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Is there a school that's done more for computer science than MIT? I can think of a few contenders - and obviously this is largely subjective - but when I think
by nkozyra 12y ago
Is there a school that's done more for computer science than MIT? I can think of a few contenders - and obviously this is largely subjective - but when I think computer science in the U.S. I think MIT, Stanford and Cal-Poly in that order.
- aroman 12y ago...you think Cal-Poly over Carnegie Mellon and Berkeley? Really?
- thesimpsons1022 12y agoprobably went to cal-poly lol.
- nkozyra 12y agoI'm not familiar with the lol campus.
- nkozyra 12y ago:shrug: like I said, all subjective.
- axolotlol 12y agoI'm curious what contributions you have in mind with regard to Cal Poly (also, Pomona or SLO?).
- aroman 12y agoThis. I agree that there is an element of subjectivity to it (Is Cambridge better than Oxford?), but I think it is simply impossible to successfully defend the claim that (as an example) The University of Phoenix has made more contributions to computer science than, say, Berkeley. One way — not the only way, but a reasonable way — to measure it is by the # of Turing Award laureates[0]. Cal Poly isn't even on the list. (Neither is it on the list of Nobel Prize winners, for what it's worth).
- thesimpsons1022 12y agodo you happen to have a list of either the colleges with the most Turing or Nobel Laureates?
- aroman 12y agoYes, and I actually referenced both when I was writing that comment. I intended to cite them (note the [0]!), but I forgot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turing_Award_laureates_by_university_affiliation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turing_Award_laureates_... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_univ...
- argumentum 12y agoPerhaps you meant Caltech?