A SPECIAL DISTINGUISHED SCS "ALUMNI DEPARTMENT HEAD" LECTURE 
(and HISTORY LESSON)
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Thursday, 19 September 2002
4:30 pm - Wean Hall 7500
4:15 pm - Refreshments outside auditorium


	DR. JOSEPH F. TRAUB
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        Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science
	Columbia University, and
	Former Department Head, Computer Science Department
	Carnegie Mellon University


  	    "COMPUTER SCIENCE AT CMU: A PERSONAL VIEW"
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Computer Science at CMU has a glorious history.  We''ve also had 
much fun along the way.  I will share some of the stories you just
might not have heard during the Immigration Course, such as:

    Resolved:
	*Computer Science should not grow much larger
	*How Black Friday got its name
        *Who fell down the Alan J. Perlis Memorial Shaft
	*The cheese cooperative
	*What was the two failure rule
	*The King''s Gambit
	*What was the hottest research project

I am sure that some of the people who were here in the 70''s will 
speak up to correct or amplify my memories and will add their own.
If time permits, I will switch topics and discuss scaling laws as one 
of the unifying principles of computer science, both temporally (past,
present, and future) and across the various areas of computing and
telecommunications.

SPEAKER BIO:
Joseph Traub was Head of the Computer Science Department at 
Carnegie-Mellon University (1971-1979) and Founding Chairman of 
the Computer Science Department at Columbia University (1979-1989).
He served as Founding Chair of the Computer Science and 
Telecommunications Board of the National Academy of Sciences 
1986-1992. 

Traub is author or editor of ten books and some one hundred 
twenty journal articles. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Complexity and Associate Editor of Complexity. His numerous honors 
include election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985, 
the 1991 Emanuel R. Piore Gold Medal from IEEE, and the 1992 
Distinguished Service Award, Computer Research. He has been Sherman 
Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of 
Technology and received a Distinguished Senior Scientist Award 
from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.  He was selected by 
the Academia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome to present the 1993 
Lezioni Lincee, a cycle of six lectures. Traub received the 
1999 Mayors Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. The 
Award was presented by Mayor Rudy Giuliani at a ceremony in 
New York City. In May, 2001, he received an honorary Doctorate 
of Science from Florida Central University.

He has served as advisor or consultant to the senior management
of numerous organizations including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, 
Schlumberger, Stanford University, INRIA (Paris), Federal Judiciary
Center, DARPA, NSF, and Lucent Technologies.

One focus of his current research is quantum computing.