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Please limit achievements to those that have some relationship to the advancement of computer science, or at least to non-sketchy activities. Where applicable, these are limited to members of the SCS community.
Individual activities
- First head injury - Catherine Copetas, walked into a door frame (July 24th, 2009, 4:00pm)
- First use of bathroom - Abe Othman (August 4th, 2009, 5:30pm)
- First slides prepared - Rob Simmons, slides for LICS 2009 (August 4, 2009, 11:30pm)
- First program compiled with GHC in GHC - Dan Licata and Jamie Morgenstern (August 5, 2009, 9:11pm)
- First installation of Linux - Michael Ashley-Rollman, Ubuntu on gs6161.sp (August 11, 2009, 12:44pm)
- First Subversion commit (include revision number, commit message) - Jamie Morgenstern, r1992, "Linear logic testing suite is sweet" (August 11, 1:57pm)
- First Wikipedia edit - Chris Martens (August 11, 2009, 3:45 PM)
- First Twitter (from within 6th floor CS lounge only, include message) - Chris Martens and William Lovas, August 11, 2009, 3:57 PM
- chrisamaphone @xwjl collaborative tweeting...
- xwjl @chrisamaphone ... from collaborative commons!
- First nap (> 15 minutes, < 3 hours) - Erik Zawadzki, August 14, 2009, 1:54 PM
- First Zephyr (from within 6th floor CS lounge only, include message) - Huh; the "First Zephyr sent from the Collaborative Commons" isn't taken yet. - Goob, August 18, 2009, 4:00pm
- First bird to mysteriously appear in an office - Filipe Militao, GHC 9005 (August 23rd, 2009, 5:24pm)
- First purchase from Collaborative Commons Coke machine - Mary McGlohon, Fanta Orange (August 19, 2009, 10:44am)
- First use of blackboard - Frank Pfenning, GHC 4102 (August 22, 2009, 3:12pm)
- First person to wheelie chair down the helix - Joshua Wise, August 22, 2009, 11:30PM
- First person to bicycle down the helix - Ivan Jager, August 25, 2009, 8:30PM
- First all-nighter (GHC not left between midnight and sunrise, awake the whole time) - Brendan Meeder, October 5-6, 2009. Thanks to Machine Learning for this one!
- First computer to have a head crash - clusterhead, Feb 26, 2010. Crashed when the FAWN cluster was being relocated to a cart for a demo for prospective students
- First New CSD Department Head - Jeannette M. Wing, only about 10 months after we moved into the building!
Group and course activities
- First reading group or group meeting - Concert Reading Group, GHC 9115 (August 11, 2009, 5pm)
- First CSD Tea - Michael Ashley-Rollman, Kami Vaniea, Ciera Jaspan, Ronit Slyper, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Leigh Ann Sudol, Jason Reed, Michael Dinitz, Luke Zarko, David Renshaw, Kevin Waugh, Ivan Jager, Pat Gunn, Matthew Tesch, Lucia Castellanos, Anvesh Komuravelli, Rob Simmons, Dan Licata, Dan Golovin, William Lovas, Jamie Morgenstern in Collaborative Commons serving Peppermint, Ceylon, Yerba Mate, and peas (thanks, Ronit!) (August 17th, 2009, 4pm)
- First office hours held - Upper Bound: Jim McCann for 15466 on Aug 27th, 7:50pm
- First Konami-code assisted two-player completion of Contra on a genuine NES - Michael Ashley-Rollman, James T. McCann (September 3rd, 6:18pm)
Career - for the purposes of this, a grad student defends in GHC if the defense is physically in GHC or if graduation is after the start of 2010 and the grad student has an office in GHC.
- First scheduled thesis proposal - André Martins, Tuesday, August 25, 2009, GHC 4405 (relocated as the room wasn't ready)
- First thesis proposal - Michael Heilman, Tuesday, September 1, 2009, GHC 8102
- First thesis defense -
- First tenured professor to defend -
- First Turing award winner to defend -
- First professor to get tenure (must have moved into GHC prior to final tenure decision) -
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