FlexFriday: Terence Parr

Terence Parr

Terence is a professor of computer science and data science at the University of San Francisco where he continues to work on his ANTLR parser generator. Until January 2014, Terence was the graduate program director for computer science and was founding director of analytics (now data science). Before entering academia in 2003, he worked in industry and co-founded jGuru.com. Terence herded programmers and implemented the large jGuru developers website, during which time he developed and refined the StringTemplate engine. Terence has consulted for and held various technical positions at companies such as Google, Salesforce, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Lockheed Missiles and Space, NeXT, and Renault Automation. Terence holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University.

In this session, Terence will take you on his unconventional journey through school and into a career in computer and data sciences. What did he learn along the way and what advice does he have for you? Join Terence and find out what it's like to be immersed in this exciting field.
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