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To-do list for Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing: edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:
  • Expand:
    • History (mention Klaus' donation, and the resulting expansion)
    • Facilities (write Klaus Building article)

[edit] First CS program??

I have found reasonable sources to support the claim that Purdue had the first actual CS program in 1962 ACM; other sources state it was Harvard [1], but I haven't found anything to suggest that Georgia Tech can claim it. --Andicat 01:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

There are a couple claims made in the article. I believe you're referring to the claim that Georgia Tech was the first school to have a College of Computing. That's different than just having a degree program. I have no idea if they're actually the first at it, though. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 03:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Ah, you were referring to the sentence at the top. Yeah, you did the right thing by removing that. :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 14:41, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Opportunities for Expanding History

I don't know how decisions are made here on what to add to the official-looking "to do" list above, but will just suggest some possibilities for someone with more time than I have. I added the link to the Miller memoir, in the external links section. Someone could mine that for interesting facts about the history of the school of ICS.

As for history before Miller's arrival, I think it would be very interesting if someone could mention the old Calculator Building and its history of usage related to computing, as well as the adding on to the Calculator Building the additon called the Rich Building. When I was there, the combined building housed the offices and classrooms used by the School of ICS as well as the Office Of Computing Services (OCS), which served computing needs for the Institute as a whole. There were computer rooms for both entities. While I was there, ICS lost its Burroughs 5500 (or 5700, depending on viewpoint) computer and gained a Prime computer as well as an installation of Unix on its DEC PDP-11. OCS gave up its Univac 1108 and gained a CDC 6600 (plus a CDC 6400 for administrative use). I don't know how much of this merits being added to the article. Jack Waugh 16:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I just thought the history section was kind of short, so I added that recommendation to the todo list. Thanks for the advice, though. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 16:30, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I came into the ICS program near at the end of the time of Jack waugh's report. ICS already had the HP minis and a Terminal/TTY lab for mostly the CDC and Unix systems. We added various computer systems during my time in ICS, including the AT&T systems, the MAC labs. We also had the decommissioning of the Prime computer and the CDC 6600 and CDC 6400 systems. At the start of the CoC transition, we moved many of the computing facilities, including the communication equipment, from the Rich building to the new CoC building, where many of us in my Data Communications class tested the DataCom equipment shortly after the move. The CoC acquired various computer systems during the early years, including the HP Apollos, a NeXt machine, the Clouds threaded computing cluster, and the famous/infamous SUN cluster, which is probably still in use. I don't know how much of this merits addition into the main article, due to the Wiki rules (like, must have citation, and so forth). Zildgulf (talk) 07:38, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to be bold and add it anyway if you think it'd make a good addition to the history section. Sure, if you have sources, that's great. If you don't, at least we'll have the prose to edit and reference at a later date. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 07:48, 30 November 2007 (UTC)