From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] BTL summer employees
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2020 09:40:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202008021340.072Demtg086822@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
> My unscientific survey of summer students was that they either came
> from scouts, or were people working on advanced degrees in college.
Not all high-school summer employees were scouts (or scout equivalents -
kids who had logins on BTL Unix machines). I think in particular of Steve
Johnson and Stu Feldman, who eventually became valued permanent employees.
The labs also hired undergrad summer employees. I was one.
Even high-school employees could make lasting contributions. I am
indebted to Steve for a technique he conceived during his first summer
assignment: using macro definitions as if they were units of associative
memory. This view of macros stimulated previously undreamed-of uses.
Doug
next reply other threads:[~2020-08-03 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-02 13:40 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2020-08-02 13:57 ` arnold
2020-08-02 17:13 ` Doug McIlroy
2020-08-03 9:24 ` arnold
2020-08-02 15:12 ` Robert Diamond
2020-08-02 19:05 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-08-03 5:14 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-08-03 12:55 ` John P. Linderman
2020-08-03 16:26 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-08-10 0:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-10 0:53 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-10 6:33 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-08-10 12:53 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-10 13:21 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-08-10 14:02 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-10 17:08 ` Lawrence Stewart
2020-08-10 18:13 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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