Will AI write your thesis?

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 […]