From: Chris Kuan <look@sig.please>
Subject: Technical Professionals and the humnaities ( Was: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?)
Date: 1997/07/18
Date: 1997-07-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33CECAB3.2AB8@sig.please> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33cfa566.539361@news.deltanet.com
Walt Howard wrote:
> My mother teaches art history at Cal Tech. Cal Tech wants to
> make sure all the nerds get a little experience with the
> humanities. I guess they want them thinking twice when they go to
> work on H-Bomb projects. She says her classes are almost entirely
> oriental/asian. The Americans aren't going in for the "practical
> skills" anymore. Someone is telling them that "History" or
> "Poetry" is what they should learn. I think it's pathetic.
Read "Genius" by Gleick. It's a biography of Richard Feynman,
and describes how he was forced to take some humanities subjects.
He worked on the Manhattan Project, as well as later going to
Cal Tech.
OK, he wasn't a computer scientist, but it's interesting anyway.
--
Chris Kuan, BHP Information Technology
Concatenate for email: kuan.chris.ch @ bhp.com.au
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1997-07-11 0:00 Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? ivory
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Tom M. Chen
1997-07-11 0:00 ` robinsaj
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Richie Bielak
1997-07-14 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Michael Schuerig
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1997-07-12 0:00 ` Ian Nelson
[not found] ` <33CA5E3D.475B@edwardjones.com>
1997-07-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <33CB8E75.7CB1@edwardjones.com>
1997-07-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-16 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-25 0:00 ` Jan Bielawski
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Henrik Wist
[not found] ` <33CF6C0E.4983@edwardjones.com>
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Chris Kuan [this message]
1997-07-18 0:00 ` Technical Professionals and the humnaities ( Was: Re: Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it?) Paul Johnson
1997-07-20 0:00 ` Thaddeus L. Olczyk
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Joseph M. Saur
1997-07-21 0:00 ` Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? Don Harrison
[not found] ` <01bc94e6$9ced0820$287b7b7a@tlo2>
1997-07-19 0:00 ` Frieder Monninger
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Glenn Williamson
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-08-01 0:00 ` I use Eiffel! and other "strange tongues"! Jakob Engblom
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Ian Nelson
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-03 0:00 ` Matt Kennel (Remove 'NOSPAM' to reply)
1997-08-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-07 0:00 ` Andrew Semprebon
1997-08-08 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-08-08 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-08-11 0:00 ` Jeff Brown
1997-08-13 0:00 ` quadrafeline
1997-08-09 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1997-08-04 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
[not found] ` <dewar.870872376@merv>
1997-08-09 0:00 ` Heribert Slama
[not found] ` <5s8bsh$mo0@alumni.rpi.edu>
1997-08-06 0:00 ` C/C++ is the best teaching language??!? HARRY R. ERWIN
1997-08-08 0:00 ` Tom Valesky
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? Sean Case
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Nick Payne
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Walt Howard
1997-07-30 0:00 ` Brian Kimball
1997-07-31 0:00 ` Why I didn't like Eiffel Glenn Williamson
1997-08-02 0:00 ` Ian Nelson
1997-07-31 0:00 ` Eiffel anyone? - Who uses it? Don Harrison
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