Anne Rogers Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies Department of Computer Science The University of Chicago

Autumn 2008: Computer Science with Applications 1

"You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don't work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does." John Backus, NYTimes obit March 20th, 2007.

In the news:

Taking a shorter route to a PhD: NY Times letter

Hancock in the blogosphere:

• Freedom to Tinker
• Threat Level (Wired)
• Slash dot (/.)

Here's a comment that rates as my personal favorite:

"Even more ironic, a programming language designed to spare lines of code named after the guy whose signature takes up the most space on the declaration of independence." By I. Volow on slash dot.