A team comprising researchers at URI (Noah Daniels, Hollie Putnam, and Andrew Powers), Tufts University (Lenore Cowen, Alva Couch, Polina Shpilker, and Liam Strand), and Drexel University (Jane Greenberg) has released version 1.0 of the MEDFORD metadata description language and its parser, medford. MEDFORD (MEtaData Format For Open Reef Data) is a lightweight markup language […]

Congratulations to URI Statistics MS recent graduate Anna Fateiger, who won one of the Student Poster Awards (Sponsored by Munich Re) at the 35th New England Statistical Symposium (hosted this year by UCONN) alongside competitors from the very best statistics programs in Massachusetts and Connecticut.  The poster, titled “A spatio temporal analysis of American Woodcock movement” […]

The Asteroid Team, under the leadership of Dr Lutz Hamel, has just announced Release 1.0 of the Asteroid programming language developed at the Dept. of Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Rhode. Asteroid is a modern, multi-paradigm programming language supporting first-class patterns and pattern-matching oriented programming. Its expressive syntax is easy to learn […]

The International Office of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences has published an article regarding Dr. Katenka’s collaboration with HAW Hamburg. Please see the article here.

See more information on the exploreCSR Workshop taking place on April 11th and 12th here: https://explorecsr.cs.uri.edu/

Two of our Statistics graduate students, Yue Du and Broderick Prows were one of the winning teams at the Travelers Insurance Modeling Competition that took place on Kaggle.  Yue shared the following regarding the competition: “The competition was held on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/c/2020-modeling-competition/overview/description) and we heard about it from Dr. Wu and Saule. The goal of the […]

See the following article for more information on Dr. Katenka’s collaboration with her sister on a book for students interested in the pharmaceutical industry. Her book is also linked below. https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2020/08/01/sisters-collaborate-on-book/       https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030485542#

This is an opportunity to attend the world’s largest gathering of women in technology – the Grace Hopper Celebration.  It will be held in Orlando, FL, Sept. 29 – Oct. 2, 2020.  The Department of Computer Science and Statistics will be able to send several students to the event, covering all registration, travel and food […]

Check out the following webpage for information regarding the Computer Science Seminar Series: Computer Science Seminar Series