Computer Science at Yale University

A former CS PhD graduate, Steven A. Gold, passed away on July 4, 2008. He was founder and CEO of GraphLogic Inc., a cutting edge software company in Branford, Connecticut. NY Times death notice.

Joan Feigenbaum has been appointed the inaugural Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science. Details.

ACM's Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computing Theory (SIGACT) honors Daniel Spielman and Shang-Hua with 2008 Gödel Prize for helping computers solve practical problems. Details.

Stanley Eisenstat has been awarded the Dylan Hixon '88 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Brian Scassellati gets Microsoft “Breakthrough Research Award” for Robotics. Details.

Yale hosted the 2008 NSF Cyber Trust PI Meeting.
(http://www.cs.yale.edu/cybertrust08/)

Vladimir Rokhlin has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice, or education.

On February 7, 2008 the Yale College Faculty approved a new major on
“Computing and the Arts.” The new major is designed for students interested in
integrating work in computing and one of the arts disciplines: Art, History
of Art, Music or Theater Studies.

Joan Feigenbaum has been added to the Science Council for the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), along with 3 others. The new members will join 15 current members of the council in providing scientific guidance for the GENI project -- a proposed experimental facility to allow research on a wide variety of problems in communications, networking, and distributed systems.

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