What a year it has been.
The School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering enjoyed a transformative year in 2018, opening our new home, Luddy Hall, continuing to build a world-class reputation for education and research, and pushing the boundaries of technology. More than a dozen new faculty members were welcomed to the SICE family, a record-breaking class of graduates took their first steps into their future as leaders, and awards and honors were earned by our faculty and students.
Here’s a look back at some of the biggest SICE stories of 2018.
School-wide News
- IU library and information science programs highly ranked in annual Academic Ranking of World Universities
- SICE welcomes 14 new faculty members
- Fred Luddy, the namesake of Luddy Hall, featured in Forbes magazine
- SICE feature of New Engineer Magazine
- SICE announces faculty promotions
- Massive work of 'sentient art' unveiled at Luddy Hall is also a learning tool for students
- Dedication of Luddy Hall caps off wildly successful LuddyFest
- Where ideas come to life
- Design of newly opened Luddy Hall aims to foster collaboration, community
- Luddy Hall offers innovative new space on campus
Student Success Stories
- Mozilla awards SICE HCI/d student grant to improve web accessibility for the visually impaired
- SICE, SPEA collaboration earns honors at Indy Big Data Visualization Challenge
- SICE grad honored with 2018 University Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award
- SICE celebrates record-breaking Class of 2018
- IU senior's work on wearable fitness device earns Provost's Award for Undergraduate Research
- Inaugural SICE Programming Competition tests student skills
- Speech therapy robot for children with cleft lip and palate wins Cheng Wu Innovation Challenge
- IU digital systems class helping Hoosier National Forest measure light pollution
- 17 IU Bloomington students will compete in third annual Cheng Wu Innovation Challenge
- SICE students pursue their dreams at Spring Career Fair
Faculty Research and Honors
- IU professor creates intelligent software to reveal the inner workings of the brain
- A ‘Nerd’ IU prof helped establish a link between the Trump Campaign and a Russian bank—in 2016
- Ambitious VR experience restores 7,000 Roman buildings, monuments to their former glory
- Menczer earns support of Craigslist founder to study the spread of online misinformation
- Engineers seek 'Dark Sky' designation for Hoosier National Forest
- Siek earns NSF grant to research denotational semantics
- Williamson earns NSF grant to improve speech-based applications
- SICE professors earn NSF grant to further programming language research
- IU MATTERS: Artificial Intelligence Episode
- Large-scale scientific investigation needed to combat fake news, IU researcher says