On 1 October 2005, the Cornell CS Department held a symposium to celebrate its 40th anniversary. A 50-page booklet was written to accompany the symposium. It is available below.

Online Booklet

	Complete booklet, except for cover (3.6MB)
Introductory material
01	Table of contents
02-03	Welcome from the CS Chair
04-05	Symposium program Symposium speakers
The Cornell environment
06-07	The Cornell ambience
08-09	Faculty of Computing & Information Science Information Science Program
10-11	College of Engineering College of Arts & Science
Selected articles and sidelights
12-13	Mission-critical distributed systems     The TRUST consortium
14-15	Language-based security     Programming methodology and program correctness
16-17	A grand challenge in computer networking     Computing in the arts
18-19	Data mining, today and tomorrow     The marriage of structured and unstructured data
20-21	Grid computing and Web services     The Cornell Theory Center
22-23	The science of networks     Algorithms at Cornell
24-25	Search engines that learn from experience     The father of information retrieval
26-27	Sentiment analysis     CURIE comes to CS
28-29	Beauty is skin deep     Program of Computer Graphics
30-31	Structural fingerprints of molecular evolution     Bridging the Rift
32-33	The impact of computing on medicine     The Game Design Initiative at Cornell
34-35	Reasoning about knowledge     Forty years of numerical analysis and scientific computing
36-37	Automated reasoning: the impossible made indispensable     The scholarly publishing revolution
38-39	Computational complexity     Computational complexity and the ice cube
About the department
40-41	CS Chairs and Faculty     Degrees granted
42-43	Selected faculty awards
44-45	Books by the faculty
46-48	Selected invited addresses
40-48	Department metrics