Richard “Dick” W. Conway ’54, Ph.D. ‘58, a trailblazing professor who was instrumental in launching Cornell’s Department of Computer Science in 1965 – one of the first of its kind – died March 19. He was 92.? “Professor Conway and his collaborators were visionary in recognizing the potential of computer science as a field of study in its own right, and in creating Cornell’s computer science department,” said Kavita Bala, dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information ...