{"id":218,"date":"2010-10-22T10:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T14:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2014-12-05T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:40:05","slug":"a-busy-fall-in-blacksburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2010\/10\/22\/a-busy-fall-in-blacksburg\/","title":{"rendered":"A busy fall in Blacksburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much blogging going on here lately.  But there has been all kinds of interesting stuff going on in CS@VT over the last few months:  another amazing job fair season in September, with once again, more companies than graduating seniors;  visits from interesting speakers like Peter Lee from Microsoft Research, who has done lots of interesting things in a distinguished career, including being the brainchild of the interesting <a href='https:\/\/networkchallenge.darpa.mil\/Default.aspx'>DARPA Network Challenge<\/a>; a steady stream of good publicity about jobs in CS (like <a href='http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/moneymag\/bestjobs\/2010\/full_list\/index.html'>this article in CNNMoney.com<\/a> on the best jobs in America &#8212; I think I counted 14 of the top 40 that were in the computing field) and about the high ranking that employers give our department and college  (see the <a href='http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/page\/rankings-career-college-majors.html'>Wall Street Journal online article<\/a>).  And now we&#8217;re getting ready to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the CS Department.   Here&#8217;s hoping many of you alums will make it back to check out the exciting place that CS@VT is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much blogging going on here lately. But there has been all kinds of interesting stuff going on in CS@VT over the last few months: another amazing job fair season in September, with once again, more companies than graduating seniors; visits from interesting speakers like Peter Lee from Microsoft Research, who has done lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}