I've been asked this question a lot by prospective and new students at the University of Alberta. Over the course of a few years, I've refined the answer down to roughly this: "It's the same thing as the difference between Scientists and Engineers." Science is about discovery while engineering is about application. However, in Canada there is a lot more to it as well. Engineering is a profession and is governed differently than the associated science. In fact, a CompE Engineer in Training does not receive experience towards his/her Professional Engineering status by just coding. Experience comes from the design of systems rather than the implemenation.
If you are looking for advice on to what to go into, pick up a bunch of calendars from a bunch of schools. Find a program that interests you, and don't be afraid to change your mind along the way. Try not to let yourself get pushed into a program with few or no optional courses. One of the best things I did during my university degree was take a few arts electives.
I'm tempted to think that this announcement from SGI has a lot to do with the announcement the other day from nVidia, VA Linux and SGI. This seems like an important step in the process to get an official OpenGL implementation running on Linux.
It seems as if the changes are taking us towards a more fair basis for judging quality of comments. Most of the feedback that I've read through (that I thought would be useful, at least;) has been started on. Whether is all works is another issue...
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I've been asked this question a lot by prospective and new students at the University of Alberta. Over the course of a few years, I've refined the answer down to roughly this: "It's the same thing as the difference between Scientists and Engineers." Science is about discovery while engineering is about application. However, in Canada there is a lot more to it as well. Engineering is a profession and is governed differently than the associated science. In fact, a CompE Engineer in Training does not receive experience towards his/her Professional Engineering status by just coding. Experience comes from the design of systems rather than the implemenation.
If you are looking for advice on to what to go into, pick up a bunch of calendars from a bunch of schools. Find a program that interests you, and don't be afraid to change your mind along the way. Try not to let yourself get pushed into a program with few or no optional courses. One of the best things I did during my university degree was take a few arts electives.
I'm tempted to think that this announcement from
SGI has a lot to do with the announcement the
other day from nVidia, VA Linux and SGI. This
seems like an important step in the process to
get an official OpenGL implementation running
on Linux.
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It seems as if the changes are taking us towards a more fair basis for judging quality of comments. Most of the feedback that I've read through (that I thought would be useful, at least ;) has been started on. Whether is all works is another issue...
Good job, though.
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Don't they all end at noon? I thought that was the second half of the joke. Anyone caught fooling after noon was the fool instead...
This however does bring up another issue, the concept of the Internet Day. Should it be? How would it be standardized? Do geeks really sleep anyway?
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