December 2007. Department Chair steps down.
After a 3 year tenure Dr. Manolis Wallace is stepping down from the position of depatment chair at the end of the fall semester.

October 2007. Red Cross on site and Alan Turing blood bank
The Alan Turing Blood Bank is a blood bank with the Red Cross; it is named after Alan Turing, who is broadly recognized as the father of computer science. Through blood donation events, as well as individual blood donations, blood units are accumulated in the bank, to be provided to the members of the Alan Turing Blood Bank upon request.

Although the Alan Turing University of Indianapolis Blood Bank is an initiative of the Department of Computer Science, the list of members that may be supported by the blood bank at a time of need is extended to include all members of the boader University family, i.e. all students, faculty, staff as well as their immediate relatives.

On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 3 2007 a Red Cross mobile unit visited the premises of the University; this was the startup event for a blood bank and, according to feedback from the Red Cross, it was particularly succesful. Similar events will be planned twice a year in order to sustain and expand the Alan Turing blood bank.

October 2007. New member in the Department
Dr. Panos Giannakopoulos has joined the department as a Visiting Associate Professor. Dr. Giannakopoulos will be teaching the CSCI-512 class during the fall semester. Please make him feel welcome in his new surrounding.

September 2007. New members in the Department
Dr. Vassilis Virvilis, Mr. Dimitrios Vergados and Ms. Ioanna Likourentzou have joined the department as a Visiting Lecturers. Dr. Virvilis will be teaching the CSCI-511 class, Mr. Vergados will be co-teaching the CSCI-513 class and Ms. Likourentzou will be teaching the CSCI-400-4 class, all in the fall semester. Please make them all feel welcome in their new surrounding.

September 2007. Test out for COMP 150 during the fall semester
The test out option will be offered during Semester I. Students who wish to participate and have not registered yet need to visit the Academic Advisor before the end of add-drop week.

July 2007. A glimpse at the Department
An article in the upcoming University Newsletter provides a glimpse at the Department's philosophy and activities. You can find a copy of an early version of the article here.

June 2007. New member in the Department
Dr. Natasa Sofou has joined the department as a Visiting Lecturer and will be co-teaching the MATH-191 class during summer session I. Please make her feel welcome in her new surrounding.

June 2007. Thesis of the year award
The third annual thesis of the year award was presented to Michael Giannoulatos for work on "Technology Penetration in Athens" during the reception that followed the commencement ceremony. The committee, that indeed had a difficult task in choosing the winner, comprised Dr. John F. Dumont, Associate Professor and Sociology Department Chair at UIA, Dr. Manolis Wallace, Assistant Professor and Computer Science Department Chair at UIA, Efstratios Varkaris, Senior Lecturer at UIA, Dr. Ilias Maglogiannis, Lecturer at the University of the Aegean, Ilias Tsoukatos, Lecturer at UIA and Dr. Kostas Karpouzis, Associate Researcher at NTUA. We thank them all for their input.

May 2007. Test out for COMP 150 during Summer Session I
The test out option will be offered during Summer Session I. Students who wish to participate need to have registered for it before the beginning of classes.

May 2007. Fall schedure available
The schedule for the fall semester has been published. The following courses will be offered for the graduate program:

	CSCI 511	Software Engineering	3 credits
	CSCI 512	Data Structures and Algorithms	3 credits
	CSCI 513	Distributed Operating Systems	3 credits

A complete list of courses offered for the undergraduate programs is available at http://www.uindy.gr

Apr 2007. New project topic available
Students interesting in participating in the development of an automated tool for the analysis of the content of web pages should contact the department. The project can be taken as a thesis.

Mar 2007. Graduate program starting up
It is our great pleasure to announce that our preparations for the new program are almost concluded and applications are already accepted. The application deadline for unconditional acceptance is May 31.

Jan 2007. Test out for COMP 150 during add-drop week
All students following a major of the College of Arts and Sciences are required to take at least one computer course to satisfy the requirement for Computer Literacy. For students who are not majoring in computer related topics and do not have a strong computing background this course is usually COMP-150 Microcomputer Applications. This course is also a requirement for the core education of the School of Business.

As students who already have a strong background in computing will not trully benefit from such a course the University of Indianapolis and the Department of Computer Science are offering students the option to demonstrate trough a practical test the skills they already posses and be excempt from the computer literacy course requirement. For the spring semester the test out will be offered during the add-drop week. Students who wish to participate need to have registered for it before the beginning of the add-drop week.

The test out option is available to all students. Related policies include:

• All UIA students have the option to take the exam.
• The test out option is available as a 1 credit course (COMP150X).
• The grading for the test out course is Pass/Fail. This grade does is not considered in calculating students' GPA.
• The course may not be repeated. Students who take the course and fail it are required to follow the normal path with regard to computer literacy.
• The test out examination takes place during the add drop week. Registered students are required to show up on time and may not be admited if they are late.
• The examination comprises different components. A pass grade may only be awarded to students who succeed in all components of the examination.

Dec 2006. SMAP 2006 about to start
The 1st International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2006) will be held at the Cultural Center of the University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus on December 4-5, 2006. During the conference twenty seven high quality research contributions from twenty different countries will be presented. The social part will include a candle light dinner on the roof of our Cultural Cetre as well as a guided tour of the Acropolis.

If you are a CS or CIS major, this is a great opportunity to attend an international conference where state-of-the art and new developments in your field will be presented by the very same people who have made it happen. So, do your best to be there!

Nov 2006. New graduate program approved!
Following a process that lasted over six months (plus another six months of preparation) the new Master of Science in Computer Science program has been approved. In this period the proposal has been evaluated and approved by the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Committee, the College of Arts and Sciences faculty as a whole, the Graduate Curriculum Committee of the Senate and the Faculty Senate. The program will start at the Athens Campus during the fall semester of 2007.