{"id":3825,"date":"2017-09-11T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=3825"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:30","slug":"computer-science-alumni-uses-university-skills-to-win-big-on-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/news\/computer-science-alumni-uses-university-skills-to-win-big-on-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science Alumni Uses University Skills to Win Big on Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Computer Science Alumni Uses University Skills to Win Big on Jeopardy\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"computer-science-alumni-uses-university-skills-to-win-big-on-jeopardy\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Computer Science Alumni Uses University Skills to Win Big on Jeopardy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>School of Computer Science alumni Grant McSheffrey has rose to game show stardom after a weeklong appearance on Jeopardy, winning a total of $70,000 U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with journalist Elizabeth Howell for the Carleton Newsroom, McSheffrey explained how his years studying computer science came to his aid on the famous game show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProgramming is a lot about looking at a jumble of stuff, trying to pull out the important bits and putting them back together in a way that makes sense\u2026In a lot of ways Jeopardy is the same\u201d, Howell quotes McSheffery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McSheffrey also opened up to Howell about his time at Carleton and what he\u2019d gained from studying in the School of Computer Science program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t seem to be as structured or rigid as some of the other university programs. Carleton, they did new things \u2013 such as object-oriented programming \u2013 before anybody else. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McSheffrey also told Howell his time at Carleton gave him valuable connections in the industry that lead to him finding out about an open position at IMB from a fellow student who encouraged him to apply for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about McSheffrey\u2019s big win, what he gained from his 10 years studying at Carleton and where he is working now, in the article on <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2017\/03\/20\/grant-mcsheffrey-jeopardy\/\">Carleton Newsroom <\/a>(March 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Share on: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcarleton.ca%2Fscs%2Fcomputer-science-alumni-uses-university-skills-to-win-big-on-jeopardy%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer Science Alumni Uses University Skills to Win Big on Jeopardy School of Computer Science alumni Grant McSheffrey has rose to game show stardom after a weeklong appearance on Jeopardy, winning a total of $70,000 U.S. In an interview with journalist Elizabeth Howell for the Carleton Newsroom, McSheffrey explained how his years studying computer science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":136,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-3825","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10699,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3825\/revisions\/10699"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}