Hello Carolina students! Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. It's an enormous goal to accomplish and we need great people to help us achieve it! We invite you to come learn about Google and meet one of our Google engineers at this exciting event! Who: All Computer Science and Engineering students, but anyone with an interest in software development is welcome! What: Tech Talk - Testing at Google Scale Date: Wednesday, October 15th Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm Where: Amoco Hall, 300 Main RSVP: Please use this link (http://goo.gl/KVdFwP) to pre-register We're hiring! Please check out our technical opportunities at www.google.com/careers/students We encourage you to apply online now! We hope you'll stay in touch with us by checking out the Google Students blog, following us on Google+, and checking out the Student YouTube channel. We look forward to seeing you there! The speaker will be Michael Jacobs, who received his BSCS in 2003 from this department. He is now a software engineer at Google.

Code-a-thon time! https://www.hackerrank.com/back2school14 HackerRank is a fairly large coding problem site. They are sponsoring a code-a-thon over 24 hours (Oct. 3 9pm to Oct. 4 9pm) and the CSE department is helping us out with food and beverages. According to the site anyone that gets 1 problem right gets $50 of Amazon Web Service credit (use it for a Minecraft server?). Beyond that the prizes are listed on the site. If you want to eat some of the free pizza and other free food the department will provide you have to join the Facebook Event Page so we can get a headcount.

Come and see the research of our faculty and graduate students. Poster session is at 2:00pm in the Swearingen atrium. At 3:00pm there will be Awards and Faculty Presentations in Amoco Hall.

COLLOQUIUM Dipti Patra Electrical Engineering Department National Institute of Technology Rourkela Abstract Image reconstruction is a mathematical process to retrieve information that has been lost or obscured in the imaging process. The cause of degradation in the imaging process is mainly due to optical distortion, motion blur due to limited shutter speed, environmental noise and aliasing effects. In contrast to image enhancement, where the appearance of an image is improved to suit human subjective preferences, image reconstruction is an objective approach to recover the image based on mathematical and statistical models of image degradation. However, enhancement of the resolution of the reconstructed image is a key requirement to improve both pictorial information for human interpretation and representation for automatic machine perception. High resolution refers to high pixel density. Images with high pixel density offer important and critical information in various practical applications. Super Resolution (SR) reconstruction is one of the software level solutions for the enhancement of the spatial resolution of the reconstructed image. The term "super" in super resolution signifies that the technique can overcome the inherent resolution limitation of LR imaging systems. It works by the fusion of non-redundant information contained in single or multiple low resolution images of the same source image with sub-pixel shifts. SR reconstruction overcomes the limitations associated with hardware implementations along with of theory of optics to increase the resolution of an image. This method has a wide range of applications such as: surveillance video, remote sensing, medical imaging and video standard conversion. This talk is to provide a review of the current state of research on super-resolution reconstruction with some potential future directions. Dr. Dipti Patra is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the National Institute of Technology in Rourkela, India. She obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the same institution in 2006. Her major research focus areas are Digital Signal (especially Image and Video) Processing, Computer Vision, and Stochastic Processes. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecom Engineers, India, Fellow of The Institution of Engineers, India. She has published 55 research papers in national or international refereed journals and conference proceedings. She has been the reviewer of many international journals such as: IET Image Processing (IET), Systems and Information Sciences Elsevier), Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Arabian Journal in Science & Engineering (Springer), Computer Journal (Oxford University Press), and Hindwai Journals. She has worked as a Program Committee Member of many IEEE International Conferences, e.g. Pattern Recognition & Machine Intelligence 2013. Currently (September 13-16), she is a visitor at the University of South Carolina doing collaborative research work with Prof. Yan Tong with support from an international faculty exchange program.

ACM is hosting Jacob Young to hold an information session for Duke Energy next Tuesday evening, September 16th in 2A15 at 6pm. Duke Energy will be providing pizza or some other food and drinks that night. For more information, join the ACM @ USC group.

More information for Students and Employers. List of companies attending, so far.

Come join us this Thursday (9/4/2014) at 6pm for the first meeting of the new Cyber Security Club. It will be held in Swearingen 1C03 (Amoco Hall). We will present the club constitution to the membership, discuss upcoming events, and end with a showing of an amusing (but technical) 30 minute presentation from Defcon 22, entitled "Weaponizing Your Pets" by Gene Bransfield. Anyone who is interested in cyber security is welcome. We have an e-mail distribution group. To be added, please email ronni@cec.sc.edu. Thanks, Ronni Wilkinson Information Technology Services College of Engineering and Computing University of South Carolina

New Student Welcome Page.