Brown and White Vol. 122 no. 22

              Vol. 122 No. 22
Friday, April 20, 2012
‘All the Lehigh News First’
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LIFESTYLE
By MEGHAN BARWICK
It’s hard for most of us to think about what it was like to use computers before the advent of the Internet, but professor Donald Hillman of the com­puter science and engineering department can’t say the same.
Hillman ended his last semes­ter teaching in the fall and will be retiring on August 31. He has been at Lehigh for 52 years and has been involved with develop­ing the computer-programming field at the university for most of that time.
Hillman received his doc­torate in math and logic from Cambridge University where he also received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees. He started working for Lehigh in 1960.
When Hillman started, he taught in philosophy depart­ment; he ascended to the rank of full professor in four years. He started by teaching logic in the philosophy department, but soon switched over to computer sciences. From there he helped support the rise and morphing of the computer science and engineering program over the years.
“I was interested in seeing how logic could be used with computers,” Hillman said.
This was well before the ad­vent of Google and before the
Students win “i” Prize for Streamback project
By ALISON MANGO
Two Lehigh students have won the Baker Institute “i” Prize for the new company they have created called Streamback.
Allyson Coff, ’12, and Alex Galakatos, ’12, founded Stream­back, the winning project of the Institute’s “i” Prize.
The Baker Institute for En­trepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation held an award dinner honoring student entrepreneurs at Lehigh.
The “i” Prize, which is a new award, recognizes “the coolest idea on the verge of implementa­tion,” according to Lisa Getzler-Linn, the director of adminis­tration and programs of Baker Institute.
The “i” stands for “idea, inven­tion, innovation, and imagina­tion,” Getzler-Linn explained.
Coff said the team thought their idea would be the perfect fit for this category and decided to test their chances.
Imam Rauf discusses evolution of Islam
B&W photo by MATT BREITEL
Imam Feisel Rauf discusses the evolving role of Muslim-Americans and his forthcoming book, “Moving the Mountain,” with Lehigh chaplain Lloyd Steffen and students Monday in Packard 101. Rauf is the religious and community leader whose organization attempted to build a Muslim community center in downtown Manhattan, near the site of the former World Trade Center, sparking an international controversy. Rauf spoke about bridging divides within the self and society.
By SAMANTHA ORLAN
On Monday evening, Sufi author and activist Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf led two dis­cussions about his perspective on the evolu­tion of American Islam and his projects since September 11, 2001.
In an informal question-and-answer dis­cussion with members of the religion course Explorations in Dialogue and a few students who took the course last spring, Imam Rauf saw his new book, “Moving the Mountain,” for the first time.
Lehigh obtained copies of the printed text before its expected publication in May. Rauf was so happy to see the freshly printed book that he related it to seeing a child for the first time.
Alissa Sperling, ’12, asked about Muslim-American relations and how Rauf sees the Muslim-American.
“In Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address in January 2011, he said ‘American Muslims are part of our American family,’ and this was the turning point in terms of the overall curve of Muslims in America, and from there it could only go up,” Rauf said.
He claimed that finding the ideal Muslim-American role in the U.S. is not a clean, neat or linear process, and there is a need to make religion relevant. In order to have a view of
n Imam Rauf explored the role of Muslim-Americans and their evolving place in society.
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Professor Hillman to retire in August
Logo courtesy of STREAMBACK