Applied Groups

To apply for an applied group beginning in Spring 2012, submit the following application by 12/9/2011 by 5pm. The actual application can be obtained from Bobbi, the administrative assistant of the Earlham Computer Science department, or Charlie. If you will be off campus during the application period, please get in touch with one of them to make arrangements to submit your application ahead of time. You will be notified of any position you have received by 12/16/2011.

The Computer Science Department organizes a number of applied CS groups. The primary aim of their projects is to give students an opportunity to apply and extend knowledge gained in the classroom to "real world" software and hardware projects. Students are encouraged, but not required, to participate in one or more of these groups as part of their educational experience while at Earlham.

Content Administrators

Hardware Interfacing Project (HIP)

Pedagogical Tools

System and Network Administrators

Database Interfacing Group, in conjunction with Earlham Computing Services

EC System Admistrators Group, in conjunction with Earlham Computing Services

During the academic year students are paid through work study. We hope that students will work between 8 and 10 hours each week, including at least one weekly planning meeting with their particular group. Many of the groups have projects which are more appropriate to work on during winter and summer breaks. We encourage students to spend one or more breaks working on campus. The wages are the same during breaks but we also provide housing on campus.

In all positions we're hoping, but not necessarily expecting, that students will be involved in the groups over an extended period (usually several semesters). This potentially includes people migrating from one group to another.

Research Groups

The research groups, while not benefiting the college as immediately as the applied groups, do have a larger impact on the CS community as a whole. Theory and Cluster perform undergraduate research, attend conferences, write papers, and seek to discover. Positions are unpaid during the school year; a student who stays over a break to work in a research group is paid at the work study rate. The benefits that can be obtained by working in a research group are: experience, credit, knowledge, and awesomeness.

Cluster Computing Group

Theory Group

Much of our work in both applied and research groups involves others' information and equipment. This leads us to have high standards for the integrity, trustworthiness, and reliability of the students we work with. While the format of a simple code has shortcomings, a reasonable description of what we aspire to can be found in The System Administrators Guild (SAGE) Code of Ethics.

In early December of each year we solicit applications from students for each of these groups. A copy of the most recent application can be found here. The actual application can be obtained from Charlie. If you will be off campus during the application period, please get in touch with one of them to make arrangements to submit your application ahead of time.