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I was not being sarcastic. If you buy ranking metrics, UT Austin has a top 10 CS program [1]. We have some of the best Systems researchers in the country [2], a

I was not being sarcastic. If you buy ranking metrics, UT Austin has a top 10 CS program [1]. We have some of the best Systems researchers in the country [2], a professor from our dept won the Turing Award in 2007 [3], and Bill Gates + Michael Dell just donated a new CS building for our campus [4]. [1] http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu... [2] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/lasr/ http://www.cs.utexas.edu/lasr/ [3] http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/emerson_1671460.cfm http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/emerson_1671460.cfm [4] http://apps.cs.utexas.edu/goto_gdc/ http://apps.cs.utexas.edu/goto_gdc/

strlen 14y ago
Ssshh, don't tell anyone that UT Austin is a top 10 CS program :-) I would strongly encourage any potential competitor to never recruit from UT Austin (or any UC school, U of Washington, UWisc Madison, Waterloo, etc...). Oh, and amongst Ivy League schools please be sure never to recruit from Brown.
jkeel 14y ago
Maybe it's due to the fact I graduated from the UT system, but I thought it was well known that UT Austin had a top notch CS program.
- chollida1 14y ago
  Well for my part it's probably because I'm Canadian and don't need to know this type of knowledge:) Though judging by the negative votes on my post I guess I'm being punished for my ignorance. I thought I made a decent contribution to back up the original posters claim. I guess its true that no good dead goes unpunished:)
  - jkeel 14y ago
    Sorry to hear about the response. Hopefully I didn't come off as being negative. I thought maybe I was learning something as well. Different people have different experiences. I myself don't know much about Canada except that it appears to be a beautiful place I want to visit some day.
- caw 14y ago
  I think it's probably if you go to a top 10 school, you know of the other top 10 schools for your program. As a CompSci undergrad at Georgia Tech I knew of UT, etc. Even if you don't go there for undergrad, there's still a possibility of going there for post-grad and people talk.
javert 14y ago
Plus, you had dijkstra.

strlen 14y ago

Ssshh, don't tell anyone that UT Austin is a top 10 CS program :-) I would strongly encourage any potential competitor to never recruit from UT Austin (or any UC school, U of Washington, UWisc Madison, Waterloo, etc...). Oh, and amongst Ivy League schools please be sure never to recruit from Brown.

jkeel 14y ago

Maybe it's due to the fact I graduated from the UT system, but I thought it was well known that UT Austin had a top notch CS program.

chollida1 14y ago
Well for my part it's probably because I'm Canadian and don't need to know this type of knowledge:) Though judging by the negative votes on my post I guess I'm being punished for my ignorance. I thought I made a decent contribution to back up the original posters claim. I guess its true that no good dead goes unpunished:)
- jkeel 14y ago
  Sorry to hear about the response. Hopefully I didn't come off as being negative. I thought maybe I was learning something as well. Different people have different experiences. I myself don't know much about Canada except that it appears to be a beautiful place I want to visit some day.
caw 14y ago
I think it's probably if you go to a top 10 school, you know of the other top 10 schools for your program. As a CompSci undergrad at Georgia Tech I knew of UT, etc. Even if you don't go there for undergrad, there's still a possibility of going there for post-grad and people talk.

javert 14y ago

Plus, you had dijkstra.