Norman, I recall you! I was at SFU first as a high school student from 1975 then as an undergrad 1977-1981.
Elma, Doreen, Ted Sterling, James Weinkam - you’ll remember them! I was a TA as well in the late 1970s and classes were small, especially upper level. 5-6 students per class and we’d TA one another based on our specialities. Mine was system software, OSes, a bit of hardware. It was a great “classic” university eduction, not the big machine it is now. Best wishes, Kevin Remember Gana and Chris Dewhurst? > On Aug 13, 2019, at 8:37 AM, Norman Jaffe via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Kevin - which university did you go to? > I was in the first class at Simon Fraser University that started in Computing > Science (1974) rather than transferring in from another department... we > often had TAs in one class that were students in the next one, as they had > taken the first class earlier... > > From: "cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > To: "Adam Thornton" <athorn...@gmail.com>, "cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 7:50:15 AM > Subject: Re: Electr* Engineering > > In my school in Canada, the computing science program started about 1974 and > grew out of the math department, but when it was formalized as a department > in 1976-77 the university wisely placed it in a new “Interdisciplinary > Studies” faculty and staffed the school with people from mathematics, > chemistry, physics, and some external engineering folks. > > It worked out very well and the program was recognized shortly as one of the > best in Canada due to recognition of CS’ interdisciplinary nature. > >> On Aug 12, 2019, at 11:05 PM, Adam Thornton via cctalk >> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> At Rice in the early 90s the department was "Electrical and Computer >> Engineering" if my hazy memory serves. >> >> The genealogy of Computer Science departments (and their curricula) (at >> least in the US) is also weird and historically-contingent. Basically it >> seems to have been a tossup at any given school whether it came out of the >> Electr[ical|onic] Engineering department, in which case it was memories and >> logic gates and a bottom-up, hardware-focused curriculum, or out of the >> Mathematics department, in which case it was algorithms and complexity >> analysis and a software-focused curriculum. >> >> Adam
