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On March 25, 2011, Joel Hollingsworth presented a paper co-authored with Dave Powell at the 49th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Southeast Conference at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. The title of the paper was "Requiring Web-based Cloud and Mobile Computing in a Computer Science Undergraduate Curriculum". This conference is the oldest running ACM conference.

The International Federation for Information Processing Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2011) has accepted for presentation the co-authored work of Â鶹ÊÓƵ senior Kate Vogt, Â鶹ÊÓƵ assistant professor Duke Hutchings, and collaborators from Virginia Tech. The paper is titled "Co-located Collaborative Sensemaking on a Large High-Resolution Display with Multiple Input Devices."

Tony Crider, an associate professor of physics, and Megan Squire, an associate professor of computing sciences, led a workshop titled "Reacting to the Past: The Pluto Debate" on March 25 at a conference on Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices.

Joel Hollingsworth and Dave Powell gave a three hour workshop at the 42nd Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) on March 11th in Dallas, Texas.

SIGCSE 2011 Technical Symposium is the largest annual event focused on computer science education and is being held March 9 - 12, 2011 in Dallas Texas. The four day event brings educators from around the world to present papers, posters, panels and workshops. Joel Hollingsworth and Dave Powell will present a three hour workshop titled "Developing an Android Mobile Application for the Google App Engine Cloud.

On December 14, 2010, five teams from CSC 420 Game Programming and Computer Graphics displayed the games that they specified, design, implemented and tested during the fall semester in Professor Duvall's class.

On Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010, Â鶹ÊÓƵ had four three-person programming teams excel at the IBM sponsored Mid-Atlantic ACM Regional Programming Contest. All four teams finished in the top 50% with two of the teams finishing in the top 25% of the 157 teams, representing over 40 universities.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ senior Tyler Anderson wrote major portions of the code for a new iPhone/iPod Touch application released by the Iconfactory, a graphic design and software firm based in Greensboro, N.C. The application was approved by Apple for distribution on its iTunes App Store on Oct. 13, following a rigorous quality review for compliance on Apple's mobile devices.