is the leading national conference for computer science educators.

Dan developed the software framework, named the Corona Test Generator, to help beginning programming students develop mastery in the testing of software with Drs. Steven Andrianoff and David Levine, both of the Computer Science Department at St. Bonaventure University. The software enables the user to automatically generate tests that enable a program to be verified to be correct. The suite is used by students and faculty members, and it has also been used to assist in judging solutions submitted by teams during the Department’s annual high school programming contest.

A formal abstract of the Corona Test Generator is available here.

Dan graduated in May, 2010. He received the Computer Science Achievement Medal from the Department as its top student contributor to the program. He was a four-year member of the St. Bonaventure Swim Team and served as a co-captain for the 2009 – 2010 season.

Dan accepted a position as an application developer for Goldman Sachs and now lives in Manhattan.

Alumni Weekend Reception June 12th

June 4, 2010

The Computer Science faculty will host an open house for alumni attending Alumni Weekend on Saturday, June 12, from 1:00 - 2:00 pm in Walsh 109.

Labs will be open to visitors.

Pete Ash Joins STATS

May 31, 2010

Peter Ash '08 has accepted a position at STATS LLC. STATS is a sports statistics company that processes data from many different professional and collegiate sports leagues, including MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL and dozens of soccer leagues around the world. Results are sent to clients (Newspapers, TV Networks, Fantasy sports leagues, etc.). Pete has been assigned to the operations department. he will also work with STATS's Optical Player tracking technology, which monitors x-y coordinates of players on a playing field throughout the game. More information can be found at www.stats.com.

STATS is located in Northbrook, IL, a north suburb of Chicago. The company consists of over 200 people and is growing quite rapidly.

Pete completed his MBA degree at Bonaventure in May, 2010.

Student Huzzah:

Grace Lewandowski, as pictured helping freshmen students to the right, has also been creating the website you are currently viewing, with the help of Professor Harlan and student Andrew Krull. As a senior in the Computer Science department Grace has been a great help over the past few years with events such as Girls' Day, and Programming Contests, not to mention her work on the non-profit organization, Center for Family Unity, website and our current C.S. Departments website, but Grace has also taken time out of her busy schedule to brighten up the new building by designing and painting our department's conference room with help from Grace Trzepacz, another senior. So to Grace Lewandowski, we say HUZZAH! '

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