I fully expect this to get lost in the noise here, but there is such a program (nearly). UCSB has a tiny college called the College of Creative Studies, which bills itself as a graduate school for undergraduates. While they do require general ed classes (8 quarter-long classes in total), that's as specific as the requirement is. You can fulfill it with any classes unrelated to your major - I do hope you have some interests outside of CS.
Also, you can skip the prerequisites for classes, even those outside your major. The CS program is considerably more compact than most undergraduate degrees, because it is assumed you will come in already experienced in computer science and be able to start on the upper-division material during your first year.
http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/welcome/
Look into it.
The problem of breaking reCAPTHCA is precisely the same problem as increasing computer OCR abilities, since reCAPTCHA by design uses words which current OCR abilities are inadequate for. This is a good thing for AI and computer vision and text digitization.
Well, the important thing for corporate sponsorship is whether or not people enjoy watching the game/sport/whatever. If people enjoy watching other people play, then the companies can make money off it. It doesn't really matter whether it's a sport or not.
Methinks more people would enjoy watching other people play video games than watching other people fish or play chess.
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I fully expect this to get lost in the noise here, but there is such a program (nearly). UCSB has a tiny college called the College of Creative Studies, which bills itself as a graduate school for undergraduates. While they do require general ed classes (8 quarter-long classes in total), that's as specific as the requirement is. You can fulfill it with any classes unrelated to your major - I do hope you have some interests outside of CS. Also, you can skip the prerequisites for classes, even those outside your major. The CS program is considerably more compact than most undergraduate degrees, because it is assumed you will come in already experienced in computer science and be able to start on the upper-division material during your first year. http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/welcome/ Look into it.
The problem of breaking reCAPTHCA is precisely the same problem as increasing computer OCR abilities, since reCAPTCHA by design uses words which current OCR abilities are inadequate for. This is a good thing for AI and computer vision and text digitization.
Well, the important thing for corporate sponsorship is whether or not people enjoy watching the game/sport/whatever. If people enjoy watching other people play, then the companies can make money off it. It doesn't really matter whether it's a sport or not. Methinks more people would enjoy watching other people play video games than watching other people fish or play chess.