Francis Wheeler Loomis directed MIT's RadLab for some time starting in 1941. He was later the first director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory (1951-52) (previously Project Charles).
I too found the similarities eery. I haven't found any indication of relations though.
Ever seen one where the AI can beat a skilled human player?
talk to the developers of Terminus at Vicarious Visions. During the first demo they did at RPI those dev's told us that the AI could beat their best more than half the time. Not only that, they (the AI) were employing some very interesting "stalk and kill" methods.
I have to concur with MIT. I graduated RPI '98. Our program expected that you would learn your programming languages on your own. They were merely a tool to allow us to explore algorithms and problem solving in general. Just as MIT has "6.170", RPI has "Software Design and Documentation", where we are required to find a problem, find the customer and develop the thing from ground zero. We too spend most of our time in algorithm and pure math courses. I personally took only ONE course about programming languages, it was called "Programming Languages" and was actually about how programming languages are designed, and how to choose the right PL for the problem.
My time at good ol' RPI left me with enough credits for a computer systems engineering minor, but the school doesn't allow CS major with CSE minor because of, "too much overlap".
The MIT CS deptartment actually prides itself on the LACK of actual "practical" classes.
I can't claim any departmental pride in our lack of "practicality". I can claim, however, along with MIT, that we produce good scientists and engineers.
Rennselaer Polytech is halfway through their transition into a laptop toting populace. Unfortunately it seems that good ol' RPI has forgotten some details like...
Theft, there are 3-5 reported stolen each week in the school paper.
The upper two classes and the graduates. There are still two classes at RPI (undergrad) who were not required to buy laptops when they arrived there. Furthermore, the grad. students aren't required to purchase laptops at all. And the clincher is that the campus, which had one of the highest computer-to-student ratios in the country is now somewhere around 200 : 1 (student : computer)(and that only considers the population who aren't required to buy laptops).
I was a CS student there only a few years back, and I personally wonder how a CS student can get the necessary breadth of programming and architecture familiarity when there is only one type of computer on campus : The Wintel Notebook.
What kills me is that they've removed almost ALL of the *NIX systems from the computing center, and now there are only Wintel PCs. The worst thing about it is that the RCS, the campus network is still UNIX. The M$ stuff is grafted onto RCS in a half-assed way. It's abominable.
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Francis Wheeler Loomis directed MIT's RadLab for some time starting in 1941. He was later the first director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory (1951-52) (previously Project Charles).
I too found the similarities eery. I haven't found any indication of relations though.
every time I try a single character change, whether it be deletion, transpose, UC->LC, etc. it tells me "(Sorry, cannot decode)".
talk to the developers of Terminus at Vicarious Visions. During the first demo they did at RPI those dev's told us that the AI could beat their best more than half the time. Not only that, they (the AI) were employing some very interesting "stalk and kill" methods.
My time at good ol' RPI left me with enough credits for a computer systems engineering minor, but the school doesn't allow CS major with CSE minor because of, "too much overlap".
The MIT CS deptartment actually prides itself on the LACK of actual "practical" classes.
I can't claim any departmental pride in our lack of "practicality". I can claim, however, along with MIT, that we produce good scientists and engineers.
Theft, there are 3-5 reported stolen each week in the school paper.
The upper two classes and the graduates. There are still two classes at RPI (undergrad) who were not required to buy laptops when they arrived there. Furthermore, the grad. students aren't required to purchase laptops at all. And the clincher is that the campus, which had one of the highest computer-to-student ratios in the country is now somewhere around 200 : 1 (student : computer)(and that only considers the population who aren't required to buy laptops).
I was a CS student there only a few years back, and I personally wonder how a CS student can get the necessary breadth of programming and architecture familiarity when there is only one type of computer on campus : The Wintel Notebook. What kills me is that they've removed almost ALL of the *NIX systems from the computing center, and now there are only Wintel PCs. The worst thing about it is that the RCS, the campus network is still UNIX. The M$ stuff is grafted onto RCS in a half-assed way. It's abominable.
I know I don't like it....