Five Minutes with... Rajendra Raj
You knew you were headed for a career in Computer Science when...
I realized that programming was fun (and my eyes learned to scan ebcdic).
What is your favorite class and why?
Any class that involves the pragmatic application of interesting data
structures, algorithms, or programming paradigms.
(e.g., Database System Implementation or Programming Language Concepts)
One piece of advice I have for 1st year students is...
Make sure you work on something new every year (well, it's worth at
least a new bullet on your resume every year).
If you could have dinner with a famous computer
scientist, living or dead, who would you choose?
Alonzo Church...
his work on Lambda Calculus made it possible even for
me to understand the notion of an undecideable problem.
What is the most interesting project you have worked on,
either in a course or on the job?
Developing a distributed data management system for distributing objects
in near-real-time across the world (really!)
Where do you see yourself in ten years?
I hope to be learning and teaching things that the computing world
considers relevant. Obsolescence is extinction!
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