http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/ 2009-11-22T18:08:15-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/ http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-05-09T10:24:10-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/history/asprey?rev=1210343050 WINIFRED ASPREY ‘38, was Professor Emeritus and the founder of the Computer Science Department at Vassar College. See our page: “The History of Computing at Vassar” for the history of Ms. Asprey and computing at Vassar College. Article about Prof. Asprey on the Vassar Innovators web site. text/html 2008-05-09T10:37:00-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/history/gallery?rev=1210343820 text/html 2009-11-19T10:53:47-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/history/holdeen-adams_prize?rev=1258646027 Janet Holdeen-adams Prize Established in 1998 by the gift of Janet Holdeen-adams, a long time supporter of computer science at Vassar, this prize is awarded for excellence in the study of computer science and for outstanding participation in the activities of the department. The recipients shall be named each spring by the faculty of the Department of Computer Science. Their names shall be announced at the Vassar Annual Prize Ceremony text/html 2008-12-08T23:12:23-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/history/hopper?rev=1228795943 Grace Murray (1906-1992) was a Math/Physics major at Vassar who graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1928. She stayed at Vassar to teach, and became Grace Murray Hopper in 1930, after marrying Vincent Hopper. With the help of a Vassar College Fellowship, she went to Yale for graduate school, earning her Ph.D. in 1934. She remained at Vassar until 1943, inspiring many students including Winifred Asprey '38, who brought computers to Vassar and founded the computer science program here. text/html 2009-05-06T22:14:15-05:00 http://wiki.cs.vassar.edu/history/top?rev=1241662455 Winifred Asprey Central to the history of computing at Vassar College is its founder, Winifred Asprey. Ms. Asprey, or Tim as she liked to be called, graduated from Vassar in 1938, and regularly told students that she had more fun here as a student than they ever had. After teaching at a few private schools in New York City and Chicago, Asprey went on to earn a M.S. in Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in 1945 from the University of Iowa.