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Six Ph.D.s in computer science are listed in the 2009 commencement booklet

May 5, 2009

August 2008

Arthur Brady (now Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Maryland at College Park)
Thesis Title: Detecting High-Level Gene Function and Inferring Redundant Genetic Pathways Using Machine Learning Methods
David W. Sculley (now a Software Engineer at Google)
Thesis Title: Advances in Online Learning-Based Spam Filtering
Orit Ziv Shaer (now Assistant Professor at Wellesley College)
Thesis Title: A Visual Language for Modeling and Programming Next Generation User Interfaces

February 2009

G. Michael Poor (now Visiting Assistant Professor at Bowling Green University)
Thesis Title: The Effects of Varying Levels of Reality Based Interaction Styles on a Subject's Ability to Perform a 3D Construction Task

May 2009

Michael Horn (will join the faculty at Northwestern University in September)
Thesis Title: Tangible Computer Programming: Exploring the use of Emerging Technology in Classrooms and Science Museums
Elena Jakubiak (Visiting Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL))
Thesis Title: An Improved Representation for Stroke-Based Typefaces and a Method for their Creation