I’m a CMU SCS alum (actually I predate SCS being a full school). Please, someone make me feel better about this. They’re renaming the school after this person.
boshalfoshal [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I don't know why you still care about this several decades after graduating. Do you not have an identity outside of graduating from the previously-unsponsored "School of Computer Science"? (By the way, the entire school was funded by and named after another extremely wealthy businessman, but seemingly you don't have many qualms with that).
Maken [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Who cares? The entire university was named after the first guy who handed them money. It's their oldest tradition.
hooloovoo_zoo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
In my experience students will just keep using the old name (sometimes even the name before the old name) in perpetuity. With regard to the new campus, satellite campuses never carry the prestige of the mothership, for schools or companies.
monknomo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'm right there with you.
Renaming after this guy?
Miami?!
method_capital [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Sure. It's $3B for your school. Who gives a shit what names the buildings have on them. I'll never understand you whiners.
$2B for new Miami campus (could have been in NYC, but well ...)
$1B - split w $500M for CS Dept - for Pittsburg campus
"CMU Miami will invert the traditional higher education model by organizing learning and inquiry around societal challenges rather than academic majors. It will be entirely designed and built — from first blueprints to final beam — to drive revolutionary breakthroughs that address society’s defining challenges."
duped [3 hidden]5 mins ago
$3 billion dollars from a weirdo that fled to Florida because he was too cheap to pay his taxes, establishing a school to train more weirdos like him, a thousand miles from the actual school and presumably with different curricula/professors/degrees sounds like he's just buying CMU's name for legitimacy on his experimental anti-education project.
BoggleOhYeah [3 hidden]5 mins ago
If anything, it could have been in Chicago but Kenny ran to Miami after spending a small fortune trying to install another puppet in the Illinois governor’s office after his previous one, Bruce Rauner, ran the state into the gutter.
alephnerd [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Ken played a role in bringing the UIUC CS program to Chicago which itself is a major feeder into Citadel. Citadel was one of the founding partners for City Scholars [0] along with DRW and Ocient.
Are we suppose to feel good that more bright students are working for deeply undemocratic and anti-human companies? I'd rather these people do something more productive than helping financiers make slightly more billions of dollars.
What a complete waste of human capacity if so.
alephnerd [3 hidden]5 mins ago
That is up to the students and alums of these programs. And many do non-profit and humanitarian work as well.
The world is competitive. It is what it is.
To have the power to affect change you need power.
ro_bit [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Who is he?
pjmorris [3 hidden]5 mins ago
CEO of Citadel Capital. He's one of the people featured in 'The Quants
How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It', Scott Patterson.
reticulates [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Boogeyman of the meme stocks
pinkmuffinere [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I think the CEO of Citadel Capital?
alephnerd [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Yes and?
You went to a school who's founder was a robber baron (Carnegie) who deployed the army to put down a strike [0] and who's other founder (Mellon) caused the Great Depression [1] and whose family funded Trump 2.
Alternatively, be happy CMU has more capital to continue to build programs.
HN.zip
Renaming after this guy?
Miami?!
$2B for new Miami campus (could have been in NYC, but well ...) $1B - split w $500M for CS Dept - for Pittsburg campus
"CMU Miami will invert the traditional higher education model by organizing learning and inquiry around societal challenges rather than academic majors. It will be entirely designed and built — from first blueprints to final beam — to drive revolutionary breakthroughs that address society’s defining challenges."
[0] - https://cityscholars.grainger.illinois.edu/
What a complete waste of human capacity if so.
The world is competitive. It is what it is.
To have the power to affect change you need power.
You went to a school who's founder was a robber baron (Carnegie) who deployed the army to put down a strike [0] and who's other founder (Mellon) caused the Great Depression [1] and whose family funded Trump 2.
Alternatively, be happy CMU has more capital to continue to build programs.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
[1] - https://time.com/archive/6757394/the-cabinet-death-of-mellon...