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Bill Gates Gives $20M to CMU for New Building
touretzky writes "Carnegie Mellon University announced on Tuesday that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had donated $20 million toward the cost of a new building to be called the "Gates Center for Computer Science". Some faculty have suggested that in acknowledgment of Mr. Gates' profound influence on the computer software industry, the building should be painted bright blue."
i hear windows bashing....wait for it....wait.......
He's just trying to deflect attention from the Pirates of Silcon Valley slashfic. Editors are on crack! This is news for nerds but apparently it doesn't matter to them!!! Mod this post up to show your support for software developer slash fiction.
recent artiCle put Poor debad last Contact to see if prospects are very hype - BSD's inventing excuses Romeo and Juliet Keep, and I won't
I'd attend class under a bridge somewhere before I stepped foot in a building bought by Bill.
The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.
I would rather have him spend the money on a college in the US than fighting AIDS in Africa. AIDS is a self-solving problem.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
jeezus fucking christ. if you're going to waste money in cleveland, why not just use it to fill in the potholes? christ, I can't believe you were serious. wasting money on kids who won't amount to anything.
If you wish to discover what makes William Henry Gates III tick, do some research on the role of his pappy and grandpappy in the genocide of the NW Amerind people, over-exploitation of the natural resources and the control of strategic minerals, guns, drugs, flesh, etc. into the Seattle Port of Entry.
(Preston, Gates and Ellis, LLP)
The time has come to quit griping about and/or poking fun at Prince William III and King George II. These people belong on the end of ropes or in federal prisons - not in positions of authority.
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Who am I, you ask? Nobody special, just a 4th generation member of a family of middle-middle class Hebrew-Americans who have been participating in the evolution of this here "National Telecommunications Infrastructure and Electrical Power Grids" for the past 100 years or so.
(Note: We are not "Jews" or "Zionists". Our family is descended from Moses and Aaron and we practice the "Hebrew" or "All-One-God Faith")
I am a Chicago native and grew up with my hands inside and on the controls of all kinds of electrical and electronic equipment. I do not write "program code"; I install and test "IT" and have been doing so for most of my 50 years on this rock.
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At least to my ear, the "Science" in "Computer Science" sounds a lot like the "Science" in "Social Science", or "Library Science", or "Marketing Science", or, moving from the campus to the commercial world, "Shampoo Science". The intention seems to be more to inflate than to describe -- to distinguish the work of folks who think logically and who are not afraid of technology from the work of the chin-strokers and pipe-puffers on the other end of campus, where they dress better and mainly in black.
Better names for CS might be "Information Technology", or perhaps "Computing Studies". Even "Computing" is catchy and rings true..