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A Conversation with David Gries

Author
Gries, David; Constable, Robert L.
Abstract
David Gries joined Cornell in 1969. He was chair of CS in the 1980s and associate dean of engineering for 8 years
in the 2000s.
His research was on compiler writing and areas related to formal programming methodology. He is known for his
texts on programming, on compiler writing (the first such text, in 1971), on the science of programming, and on
logic and discrete math.
He has two honorary doctorates and four awards from the leading computing societies for contributions to education.
He was among the first ten Cornell faculty to receive the Weiss Presidential Fellow award for contributions
to undergrad education. He was Chair of the Computer Science Board when it became the CRA (Computing Research
Association) and opened an office in Washington to represent the interests of computing in academia. He
received the CRA award for service to the computing community.
David and Bob talk about David’s time as a grad student at the Munich Institute of Technology and the early days
in the Cornell CS Department.
Running Time: 51 min. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/40576
Date Issued
2015-07-21Publisher
Internet-First University Press
Type
video/moving image