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5 unusual facts about Computer Science


European Society for Computing and Technology in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

The society was established in 1989 and has ever since corroborated communication between clinical (Anesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine) & technical disciplines (Computer Science & Engineering).

Formulation

Disciplines in which one might use the word formulation in the abstract sense include Logic, Mathematics, Linguistics, Legal theory, and Computer science.

Happy Palace Grammar School

Subjects taught at HPGS include Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Computer Studies, Pakistan Studies, Urdu, Islamic Studies, English Literature, Economics, Accounting, Business Studies, Environmental Studies, Sociology, English Language, Art & Design, Additional Mathematics and Economics.

OPJ

In the context of Computer science, for Orthogonal Persistence for the Java platform, an approach to provide orthogonal persistence for Java (programming language).

Vinay Kumar Pandey

Pandey also holds Postgraduate diploma in Computer science, Ayurved Ratna and a certificate course in Processing and Cultivation of Aeromatic and Medicinal Plants.


American Information Exchange

Among early adopters, the computer industry itself became the source of many early markets such as a network for the exchange of libraries of object-oriented computer code.

Apprenticeship learning

Apprenticeship learning, or apprenticeship via inverse reinforcement learning (AIRP), is a concept in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, developed by Pieter Abbeel, Assistant Professor in Berkeley's EECS department, and Andrew Ng, Associate Professor in Stanford University's Computer Science Department.

CFLAGS

These variables are most commonly used to specify optimization or debugging switches to a compiler, as for example -g, -O2 or (GCC-specific) -march=athlon.

Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture

NET is a software framework created by Rockford Lhotka that provides a standard way to create robust object oriented programs using business objects.

Dennis Shasha

Dennis Elliot Shasha is a professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, a division of New York University.

Directed algebraic topology

Its applications deal with domains where privileged directions appear, like concurrent processes, traffic networks, spacetime models, noncommutative geometry, rewriting systems and the modelling of biological systems.

Download Cache

Assemblies are downloaded from the Internet when a specific managed object is requested using the <object> tag in a web page.

École Polytechnique massacre

For example, Charles Rackoff, a University of Toronto computer science professor, compared those organizing vigils marking the event to the Ku Klux Klan.

Electronic Systems Center

ESC consisted of professional teams specializing in engineering, computer science, and business management.

Ernesto Morgado

Ernesto M. Morgado has been awarded a Licentiate degree in Mechanical Engineering (1976) from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) and a Master of Science in Computer Science (1981) and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (1986) from State University of New York at Buffalo.

He was Lecturer of Computer Science in Millard Fillmore College (State University of New York at Buffalo) in 1980 and Canisius College (1981–1984).

ESys.net

These features, such as reflection / introspection, the translation to an intermediate representation instead of machine code (the CIL) that still contains information about user-defined classes, platform independence and extensive thread management functionality, are supposed to allow for faster development and easier debugging of systems.

Free60

On the Xbox 360, one such exploit exists, relying on and utilizing a modified DVD-ROM drive firmware, a modified burnt disc of the game King Kong (for Xbox 360), and the target console having either one of two vulnerable Kernel revisions.

GrammaTech

GrammaTech and the University of Wisconsin have been collaborating since 2001 to develop analysis, reverse-engineering, and anti-tamper tools for binary executables.

Hamming bound

In mathematics and computer science, in the field of coding theory, the Hamming bound is a limit on the parameters of an arbitrary block code: it is also known as the sphere-packing bound or the volume bound from an interpretation in terms of packing balls in the Hamming metric into the space of all possible words.

History of the Actor model

Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl developed the idea (first described in an IFIP workshop in 1967) of having methods on each object that would update its own local state based on messages from other objects.

IBM System/370

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) had a backend for S/370, but it became obsolete over time and was finally replaced by the S/390 backend.

Jarkko Kari

He married Lila Kari, a later mathematics student at Turku; they divorced, and afterwards Lila Kari became a professor of computer science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Jon Mittelhauser

Mittelhauser attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he joined the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 1992 and a Master's degree in 1994.

