Caltech Named World's Top University in New Times Higher Education Global Ranking

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<p>Leaving aside the observation that perhaps “techie circles” might know something about the relative importance of figures in the computer industry that North Suburban soccer moms may not, y’know, there’s this newfangled thing called “Google.” Great for looking up stuff.</p>

<p>[Dennis</a> Ritchie: The man who created Unix - The Economic Times](<a href=“http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/dennis-ritchie-the-man-who-created-unix/articleshow/10395985.cms]Dennis”>http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/dennis-ritchie-the-man-who-created-unix/articleshow/10395985.cms)</p>

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<p>[Dennis</a> Ritchie: The shoulders Steve Jobs stood on - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/innovation/dennis-ritchie-obit-bell-labs/]Dennis”>http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/innovation/dennis-ritchie-obit-bell-labs/)</p>

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<p>[The</a> Inevitable Steve Jobs Vs. Dennis Ritchie Discussion - Forbes](<a href=“The Inevitable Steve Jobs Vs. Dennis Ritchie Discussion”>The Inevitable Steve Jobs Vs. Dennis Ritchie Discussion)</p>

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<p>[Dennis</a> Ritchie - Telegraph](<a href=“Dennis Ritchie”>Dennis Ritchie)</p>

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<p>[Dennis</a> Ritchie | C programming language | Passed Away | The Daily Caller](<a href=“Dennis Ritchie, C programming language inventor, passed away Wednesday | The Daily Caller”>Dennis Ritchie, C programming language inventor, passed away Wednesday | The Daily Caller)</p>

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<p>There’s more. But you should get the idea.</p>

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<p>I dont know C or much about Unix but they contributed more to computers than Apple ever did.</p>

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<p>To expand on my post that someone who values and is good at the humanities can be happy at a math/science magnet, I know several of my high school classmates became professors in humanities fields. One is at Harvard. And they aren’t in techie humanities like economics or history of science…</p>

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<p>Well, learn something new every day. Thanks for the links.</p>

<p>BTW, annasdad, I’m not from the North Shore, and I’m not a soccer mom in the least (if by soccer mom you mean a minivan or SUV-driving at-home mother who focuses excessively on her children’s sports events and doesn’t know anything about any broader life issues).</p>

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<p>I withdraw the insinuation.</p>

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<p>Withdrawal accepted, annasdad.</p>

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<p>mini - interesting views about Oxford. Who did you learn Veena from? You are a true educator learning the instrument of goddess of learning.</p>

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<p>back in the early 80s, I was struggling with 8086 assembler, trying to get IBM PCs with 64K of memory to actually do something useful (yes, I know you could buy them with a gigantic 640K, but a lot of people didn’t), and along came C. All of a sudden, I could get 90% of the performance with 10% of the effort. Truly revolutionary.</p>

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<p>“Such a statement didn’t mean that Caltech - or STEM-focused schools in general - aren’t valuable though. What ever happened to the concept of “it’s all good”?”</p>

<p>I salute you PizzaGirl for your terrific “big picture” post, truly!</p>

<p>This thread has taken some interesting turns, but the fact that it has gone on for 44 pages and everyone is still “civil”, gives much credit to CC posters.</p>

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<p>just for laughs…from wikipedia on the history of facebook…
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<p>more about Adam D’Angelou

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<p>D’Angelo–Wozniak to Zuckerberg’s Jobs?</p>

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<p>I worked in Silicon Valley in the mid-80s until the early 90s. The genius of Apple was that it recognized the revolutionary potential of the icon driven user interface developed at Xerox. No one else did, including Xerox and Microsoft. I worked extensively in C; it’s an elegant language, one I enjoyed. Precursor was Pascal, anyone around during the dinosaurs and remember Pascal?</p>

<p>I’m sure the super techie high schools like IMSA are wonderful and give kids great educations.</p>

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<p>“mini - interesting views about Oxford. Who did you learn Veena from? You are a true educator learning the instrument of goddess of learning.”</p>

<p>From Srimathi Lakshsmi Narayani in Dindigul. In 1981, I was the “Higgins” of Dindigul.</p>

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<p>Sounds like you missed Beatles with Ravi Shanker’s sitar by a decade! Do you stlll play the veena?</p>

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<p>Sadly, no. But I’m learning Tamil!</p>

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<p>Just for laughs…adding a line for the wikipedia on the history of facebook …</p>

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<p>Funny how circular quotations can be. :)</p>

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<p>Ya got me.</p>

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UCSD Pascal was on Apple-IIe and IBM 8080 (I think PS2 with Charlie Chaplin commercials). My wife had these computers.</p>

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<p>Pascal was also on the HP3000 back in the day. I rode a commuter van with a whole bunch of Xerox R&D folks from SF to the peninsula every day. Learned a lot from them. Many went to Apple.</p>

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<p>Never worked with card readers and PDP-11’s? Ever tried dropping the huge stack of cards and having to sort them back to the right order? :-)</p>

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<p>COBOL…DIBOL and yes, FORTRAN punch cards. </p>

<p>Learned the hard way that column 6 on the punch card was off just enough from column 7 to make the program generate a 1/2" output stack of that great folded green paper with the white lines. Last page showed error message : CPU time limit exceeded. Made note to self…don’t do punch card while ‘under the influence’.</p>