Archive for February, 2010

 

New Members of the National Academy of Engineering

February 17th, 2010

The National Academy of Engineering has announced the Members of the Class of 2010.  In Section 5 (Computer Science & Engineering), the newly-elected Members are:

  • Andrei Broder, Yahoo!
  • Irene Greif, IBM
  • Bill Gropp, UIUC
  • Laura Haas, IBM
  • Mike Jordan, UC Berkeley
  • Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
  • Tom Mitchell, CMU
  • Larry Peterson, Princeton
  • Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
  • Mark Wegman, IBM
  • N.R. Narayana Murthy, Infosys (Foreign Associate)

Congratulations to these outstanding colleagues!  The NAE announcement may be viewed here.

Computer Engineer Barbie!

February 13th, 2010

As noted in a previous post, Mattel has been running a web-based contest to choose Barbie’s next career.

The results are in!  “You voted!  We listened!!”  (Even if  “you” is a bot …)  The winner of the popular vote is … Computer Engineer Barbie!

The New York Times reports:  “Barbie has come a long way since 1992, when the blond bombshell of a doll was programmed to say, ‘Math class is tough.’  Barbie, whose various careers have taken her from aerobics instructor to supermodel to business executive, will next be a computer engineer, a career chosen by half a million Barbie fans.”  Read the full article here.

FOSS Workshop Day 3 Wrap-up

February 12th, 2010

The Free/Open Source Software workshop wrapped up today.  Discussion focused on a number of topics, including:

- Translation into other domains of software

- Software engineering practice

- Collaboration issues in FOSS

- Learning and education challenges/opportunities

- Evolution of products, projects, practices and processes

- Research infrastructures

A report from the workshop will be developed in the coming weeks and posted on the CCC Web site.

John L. King, CCC Council Liaison