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[green_amber]

When we all have flying jet packs what will we use then as proof that we're still not living in the future?

Re SCrabulous discussion passim - I continue to wish non lawyers would not make intellectual property law up as they go along, and then complain when the world turns out not to match what they have just invented.

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[akicif.livejournal.com]

Had a trainee maths teacher for a term in 1974 who'd a degree in Comp Sci from (I think) Durham, but was doing a postgrad teaching qualification....

On the other hand, I may have been misled back then - just spoken to my boss, who says Edinburgh introduced their first year CS course in 1971 (all the scientists passed and the arts types failed, leading to CS1A and CS1B with subtly different teaching methods in 1972). As Edinburgh degrees are 4 years, it would have been 1975 before the first CS graduates appeared.

Of course, there were maths and engineering types who'd done some undergraduate computing before then, too.

(Also found: Edinburgh Computer History Project)