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If you'd ever considered Physics over CS...

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You might want to think again.

(Side note: at one point, the team of people who were in charge of monitoring Microsoft's Exchange servers and investigating any issues found all had advanced degrees such as Ph.Ds in nuclear physics and the like. