Aug

28

Landmark Contributions by Students in Computer Science

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There are many reasons for research funding agencies (DARPA, NSF, etc.) to invest in the education of students. Producing the next generation of innovators is the most obvious one. In addition, though, there are an impressive number of instances in our field in which undergraduate and graduate students have made truly game-changing contributions in the course of their studies.

The inspiring list in the attached PDF was compiled by the following individuals and their colleagues: Bill Bonvillian (MIT), Susan Graham (Berkeley), Anita Jones (University of Virginia), Ed Lazowska (University of Washington), Pat Lincoln (SRI), Fred Schneider (Cornell), and Victor Zue (MIT).

We solicit your suggestions for additional student contributions of comparable impact – add them as comments below and email them to Ed Lazowska.

Here’s the list!


Jun

7

“Computing Research that Changed the World” – VIDEOS!

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loc1-300x219On March 25th, the Computing Community Consortium organized a spectacular daylong symposium at the Library of Congress:  “Computing Research that Changed the World:  Reflections and Perspectives.”

Videos of the presentations (as well as slides) are now available on the symposium website.  See http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium_slides.php for the complete agenda with individual links, or see our YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/computingresearch.

Talks at the Symposium included:

  • Introductory Session
    • Ed Lazowska (University of Washington), “Changing the World”
  • Session 1: The Internet and the World Wide Web
    • Alfred Spector (Google), “Why We’re Able to Google”
    • Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley), “The Magic of the ‘Cloud’: Supercomputers for Everybody, Everywhere”
    • Luis von Ahn (Carnegie Mellon University), “Human Computation”
  • Session 2: Evolving Foundations
    • Barbara Liskov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Security of Online Information”
    • Daphne Koller (Stanford University), “Learning to Improve Our Lives”
    • Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University), “Global Information Networks”
  • Session 3: The Transformation of the Sciences via Computation
    • Larry Smarr (UC San Diego), “Supercomputers and Supernetworks are Transforming Research”
    • Chris Johnson (University of Utah), “Computing and Visualizing the Future of Medicine”
    • Gene Myers (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), “Zooming In On Life”
  • Session 4: Computing Everywhere!
    • Deborah Estrin (UCLA), “Sensing Everywhere!”
    • Pat Hanrahan (Stanford University), “Pixels Everywhere!”
    • Rodney Brooks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Robots Everywhere!”