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...you think Cal-Poly over Carnegie Mellon and Berkeley? Really?


probably went to cal-poly lol.


I'm not familiar with the lol campus.


:shrug: like I said, all subjective.


I'm curious what contributions you have in mind with regard to Cal Poly (also, Pomona or SLO?).


This. I agree that there is an element of subjectivity to it (Is Cambridge better than Oxford?), but I think it is simply impossible to successfully defend the claim that (as an example) The University of Phoenix has made more contributions to computer science than, say, Berkeley.

One way — not the only way, but a reasonable way — to measure it is by the # of Turing Award laureates[0]. Cal Poly isn't even on the list. (Neither is it on the list of Nobel Prize winners, for what it's worth).


do you happen to have a list of either the colleges with the most Turing or Nobel Laureates?


Yes, and I actually referenced both when I was writing that comment. I intended to cite them (note the [0]!), but I forgot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turing_Award_laureates_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_univ...




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