WPI Computer Science 1990-1994

Milestones

Jan 1990: The department, with over 165 undergraduate majors and 65 graduate students, moves into the new $9.7 million Fuller Laboratories
Sep 1990: Prof. Ray Scott dies.
Apr 1992: Prof. Mary Hardell is named Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Academic Advisor.
Aug 1993: A graduate specialization in Computer and Communications Networks is created.

Number of Faculty, BS Degrees and MS Degrees


Number of Faculty	Number of BS Degrees	Number of MS Degrees

Faculty

Robert Kinicki, Dept Head
Ray Scott
Mary Hardell
David Brown
Stanley Selkow
Karen Lemone
Lee Becker
Matt Ward
Mike Gennert
David Finkel
Nabil Hachem
Roy Rubinstein
Craig Wills
Glynis Hamel
Kathy Merck

Staff

Candy Baker
Deborah Hazzard(McDonald)
Roberta Baker
Doris DeProspo
Pikai Chiang
Michael Fotiades

PhDs

1990 Xiannong Meng (Kinicki)
1993 Jingwen Liu (Brown)
1994 Yuhong Zhang (Ward)

Faculty and Alums Share Memories

"I need to look up the class and teacher, but there was a software design class where we worked in a team and talked to end users; designed; prototyped; developed; tested; and finally presented a software program. I loved the class and when I started my job at Cambridge Technology Partners; I even appreciated it more. The class was exactly like what work would be like!" -- '92

"Programming in SCHEME at 3am, and a really great MQP team. " -- '94

"Being the first students to move from Atwater Kent to the new Fuller building" -- '91

"LISP courses just after lunch with professor Becker. It was warm, likely D-term... so hard to concentrate and yet he was always full of energy and passion. Larry Moe & Curly VAX Assembler programming." -- '90

Faculty and Alums Identify WPI People Who Made a Personal Impact

"Michael Gennert - great teacher, great mentor." -- '94

"Matt Ward, who convinced me to stay for graduate school; which gave me career the best possible start; and how to keep a sense of humor." -- '91

"Professor Coggins in one of my first CS courses said something that changed my view of IT and the world for ever. A pity he didn't stay. Professor Becker was always trying hard even the days we weren't. Professor Hardell had a reputation as a tough cookie...and turned out to be a really sweet lady. But the faculty member that had the most profound impact on me was Music professor Louis Curran. Incredible drive and passion for things well done, grit; belief in oneself... being able to laugh and have fun while working and yet being a stickler for excellence. And the true belief of "team". Developing and protecting the ones lagging behind instead of culling; sticking together through good and bad times. I am thankful for all the great faculty and friends I had at WPI; yet he had by far the most impact on my life." -- '90

Photos

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Fuller Labs	Bob Kinicki	Lee Becker	Dave Brown

David Finkel	Mike Gennert	Nabil Hachem	Mary Hardell

Karen Lemone	Roy Rubenstein	Stan Selkow	Matt Ward

Craig Wills with Joe CaraDonna	CCC Workstation Lab	Fuller Labs Cosine Ave Entrance	Modern Programming Lab

Nitin John in Graduate Project Lab	Somesh Rao in CS Dept Computer Room	Matt Ward and Dave Brown	Image Processing Lab

Jeff Choate in AI Lab	CS Library	CS Faculty and Student Dinner	Bob Mason College Punk Days

MQP Team of Bob Mason, Erik Felton, Craig Johnson and Chad Council	MQP Powerglove	Jon Kemble	Pradnya Patil

Cirrus Shakeri	Kathy Merck, Dave Brown, Matt Ward	Dave Brown with Jon Strauss	Debbie Hazzard(McDonald), Xiannong Meng, and ...

Lee Becker and Debbie Hazzard(McDonald)	Debbie Hazzard(McDonald), Candy Baker and Matt Ward	Surendar Chandra	Howie Dickerman

Michael Mackovitch	Bert Dunskus	Candy Baker	Jonathan Kemble Explaining TENNIS

Video from 1994 Virtual Reality World Builder MQP

MQP Team of Bob Mason, Erik Felton, Craig Johnson and Chad Council

Bob Mason will be bringing the Nintendo Power glove from our MQP. Here's a link where you can view it or download it:

It's in MKV format, so Windows media player may struggle - but VLC Media Player can decode it just fine. It went from an initial analog recording to digital editing (in the early 90's), back to analog (VHS), and then back to digital again, so it's definitely not the cleanest copy - especially the audio.