 Next award is the SCS Teaching Award, for which we are going to have our sponsors from Lutron electronics are here to help give this. And this is the Joel and Ruth Spira Teaching Award. Okay, you guys know what you're doing. Very good. So this award was created to recognize professors who excel in the classroom. And it is sponsored by Lutron, founded by Joel Spira. And we have two representatives here, and thank you very much. Do you want to take the mic? Yes, thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to... My name is Walt Saharchuk, and I want to introduce a colleague of mine. This is Matt Breenberger, class of 93. He was the second class of computer science here at Carnegie Mellon. Great. So give him a little round of applause. So the Ruth and Joel Spira Excellence in Teaching Award was created by Lutron founders to recognize professors who excel in the classroom by helping students learn, understand, and apply the fundamentals of engineering. Mr. Spira felt passionately that hiring graduates with a keen understanding of engineering fundamentals was key to Lutron's long-term success. And this year marks the fifth year of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science Experience Excellence in Teaching Awards. And this year's recipient is Andy Pavlo. Andy? Once you get the award, congratulations. No. Stay here. We have more. Andy has made major strides in revamping and expanding Carnegie Mellon's database course offerings. The revised database application course were ranked by the students as very good to excellent. In the spring of 2017, Andy restarted the Graduate Database Systems course, which now delves more deeply into how databases are designed internally rather than looking at databases from the user perspective. In its first semester, Andy received a nearly perfect teaching score from just about the entire class, along with a nearly perfect score for the course material. The secret's out. These results were so impressive that he made an undergraduate version of the course, which has also been well received by CMU students. Andy has taken the database course offerings and re-energized them, which has made the students seriously interested in learning more about databases. Many students comment about his teaching. Andy Pavlo has such a knack of explaining things so clearly I didn't realize just how deeply I was learning the material. Here's some other quotes from students. Andy is the coolest professor I've ever had, and you can really feel his passion for databases. He is one of the best professors I've ever met at CMU. He explained the course content so clear in the lecture, and he cares about every student. I appreciate that so much. Andy is definitely a Myers-Briggs ESTJ, Extraverted Sensing, Thinking, and Judging. Isn't it nice to know that the students are cycle analyzing him? That's good. Otherwise, he would not have such a tremendous memory reservoir of random facts and details about all kinds of database management systems out there. Because of this, the lectures are more about what is, and not so much about what if and what could be. Andy talks about everything in a definite, factual manner, making the concepts and techniques exceedingly clear. In addition to his courses, Andy is also a supporter of diversity computing, attending CMU diversity receptions to meet perspective, underrepresented students, and get them excited about attending Carnegie Mellon. On behalf of Lutron and the Spearer family, it is my pleasure to present the Ruth and Joel Spearer Excellent Teaching Award to Andy Pavlo. Congratulations. Thank you so much.