On Friday, April 5 2013, five graduate students and ten undergraduate students have been inducted into Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the International Honor Society for Computing and Information Sciences. Congratulations to graduate students Lakshmi Chundi, Anthony Dovelle, Randall Escoto, Shubhi Kothana and Andrew Larkin; and to undergraduate students William Alfano, Christopher Backofen, Kelly Gremban, Xiaojie Jiang, Jillian Kramer, Jeff Linahan, William Makabenta, William Solomito, Philip Williams and Amy Zuerndorfer, for their outstanding academic performance.
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Three teams of students participated in a "private" programming contest on April 13th. The team consisting of William Makabenta, Xiaojie Jiang, and Daniel Shawver claimed first place, solving more problems within the four hour time limit then either of the other two teams. The team consisting of Kyle Dunn and Anthony DiValerio, and the team consisting of Ken Newcomb and Ryan March tied for second place. The winning team earned the right to choose the pizza toppings for next Fall's kick off programming team meeting. Congrats to all for participating. Special congrats to XJ who parlayed his programming team experience into a summer internship through JP MorganChase's Code for Good Challenge. More...
The Villanova Women in Computer Science (VWCS) group has received a $750 award from the Symantec Student Seed Fund grant to promote increased participation of women in computing sciences. More...
Graduate Student Matthew Bauer Master's Thesis Recgonition by ACM Transactions of Computational Logic
Posted: 2013/4/18
Villanova graduate student Matthew Bauer has recently been recognized for his master's thesis "A PSPACE-complete first-order fragment of computability logic.” This thesis has been accepted and is currently in press at ACM Transactions of Computational Logic and is also indexed by Science Citation Index (SCI), being among its "Master Journals". SCI-indexed journals are commonly recognized as the world's leading journals in science and technology. Mathew Bauer's publication at the SCI level is a rare accomplishment among past Villanova graduate students. Congratulations Matthew! More...
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William Loftus received his BSCS from Villanova University in 1985. He has worked twenty-seven years in the executive management and operations of advanced software solution providers, building three Inc. 500 companies; eventually selling two and helping lead a third company public.
Mr. Loftus is now a Senior Executive and Managing Director of Accenture's Mission Services and all Army Programs but prior to Accenture, he was the President, CEO and Co-Founder of Gestalt, LLC, a leading provider of collaborative technology for governments and Fortune 500 customers acquired by Accenture in 2007. Other positions he held include being the CEO of Breakaway Solutions, a publicly traded company which included Professional Services, Application Services, and Strategy Services and founder/CEO of WPL Laboratories, which was sold it to Breakaway Solutions in 1999. Even before these two ventures, Mr. Loftus was a Manager of R&D at Unisys, where he managed DARPA-sponsored projects.
In addition to being a nationally recognized entrepreneur, he is also recognized as an accomplished author and technologist. Besides playing a major role in the previously mentioned companies' growth, Mr. Loftus has also consulted to numerous Fortune 500 and emerging companies as well as a number of investment bankers and venture capitalists. He has coauthored numerous papers, IEEE standard P1430, and the best-selling textbook, "Java Software Solutions," which is currently used in over 400 universities world-wide to teach computer science using Java. He has also contributed to research in various areas. Some of his numerous awards including a Special Achievement Award from DARPA, Philadelphia's 40 under 40 in 1999, and E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2004.
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