In This Issue:

A SEAS Change in Educational Philosophy

Engineering in and for the Community

Googlers Win Marconi Award

Constructing a Framework for Health

SEAS Professors Honored as Great and Distinguished

Biomedical Engineering Conducts Symposium

Financial Engineering Program and IEOR Garner Kudos

Lions of All Ages Celebrate Reunion ’04

Camp Columbia: Call of the Wild

The Changing Face of Engineering - Fellowships

Lucy Alperin ’52 Recalls Her Time at SEAS

Alumnae Share Perspectives at Roundtable

Alumni Briefs

Computer Science Celebrates 25 years

Computer Science Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

A three-day celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of Columbia’s Computer Science Department was conducted in October, attended by more than 200 alumni, faculty, students, and guests.

“Computer Science at Columbia has become an integral part of the University, as well as a center of research in core areas of computer science, from theory, to making sense of data, interacting with the physical world, interacting with humans, operating and networked systems, and designing digital systems,” said Department Chair Henning Schulzrinne.

“Our invited speakers showed how much our 153 Ph.D., 1,206 M.S. and 1,620 undergraduate alumni contribute to academia, industrial and government research and industry in general,” he said.

Shown in photo above: front, left to right, SEAS Vice Dean Morton B. Friedman; Peter Likins, President of the University of Arizona and former SEAS dean under whose leadership the Department was founded; Prof. Joseph Traub, the founding Chair of the Department; and keynote speaker Robert Kahn, president of the Corporation for National Research Initiative, who co-developed the TCP/IP communications protocol essential to the Internet; back row, SEAS Dean Zvi Galil, a former Chair of the CS Department, and Prof. Schulzrinne.

In photo right are Dr. Kahn, David Waltz, director of the Center for Computational Learning Systems and author Pamela McCorduck.