Lathrop High School

AP classes are offered in Biology, US History, Microeconomics, European History, Calculus (AB & BC), Statistics, (English) Composition, (English) Literature, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science.

Maurizio Lenzerini

Maurizio Lenzerini is an Italian professor of computer science and engineering at the Sapienza University of Rome where he specializes in Ontology language, knowledge representation and reasoning as well as service modeling.

Mehryar Mohri

Mehryar Mohri is a professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University known for his work in machine learning, automata theory and algorithms, speech recognition and natural language processing.

Michelle Dessler

Michelle obtained her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, and began her career at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division, and DARPA's High Confidence Systems Working Group, before being hired by the Counter Terrorist Unit, Los Angeles branch.

Mihai Nadin

Currently Mihai Nadin is a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, appointed to the Ashbel Smith Professorship in Interactive Arts, Technology, and Computer Science.

Milner Award

The Royal Society Milner Award, supported by Microsoft Research, is given for outstanding achievement in computer science by a European researcher.

Morphogen

Alan Turing, better known for his work in wartime cryptography and the theory of computing, wrote a paper, The chemical basis of morphogenesis, correctly predicting a chemical mechanism for pattern formation.

MUSHclient

MUSHclient is highly flexible, and provides aliases, hotkeys, triggers (text-matching), command-execution timing, variables, multi-session support, ANSI-colour customisation and speed-walking.

Norbert Pohlmann

Norbert Pohlmann (born 20 March 1960 in Ratingen/Germany) is a computer scientist and a professor at the Westphalia University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen.

Obong University

The university offers a College of Natural and Applied Sciences with degrees available in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Electronics.

Open University of Catalonia

The UOC offers graduate and postgraduate programs in Catalan, Spanish and English in fields such as Psychology, Computer Science, Sciences of Education, Information and Knowledge Society and Economics.

Partha Niyogi

Partha Niyogi (July 31, 1967 – October 1, 2010) was the Louis Block professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Chicago.

Philosophy of computer science

The philosophy of computer science is concerned with the philosophical questions that arise with the study of computer science, which is understood to mean not just programming but the whole study of concepts and methodologies that assist in the development and maintenance of computer systems.

PM2

The thread management subsystem of PM2 is called Marcel (named after Marcel Proust) and its communication subsystem Madeleine, a French sweet that supposedly played a central role in the life of Marcel Proust.

Porting

In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library).

PSXLinux

PSXLinux (also known as Runix) is a Linux kernel and development kit for the PlayStation (MIPS-NOMMU).

Rob Kling

Rob Kling, PhD (born August 1944, died 15 May 2003 - age 58) was a North American professor of Information Systems and Information science at the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University, USA.

Salvatore Rampone

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sannio - Italy, he possesses two Master of Arts degrees, in Computer Science and Informatics.

Technological University of Pereira

The university offers studies in Engineering (Industrial engineering, Systems engineering and Computer science, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering); Science and Technology (Veterinary medicine, Medicine, Chemical technology, Industrial chemistry, Environmental management); Liberal arts (English, Spanish language and Literature, philosophy, Communication and Computer Education); Child pedagogy; and Sports science and recreation.

The Home Computer Advanced Course

Subjects included computer applications, computer hardware and software technology, concepts in computer science, practical electronics projects, BASIC and machine code programming, other programming languages, operating systems (including MS-DOS and UNIX), and a jargon dictionary.

Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

The Siebel Center houses the Department of Computer Science, which currently shares the distinction of being one of the top five Computer Science departments in the nation with Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

University of Stavanger

The university offers doctorates in Petroleum Technology, Offshore Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Special Needs Education, Literacy and Social Science (with specializations in Medicine and Health, Risk Management and Societal Safety, Management, Economics, Tourism, Sociology, Social Work and Culture & Society).

