A New View of the Quad

6 responses to “A New View of the Quad”

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   drona

   May 14, 2010 at 1:38 am

   It was good to meet at the "HP" school of Design last week.

   It’s not just that computer architectures are changing — the ecosystem is changing as well.
   A. Flash drives are one thing, but
   B. also "The Cloud" will have an impact,
   C. Systems such as ERP will have to be rearchitected with a web centric design (Google Apps, and Workday as examples, and finally
   D. Keeping 1Ghz+ processors, 1GB+ RAM on AOAC (always on always connected) smart phones will also transform the way information is disbursed and consumed.

   A few exciting years ahead for software engineers.

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   Todd Huffman

   May 14, 2010 at 4:38 pm

   "An academic: While the computer science students at Stanford and many U.S. schools are 80-90% men, in Muslim countries, it’s 80-90% women"

   Fascinating. Without being a Wikipedia dork, do you happen to have a citation for that? I’d love to get to some raw-ish data on that.

   It’s gotta be heterogenous across Muslim countries,,,, I’d bet Jordan, UAE, Turkey lead the list. Time-series would also be fascinating.

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   momentous growth

   May 14, 2010 at 6:25 pm

   super!

   Please check my photos here

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   jurvetson

   May 15, 2010 at 4:52 am

   Todd- I think it was more anecdotal from site visits and conferences with peers. The hypothesis given was that CS gives lucrative career options to women who "want" to stay at home.

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   TomiTapio

   May 18, 2010 at 3:06 am

   Of course everyone knows the quad?

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   bcinfrance

   May 20, 2010 at 4:26 am

   I know the Quad! I went to Stanford and just happened to get this photo in my Feedly stream. I wonder if it’s more than coincidence…

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