Alumni profile
Murad, right, works at a whiteboard with fellow Stateless co-founder and CU Boulder faculty member Eric Keller. Why did you choose to study computer science? Computer science is a world of puzzles, and I am
Why did you choose to study computer science? I was always fascinated by computers and programming. I loved the fact that you could think up some idea and build it by just writing code. With programming you could do something not just describe
Who or what had a strong effect on your interest/trajectory in computer science? There are two computer scientists I had as teachers who had a strong impact on my desire to study computer science: Andy van Dam (Brown University) taught me how to
Why did you choose to study computer science? When I was a sophomore in high school, my math teacher taught us a few rudimentary programming essentials in BASIC, and I enjoyed it a great deal. During that same year, I read an article in the
Who or what had a strong effect on your interest/trajectory in computer science? The one person who influenced my career more than anyone was Professor Evi Nemeth. Evi was a force of nature and was always willing to help others learn and
Why did you choose to study computer science? I was fascinated with Turing's concept of (un)computability. Who or what had a strong effect on your interest or trajectory in computer science? My PhD advisor, Andrzej Ehrenfeucht What
Why did you choose to study computer science? Computer science is limitless. When I moved to the U.S., I didn’t have a job or a student visa, but I was good in math and liked computers. I was interested to study in a field with a wide range of
Why did you choose to study computer science? I fell into programming with BASIC in high school when bored in a calculus class and loved it. Who or what had a strong effect on your interest or trajectory in computer science? Meeting people
Why did you choose to study computer science? I chose computer science as I graduated with my undergraduate (BA in math) from CU Boulder in 1985. I had taken a couple of programming courses and found I was “fairly” good at it. A main