Graduate Students Home Page

Believe or not, unlike all other web pages, this page is not under construction. It is absolutely, positively, completely finished and will never be touched again. A lot of the text was shamelessly stolen from Sandeep Singhal.

Positions (see more descriptions)

PhD Bureaucrats - Dan Teodosiu, Julien Basch
MS Bureaucrat - Denis Leroy

These bozos are supposed to generally represent graduate students to the department and are ultimately responsible for problems they are unable to offload unto others. Send email to bureaucrats@cs to reach them and pretty much all past bureaucrats.

A new PhD bureaucrat is chosen every quarter to serve for two quarters. The MS bureaucrat is chosen every quarter.

Curriculum Committee - Kathleen Fisher

The committee regularily reviews the various curricula. One hot issue is right now the review of the PhD's comps.

Building Committee - Tom Costello, Diego Ruspini

Very important committee these days!

MSCS Committee - ???

Two students, elected in the Fall. This committee has total responsibility for the MSCS program, including admissions, programs, awarding degrees, passing petitions, etc. Work mostly consists of deciding whom to admit.

Social Committee - Jeff Oldham, Ann Pothen, Sandeep Singhal

Three(+) students elected in the Fall. Organize social events or embezzle money, once a quarter.

Admissions Committee - Stuart Cheshire, Craig Silverstein, Yue Zhuge

Three students, elected in the Fall, sit on the PhD admissions committee. This is considered to be the student post that requires the most work with the possible exception of the TGIF Czar below.

Recruitment committee - Tom Costello, Sergey Brin, Sandeep Singhal, Ed Bugnion, Mema Roussopoulos, Lise Getoor, Steve Ketchpel

Elected in the winter, they make sure the the prospective Ph.D. students have a good time during the recruitment week-end and come to Stanford.

TGIF Czar - Anna Patterson; Deputies - Tom Costello, Denis Leroy, Jonathan Stone

Get food and drink for our Friday gatherings, on the 4th floor balcony of Gates.

Space and Computer Czars - Larry Page, Sergey Brin

Allocates office space and computers to students.

Computer Forum Committee - Luis Gravano, ???

Two students elected The main responsibility is to help organize the annual Forum meeting.

Library and Pubs Committee - Steve Cousins

Deals with library and publications issues, I suppose.

Sports Czar - Steve Herrod

Elected in the Fall. Keeps graduate students healthy by helping organize IM teams.

Web Czar - Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Does web stuff. In particular, he maintains this page. (Isn't delegation great?)

More Stuff to Come ...

Please send a e-mail for corrections, additions, completions. Everywhere there are ???'s are places I need help.

Meetings

The next meeting will be held at the start of the spring '96 quarter.