"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
ACAM just wasn't the program I was looking for. I looked at it and quickly decided UT-Austin or LSU. UT-Austin look like a go, but LSU was cheaper and gave me an assistantship. Plus UT-Austin didn't have the people I wanted to work with in my research area.
daybreaker and I were there when Box first joined faculty. He started OSCAR and that was really neat. He may breath some CS life into that program.
Same as ACAM. Neat CS stuff going on, but not in the CS department. Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but with the excception of Dr. Box's work, the computer science involved in these programs is sometimes more application based, which is not purely computer science. Would you agree luminaire?
Wow, what a weird subject to hijack a thread with.
I hope Tech can look into research related to quantum computing, since it has a strong nano/micro research center.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...ntum-computing
Dr. Box is cool. I still think Tech needs a CS Phd program though. Especially with the thing at Barksdale thats coming, and CenIT (is that still around?)... A CS PhD program would bring in a lot of grants and exciting Hi-Tech projects that you just dont get from undergrads and masters programs.
As a student, we had a project focusing on Augmented Reality and wearable computers... duckbillplatty's group was able to get a fairly decent campus virtual tour put together, but imagine if these were PhD students, given longer than 2 months, and without non-CS classes getting in the way, combined with a huge grant? Tech could have been producing some awesome AR apps (an example of AR is the super-imposed first down line on football games). Thats just one tinyy example. PhD programs bring plenty of exciting new and innovative projects.
But Tech has always kind of shoved CS aside to focus on all the other engineering disciplines. If CS could get enough money and professors to institute a PhD program, you would see some exciting stuff.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt