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“I’m pretty sure I was the first ‘computer geek’ at Cornell,” says Dave Waks ’61. “I started working for the Computing Center as a freshman in 1957, working on the IBM 650, described as the ‘world’s first mass-produced computer.’ ” A mathematics major, since computer science wasn’t a major at the time, David went on to write the Cornell Assembly Program used...

During his first year at Cornell and with summer in sight, Andrew Arena ’28 learned what many aspiring researchers like him eventually discover: opportunities to get undergraduate research experience are scarce. He thought of wading into the competitive frenzy for a summer internship or cold-emailing dozens of labs across the country for a place on a...