General Chemistry

Psychology 140, 001 - Spring 2014 Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Most recently, she published Carthage and The Sacrifice, and the story collections High-Crime Area and Lovely, Dark, Deep. Among her many honors are the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Prix Femina Étranger, and the President's Medal in the Humanities. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Oates has taught recently at Berkeley and Stanford, and is on the faculty at Princeton University.

General Session Welcome - Shankar Sastry Opening Remarks - Joseph Hellerstein A Tribute, Not a Memorial: Understanding Ambiguous Loss - Pauline Boss The Amateur Search - Michael Olson Jim Gray at Berkeley - Michael Harrison Knowledge and Wisdom - Pat Helland Why Did Jim Gray Win the Turing Award? - Michael Stonebraker Jim Gray Chair - Stuart Russell ...