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| Jack Minker, "Developing a Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 64-75, October-December, 2007. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/MAHC.2007.55, author = {Jack Minker}, title = {Developing a Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland}, journal ={IEEE Annals of the History of Computing}, volume = {29}, number = {4}, issn = {1058-6180}, year = {2007}, pages = {64-75}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2007.55}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Annals of the History of Computing TI - Developing a Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland IS - 4 SN - 1058-6180 SP64 EP75 EPD - 64-75 A1 - Jack Minker, PY - 2007 KW - computer science department development KW - CS education program KW - University of Maryland VL - 29 JA - IEEE Annals of the History of Computing ER - | |||
1. This article is dedicated to Werner C. Rheinboldt, John Menard, and the memory of William F. Atchison (1918–1998). The history of computing at Maryland is indebted to all three of these individuals.
2. This article condenses part of a technical report describing the start of computing at the University of Maryland leading to the formation of CSC and subsequently CSD: J. Minker, "Beginning of Computing and Computer Science at the University of Maryland," tech. report, Univ. of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Sept. 2003; available at http://prism.cs.umd.edu/papers/M02:facultytimeline history_new.pdf. This history was reconstructed from my remembrances of events, material such as CSD annual reports, the Departmental Review, and other documents. These documents may be found in the Minker Collection, Hornbake Library Archives, Univ. of Maryland, College Park.
3. "US Institutions Offering Degree Programs in Computer Science, Data Processing, and Related Programs," Comm. ACM, vol. 10, no. 10, 1967, pp. 675-676.
4. See the report by the National Research Council, "An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Mathematical and Physical Sciences"; http://www.nap.eduopenbook.php?record_id=9730&page=59 .
5. R. Lee Hornbake to E. Schweppe, 15 June 1964, letter, Minker Collection, Univ. of Maryland Archives, R. Lee Hornbake Library.
6. W.F. Atchison to T.B. Day, 18 Sept. 1970, Minker Collection, Univ. of Maryland Archives, R. Lee Hornbake Library.
7. J. Minker, "Beginning of Computing and Computer Science at the University of Maryland," tech. report, Univ. of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Sept. 2003; available at http://prism.cs.umd.edu/papers/M02:facultytimeline history_new.pdf.
8. The quote is from an email message from A. Agrawala to J. Minker, 13 Aug. 2003, in the email messages regarding the history in the Minker Collection in the Univ. of Maryland Archives, R. Lee Hornbake Library.
9. J. Minker, "Forming a Computer Science Center at the University of Maryland," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 29, no. 1, 2007, pp. 49-64.
10. J. Minker, "Beginning of Computing and Computer Science at the University of Maryland," p. 107, In the appendix for computer equipment in CSD from 1973 to July 1979, the modest list pales in comparison to CSD's actual needs for such equipment.
11. A number of issues of PRINTOUT, sent to me by Hamlet, are in the Minker Collection in the University of Maryland Archives, R. Lee Hornbake Library.
12. Copies of the Annual Reports for the period 1974–1979 are contained in the Minker Collection in the University of Maryland Archives, R. Lee Hornbake Library, and are available on the CSD Web pages at http:/www.cs.umd.edu.
13. Members of the Internal CS Review Committee were A. Agrawala, V. Basili, M. Beard, K. Freburger, B. Guarniere, R. Harger, M. Hecht, C. Rieger, and G. Stewart, Computer Science; D. Bobrow, Government and Politics; and W. Kirwan (chairman), Mathematics.
14. Members of the External CS Review Committee were J.C. Browne, University of Texas, J. Hartmanis, Cornell University, R. Reddy, Carnegie-Mellon Institute of Technology, J. Sammet, IBM Corporation, and S. Yau, University of Florida.
15. A copy of the internal and external reviews of the Department of Computer Science, without the appendecies may be found in the Minker Collection in the University of Maryland R. Lee Hornbake Library.
16. See "An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Mathematical and Physical Sciences" (Ref. 4).
17. See "1993–1994 CRA Taulbee Survey," by George R. Andrews, chair, CRA Surveys Committee; available at http://www.cra.org/statistics/survey94.
18. For a list of CSD faculty awards, service contributions, and honors, see Appendix 3 of J. Minker, "Beginning of Computing and Computer Science at the University of Maryland," in the Minker Collection in the University of Maryland Archives, R. Lee Hornbake Library, and on the Web at http://prism.cs.umd.edu/papers/M02:facultytimeline history_new.pdf.