It’s been a meteoric rise through CS academia for two Brown CS PhD alums this summer. Alexandra Papoutsaki has just become department chair at Pomona College’s computer science department and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao was appointed the computer science department head at NC State.
Maurice Herlihy is headed off to Paris on a fully funded, six-month research and teaching opportunity to explore distributed computing and finally master French verbs in the imperfect subjunctive voice.
Code analysis tools are crucial in preventing security vulnerabilities, but they’re difficult to develop and maintain because they must often deeply integrate with monolithic compilers. Enter: Malte’s work to “catalyze innovation” with compilers.
Shriram Krishnamurthi has received one of software engineering’s highest honors for his lasting contributions to the foundations and growth of the discipline.