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Announcements
The architecture lab is closed for the summer. Please use the EOS lab. 
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Highlights
Congratulations to CIS Masters student Igor Majdandzic, primary author of the paper "High-Performance Computation of Voronoi Diagrams using a Graphics Processing Unit", which was accepted for publication in the 2008 IEEE Electro/Information Technology conference. In acknowledgment of the quality of his graduate work, Majdandzic recently received Grand Valley State's 2008 Graduate Dean's Citation for Outstanding Masters Student and also for Outstanding Masters Project. His co-advisors on his Masters project and co-authors on the IEEE paper are faculty members Dr. Christian Trefftz and Dr. Greg Wolffe.
WOW! Dr. Scott Grissom has been awarded
2008 Michigan Professor of the Year AND
the 2008 Glenn A. Niemeyer Outstanding Faculty Award!
Three of our students made GREAT posters for Student Scholarship Days
Cory Gross
Steady increases in the number of students and courses at Grand Valley have contributed to growing complexity involved with scheduling professors to teach courses. The purpose of the GVision (Grand Valley Interactive Scheduling Interface On the Net) project is to help alleviate some of the burden placed on department directors involved in the scheduling process. The website is designed to allow faculty to indicate their preferences of teaching specific courses by using a day or week calendar layout. A director can then piece together a schedule based on information collected from the faculty members.
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Adam Parker
Grade keeping can be tedious. Software can help; but, some off-the-shelf products do not offer enough flexibility when calculating grades. For example, some grading applications do not allow users to drop a student's lowest quiz grade. I have created a Java application that attempts to solve these problems. Users can enter student grades for various assignments in a spreadsheet format. Supplemental information can be added to each grade such as lateness or completeness. In addition, users can write their own Java class to calculate final grades.
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Steve Salerno
"The Real Guitar Hero", which is a tool to assist guitar players in locating
notes of certain keys and scale type (major, minor, blues, ...) on a guitar
fretboard.
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Welcome from the Director
Welcome to the School of Computing and Information Systems at Grand Valley State University.
I am pleased you stopped by to visit us on the web. On this site you can learn about our undergraduate
majors: Computer Science and Information Systems,
several minors, and two graduate programs:
Computer Information Systems and Medical & BioInformatics.
You can also find information on our courses,
what is happening with our students, and also with our faculty. It is our hope that you can discover the answers to
(1) why Grand Valley is the best university to attend, (2) why you should get a degree in computing, and (3) which
major is right for you.
By offering both a Computer Science and an Information Systems degree in the same program, sharing the same
faculty and facilities, students benefit from an applied practical CS degree and a technical IS degree.
Students receive more individual attention in our programs because we offer smaller classes.
Our faculty have a
diverse set of expertise, are excellent teachers, and are active in their respective fields. The faculty
and staff are committed to quality instruction while integrating research developments in computing in both
the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. We have state-of-the-art computing facilities, including a
nationally recognized networking and data communication teaching laboratory,
a Linux lab, an architecture lab, and student research project rooms dedicated for
undergraduate student/faculty research. Students
learn in an environment that emphasizes the practical uses of computing and information technology through
courses that are applicable to business today and augmented through involvement in internships.
Excellent job and career opportunities exist for our graduates as the need for these skills remains in high
demand. As a result, our industrial partners, the School of CIS's Advisory Board, strongly support the curricula,
recruit our graduates, and work with our faculty.
Enjoy your visit to our website and please contact us if you have any questions.
For further information on our various programs and opportunities, please contact:
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