19 Nov
2001
19 Nov
'01
4:40 p.m.
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
Some places have special-purpose equipment for some
experiments which
is not what it claims to be. It's got all sorts of hidden extras to
make the experiments come out right. Of course if you try to apply the
knowledge gained from that experiment to some other problem you start
running into difficulties.
That's how it probably starts out here, but I think it gets better with
time. Most of my upper-level CS classes have been in the same building in
which the ECE classes are held. Judging from the menagerie of interesting
contraptions that I've seen there over the years, the ECE people do get to
do stuff that's not 'set up to succeed'. Two people I know in the ECE
program are currently working on some (from-scratch) robotics project.
Another interesting thing: I think I might qualify for a new intensive
*one-year* CS master's degree program that my university is offering. I
just might go for that too.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com