He started at Northeastern University in the fall of 1998 intending to major in computer science.

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Around the time I got my driver's license my priorities shifted and I did what seemed like the sensible thing, following the lead of my former colleague Thomas Ricker by heading off to Ohio University intending to major in computer science.

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This year, I would love to attend a session run by a business person with an English Major background (instead of a PhD in Computer Science), showing what they did with Data at scale, without huge servers, without expensive software or cryptic languages.

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She was hanging out with MIT alumni in the Bay Area and was talking with an MIT classmate, Christine Yen, a computer science major who worked at Google (GOOG) and Aardvark, in August 2009.

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Painted onto the sides of rural brick buildings, posted on billboards along major roads, and adorning fences everywhere were signs urging readers to pursue degrees in computer science, hospitality services, architecture, and management.

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