Striking for me to go to labs now (for those still exist) and hear the quiet. Computer labs in the beginning were rackety. Almost unbearably so.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 5, 2017, at 9:58 AM, Steven A Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Today young people needn't leave their books and classrooms for the computer > lab, they can simply shift from playing video games and chatting on social > media and watching "stupid trick" youtube videos to programming/hacking on > their own computer/internet. Well many of them anyway. > > Most probably don't even know what a computer lab is anymore, that was our > generation(s)'s thing! > >> On 6/5/17 10:53 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> Steve writes: >> >> “I've a friend in his late 70s who was a bit in that froth... he graduated >> MIT around 1963 with a degree in Architecture but a hankering and aptitude >> for programming (nearly failed his Architecture degree because of all the >> time he spent in the computer lab)...” >> >> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/technology/obituary-jean-sammet-software-designer-cobol.html >> >> “In the early 1950s, the computer industry was in its infancy, with no >> settled culture or rigid career paths. Lois Haibt, a >> contemporary of Ms. Sammet’s at IBM, where Ms. Sammet worked for nearly >> three decades, observed, “They took anyone who seemed to have an aptitude >> for problem-solving skills — bridge players, chess players, even women.” >> >> Among these aptitudes I would certainly select for the individuals that had >> the right priorities and didn’t leave the computer lab for mere lectures and >> classwork! How else can one develop the proper skills? (Oh, I suppose >> there are impressionable young people on this list who I should not >> contaminate with these subversive ideas.) >> >> Marcus >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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