The Hanukkah Song -- Computer Science Version

                            by Jeremy Buhler
                           After Adam Sandler
                          Names from jinfo.org

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Put on your yarmulka, here comes Hanukkah
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Lots of funnaka to celebrate Hanukkah

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Hanukkah is the Festival of Lights
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Instead of one day of presents, we have eight... crazy... nights
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So if Christmas morning finds you drinking Jolt and writing C  {or NSF grants}
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Here are some computer scientists who are Jewish, just like you and me:

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Richard M. Karp lights the hanukkeah
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Then proves that latke flipping is complete for NP-ah

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Abelson and Sussman and John McCarthy
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Coded LISP at MIT's Hanukkah party

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Jon Kleinberg and Bob Tarjan both like to spin the dreidl
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Barbara Liskov's got a CLU -- she's one clever meydl


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Why send your list to Santa Claus in cleartext all the way
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When it could be encrypted with some help from R-S-A? {all three Jewish} [Asus]


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Put on your yarmulka, it's time for Hanukkah
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Steve Wolfram and his cellular automata celebrate Hanukkah

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Linus Torvalds... {*not* Jewish!}
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But Richard Stallman is, although he claims to be G-NUish

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Paul Erdos, John von Neumann -- gee, it's sad that they're both gone
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Don't fret, you can still network with Leonard Kleinrock and Bob Kahn

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Gus Solomon helped protect our disks, both ATA and SCSI
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Lofti Zadeh's part Jewish, but how much is rather fuzzy

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So many Jews in CSE -- these are just a few examples
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I could fit more with some compression, just ask Jacob Ziv and Abe Lempel
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But if you're tired of working For an academic wage
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Then you can celebrate With Sergey Brin and Larry Page {and Mark Zuckerberg}


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So put on your yarmulka, here comes Hanukkah
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So much funnaka to celebrate Hanukkah

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Now play some electronica, write an app for your iPhone-ica
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To train a perceptron-ica (if your function's monotonic-a)
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Then kick off your Manolo Blahnik-as and read "Ph.D. Comic-as"
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If you really wannaka and have a happy, happy, happy, happy Hanukkah!