[3] Alonzo Church supervised Constable's junior thesis while he was studying in Princeton.
[6] In 1999, Cornell created the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, or FCIS, as a college-level entity with a dean but without the administrative structure of a college.
[7] The new FCIS became the umbrella organization for the Program of Computer Graphics and, later, a new Department of Statistical Science.
In 2008, when he stepped down as chair, then Provost Biddy Martin attributed both the idea and its implementation to Constable.
Constable gave appropriate members of Computer Science the responsibility of developing the new department over the years.