I spent this past weekend at The Hackers Conference, “an annual invitation-only conference traditionally held in the San Francisco Bay Area.” I was invited by my sister, a computer engineer based in Santa Clara, CA, and I was too curious not to attend. Here’s my entry in the photo roster (photo taken at conference registration): […]
Today in our weekly CS Pizza talk and discussion series, the CS department hosted a panel of senior CS majors sharing their off-campus study experiences. Five juniors went abroad last year, and four were able to join the lunchtime panel. I was unable to attend because of my daughter’s early school dismissal, but I hear […]
Here’s my usual report on our fall 2024 enrollments, as of week 2 of the semester. Number Title Enrolled under Math Women:Men Waitlist CS 167-A, -B, -C Intro. Computational Problem Solving 68/60 3:4 CS/Math 215 Introduction to Data Science 25/24 2:3 CS/Math 220-A, -B Discrete Math & Functional Programming 37/24 3 1:2 CS 270-A, -B […]
One of the responsibilities of the department chair is to introduce new colleagues at the first faculty meeting of the new academic year. So I just wrote one-minute introductions for my new colleagues, Sachintha Pitigala and Richard Torres Molina. I thought I’d share them here: Sachintha Pitigala joins us this year from Sri Lanka, where […]
Here’s my usual report on our fall 2023 enrollments, as of week 2 of the semester. Number Title Enrolled under Math Women:Men Waitlist CS 167-A, B Intro. Computational Problem Solving 60/60 1:2 ? CS 200 ST: Data Visceralization 17/16 3:2 ? CS/Math 215 Introduction to Data Science 29/25 7 1:2 ? CS/Math 220-A, B Discrete […]
We are trying again to fill our fifth tenure track position. Please share the position ad with anyone who might be interested! Whereas last time around we launched a spring search, this time we will start reading applications on October 18, the median application deadline for CS faculty jobs at primarily undergraduate institutions in 2022-23. […]
The Pre-registration for fall is almost upon us, and once again, I have been too busy to make note of our enrollments for the current semester. Here is the story as of the start of the semester in January. Number Title Enrolled under Math She:He Waitlist CS 167-A,B Intro. Computational Problem Solving 52/60 1:1 CS […]
This fall, I was honored to serve as Whitman’s convocation speaker. When I agreed to speak, I had no idea what I would talk about, but by time I sat down to write it was obvious what question to ask. It was a fun speech to write, and as I learned more, I changed my […]
Once again, we face a (minor) crisis in enrollments! That’s on top of a crisis in staffing. Here’s the scoop. Without further ado, here are the numbers: Number Title Enrolled under Math Women:Men Waitlist CS 167-A, B Intro. Computational Problem Solving 42/40 3:5 2 CS/Math 215 Introduction to Data Science 26/25 8 1:3 1 CS/Math […]
I was too overwhelmed last fall to make the usual pre-registration post. So, for the record, here is a belated summary of our enrollments around day 10 of the spring 2022 semester. Number Title Enrolled under Math Women:Men Waitlist CS 100 ST: Web Design 21/24 1:1 CS 167-A,B Intro. Computational Problem Solving 49/60 1:2 CS […]
I am thrilled to introduce our newest tenure-track faculty member, Jordan Wirfs-Brock, joining us in January 2023. Her tentative teaching assignments for the spring semester are CS/Math 215, Introduction to Data Science, and CS 267, Human-Computer Interaction. I asked Jordan to write a short introduction for students and alumni. Here’s what she...