« back to article

Discuss “CMU celebrates 50 years of computer science”

This weekend the computer science program celebrated its 50th anniversary. The four-day event, dubbed CS50, commended the innovation and prominence that has marked the past half-century in computer science research.

In the summer of 1956, the first computer at the University was an IBM model 650. The IBM was delivered to the basement of the business school, and soon afterward the dean announced the founding of the Computation Center, to be headed by professor Alan Perlis. The center soon gained much admiration and praise as a premier research location. Successive innovations led the program to be one of the top institutions in the country. CS50 highlighted all of this past excellence and gave insight into what the future holds for the program.

The...

Comments

Be heard

Name:
Required
Email:
Optional
Comment:

Comment guidelines

If you provide an email address, it will be displayed. This may make you more vulnerable to spammers.

HTML is not allowed. Paragraphs are automatically created by leaving a blank line. Links are created from URLs automatically.

Off-topic or inappropriate (e.g. obscene, libelous) comments are not permitted and will be removed.

Important: The Tartan provides these discussion boards to encourage discussion about the topics we report. The views and opinions expressed in these comments are those of their authors, and do not reflect the opinions of The Tartan.