[ale] Ga tech

[Fulton Green]

Just to clarify, Jeff actually wrote the part that starts with
"Used to be".  Vim can be dangerous some days.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:11:18PM -0500, Fulton Green wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:54:04PM -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> For funsies, I spent some time today looking at the curriculum for
> the Bachelor of Software Engineering degree at Auburn; this is the
> successor to the computer engineering curriculum I took there:
> 
> http://eng.auburn.edu/programs/comp/programs/undergraduate/programs/software-engineering.html
> 
> It looks like they've dropped some topics, such as graphics and
> compiler construction, from the core (still available as electives), and
> added topics such as networking, QA and computer ethics (!) in addition
> to business ethics (!!), but it's pretty much the same - a definitely-
> not-shallow dive into the inner workings of software and even a bit of
> hardware for good measure.  Auburn also offers a "computer engineering"
> option for its B.E.E. degree.  The electrical and CS/SWE departments
> jointly offer a Bachelor of Wireless Engineering degree, thanks to
> the alum (Ginn) who made his fortune off that technology.
> 
> > Used to be, at GT, if you wanted to know how computers *worked*, you 
> > became a EE.  On the other hand, if you wanted to be able to write a 
> > compiler, you went CS.  CS undergrad majors back in the legwarmer era 
> > didn't *by and large* understand digital electronics or really even 
> > system administration (it would have been nigh impossible to get your 
> > own system to administer). 
> > 
> > I don't know how this changed when the schools merged, but it sounds 
> > like they're taking another abstract jump away from the actual *work* of 
> > computing.  I guess this is how we get to a technological singularity - 
> > an implemented technology that no one understands.