Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Powell Benedict Programmer Analyst Powell Benedict was grac vatea in October 1984 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science Four days after he finished his course work at Pratt he began graduate studies in artificial intelligence at the University of Illinois - Champaign Urbana, where he took his master’s degree. He is now with Grumman Data Systems, a subsidiary of Grumman Aerospace, doing research and publishing in automation, expert systems, and le: ming systems. He intends to begin doctoral work in the fall of 1988 at either Stony Brook or New York | Iniversit y My career began at Pratt; my i mother, Nan Benedict, taught here tor many years, and | knew everyone here. | transterre: Hamilton College and, because my background Herb lesser, the ‘ hairperson of Computer Science allowed me to doa loto specia projects ar d more advanced work | was able to aet into his office and talk to him {other students were able to do the same thing) as! would not have been able to do at Illinois which has about 36,000 students. A a result | ac omplished much more at Pratt which had much higher stan dords. Herb would allow us tod independent study, but whereas other students were required to answer only six out of ten final exan ination questions, we were required to answer all ten. | now get the chance to thank Pratt for this every eft Pratt day because Herb, who while | was at Illinois, is now my boss here at Grumman fer science As tor advising compu students who are graduating this year, | usually don’t have much advice for anybor ly, but I'd say that YOu should study hard. You don’t have time to go back nsome o tmy ear lier courses | didn't work as hard as should have, an { |now reoret if Aj Becmyit Se ioe ere AISO, if yOu re interested in researc and in being able to explore areas that interest YOU, don’t siop with the bachelor's degree. The undergradu- y want ate degree is okay if you on to earn a salary and take orders trom someone else, but if you want to explore areas that interest y | advise that you pay attention and get a graduate degree To summarize Pratt Institute is hard When | think about it, | get kind of sentimental, because | had a real good time there. | liked the school and | liked the people who worked there YOu, | a ‘

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Rafael A. Collado Raymond Hidalgo Horacio Mercado 2. © Philip Consalvo Diane Tatt Javier De Juan Camil Malouf Carl Cohen Rob Fiertek Edward Calma Lucile Dietrich Andre Alvarez Gregory Somjen Rebecca Faro Peter Mugavero Christine Misthopoulos Walter Bobadilla Jeffrery Williams Juan Hernandez

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