January 2016
Undergraduate researchers in our lab mine software developer forums to teach coding practices
July 2015
Professor Lori Pollock acts as the principal investigator on the NSF CS10K grant supporting the workshop to prepare educators to teach computer science in classroom.
May 2015
National center awards a grant to support e-textiles workshop for female students. The workshop will be planned and hosted by CISters, a registered student organization at UD
Jun 2014
UD's Golinkoff receives IES grant to study spatial skills in preschoolers.
January 2014
Professors Lori Pollock, James Atlas, Terrance Harvey and Chrystalla Mouza lead a course where Computer science students at UD, mentor middle schoolers to create computer games.
October 2013
Professor Lori Pollock serves as principal investigator on the grant for CS 10K, a program to create and implement a new education program in the state of Delaware that will support high school and middle school educators teaching computer science (CS).
May 2013
Conference Best Research Paper Award, May 2013, The 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories:“Automatically Mining Software-Based, Semantically-Similar Words from Comment-Code Mappings” Matthew Howard, Samir Gupta, Lori Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker.
Conference Best Research Paper Award, May 2013,International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC): “Summarizer: An Automatic Generator of Natural Language Summaries for Java Classes” Laura Moreno, Andrian Marcus, Lori Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker
December 2012
Professors Lori Pollock and Terry Harvey, develop a course, where UD students design custom computer games to help middle school children understand fractions, grid coordinates, order of operations and other important mathematical skills.
March 2012
Professor Lori Pollock collaborates in “Helping Haiti”- an effort to foster learning among women and children in remote areas of Haiti coordinated between UD’s Department of Computer and Information Sciences and the University of North Carolina Charlotte, along with two nonprofit organizations: Waveplace Foundation and Mothering Across Continents (MAC).
December 2011
University of Delaware Research Foundation awards Professor Lori Pollock's project to develop a technique for measuring power consumption across the entire hardware platform and to map the consumption profile of a running software application.
March 2011
Conference Best Research Paper Award,May 2013,International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation(ICST), IEEE, March 2011: A Study of Usage-Based Navigation Models and Generated Abstract Test Cases for Web Applications Sara Sprenkle, Lori Pollock, and Lucy Simko
October 2010
Professor Lori Pollock designated ACM Distinguished Scientist.
Sept 2010
ACM SIGSOFT Best Paper Award, Sept 2010, International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE):“Towards Automatically Generating Summary Comments for Java Methods” Giriprasad Sridhara, Emily Hill, Divya Muppaneni, Lori Pollock, and K. Vijay-Shanker
May 2009
Conference Best Paper Award,May 2009, 6th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR):“Mining Source Code to Automatically Split Identiers for Software Analysis” Eric Enslen, Emily Hill, Lori Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker.
January 2009 UDaily UD Computer Science Students Create Teaching Aids
Professor Lori Pollock and Terry Harvey led a fast-track Winter Session course in 2009 designed to explore how students would respond to new teaching methods and materials, to explore the challenges of incorporating robots into introductory computer sciences courses, and to initiate UD involvement in the One Laptop per Child program.
October 2008 UDaily Researchers Mine Words to Help Programmers
Professors Lori Pollock and Vijay Shanker are featured in an article on UDaily talking about the NSF grant that they received in 2008. This grant is for their seminal work in introducing Natural Language Processing techniques to the field of program analysis, thereby helping in a variety of program comprehension and maintenance tasks.
May 2007 UDaily: Transformation Grants Spark Passion for Learning
Lori Pollock is featured in an article about Transformation Grants. Lori talks about creating the Computer Science Museum and what the Museum tells us about advances in technology.
2005
CRA-W awarded Professor Lori Pollock US Public Service Award by National Science Board, 2005
2004
CRA-W awarded Professor Lori Pollock US Presidential Award for Mentoring in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, 2004.
Professor Lori Pollock receives University of Delaware E. Arthur Trabant Award for Women's Equity.
