The CS department's own professor Charlie Peck will be cooking for the 1st Annual Chili Supper sponsored by the Boston Community Fire Department. Come join the fun on Saturday, February 27 from 5 - 8 pm at the Boston Firehouse: 102 S. Salem St., Boston, IN 47324. $5.00/Person includes 1 Beverage and all the chili you can eat. Additional beverages maybe purchased separately. Chili’s will range from mild to highly spicy. There will also be crackers, corn muffins and all the fixings.
The Earlham College team took third place last weekend at the Iowa State National Cyber Defense Competition (CDC). The eight-hour competition ran through the morning and afternoon, with the tired but valiant Earlham CS students keeping the lead most of the afternoon. The final results reflected the closest top scores in CDC history:
There were 10 points separating 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-place, with top score being around 1800 points, meaning about a (1/2)% differential separating the top three finishers! Iowa State eeked out a first-place finish, with University of Northern Iowa's's team Panther finishing second by only a 4-point margin. Earlham College finished 3rd by a razor's edge margin of 6 points.
The Cyber Defense Competition ran from Friday, February 20 - Saturday, February 21st. The third-place winning Earlham team consisted of Matt Edlefsen, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Ben Goldstone, Samuel Leeman-Munk, and Samuel Wein.
The HIP group's TrafficCam project (http://stewie.cs.earlham.edu:8080/) played a small part in helping Earlham College secure a traffic light for the main campus entrance on National Road West. The College's press release describes the process: http://pressroom.earlham.edu/articles/2009/02/after-nearly-half-century-effort-earlham-get-traffic-signal-entrance
A team of four students will be heading to Iowa State university over mid-semester break to compete in a national cyber security competition. Their results will be posted once they return!