Bryant York's Abridged Biography:

The Colors of My Life

A Lifetime of
Strong Mentors and Positive Role Models
(in progress)

Ó Copyright Bryant W. York 2007

The Later Years (2007 - )

Bryant at PSU (2006)

Bryant named ACM Fellow (January 2007)

Elected chair of the computer science department at Portland State University (March 2007)

Travels to China (April - May 2007)

Bryant attends Microsoft Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, WA (July 2007)

Bryant wins first AARCS Footprints Award, July 2007

Travels to China (Aug - Nov 2007)

Bryant gives proposal writing workshop at Texas A&M University (Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2007)

Portia York presents Urban Natural Scientists at Juxtopia Urban Learning Technologies Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 19, 2007

Thoughts on Coming of Age (November 2007)

Presentation on Computational Thinking given at University of North Carolina - Charlotte, January 18, 2008

Bryant selected (again) one of the 50 most important African Americans in Technology, January 2008

Presentation on Community Leadership to Support Computing Research given at the Second US-China Computer Science Summit, held in Washington, DC, July 11, 2008.



Some appealing aspects of China:

  • Private citizens are not allowed to have guns; only Police are allowed to have guns
  • It is safe to go out at night for everyone (including women, children, and old people)
  • Chinese people go out to their parks and sing and dance every night (Wuyi Square Fuzhou - May 16, 2007)
  • Several hundred million people have a slice of watermelon after their noon and evening meals every day



Ó Copyright Bryant W. York 2007