Results from the
Greater New York Regionals of the ACM
Programming Contest, held at St. Joseph's College in
Patchogue, NY on Sunday, October 26th. Two teams from Yale participated.
The Yale Computer Science Department is deeply saddened by the untimely
death of
Robert Dunne on August 16th, who joined
the Department faculty in 1999. He was well-known for his lecture,
Computers and the Law, which was among the University's most heavily
enrolled courses. In 2006, he was awarded the William Clyde DeVane
Medal, the highest honor conferred for undergraduate teaching at
Yale. He was held in high esteem by both his colleagues and students
and will be greatly missed by everyone.
Yale
Daily News article.
A
memorial service was held at Battel Chapel
on September 13th.
Joan Feigenbaum
discusses issues of controlling availability and use of private
and sensitive information in a Yale University Engineering and
Technology podcast.
Joan Feigenbaum has been interviewed by Computerworld
magazine regarding" the problem with encryption,
the need for 'information accountability' and what's wrong with
role models". Read
full article.
Victor Cheng, CS major -- balances practice,
books and business -- written up in College Sports at ESPN.com.
Read
article.
A former CS PhD graduate, Steven A. Gold, passed
away on July 4, 2008. He was founder and CEO of GraphLogic
Inc., a cutting edge software company in Branford, Connecticut.
NY Times death notice.
Joan Feigenbaum
has been appointed the inaugural Grace Murray Hopper Professor
of Computer Science. Details.
ACM's Special Interest
Group on Algorithms and Computing Theory (SIGACT)
honors Daniel Spielman
and Shang-Hua with 2008 Gödel Prize for
helping computers solve practical problems. Details.
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