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Re: ArsDigita University

Author:Paul McJones
Posted:4/16/2000; 8:16:58 PM
Topic:Re: ArsDigita University
Msg #:16308
Prev/Next:16307 / 16309

Dave says:

If you go there, you'll come away believing that Oracle is great, that Larry Ellison is god, that no one actually uses Windows, and Davos is a circle-jerk, no one cares about fonts and that undergrads can implement an object database in a relational DB as a first semester project.

From the syllabus, it would appear that Greenspun and his colleagues are providing a reasonably balanced combination of mathematics, computer science, engineering, and project-oriented experience. He has a number of people on his faculty and advisory board whose experience and judgement I respect (for example, Tufte on the visual display of information, and Hellerstein on databases). If Greenspun should overemphasize the benefits of (relatinal) database-backed web sites, or underemphasize the importance of graphically-oriented web pages, I trust most of the students will have acquired the tools to reach their own conclusions.

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