Just a Berkeley student studying Dijkstras in the Java/CS course they have in the EECS dept. Right around his death, we were finishing a project involving his algorithm in-depth (Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm); A sort of interesting coincedence that just happened - that sort of makes you think of the value society really puts on scientists, engineers, contributors to the field (of CS) in general.
Like previous posts, I agree that as students in the field of CS, we are lucky that most of our 'greats', 'leaders' are still alive - maybe because CS is relatively new, etc, for a discipline
A professor that teaches eecs20 predicted that in the future (this was in a paper):
Link to Paper
Software would be taught akin to Literature, where students would be studying the 'greats' (he cites Kernighan, Knuth, Linus Torvalds) and there would be things such as 'slang' etc, in the syntax,
SO why do you think that we really have scarce knowledge of the greats now?
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Like previous posts, I agree that as students in the field of CS, we are lucky that most of our 'greats', 'leaders' are still alive - maybe because CS is relatively new, etc, for a discipline
A professor that teaches eecs20 predicted that in the future (this was in a paper): Link to Paper Software would be taught akin to Literature, where students would be studying the 'greats' (he cites Kernighan, Knuth, Linus Torvalds) and there would be things such as 'slang' etc, in the syntax, SO why do you think that we really have scarce knowledge of the greats now?
Well, just some random thoughts.