Vectored I/O

Atomicity: If the particular vectored I/O implementation supports atomicity, a process can write into or read from a set of buffers to or from a file without risk that another thread or process might perform I/O on the same file between the first process' reads or writes, thereby corrupting the file or compromising the integrity of the input

Venky Harinarayan

Originally from Bombay, India, Harinarayan has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Madras (Class of 1988).

Vietoris–Rips complex

As with unit disk graphs, the Vietoris–Rips complex has been applied in computer science to model the topology of ad hoc wireless communication networks.

VTun

It exists as the reference implementation of the Tun/Tap user-space tunnel driver which was included in the Linux kernel as of version 2.4, also originally developed by Maxim Krasnyansky.

WinRAR

Since version 3.60 (August 2006), WinRAR includes a multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple, dual-core, or Hyper-threading-enabled CPUs.


see also

ADM-3A

-- might be true, but we need a source for "derives" --> and it was the dominant terminal in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley when Bill Joy originally wrote the C shell.

Aladdin Knowledge Systems

Aladdin Knowledge Systems was founded in 1985 by Jacob (Yanki) Margalit, when he was 23 years old; he was soon joined by brother Dany Margalit, who took the responsibility for product development at the age of 18, while at the same time completing a Mathematics and Computer Science degree in Tel Aviv University.

Alan Turing Memorial

The cast bronze bench carries in relief the text 'Alan Mathison Turing 1912-1954' and the motto 'Founder of Computer Science' as it would appear if encoded by an Enigma machine; 'IEKYF RQMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ'.

Alana DeLong

She graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics (honours) with a drama minor before going on to complete courses toward a Masters of Computer Science degree at the University of Calgary.

Angelo Mongiovi

He graduated from here with a Bachelor's of Engineering in Computer Science in 1974 and went on to work for AT&T then the Computer Sciences Corporation, CSC following and presently.

Bruce Shriver

He is also an Honorary and Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong.

Dan Geer

Geer received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he was a member of the Theta Deuteron charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

Desney Tan

He later attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his PhD in Computer Science in 2004 under the supervision of Randy Pausch, popularly known for delivering "The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" after being diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.

Dilip Sankarreddy

He is a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore and a Full-Time MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

DIMACS

The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) is a collaboration between Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the research firms AT&T, Bell Labs, Applied Communication Sciences, and NEC.

Don Armando

After completing a tour of duty with the United States Air Force, he graduated from New York University with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, and later he acquired a Master's Degree from Columbia University.

Douglas G. Bergeron

Bergeron attended Assumption College High School, graduating in 1978, and attended York University, in Toronto, Canada, graduating in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts with Special Honors in Computer Science.

EPSI

Later on, with the rise of the computer science industry, the school built branches in Bordeaux, Montpellier, Arras then in October 2002 in Nantes and then later in Lyon.

Erik Proper

After graduation Proper started his academic as Computer Science researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia, and lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology.

Farey sequence

Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd Edition (Addison-Wesley, Boston, 1989); in particular, Sec. 4.5 (pp. 115–123), Bonus Problem 4.61 (pp. 150, 523–524), Sec. 4.9 (pp. 133–139), Sec. 9.3, Problem 9.3.6 (pp. 462–463).

Genetic

Genetic algorithm, in computer science, a kind of search technique modeled on evolutionary biology

Gilbert Simondon

Another contributor to Gilbert Simondon: une pensée de l'individuation et de la technique, Simondon's friend John Hart, was the instigator of the very first translation -- from French into English c.1980 -- of Simondon's work (this at a university in Canada where Hart had founded both a Department of Computer Science and a Simondon-inspired network: the ATN, or Audio Tactile Network).

Guy Street

Concordia University's Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex is located on this street, as is the John Molson School of Business building.

Igor Engraver

The company was later sold to new owners, and in 2002 Peter Bengtson retired from active involvement in the company, which is now owned by Björn Ulvaeus (formerly of the pop group ABBA), Christer Sturmark (a Swedish author, I.T. entrepreneur, and debater on religion and humanism), Per Gessle (a member of the pop groups Gyllene Tider and Roxette), and Cons T. Åhs (a computer science researcher).

