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    In 1965 Carnegie Mellon established the Computer Science Department with the support of a $5 million grant from the Richard K. Mellon Foundation. Alan Perlis was the first head of the department and first program was the Ph.D. program in CS. Among other notable achievements the Smiley started here with then CS faculty member Scott Fahlman. :-)

     

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Zak Kent

Zak Kent

Doctoral Research Assistant

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6503 Gates and Hillman Centers

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zkent@cs.cmu.edu

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Computer Science Department

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Programming Languages

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Stephanie Balzer
Guy Blelloch

Computer Science Department

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