Founding a new computer science program

The symposium speakers included Ed Lazowska, Allen Tucker, Andrea Danyluk (of Williams College and the CS2013 committee), Valerie Barr (who had revived Union College’s computer science program)—and, of course me. On May 2, Albert wrote to all the symposium speakers:

Before the symposium, this group also fielded questions about typical CS search timelines as Whitman College geared up to hire its founding computer scientist. On July 3, I received an invitation from President Bridges to call him on his cell phone so he could “learn [my] reactions to the meeting devoted to Computer Science here at Whitman and some ideas we are considering for the first faculty hire.”

Source: blogs.whitman.edu