Computer Science cadets take part in a variety of activities which we are quite proud of.  They also have an outstanding record of achievement as recognized by publications, presentations, and awards.  Our department of excellence in scholarship through several different awards that are given each year from several different sources such as UPE, IEEE, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Club Officers

• Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter Special Interest Group in Security, Audit and Control (ACM-SIGSAC): Membership/Leadership actions currently in Progress
   
  
• UPE Computer Science Honor Society: Elections to be held in Fall 2008.
   
  To see the list of previous officers, click here. Many current faculty members were in the UPE as cadets!

  Class of 2008

  Bruce Barnes, John Chamberlin, Michael Kranch, Kristof Ladny, Keith Major, Kyle Markle, Benjamin Smith

  Class of 2007

  John Cameron, Brandon Pasko, James Pleuss, Maxwell Potasznik, Rock Stevens

  Class of 2006

  Brian Boyles, Nelson D'Antonio, Thadeus Hickman, Matthew Hicks, Marshall Johnson, Preston Lopez, John Parlee, Stuart Warders, Joseph Weston

  Class of 2005

  Krasen Georgiev, Jeffrey Hermanson, Erik Hermon, Brian Lebiednik, Brian Olson, Laura Profitt, Sakellarios Spirtos, Marian Teodorescu

  Class of 2004

  Daniel Arnett, Shaun Baker, Scott Boone, Ian Fleischmann, Matthew Mogensen, Matthew Schweitzer, David Schwetz, James Torres, Caleb Williams, Lorilyn Woods

  Class of 2003

  David Bergmann, Daniel Bryant, Jonathan Dreher, Chase Guinn, Walter Harrison, Brockton Hershberger, David King  , Michael Kuehn, Edward McDonald, Brian Merkl, Rain Ottis, Benjamin Quimby, Erik Sarson, Ryan Tate, Christopher Wren

  Class of 2002

  Micah Blais, Kevin Hall, Ian MacLeod, Zachariah Miller, Marek Rabkowskirudak, Paulo Shakarian, Jeff Sullivan, Derik Timmerman, Michael Wolfe

  Class of 2001

  Marcus Brakewood, Brandon Graves, Mark McBride, Amir Soofi, Gene Yu

  Class of 2000

  Bryson Bort, Jason Cody, Keith Kelly, Russe Moldenhauer, Christopher Morrell, Kenneth Rutka, Dustin Shannon, Steven Wargny

  Class of 1999

  Thomas Babbitt, Michael Fuchs, David Inniss, David McLaughlin, Christopher Miller, Robert Radtke, Kevin Robinson, David Smith, Justus White

  Class of 1998

  Jerry Buchanan, Matthew Gallant, Malcolm Haynes, Thomas Hemphill, James Kingston, Jeremy Sereno, Jenny Tam, Edward Williams

  Class of 1997

  Don Artman, Brian Cunningham, Jeffrey Enquist, Andrew Flor, Adam Harben, John Kendall, Michael Martin, Alexander Mentis, Daniel Ruecking, Christopher Schaefer, Matthew Vinton, Petr Vohralik

  Class of 1996

  Trevor Anderson, William Chung, Robert Cole, Matthew Gnau, David Harvie, Jason Hester, Jason Hick, Mark Hoovestol, Jaro Jedrzejowski, Aaron Lindstrom, Gustavo Mendiola, Stephen Pirner, Devin Rickey, Benjamin Ring, Todd Vydareny

  Class of 1995

  Christa Chewar, Cord Cunningham, Leon Hachat, Anthony Iasso, Matthew Jesop, John Koehler, Gregory Leavell, Terry Phillips, Kevin Releford, Paul Stanton, Ian Tarasevitsch, Freeman Zebedee

  Class of 1994

  Ray Phariss, Gary Walenda

Scholarly Awards

• 2007 Projects Day Awards:  
  

Best Overall Project	Skype-Snype (John Chamberlin, Peter Renals)
Runner-up, Best Overall Project	Energized (Isis Achanzar, Victor Kareh, Daniel Konopa)
Best Computer Science Project	Hardware Abstraction Layer [HAL] (Michael Kranch, Roy Ragsdale)
Projects Day Best Presentation	WebBot (Patrick Bryan, Joseph Krick, Scott Lobdell, Benjamin Smith)
Network Science Award	SUREfire (Mongi Bellili, Aroyn Borries, Joshua Dixon, Zachary Marshall)
Best Solution to a Military Problem	Energized (Isis Achanzar, Victor Kareh, Daniel Konopa)
Dr. George M. Krembs Innovation Award	Hardware Abstraction Layer [HAL] (Michael Kranch, Roy Ragsdale)
National Security Agency Information Assurance Award	File Visualization Environment [FiVE] (Brent Nolan, Matthew Sinda)
Computer Defense Exercise (CDX)        Iron Eagle Awards	CDX (Cadets Emma Free, Keith Major, Kyle Markle, Peter Renals, Matthew Sinda, Nathaniel Stickney, Nicholas Uhorchak)

Departmental Awards

• Excellence in Courses, Computer Science:

  Fall 2007:

  Dishanth Krishnagiri CS300
  Michael Platek CS350
  Ashley Olds IT382
  Matt Sinda CS401
  Benjamin Smith CS474, CS481 and CS489A
  Michael Kranch CS478
  Nathaniel Stickney CS484
  Scott Lobdell CS485
  Kristof Ladney CS486
   

  Spring 2008:

  Benjamin Smith IT382 and CS394
  Brian Mccord CS350, CS385 and CS403
  Peter Renals CS400 and CS402
  Thomas Sullivan CS473
  Matthew Sinda CS482
  Peter Renals CS484
  Roy Ragsdale CS488
  Michael Platek EE375
   

• Outstanding Computer Science Major:  Benjamin Smith
   
• First in Computer Science Major: Thomas Sullivan

CS Honor Graduates

• Class of 2008:

  Emma Free

  Michael Kranch

  Christoph Ladny

  Scott Lobdell

  Kyle Markle

  Ben Smith

  Nathaniel Stickney

  Tom Sullivan

Publications

• NCUR

  Mongi Bellili, Aroyn Borries, Joshua Dixon, Zach Marshall, "Intelligent Mine System (SUREfire)." Proceedings of the 2008 National Conference on  Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Salisbury University, Maryland, April 10-12, 2008. 
   

  Michael Kranch and Roy Ragsdale, "Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)." Proceedings of the 2008 National Conference on  Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Salisbury University, Maryland, April 10-12, 2008. 

  
  Brent Nolan and Matt Sinda , "File Visualization Environment (FiVE)."Proceedings of the 2008 National Conference on  Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Salisbury University, Maryland, April 10-12, 2008. 

  
  Adrian Tilston and Rob Corless, "Radio Frequency Identification for Libraries and Laboratories (RFID Lib/Lab)."Proceedings of the 2008 National Conference on  Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Salisbury University, Maryland, April 10-12, 2008. 

  
  

• HICSS-42

  Michael Kranch and Roy Ragsdale, "Undetectable Monitoring in a Fully-Virtualized Environment – A Continuation of the HAL Keystroke Logger." 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 5-8, 2009.
   
  Peter Renals and Grant A. Jacoby, "Blocking Skype through Deep Packet Inspection,” 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 5-8, 2009.
   

• WorldComp08

  Nathaniel H. Stickney, "SLAM for HAGAR." The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'08), July 14-17, 2008.

   

  Thomas Sullivan and Benjamin A. Ring, "Matrix Operations Simulator Application in Java Using OpenGL." The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'08)," July 14-17, 2008. 

• See our Research Page for research conducted in previous years.