From dblank at cs.brynmawr.edu Mon Feb 5 14:38:23 2007 From: dblank at cs.brynmawr.edu (Douglas S. Blank) Date: Mon Feb 5 14:39:56 2007 Subject: [Compsci] FWD: Help Jim Gray Search Effort Message-ID: <45C787AF.1020801@cs.brynmawr.edu> The disappearance of computer scientist Jim Gray has initiated an unprecedented Internet-based search, with thousands of volunteers examining online satellite images. Gray, 63, hasn't been seen since he sailed from San Francisco on Sunday, January 28, to scatter his mother's ashes near the Farallon Islands. He was reported missing by his wife that evening when he failed to return home. The Coast Guard called off its search last week after combing the area for five days. Gray, a winner of the prestigious ACM Turing Award in 1998, is well-known for his pioneering work is databases and transaction processing. He joined Microsoft 10 years ago, where he manages Microsoft Research's eScience Group. Over the past weekend many of Jim Gray's friends worked to obtain satellite and aerial imagery, hoping to find him and his 40-foot sailboat. A team of engineers and scientists from Google, Amazon, Microsoft and NASA, along with the public, have been invited to scan thousands of the satellite photographs of the search area. Two approaches are being used: human and computer analysis. The human analysis is taking place via Amazon's Mechanical Turk site (http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=J0XZ58STDWJZ5QY4F9M0), and this has involved some 6,000 volunteers looking through nearly 100,000 images since Friday evening. Once these volunteers flag an image as containing an object of interest, these are passed to another group of experts who look through all of the flagged images, also using Mechanical Turk. The group is still looking for volunteers to search the satellite photos and experts to analyze the flagged images. For an overview of the process, please visit http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/02/help_find_jim_gray.html. From jferraio at brynmawr.edu Thu Feb 15 09:09:27 2007 From: jferraio at brynmawr.edu (Ferraioli Julia Rebecca) Date: Thu Feb 15 09:09:32 2007 Subject: [Compsci] Stanford Graduate School of Business Ph.D program Message-ID: Dear Faculty Department Chairs: Below is a message from Dr. Robert Urstein with the Stanford Graduate School of Business about their Ph.D. program. He will be visiting campus to speak to students about the program on Wednesday, Feb. 28th, BMC, Dorothy Vernon Room in Haffner Hall at 12pm. Please share this message with other faculty in your department and your students so that they can attend if they are interested. Thank you, Sharon Powers, Career Development ******************************** While it is well known that Stanford has an outstanding MBA program, what may be less well known is that the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) offers one of the most unique Ph.D. programs in the world. We offer the Ph.D. In seven fields: Accounting Economics Finance Marketing Operations, Information, and Technology Organizational Behavior Political Economics The disciplinary boundaries among these fields are fluid, with frequent collaboration among faculty and students across areas. In addition, our students take full advantage of the collective resources of Stanford's faculty, research institutes, and six other schools, including Humanities and Sciences; Engineering; Law; Education; Medicine; and Earth Sciences. The variety of research being conducted at the GSB is tremendous: Financial reporting and disclosure; incentives in health services; asset pricing; organizational decision making under uncertainty; auction and game theory; behavioral finance; organizational ecology; consumer decision making; the political economy of trade; culture and persuasion; bioterror response logistics and homeland security; social hierarchy and power; gender and race in organizations. These topics represent only a small sample of the exciting work being done here. In our dynamic scholarly community, about 100 students work closely with over 100 faculty members pursuing research at the leading edge of their fields. With a student-faculty ratio of better than 1-to-1, faculty collaborate with students, encourage them, help them to develop new insights into important problems, and challenge them as they develop their own original research interests and launch their careers as scholars. No specific courses are required to begin our doctoral programs, and no previous graduate study or work experience is needed. Our students come from a variety of schools and undergraduate majors, including economics, political science, psychology, sociology, mathematics, computer science, engineering, and the humanities and sciences. Students in our program are fully funded for four years (full tuition plus living expenses). The Stanford Graduate School of Business is a great place to become a scholar. If you are curious about ideas, enjoy research, and want to make an original contribution to academic thought, our Ph.D. Program may be the right program for you right now. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/phd Robert Urstein, PhD Assistant Dean for the PhD Program Graduate School of Business | Stanford University 518 Memorial Way | Stanford, CA 94305 T 650.723.9705 | F 650.725.7462 rurstein@stanford.edu Sharon M. Powers Bryn Mawr College & Haverford College Career Development Office phone: 610-526-5174/610-896-1181 http://www.haverford.edu/cdo