50th Anniversary Celebration and Gala
As many of you know, the Department of Computer Science celebrated its 50th Anniversary during the 2014-2015 academic year. The year-long celebration culminated in a Celebration Weekend spanning May 1-3, 2015.
The weekend began with a social event at the Carolina Inn on Friday evening. The alumni symposium on Saturday featured 36 alumni speakers and utilized six different rooms in Sitterson Hall, Brooks Building, and Chapman Hall. Keynotes were given by Marc Levoy, Ramesh Raskar, and Ivan Sutherland. On Saturday evening, we gathered for a Gala Banquet in the Hill Ballroom at the Carolina Inn, where we heard from professors Fred Brooks, Stephen Pizer, and Mike Reiter. Sunday featured an Open House with research demos and a preview of the now-dedicated Stephen M. Pizer Conference Room, ending with a keynote by professor Henry Fuchs and a Carolina BBQ lunch.
For a full list of the alumni symposium lectures with abstracts, bios, and links to video recordings of each talk, please visit cs.unc.edu/50th/celebration/symposium. You can find the talk videos in our 50th Anniversary Symposium YouTube playlist. Remember that the Department now posts recordings of our hosted talks on Youtube. Visit cs.unc.edu/youtube to see all of our videos.
To see more photos from the weekend, visit our departmental Flickr page. If you took your own photos and would like to share them with us, please email pubs@cs.unc.edu.
