This semester, senior Joshua Hockett was granted the SIUE Grace Hopper Award for excellence in computer science. This award is given annually to one deserving SIUE student selected by the Computer Science Faculty. The award is named in honor of the pioneering American computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper and is funded by the SIUE Foundation.

The SIUE Grace Hopper Award is Joshua Hocketts second award from the Computer Science Dept. He was also honored last year with the Outstanding Junior award. When asked what advice he had for students entering the SIUE Computer Science Program, he replied that students should be willing to learn multiple techniques for completing each task set to them, because each solution will have its own strengths and weaknesses.