50th Anniversary Kick-off Event
The Department of Computer Science officially kicked off the 50th Anniversary year on October 18th with a full day of activities.
Alumni, current and former staff and faculty, and friends of the department were treated to a lecture by Dr. Fred Brooks, founder of the department. Dr. Brooks’s talk was followed by a panel discussion of pivotal moments in the department’s history, which featured former chairs Drs. Fred Brooks, Steve Weiss, Jan Prins, and Anselmo Lastra with the current chair, Dr. Kevin Jeffay, as moderator. The morning session was wrapped up with remarks from Dick Sites.
Guests were treated to a lunch of Carolina barbecue under a Carolina blue sky before returning inside to Sitterson Hall and Brooks Building for research demonstrations and lab tours.
Visit the Department's Flickr page for a collection of photos from the event!
If you weren’t able to join us at the Kick-off, you can view a recording of the morning’s proceedings online at cs.unc.edu/50th/kick-off.
Please visit cs.unc.edu/50th to make sure you don’t miss any of our 50th Anniversary Celebration events during the 2014-2015 academic year.
Make sure to mark your calendar for the culmination of all of our anniversary events, the 50th Anniversary Celebration Gala in Chapel Hill on May 2-3, 2015.