Pamela, A legacy to be proud of.
Frank ---- Frank Wimberly https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Dec 23, 2017 10:09 AM, "Pamela McCorduck" <[email protected]> wrote: > Whatever their secret sauce is, I wish CMU would bottle it and sell it. > The School of Computer Science is nearly 50/50 women/men students, and from > all over. And it’s no secret, of course: outstanding women faculty, and > programs designed to make women at home in a larger field that has been > notoriously unwelcoming—downright hostile—to them in the past. > > i’m proud to say that my late husband, Joseph Traub, when he was head of > the department, hired the first two women faculty members in computer > science at CMU. One was Mary Shaw, who occupies a named chair at CMU these > days, and one was Anita Jones, who went on to control a > several-billion-dollar budget for Defense Department research. > > Joe’s top graduate students are both Chinese-born. H. T. Kung (whom he > brought with him from the University of Washington when he took the > Carnegie job) is now William Gates Professor of Computer Science at > Harvard. David Lee—oh, whoops, David was a Columbia Ph.D. But Joe’s Ph.D. > students came from all over, and though his field is very densely > mathematics based, he had many women students he advised. > > PMcC > > > > > On Dec 23, 2017, at 8:31 AM, Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just received the Mathematical Sciences Newsletter from Carnegie > Mellon. This is a photo of a group of undergraduates who completed > research projects in the summer of 2017 in the mathematics of finance. > They are almost entirely female and Asian. The only “Anglos” seem to be > the faculty advisors. Impressive. > > > <image001.jpg> > > Frank > > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > [email protected] [email protected] > Phone: (505) 995-8715 Cell: (505) 670-9918 > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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