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Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cash-reserves-proving-useful dept.

saforrest writes "Say goodbye to independent academia. In a presentation by Microsoft on Wednesday at the University of Waterloo, a new joint initiative was announced which involves the addition of a mandatory course on C# for all electrical and computer engineers. 'Completion of this course will be mandatory for students entering the E&CE program.'" Microsoft's press release is available.

2 of 681 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Nooooooo! by rruvin · · Score: 5, Informative
    The Electrical and Computer Engineering program has nothing to do with the Faculty of Mathematics or the Computer Science program. It is a part of the Faculty of Engineering.

    No such requirements are present in the Computer Science program.

  2. Re:why this is a bad idea by paulschreiber · · Score: 5, Informative
    there's now a static version of the page that is being updated every 10-30 minutes. i've also tweaked the mysql connection pool size.

    hey, at UWS we use open source/free software. :-) it's a LAMP box.

    paul
    (uws sysadmin type)