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

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

Josh Williams [MS] — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:07:00 GMT

There's a few of us physics gone CS geeks over on the CLR...

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

Larry Osterman — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:13:00 GMT

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).

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

Will Lotto — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:57:00 GMT

That's the funniest thing I've read all week.
Classic!

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

Tosh Meston — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 05:34:00 GMT

As a matter of fact, this OWA developer was a physics major.

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

Sean — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 06:08:00 GMT

We work on rockets, but we're CS guys... oh ok, one PhD in physics in the bunch ;)

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

Jon Galloway — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:23:00 GMT

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?

Physics vs. CS

Paul's Imaginary Friend — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:56:00 GMT

Physics or CS?

Robert Hurlbut's .Net Blog — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:59:00 GMT

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

Marty Garins — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:44:00 GMT

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.

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

Byron Faber — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:32:00 GMT

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.

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

Samuel Druker — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 04:40:00 GMT

Plenty of physicists around, although I will claim that a nuclear physicist is far far far removed from being a useful rocket scientist.