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If you'd ever considered Physics over CS...

You might want to think again.

(Side note: at one point, the team of people who were in charge of monitoring Microsoft's Exchange servers and investigating any issues found all had advanced degrees such as Ph.Ds in nuclear physics and the like. Yes, that's right - real rocket scientists.)

Posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:05 PM by kclemson
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Josh Williams [MS] said:

There's a few of us physics gone CS geeks over on the CLR...
# June 30, 2004 9:07 PM

Larry Osterman said:

Many of the people in the original GDI group in Windows NT were physicists. Actually, Nathan Myrvhold (former CTO of MS) is a physicist (he studied at Cambridge with Steven Hawkings as his PhD advisor), as was Chuck Whittemer (as were most of the other Dynamical Systems guys).
# June 30, 2004 9:13 PM

Will Lotto said:

That's the funniest thing I've read all week.
Classic!
# June 30, 2004 9:57 PM

Tosh Meston said:

As a matter of fact, this OWA developer was a physics major.
# June 30, 2004 10:34 PM

Sean said:

We work on rockets, but we're CS guys... oh ok, one PhD in physics in the bunch ;)
# June 30, 2004 11:08 PM

Jon Galloway said:

Ha! Actual LOL! That graph was frighteningly close to my results for my senior project, Dielectric Properties of Extremely Low Temperature Cordierite. Results were so inexplicable I tried to write everything off as quantum effects. I also killed some time by retrieving some data my advising professor thought he'd lost on the abysmally administered Unix network onto his Mac and crunched the numbers for him, so I got an A for the semester.

Ah, computers, is there anything they can't do?
# July 1, 2004 12:23 AM

Paul's Imaginary Friend said:

# July 1, 2004 6:56 AM

Robert Hurlbut's .Net Blog said:

# July 1, 2004 9:59 AM

Marty Garins said:

I chose Physics over CS and then came back to CS. So I have both. I loved the link, it even is from a student at my Alma Mater.
# July 1, 2004 7:44 AM

Byron Faber said:

At Tek we have a moderate number of non-CS people doing work. In general, for some subsets of software its easier to train non-CS background people into the algorithm work then it would be to train java weenies to handle it.

So.. there is a base there for physics/science backgrounds.
# July 1, 2004 10:32 AM

Samuel Druker said:

Plenty of physicists around, although I will claim that a nuclear physicist is far far far removed from being a useful rocket scientist.
# July 1, 2004 9:40 PM
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