In fall 2016, Valparaiso University’s new student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery-Women (ACM-W) was awarded a $3,000 start-up seed fund by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) to help launch its chapter. Valpo is one of nine schools that received a NCWIT Student Seed Start-up Funding Award. Founded with the […]
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News about the Valparaiso University Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Computing and Information Sciences Established as Independent Department
Valparaiso University’s mathematics and computer science department has divided into two departments. Computing and information sciences is now independent of the mathematics and statistics department. Veteran computer scientist James Caristi, who joined the mathematics faculty at Valpo in 1980 to develop the department’s major in computer science, was appointed to chair the new CIS department. He took […]
Infrastructure Boost, New Hires Planned for Graduate IT and Cybersecurity Programs
Valparaiso University has announced plans to invest nearly $200,000 in new facilities and faculty to support its graduate programs in information technology and cybersecurity, as well as its undergraduate program in computer science. Prompted by steadily increasing enrollments in the master’s programs in information technology and cybersecurity, the strategic investment will help fund the following […]