CS Faculty
The number of pages in Matt Anderson's CV.
What is 8 Pages?
The 19th-century mathematician known as the first computer programmer for her work on the Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The result of “True or False and False or True” in Python.
What is True?
‘CC’ in emails
What is Carbon Copy?
This faculty member has reused their headshot for years on the department composite.
Who is John?
This faculty member has locked themselves out of their office 7 times (and counting) this academic year.
Who is Shruti?
The creator of the first compiler, which helped pave the way for modern programming languages.
Who is Grace Hopper?
The time complexity of inserting a node to beginning of a single linked list.
What is O(1)?
HCI
What is Human Computer Interaction?
This faculty member makes the most use out of our annual candy budget.
Who is Aaron?
cs-jobs@union.edu is the email for those who have questions about applying to work for the Union College CS Department. This tenured faculty member sent an email with a question about how to apply.
Who is Aaron?
The programming language, developed in 1959 and designed for business applications, and was created largely through the efforts of Grace Hopper.
What is COBOL?
The type of error that occurs when a program runs but produces incorrect results due to flawed logic, such as using the wrong comparison operator or an incorrect formula.
What is a Logic Error?
Crochet Lab
What is Collaborative Robotics and Computer Human Empirical Testing?
This faculty member has tried the most new coffee flavors since our big order?
Who is Kristina?
In fall term, John couldn't get this mainstream pop artist's songs out of his head.
Who is Chappell Roan?
The first general-purpose electronic computer, ENIAC, was programmed by a team of six women. Name one of them.
Who is - Any of the ENIAC Six: Jean Bartik, Betty Holberton, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence, Ruth Teitelbaum?
This data structure is described as 'LIFO' (Last In, First Out).
What is Stack?
HTTP
What is HyperText Transfer Protocol?
ECBE seminars tend to have a decent amount of buffet leftovers. These two faculty members have (intentionally or unintentionally) almost always been the first CS professors to snag leftovers.
Who are Arjun and TJ?
Chris once requested an order for three boxes of Expo markers. This is how money that order accidentally charged to the department.
What is 1.3 Million?
This person co-developed the algorithm that became the foundation for search engines, including Google, but received little recognition at the time.
Who is Karen Spärck Jones?
2025 in binary.
What is 11111101001?
VALERIE (our CS department robot)
What is Voice-Activated Laser Enabled Robot for Interactive Experiments?
This faculty member was the first to "break" our industrial KEURIG and this faculty member fixed that KEURIG.
Who is Nick? Who is Matt (by Turning it On and Off)?