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.
wqtz 40 seconds ago [-]
Does names really matter? Half of all Canadian universities has a building or a faculty named after "Schulich". Most people do not know who that person is.
Maken 30 minutes ago [-]
Who cares? The entire university was named after the first guy who handed them money. It's their oldest tradition.
andrewla 5 minutes ago [-]
They're not "renaming" it -- they're "naming" it, right? The School of Computer Science is not currently named for anyone, and his $1B puts his name on the school. It's not like they're changing CMU to KGU.
boshalfoshal 9 minutes 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).
method_capital 35 minutes 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."
BoggleOhYeah 28 minutes 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 18 minutes 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 13 minutes 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.
duped 14 minutes 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.
hooloovoo_zoo 23 minutes 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 25 minutes ago [-]
I'm right there with you.
Renaming after this guy?
Miami?!
ro_bit 36 minutes ago [-]
Who is he?
pjmorris 14 minutes 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 25 minutes ago [-]
Boogeyman of the meme stocks
pinkmuffinere 35 minutes ago [-]
I think the CEO of Citadel Capital?
alephnerd 30 minutes 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.
$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.
Renaming after this guy?
Miami?!
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...