John Hinsdale

From 1986 through 1991, Hinsdale decided to apply his computer science in the field of management consulting, working as a specialist for the New York firm of McKinsey & Company.

Kennedale High School

Activities and student groups at Kennedale High School include art club, anime club, Business Professionals of America, choir, Computer Science Society, Friends of Rachel, Key Club, Kindness in Students Spreads, National Honor Society, Outdoor Education Society, Spanish club, student council, Thespians, UIL Academics, UIL Speech & Debate, and yearbook.

Knödel number

Since 1961 he is professor at University of Stuttgart, establishing the new department of computer science.

Kosaraju

S. Rao Kosaraju (or Kosaraju Sambasiva Rao), a professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University.

Kris Wang

Wang received her undergraduate degree in statistics and master's degree in business management from University of Phoenix, and her graduate studies in computer science at San Jose State University.

Luís Moniz Pereira

Luís Moniz Pereira(born in 1947 in Lisbon, Portugal) is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the AI centre at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Mark Changizi

His interdisciplinary skills have earned him prestigious academic roles in multiple fields, including appointments in Computer Science at University College Cork, Theoretical Neurobiology at Caltech, and Cognitive Science at Rensselaer.

Mark Crispin

In the early 1980s, shortly after becoming the Systems Programmer for the Stanford Computer Science Department's TOPS-20 system, he became interested in electronic mail software and systems; thereafter this became his primary focus.

Matt Blaze

He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania; he received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University.

McGill University School of Computer Science

The first Internet Search Engine, Archie search engine, was written in 1990 by three McGill computer science students: Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J. Peter Deutsch.

Michael Martin Hammer

Michael Martin Hammer (13 April 1948 – 3 Sept 2008) was an American engineer, management author, and a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), known as one of the founders of the management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR).

Monir Amerkhous

He was accepted in Miage in September 2005, a famous computer science department which belongs to Paris 12 Val de Marne University.

Paris Descartes University

Headquartered in the historic École de Chirurgie in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the university strongly focus on medical sciences (medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy, psychology), biomedical sciences (cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, chemistry, biomedical physic), social sciences (sociology, anthropology, linguistics, demographics, science of education), mathematics, computer science and law.

Patrick Cousot

As of March 2008, Cousot is a Professor of Computer Science at New York University.

Peter Chen

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Peter Chen received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1968 at the National Taiwan University, and a Ph.D. in computer science/applied mathematics at the Harvard University in 1973.

Portability

Porting, the ability of a computer program to be ported from one system to another in computer science

Prasad Ram

He obtained his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1987.

Rajiv Chilaka

Chilaka obtained a BE in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 1995 and went on to the University of Missouri - Kansas City for his Masters Degree in Computer Science.

Robert D. Macredie

Macredie was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and attended Broom Valley junior and infants' school, Oakwood Comprehensive School, and Rotherham College of Arts and Technology, before an undergraduate degree in Physics and Computer Science at the University of Hull.

Sarit Kraus

She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Hebrew University in 1989 under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Lehmann.

Sather

It originated circa 1990 at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at the University of California, Berkeley, developed by an international team led by Steve Omohundro.

Singleton pattern

University of Maryland Computer Science researcher Bill Pugh has written about the code issues underlying the Singleton pattern when implemented in Java.

Spertus

Ellen Spertus, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College and a research scientist at Google.

Suciu

Dan Suciu, professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington

Taems

Task analysis environment modeling simulation (computer science), a multi-agent task modeling language

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee College of Engineering and Applied Science

Phil Katz ('84, BS Computer Science), a computer programmer best known as the author of PKZIP.

Wayne Sowell

Wayne Sowell is married to Dr. Marietta Cameron, an associate professor of computer science at Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama.

Yi-Bing Lin

In 1985, he undertook a doctorate program at the University of Washington (Advisor: Ed Lazowska), and graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1990.