Professors Mary Noonan and Vance Poteat hosted a Drupal workshop for volunteers of Jericho Road. Jericho Road is an agency in Lawrence which provides free professional services for Lawrence non-profit organizations. Drupal is an open source (available for anyone to use for free) content management platform used to create and manage web sites. The purpose of the workshop was to train volunteers on Drupal. These volunteers will then take on a community service project to help a Lawrence non-profit create and manage their own web site. Drupal is used world wide. Drupal users include: the White House, the Grammys, the MIT media lab, and more. The workshop was led by Matt Russell of Andover and was coordinated by Joan Kulash, the executive director of Jericho Road and Professors Noonan and Poteat of Merrimack College.
December 8, 2009
The Computer Science Department is pleased to announce its first annual scholarship competition. Interested? Have a look at the scholarship competition information and application!
December 1, 2009
Dr. Yuting Zhang presented and published her paper "Prediction-based Interrupt Scheduling" at the 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2009) in Washington D.C. RTSS is the flagship conference of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems.
November 10, 2009
Come make games with us Tuesday November 10th at 6 PM in Mendel 159! The CS Profs invite you to come socialize and learn to make games using GameMaker. We'll give you the tools to make side scrollers, puzzle games, and platform games. Students taking CSC 1510 or 1610 have all the experience required.
September 17, 2009
Dr. Dave Toth won a grant for himself and two other Merrimack Professors, Dr. Mark Birnbaum (Biology) and Dr. Brandy Benedict (Mathematics) to attend the SC Education Program at SC09, "the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking, and storage" [1]. The SC Education Program "focuses on engaging educators and students across the K-20 spectrum in learning about the latest technologies and applications for advancing scientific discovery" [1].
1. http://sc09.sc-education.org/about/index.php
The SC-Education Team: (from the left) Dr.Brandy Benedict, Dr. Mark Birnbaum, and Dr. Dave Toth
(Photo courtesy of Marie DeMarco, 9/29/2009)
September 7, 2009
Dr. Robert M. Panoff will be coming to Merrimack on Monday September 7, 2009 to give a colloquium talk: Computational Thinking - Sources and Resources for Quantitative Reasoning in Math and Science Education. All are invited to attend the colloquium, which will be held in the Murray Lounge in the Sakowich Campus Center from 1 P.M. to 2 P.M.
September 1, 2009
Dr. Yuting Zhang and several students in the eMerrimack club will be hosting a Linux installation night on Setember 10th in Mendel 159. Students will be shown how to install Ubuntu Linux on a computer. Pizza and soda will be provided by the Computer Science Department.
August 31, 2009
Three of Dr. Dave Toth's students will be building Merrimack College's first large compute cluster this fall. The 25-node cluster will be available to support computationally intensive faculty and student research projects in multiple disciplines at Merrimack. People interested in using the compute cluster for research should contact Dr. Dave Toth.
August 27, 2009
The computer science department has established a new lab for student and faculty research in Systems and Security. Professor Vance Poteat and his students work on security. Dr. Dave Toth and his students are working on parallel and distributed computing. Dr. Yuting Zhang and her students work on real time systems and virtualization. Current and prospective students interested in these areas are encouraged to contact the respective people for details about their work and how the students can get involved.
July 31, 2009
Dr. Dave Toth (Merrimack College) and Dr. David Finkel (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) have had their paper "Improving the Productivity of Volunteer Computing By Using the Most Effective Task Retrieval Policies" accepted for publication in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Grid Computing.
News From Last Academic Year
April 28, 2008
Students in Dr. Dave Toth's Spring 2009 Parallel Computing course presented their class projects at Science and Engineering Day:
- Carmen Alonso - Merrimack Chat
- Chris Belkas - Shortening Sort Running Times Using Parallel Solutions
- Elise Dufour & Ryan Perreault - Mackster: A P2P File-Sharing System
- Ryan Fleming & Mike LoVerme - MRLSS: Mike & Ryan’s Load Sharing System
- Tony Guarino - DisC SPriNG: Distributed Computation of Special Prime Numbers
- Doug Selent - Leasable Middleware
December 9, 2008
Dr. Dave Toth will deliver an invited talk "Increasing the Amount of Work Completed by Volunteer Computing Projects with Task Distribution" at Sun Labs, the research division of Sun Microsystems.
November 19, 2008
Game Programming talk by Amit Mathew. Amit worked on the Wall-E game and others.
November, 2008
Dr. Dave Toth will present his paper, "The Impact of Multicore Architectures on Task Retrieval Policies for Volunteer Computing" at the IASTED PDCS International Conference in Orlando, Florida.
October 15, 2008
Dr. Ian Lane Davis, Hughes St. Pierre and Debbie Waggenheim from Rockstar GamesNew England will be coming to Merrimack to talk about jobs and challenges in video game development. They will demo several of their recent releases and discuss the challenges and successes involved in making them.
October 2, 2008
Linux Demo by eMerrimack students in M159.