The best ideas for computer science research often emerge from real-world problems (challenges, anomalies, oddities) that arise in practice. 

With that in mind, the Department of Computer Science at NC State University invites you to attend a special NC State Computer Science Industry Problem Day on Wednesday, December 11th, 10A to 2:30P.  Lunch and free parking will be provided. The event will take place in Engineering Building 2 (890 Oval Dr, Raleigh, NC) on Centennial Campus.

The goal of this event is to provide industry technologists a forum to share their challenges with our faculty in an effort to identify alignment and to develop deeper industry-academia synergies via research-related collaborations.

There will be no formal presentations during this event. Rather, we will organize into a variety of affinity groups based on problem topics. Each group will bring forth and discuss problems that arise in practice and the relevant state of the art. tentative schedule is as follows:

• 10:00A – Introductions and Rules of Order
• 10:30A – Round 1 Discussions (in two or three groups)
• 12:00P –  Lunch
• 1:00P –  Round 2 Discussions (in two or three groups)

We invite industry colleagues to participate in these discussions. We ask that each attendee come prepared to discuss two problems in their company (or indeed their whole industry). The problems could be anything but we prefer that at least one of them be (considered) impossible!

Please feel free to share this message with colleagues whom you think may be interested in attending.

To help us plan for the event, we request that you register in advance at https://forms.gle/38nzogEC7ik726i59.

For research-related queries, please feel free to contact Dr. Munindar Singh at <singh@ncsu.edu>; for logistical matters or to obtain general information about the Department of Computer Science, please feel free to contact Ken Tate at <kmtate2@ncsu.edu>.

Directions to EB2 are available here. Once you have registered, we will send you a separate email with a link to download a free parking pass for the day.

Space is limited, so register ASAP. We hope you can join us.