Feb 8, 2018
UD professor and post-doctoral fellow develop technology to help soldiers spot explosive devices Soldiers in combat have to constantly scan their surroundings for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), a signature weapon of modern warfare. These homemade bombs are often...
Jan 12, 2018
Bobby (Bob) F. Caviness, professor emeritus who shaped the University of Delaware Department of Computer and Information Sciences, died Jan. 11, 2018, at the age of 77. Prof. Caviness earned his doctoral degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 under the...
Dec 1, 2017
Emeritus professor Sandra Carberry reflects on successes, challenges The first time Sandra Carberry worked with a computer, she wasn’t impressed. It was 1961, and Carberry was a teenager attending an eight-week summer workshop on math and computers. These early...
Oct 26, 2017
UD professor edits textbook on high-performance computing methods From your smartphone to your laptop, today’s tech devices glean their computing power from multi-core processors. Supercomputers contain thousands of cores, and within three to four years a computer...
Oct 5, 2017
Two UD professors watch governor sign law requiring public high schools to teach computer science A new law will require every public high school in Delaware to offer at least one course in computer science. When Delaware Gov. John Carney signed the bill, two...
Sep 28, 2017
Computer scientists bring polar region to life using virtual reality Scott Sorensen’s experiences as a computer science student at the University of Delaware were hardly typical. While he spent his share of time in windowless rooms staring at computer screens, he also...
