caltech

Back at Caltech in the 70's, lots of students studied to get an AY (Astronomy) degree.

Just want to shout about this very comprehensive course by Caltech professor Yaser S.

My Russian instructor at Caltech was the victim of Bride Abduction while vacationing in Soviet Georgia when she was fifteen years old.

If getting the most tuition out of undergrads makes it slightly more likely that the future Nobelist goes to CalTech or MIT instead of Harvard it isn't worth it.

I recall attending the first open demo of SMP, where Wolfram (and I think co-author Chris Cole) were demoing it in a large Caltech lecture hall.

As an example, Feynman would avoid distractions as much as he could, would make excuses to stay away from administrative duties at Caltech to dedicate solid chunks of time to his research work.

He'd already used Macsyma on MIT-MC, had written his own SMP, left Caltech due to IP issues WRT SMP, and was in 1985 working on cellular automata at the IAS while no doubt arranging for SMP Mark II, AKA Mathematica which he started the next year....

When I was at Caltech, we called our Physical Chemistry prof "Wild Bill Goddard" because he wore a cowboy hat and boots to his lectures.

Bonus: The CalTech class of '65, who had the privilege of receiving Feynman's "Lectures on Physics", giving a touching account of their interactions with Feynman and how he affected their being.

There was definitely a rivalry between UCB and Caltech in the symbolic algebra area, and I think the "100x slower" was just an excuse to do it differently.

Unsurprisingly, teams with at least one founder who went to a “top school” (unscientifically defined in our study as one of the Ivies plus Stanford, MIT and Caltech) tend to perform the best.

Caltech was quite cheap for a private school no doubt because it is small but with a hufe endowment.

Know that they graduated with honors from Caltech.

Previously, [Michael] taught theoretical and computational physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for six years, where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000.