Sunday, July 13, 2008

25 Influential Princeton Alums, Turing at #2

Having recently completed a PhD thesis in Computer Science at Princeton, I am... well really glad to be done.  As much as I dreaded writing the thing pretty much every step of the way, it was surprisingly satisfying and relief-inducing to finish.  While visiting one of my committee members, Andrew Appel, via his homepage, I stumbled upon a recent article by PAW (Princeton Alumni Weekly, a um weekly publication for uh Princeton alums) that provided a ranked list of the 25 most influential Princeton alumni of all times.  <-- Check it out.  Alan Turing (pictured), the patron saint of computers and computists, rang in at #2 -- between Presidents James Madison and "Woody Woo" Wilson.  Amazingly, only one woman, Wendy Kopp (#15), made the panel-selected list.  #25 is a tie.  If I were on the panel, I might have preferred to just do the top 24...  

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