By 1996 EECS had over 20 faculty members, and a graduating class of 52 Bachelors students, 32 Masters students and two PhDs, so Anselm Blumer agreed to take on some of the Chair's responsibilities specific to Computer Science.
Photo depicting Blumer with the Compact Directed Acyclic Word Graph for the strings "ababc" and "abcab", courtesy of wikidata.org