2008 Distinguished Lecturer

Fran Allen, recipient of the ACM's 2006 Turing Award, is this year's UW-L Distinguished Lecturer in Computer Science. The lectures will be on Mar 3, 2008 and are open to the public.

Midwest Computing and Instruction Conference

The UW-La Crosse Computer Science department will be hosting the MICS 2008 conference on Apr 11-12, 2008. More details can be found at http://www.cs.uwlax.edu/mics2008.

National Science Foundation S-STEM Award

The UW - La Crosse Computer Science Department has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant ($526,000 over 5 years) in the S-STEM program. The UW - La Crosse award will fund scholarships for students studying full-time in the Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program. Further details, including the application process, can be found at http://www.cs.uwlax.edu/S-STEM.

Employment Outlook

The U.S. Department of Labor reports in its Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-09 Edition, which covers the 2006-2016 decade, that Computer Software Engineers will remain in high demand. The most recent report says

"Job prospects should be excellent, as computer software engineers are expected to be among the fastest-growing occupations through the year 2016."

"Employment of computer software engineers is projected to increase by 38 percent over the 2006-2016 period, which is much faster than the average for all occupations."

"According to Robert Half technology, starting salaries for software engineers in software development ranged from $66,500 to $99.750 in 2007."