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Sun, 30 May 2004
Alma mater changes
The May issue of Wired has an article about the Stata Center, the new home of the combined MIT CS and AI laboratories. The new building sits where Building 20 (yes, all the buildings are numbered -- what number does the new one get?) used to be. I have lots of memories of taking shortcuts through Building 20 on my way to NE43, where I spent quite a bit of time during my undergraduate days. It will be odd (to me at least) after the move is done. Like a break between the past and the future.
My other alma mater is undergoing a growth spurt as well. The Brown Alumni Magazine
details some of the plans to expand space on campus. At Brown I was on the other side of the break that the Stata Center represents. For years the Brown CS department was located in a large New England house. I arrived in the year that the TJ Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT) opened, and I have no notion or memories of the old place, just as many generations of MIT students will now have no memory of NE43.
It's interesting to realize that physical changes like these affect me. They're after the fact -- I've hardly been back to MIT or Brown (especially since moving to the west coast), but the buildings and their changing affects the memories of the past, upon which are constructed my experiences of today and tomorrow.
At least my parent's haven't sold the house I (mostly) grew up in, although this is also inevitable with the passing of time...
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Stephen King wrote a great little book about the creatures who gobble up the past - Langoliers. My old house in LA is now a open runoff culvert; my old - in the field - high school campus is now surrounded by suburban strip mall spread; my old central undergraduate classroom building is now an administratio facility for a changed and much larger school (School of Journalism turned into College of Media Studies). And my children change all the time...
Posted by Chas Redmond at Mon May 31 08:00:21 2004
Posted by Chas Redmond at Mon May 31 08:00:21 2004
I started in Brown CS right about when you were finishing up there, then went back to join gstaff when jobs got scarce in SF. I remember you, is what I wanted to say. You probably don't remember me, since I was maybe a freshman/sophomore. I was sab, if that helps.
Anyways, Ruth Simmons (the new Brown president) announced <a href="a $20 million gift which will be used to build a huge new humanities building near the main green. Ruth is really pushing for major revitalization of the university, with tons of pretty intense improvements in the works: more faculty, more buildings, huge push in bio-med, etc. Brown is getting better these days.
Posted by sascha becker at Mon Jun 14 20:14:40 2004
Anyways, Ruth Simmons (the new Brown president) announced <a href="a $20 million gift which will be used to build a huge new humanities building near the main green. Ruth is really pushing for major revitalization of the university, with tons of pretty intense improvements in the works: more faculty, more buildings, huge push in bio-med, etc. Brown is getting better these days.
Posted by sascha becker at Mon Jun 14 20:14:40 2004
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