Tag Archives: Computer Science

BEACON Researchers at Work: Playing games in evolution

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Jory Schossau. Have you ever played the game Rock, Paper, Scissors? Did you know you were mimicking the same sort of interactions that happen in communities of … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: In Search of The Perfect Password

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by NC A&T graduate student Joshua Adams. Passwords are a problem. They are easy to forget and if you write them down, they can be stolen. If you’re like me, you probably … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Journey from Microbiology to Microsoft

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Michelle Vogel. Since this is the tale of how I ended up as an intern and future employee of Microsoft, I guess I should tell you a bit … Continue reading →

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Best practices for scientific computing

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

BEACON’s Titus Brown co-authored a paper now available as a pre-print on arXiv: Best Practices for Scientific Computing D. A. Aruliah, C. Titus Brown, Neil P. Chue Hong, Matt Davis, Richard T. Guy, Steven H. D. Haddock, Katy Huff, Ian Mitchell, Mark Plumbley, Ben Waugh, Ethan P. White, Greg Wilson, Paul … Continue reading →

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Watch a talk by BEACON’s Titus Brown

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

C. Titus Brown, “Streaming lossy compression of biological sequence data using probabilistic data structures.” A talk given at the Michigan State University Computer Science department on September 7, 2012.

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