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Computer Science Department Alumni Association
Dear Alumni, It has been a year of banner headlines for you - our alumni. Our files are bulging with the clever headlines, great headshots, and delicious sound bites which tout your success and illuminate the role of CS in stimulating that success. "It Pays to Have Pals in Silicon Valley," quipped the NY Times, as it publicized, thanks to Max Levchin, the many start-ups which have grown out of PayPal and the many CS alums amalgamated there. Other national media broadcast the revolutionary success of our YouTube alumni Steve Chen and Jawed Karim as part of the "hard-core smart, hardworking, nonspoiled" kinds of people we cultivate here at Illinois (TIME magazine, Dec. 25, 2006- Jan. 1, 2007, p. 73). Of course, we don't have to look to the press for evidence of the quality of our alumni. From the mentoring program initiated by alumnus Ross Erlebacher, to the partnership with Chicago Public Schools fostered by alumnus Ira Cohen, and from the generous time spent by many alumni in our Engineer In Residence Program, to the generosity demonstrated by so many of you in support of our Annual Fund, we are continually inspired by your dedication. We invite you to renew and extend your connection to the department, your fellow alumni, and our current students.
Best regards,
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