Toolsmith Endowment Fund
The Toolsmith Endowment fund was created last year to honor the Department’s 50th Anniversary and the retirement of our founder, Dr. Fred Brooks. The fund is named after a paradigm of computer science research developed by Brooks, and it looks to build a sustainable discretionary funding base for Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
The computer scientist as toolsmith refers to the idea that successful computer scientists create tools and solutions to address the needs and enhance the work of others. In the words of Dr. Brooks, “A toolmaker succeeds as, and only as, the users of his tool succeed with his aid. However shining the blade, however jeweled the hilt, however perfect the heft, a sword is tested only by cutting. That swordsmith is successful whose clients die of old age.”
To honor the Carolina way of computer science, the Toolsmith Endowment Fund supports undergraduate student projects, graduate student fellowships, course development, and other important and urgent departmental needs.
For your convenience, there are multiple ways to contribute to the Toolsmith Endowment Fund. To make a gift online, go to http://giving.unc.edu/gift/comp and select it from the dropdown menu. If you would prefer to give by mail, please make checks out to “UNC-CH Computer Science” with the Toolsmith Endowment Fund indicated in the memo section and mail to the address below.
Gina Rozier
Campus Box #3175
Department of Computer Science
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
If you have any questions about giving to the UNC Department of Computer Science, please contact:
Michael J. Fern, PhD
Associate Chair
Department of Computer Science
919.590.6077 | fern@cs.unc.edu
or
Kiley Moorefield
Associate Director of Development
The Arts & Sciences Foundation
919.843.4454 | kileyann@email.unc.edu