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November 1, 1996 marked the first annual Open House at the Rutgers
Department of Computer Science. The day consisted of talks and software demonstrations which included opening remarks by University President Francis L. Lawrence and a keynote address by Mark Weiser, chief technologist with the Xerox Corporation and one of the pioneers of mobile and distributed computing. Throughout the day, department faculty gave brief talks, averaging 15 minutes each, on their research projects which covered such areas as mobile and wireless computing, bioinformatics, high-performance computing, and computer vision. Software demos were held during the early afternoon and highlighted a number of research projects including Data Mining, Interactive Visual Environment for Engineering Design, The Nucleic Acid Database, Mobile Computing and Parallel Computing. In addition, almost every faculty member displayed a research poster. The last program of the day was a panel discussion entitled, "Is the Future Still Bright for PhDs in Computer Science?" The distinguished panel included:
Alfred Aho, Chair of Computer Science Department at Columbia
University The audience included almost 200 participants from industry, faculty, administration, graduate and undegraduate students. Over 30 companies were present. The audio of the entire program is part of the Open House web page: |
From the Chairman
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