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"With so few professors, Yale's department has no choice but to ignore entire areas of computer science." This is true of most disciplines at most schools, whe

• hga 12y ago
  Indeed. The specifics include a comparison to "Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell" Stanford, UCBerkely, CMU and MIT are the world's top CS schools, everyone else including Yale has difficulty competing with them. Yale's CS department has always been small, if not idiosyncratic (I'm thinking of their AI professor who said everything else in the field was bunk). In the areas I'm most interested in, their development of T, the first production level implementation of a Scheme, was the biggest thing to come out of it, and that was 3 decades ago.