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Cobb '12 to University of Washington
Camille Cobb '12 is going west this fall–to the University of Washington to pursue her Ph.D. in computer science. We are very proud of Camille and what she has accomplished in and out of our group. We wish her the best!
Sprenkle and Cobb '12 featured in WVTF News Story
Sandy Hausman from WVTF reported a story about women in computer science at Washington and Lee. The story features Professor Sara Sprenkle and students Camille Cobb '12 and Cory Walker '15.
Cobb '12 and Sprenkle take SIGCSE 2012
Camille Cobb '12 was a finalist in the ACM Student Research Competition held at SIGCSE 2012 in Raleigh, NC. Camille presented her poster on “Exploring Text-Based Analysis of Test Case Dependencies of Web Applications” in a four-hour session to unknown judges, which placed her in the top five student researchers. She gave a well-received 12-minute presentation two days later with tough competition–by all accounts, the finalists were all very strong.
The Official W&L News Story
Dr. Sara Sprenkle and co-author Dr. Shannon Duvall of Elon University presented their paper on “Reshaping the Image of Computer Science in 15 Minutes (of Class) a Week”. The paper is about systematically using current news articles in classes to show students the opportunities in computer science and how to think like a computer scientist, without much cost. More information is available on our blog: Computer Science News.
Students Present Posters at Tapia Conference
Camille Cobb '12, Anna Pobletts '12, and Lucy Simko '11 presented their research during the poster session at the Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.
ICST Best Paper Award
Professor Sprenkle and Lucy Simko '11's paper at the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) was awarded the Best Research Paper Award. The paper entitled “A Study of Usage-Based Navigation Models and Generated Abstract Test Cases for Web Applications” was done in collaboration with Dr. Lori Pollock of the University of Delaware. The paper was chosen out of 35 accepted papers.
