He is known for his contributions to education and has received several awards: the 1994 IEEE Taylor L. Booth Award, the ACM Karl Karlstrom Award in 1994, the ACM SIGCSE award in 1991, and the American Federation of Information Processing Societies' (AFIPS) education award in 1985. He was among the first ten faculty members at Cornell (out of over 1600 total faculty) to become a Cornell Weiss Fellow, for contributions to undergraduate education..."; case "Susan Horwitz": return "Susan Horwitz is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; she received her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell in 1985. Professor Horwitz has been actively involved in innovative approaches to improving Computer-Science education for many years, constantly seeking to introduce best practices into her own classrooms and to disseminate them to others..."; case "Luis von Ahn": return "Luis von Ahn is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also received his Ph.D. in 2005. Previously, Luis obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Duke University in 2000. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and was named one of Popular Science Magazine's "Brilliant 10" scientists of 2006. His research interests include encouraging people to do work for free, as well as catching and thwarting cheaters in online environments." ; case "Mark LeBlanc": return "Mark D. LeBlanc is Professor of Computer Science at Wheaton College in Norton, MA. He received a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Maine in 1984 and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 1987 and 1993, respectively. Arriving at Wheaton College in 1993 as the first computer scientist, he proceeded to build a program in computer science. His current research interests involve the application of computational stylistic techniques to a broad range of domains, including Anglo-Saxon literature and DNA. Since 1998, he has collaborated with Wheaton Professor of Biology Betsey Dyer to link biology and computer science undergraduate courses..."; case "Robin Valenza": return "Robin Valenza, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. Prof. Valenza graduated summa cum laude from Duke with majors in English and Computer Science, with distinction in English; received an M.Phil from Cambridge University in 1998 in Computer Speech and Language; and the Ph.D. in English from Stanford in 2003.
Her research draws on her interdisciplinary background in science and literature in order to examine the relationship between the sciences and the humanities in the modern world. " case "Jim Bungener": return "Jim Bungener graduated from Duke University with a double major in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering in 1999. He proceeded to Princeton to do a Master's in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). While finishing his thesis Jim was contacted by Team Alinghi to become their in house CFD expert.
After winning the America's cup in March 2004 in Auckland, New Zealand Jim prepared for the next America's cup in June 2007 --- Team Alinghi won again and Jim has at least a few days to rest! Within the team Jim is a member of the design team doing not only all the CFD work but also the wind tunnel testing and fluids related on-water experimental works. He uses commercially available software, but mostly codes the team's own applications and algorithms. " case "Betsey Dexter Dyer": return "Betsey Dexter Dyer is Professor of Biology at Wheaton College (Norton, MA) where her courses include Genetics. She earned her PhD at Boston University in the laboratory of Lynn Margulis. Her interests include microbial evolution and symbiosis as well as DNA sequence analysis. Since 1998 she has collaborated with Mark LeBlanc (Wheaton College Computer Science) in developing and implementing pedagogies for presenting genomics to interdisciplinary classes of undergraduates."; case "Mike Clancy": return "Michael Clancy is Senior Lecturer, SOE in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is active in both the Computer Science Education community and the Psychology of Programming Community having presented many papers in both areas. With Marcia Linn he has worked on promoting case-studies in Computer Science curricula; their work has resulted in numerous publications, two books, and under Prof. Clancy's leadership led to the inclusion of a case-study as a standard, tested component of the Advanced Placement Computer Science Exam."; case "Jason Stajich": return "Jason Stajich, Ph.D. is currently a Miller Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology working with Professor John Taylor on studies in the evolution of fungi. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Duke University in 1999 and his PhD in Genetics and Genomics from Duke University in 2006.
Jason has served as project leader for the open source project BioPerl since 2001 and president of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation since 2005."; case "Scott Guthrie": return "Scott Guthrie is a General Manager in Microsoft's Developer Division, and is responsible for the development of Microsoft's .NET Framework developer platform, as well as Microsoft's Visual Studio Web And Client development tools. Scott graduated from Duke University in 1997 with a degree in computer science, and joined Microsoft directly out of college.
He became one of the original members of Microsoft's new .NET programming project, and wrote the original prototype of ASP.NET. He later went on to lead the development teams focused on the server products within .NET.
Today he runs a team of more than 600 software engineers responsible for the development of the .NET Framework, Microsoft's web server products, and the Visual Studio web and client development tools. Scott is a frequent speaker at development conferences and events, in addition to still writing code."; case "Matt Welsh": return "Matt Welsh is associate professor of Computer Science at Harvard. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell in 1996 and the Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2002. As a 14-year old, Matt took an Introduction to Computer Science course from me in 1988.
His research interests span many aspects of complex systems, including Internet services, distributed systems, and sensor networks. His current projects include macroprogramming languages and resource management techniques for sensor networks, as well as deployments in application settings such as medical care and seismology. Prior to joining Harvard, Welsh spent one year as a visiting researcher at Intel Research, Berkeley, as a member of the TinyOS project team. There he was one of the core developers of the NesC language used by TinyOS and the TOSSIM sensor network simulator."; case "Fenella Saunders": return "Fenella Saunders is an Associate Editor for American Scientist, the magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. She received the A.B. degree in Computer Science from Duke in 1995 and a Master's degree in animal behavior from Hunter College.
She was previously a Science Writer/Editor for New York University School of Medicine's publications office and Associate Editor of their magazine, NYU Physician. Prior to this, she spent eight years at Discover magazine, where she was an Associate Editor and Online Editor. A co-author of Popular Science's Space 2100: To Mars and Beyond in the Century to Come, she has also freelanced for Popular Mechanics, Scholastic, The Learning Channel and The Discovery Channel."; case "Nick Millington": return "Nick Millington graduated from Duke in 1998 with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is currently Director of Software Development at Sonos, Inc. Sonos develops the Sonos Digital Music System, which is the first and only wireless multi-room music system with a full-color Controller that lets consumers enjoy digital music all over the house. Prior to joining Sonos at its founding in 2003, Nick was lead on Microsoft's Windows SharePoint Services where he and his team designed and implemented the data and document storage engine and web page display framework for Microsoft"; case "Kelly Shaw": return "Kelly Shaw, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Richmond. She received her B.S. degree in Computer Science from Duke in 1997 and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford in 2005 with a Distinction in Teaching.
Her research is in the area of computer architecture with a particular interest in designing architectures that are well-suited for mining data, including businesses' data warehouses and scientific databases.
Professor Shaw has served as the primary advisor for two undergraduate summer research internships, partially funded by the the NSF/CRA-W Distributed Mentor Project"; case "Joshua Unger": return "Joshua Mostkoff Unger MD, MS Computer Science graduated from Duke in 1996 with a degree in Civil Engineering and Art History. He taught high school physics for one year and then worked for three years in the computer industry focusing on satellite imaging processing applications for NASA in Greenbelt, MD and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. He earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2002 where his research centered on parallel processing with applications in biomolecular simulations including protein folding.
In a change of careers, Dr. Unger returned to Duke where he graduated with the MD degree in 2006. He currently is training to be a General Surgeon at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and waiting for the next opportunity to merge his current medical career with his previous career in computer science."; case "Noam Shazeer": return "Noam Shazeer is an Engineer at Google. He graduated from Duke in 1998 with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science. Early at Google Noam invented, designed, and implemented Google's Did You Mean query-correction service. While at Duke, Noam and a team of undergraduate and graduate students designed and implemented the world's first world-class computerized crossword-puzzle solver under the guidance of then Duke professor Michael Littman."; default: return "yabbadabba doo!!!"; } }