Nobody knows Feynman, believe me. Ask around on the streets and maybe one in 500 will have some idea (if you really ask randomly). Many people have "seen" Hawki

Nobody knows Feynman, believe me. Ask around on the streets and maybe one in 500 will have some idea (if you really ask randomly). Many people have "seen" Hawking, and they remember his physical condition and that he's very smart. Nobody knows what Hawking does and I'd even say that nobody knows that the name of the paraplegic genius is Stephen Hawking. Jeannette Wing (CMU's head of CS) started a project sponsored by Microsoft called "Computational Thinking" where she tried to make CS a mainstream tool to make decisions in life. She's probably still working on it, but I always found the idea too vague to have any impact. I remember that Daniel Sleator thought the same when she first talked about it (I was there). http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink/