Computer Science Engineering 50th Anniversary: Part 2
Curt Bright
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08/27/2018
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The CSE department meets early challenges and grows.
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- [00:00:08.500]In those days, no one really knew what courses
- [00:00:13.020]ought to be offered and what ought to be in them
- [00:00:15.560]in a computer science department.
- [00:00:17.960]There was a lot of courses being offered
- [00:00:20.050]and a lot of students wanted to learn
- [00:00:21.800]all about this new piece of machinery that they heard about.
- [00:00:25.980]In the early days, called it electronic brain
- [00:00:29.530]and a lot of other names
- [00:00:31.140]that didn't make a whole lot of sense.
- [00:00:33.330]In the early days,
- [00:00:36.220]Professor Sharad Seth was the only person to actually train
- [00:00:40.209]in computers and computer science.
- [00:00:43.340]Everybody else came from physics, chemistry,
- [00:00:46.160]and mathematics.
- [00:00:47.850]We had a very small number of facility members.
- [00:00:53.980]Initially, I think we had a small number of students,
- [00:00:56.530]but that lasted for only a couple of years.
- [00:00:59.360]And then we got
- [00:01:01.373]students enrolled, you know.
- [00:01:04.200]Large numbers of students come in.
- [00:01:05.950]So there we are with this situation of people
- [00:01:09.550]who don't really know what computer science is, fully.
- [00:01:14.410]But, then again neither does anybody else.
- [00:01:16.700]So we are playing with games and graph books.
- [00:01:18.780]And you teach from them and you find out what's going on.
- [00:01:22.190]It's certainly the Dean wanted to see more research.
- [00:01:24.680]The faculty wanted to do more research.
- [00:01:27.020]And if in a nutshell boils down to
- [00:01:30.240]getting research started that didn't exist at the time.
- [00:01:35.600]Getting people hired, getting new faculty hired.
- [00:01:39.250]By the end of that period,
- [00:01:40.820]there had been a number of computer science graduates
- [00:01:44.880]who joined the department and that made a difference.
- [00:01:49.680]Even though we had limited resources,
- [00:01:52.040]we were able to produce
- [00:01:53.280]very high quality undergraduate students.
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