Computing Educators Oral History Project:

"Almost by accident, toward the last semester before getting the Doctoral degree, I was just walking down the hallway in the University and one of the faculty members there said something about, "You know they have openings over at the University of Maryland in the Computer Science Center," (which had just begun about a year before that). Much of my life there was a bunch of happen stances that were very timely, as far as I was concerned and it was just one of them. He said "Would you be interested in that?" Well, I don't know anything about computing particularly, I did have a course in numerical analysis and my adviser was in numerical analysis, but I wasn't using a computer at the time. So I said "sounds interesting, I did want to stay in the area, geographical area of Washington, DC and surrounding area, so I said, "would you like me to call over there? and he said "Yeah", So I went over and had an interview and they needed somebody at the time; they had a big center there had a big grant and they were just getting faculty... They didn't have an educational program at the center at the time, but that was part of their charge to develop one."
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