Department Chair Professor Jim Cremer was interviewed by the Daily Iowan about the spring course he is teaching on how to create iPhone applications. The course is being team taught with an instructor from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and will pair Computer Science and Journalism students to work as a team on designing original iPhone applications.

Jason Fries, Donald Curtis, and Chris Hlady, graduate students in Computer Science, were winners in the Faculty/Staff/Graduate Assistant Business Plan Competition, hosted by the UI Business College's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center.

The Daily Iowan interviewed CS graduate student Peter Likarish about software he is working on that will alert users to possible phishing sites.

The Computer Science Department is pleased to announce the 2009-10 scholarship recipents:
Arthur Collins Scholarship:
Molly Bartlett, John Hughes, Austin Laugesen, David Naylor, Matthew Nutter, and Cuong Thai
Cerner Corporation Scholarship:
Zakir Durumeric
John Deere Foundation Scholarship:
Natasha Bullock-Rest, Kelsey Huebner,  and Tyler Jensen
Principal Financial Group Foundation Scholarship:
Andrew Couch and Geoff Roughton
David Spang Award:
Yelena Mejova
Gerard P. Weeg Scholarship:
Viet Thuc Ha, Peter Likarish, and Yelena Mejova

Peter Likarish, graduate student in Computer Science, has been chosen as an HASTAC Scholar. The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program recognizes graduate and undergraduate students who are engaged in innovative work across the areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. The HASTAC Scholars act as the eyes and ears of HASTAC's virtual network.