Neal Landry Wins Tanimoto Award
Posted On: April 07, 2008
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Each year the department gives the Tanimoto Award to a graduating bachelor's degree student in Computer Science who has been helpful to his/her fellow students and who also has a strong academic record.
This year the winner of the Tanimoto Award is Neal Landry. Wherever you turn, Neal Landry turns up helping out - personally, professionally, technically. It's clearly no coincidence that Neal builds and maintains socially useful software. He worked for Boston's Central Voter Registry, his undergraduate research created software for teaching blind computer science students, and he chose a project for the Community Charter School of Cambridge in his software engineering class. There he quietly took the lead in both system administration (for the whole class) and project management (for his project team).
In the Social Issues course, Neal brought his experience with the Voter Registry to class discussions of electronic voting. He's the Treasurer of the UMass Boston student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Out there beyond the academic ivory tower, he's also worked at computer Help Desks - he's just the kind of person you'd like to have answer the telephone when you're desperate. His generosity and hard work exemplify the qualities recognized by the Tanimoto Award.
