Computer Science Colloquium @ VillanovaComputer Science Colloquium @ Villanovahttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/55711Villanova, MSC 1542008-04-07T16:30:002008-04-07
April 7, 4:30PM
Villanova, MSC 154
Dr. Jeanette Wing, Carnegie Mellon University
Description
This presentation is part of the Delaware Valley Distinguished Lectureship Series in Computer Science, which is jointly hosted by the computing departments at Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, Swarthmore College and Villanova University. Everyone is invited to attend.
Dr. Jeanette Wing will speak on "Computational Thinking".
Wing is the President's Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her S.B. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1979 and her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1983, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2004-2007, she was Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon. Currently on leave from CMU, she is the Assistant Director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation.
Professor Wing's general research interests are in the areas of specification and verification, concurrent and distributed systems, and programming languages. Her current focus is on the foundations of trustworthy computing.
Link: http://csc.villanova.edu/events/view/645;jsessionid=539530811E92195A04EAEB42D2C42C7B
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