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Soheil1 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Weinberg Professo

Hi.
what does it mean that:
Abraham Silberschatz is the Sidney J. Weinberg Professor of Computer Science at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University, USA

?Thanks in advance
  

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Professorships are sometimes named after a distinguished person with some relevant connection, or after a benefactor who funded the post. If this is the same Sidney J. org/wiki/Sidney_Weinberg then probably he donated a lot of money to found the professorship.

  • Professorships are sometimes named after a distinguished person with some relevant connection, or after a benefactor who funded the post.
  • If this is the same Sidney J.
  • org/wiki/Sidney_Weinberg then probably he donated a lot of money to found the professorship.
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Professorships are sometimes named after a distinguished person with some relevant connection, or after a benefactor who funded the post. If this is the same Sidney J. Weinberg as at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Weinberg then probably he donated a lot of money to found the professorship.

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