St. Olaf students present, compete at computer science symposium
Seven teams of computer science students from St. Olaf College presented papers at the Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium hosted by the University of Northern Iowa.
The symposium focused on integrating computer-based technology into the classroom and making it part of the curriculum.
All of the St. Olaf students’ interdisciplinary projects centered on 3-D images and computer vision. Their work stemmed from projects completed as part of the Advanced Team Project and Senior Capstone courses in the Computer Science Department. Projects ranged from a 3-D model of Regents Hall of Natural and Mathematical Sciences to ways to improve camera calibration and optimization to get better 3-D models from photos.
The symposium also included a programming competition. Teams competed to solve eight programming problems correctly in three hours without the use of the internet. St. Olaf teams placed second, third, and fourth.