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Student Poster Wins First Place at 2012 Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Conference

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Needham, MA (PRWEB) June 08, 2012

Four Olin College juniors, Kristopher Belland, Paul Booth, Jared Kirschner and Seungwhan Moon, have won first place in the Undergraduate Posters category at CSCNE 2012, the 17th Annual Conference of the Northeast region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC).

The conference is held in cooperation with the ACM SIGCSE and Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honors Society and was hosted by Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., June 27-28, 2012. CCSCNE brings together faculty, staff, and students from academic institutions throughout the Northeast for an exchange of ideas and information concerning undergraduate computing curricula.

The category in which the first place prize was awarded, undergraduate posters, includes presentations on research projects. The Olin students research abstract was titled Application of Genetic Programming to Verilog Hardware Design. It summarized groundbreaking research at the forefront of developing an alternative method for the design of computer architecture; in this method, computers self-organize to perform tasks efficiently, even when the ideal hardware implementation is not known to the designer.

The student team was advised by Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science Ursula Wolz.







Ringling College Graduate Eric Prah Wins Bronze 2012 Student Academy Award in Computer Animation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

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Los Angeles, CA and Sarasota, FL (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

Ringling College of Art and Design Graduate Eric Prah was honored on Saturday, June 9th at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 39th Annual Student Academy Awards with a Bronze Award for Computer Animation. The awards were presented by actors Laura Dern, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Greg Kinnear and Mena Suvari alongside Academy President Tom Sherak at the Academys Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Eric won the Bronze for his senior thesis animation, My Little Friend. Ringling College students have won 9 Student Academy Awards in the past 11 years, as well as the most consecutive Student Academy Awards since the awards began in 1973, with four awards in a row from 2005-2008.

Eric was one of 13 students from around the world who were selected as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 39th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Erics film, My Little Friend, may be viewed at http://www.oscars.org/awards/saa/winners/Prah.html. The Gold in animation was won by David Wolter for Eyrie and the Silver by Mark Nelson for Jockstrap Raiders. To view photos from the event please go to http://photos.presslist.oscars.org/ and to see the journey of the 2012 Student Academy Award