Congratulations to Professor Danny Menasce who will receive a 2017 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). Professor Menasce is one of 12 recipients (out of 97 nominees) and the 20th from George Mason.
Professor Alex Brodsky is a keynote speaker at the 28th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) to be held November 6-8, 2016, in San Jose, CA.
Prof. Carlotta Domeniconi is co-chairing the SIAM International Conference in Data Mining (2017) to be held in Houston, TX.
On Wednesday, September 20, 2016 the Computer Science Department held a welcome event for new CS and ACS majors to usher in the new academic year. 352 new students have enrolled as CS or ACS majors making it the largest incoming class in the history of the CS department. CS is the also the major with the largest freshmen class on campus.
Cambridge University Press published two books co-authored by Gheorghe Tecuci of the Learning Agents Center: Knowledge Engineering: Building Cognitive Assistants for Evidence-based Reasoning and Intelligence Analysis as Discovery of Evidence, Hypotheses, and Arguments: Connecting the Dots