Computer Science Engineering 50th Anniversary: Part 1
Curt Bright
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08/27/2018
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CSE begins in the 1960s with two men and a napkin.
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- [00:00:00.757](investigative music)
- [00:00:04.432](keyboard clicking)
- [00:00:10.440]Kenneth Smith said, you know, we really should
- [00:00:13.490]set up a Computer Science Department, on a napkin.
- [00:00:17.701](laughs)
- [00:00:19.100]Well we put down, I guess, the important details
- [00:00:22.010]that we felt should be on there.
- [00:00:24.170]And then, I went to see the chancellor.
- [00:00:26.820]They went to Clifford Hardin, the chancellor,
- [00:00:29.210]and he bought in on it.
- [00:00:30.970]And that was the start of the Computer Science Department
- [00:00:34.880]and we very soon thereafter hired
- [00:00:37.210]our first chair, Dr. George Nagy.
- [00:00:40.740]The Dean knew that I was going on a ski trip
- [00:00:45.200]and the Dean had told me that if I liked skiing
- [00:00:48.420]I really ought to come to Nebraska,
- [00:00:49.910]because it was right next to Colorado.
- [00:00:52.820]We were very fortunate to be able
- [00:00:54.340]to get George Nagy to come.
- [00:00:56.280]He was a man with an international reputation.
- [00:00:59.420]And so I came.
- [00:01:00.880]I told him that I was only coming for three years.
- [00:01:04.250]And I stayed 13.
- [00:01:06.370]It was a period of substantial excitement,
- [00:01:10.070]like, we are going to do things really good.
- [00:01:13.480]Anyway, there we were in '68 grinding away
- [00:01:16.710]and a terrible thing happened,
- [00:01:19.549](record scratching)
- [00:01:20.382]Nixon became President.
- [00:01:21.869](dramatic music)
- [00:01:23.870]What it meant was he appointed Clifford Hardin
- [00:01:26.350]to be Secretary of Agriculture.
- [00:01:29.120]Now, as you might surmize,
- [00:01:32.430]when somebody makes a promise and he leaves,
- [00:01:34.420]the promise goes with him.
- [00:01:36.500]So, the concept of the Institute vanished.
- [00:01:39.930]And all we were left with was this little department.
- [00:01:42.475](investigative music) (keyboard clicking)
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