Hackers

23 August 2005

Excerpt from a NYT article on today’s CS students:

To help reverse three years of steep decline in the major at M.I.T., professors there met with freshmen last fall to extol the virtues of computer science. In one such gathering, John V. Guttag, a professor, brought pizza and soft drinks to a freshman dormitory. Professor Guttag spoke and so did a heart surgeon from Massachusetts General Hospital, who had majored in computer science as an undergraduate at M.I.T.

The bad jokes just write themselves…

• Later: Why Java is the wrong language for “enterprise” applications
• Earlier: Teshuvah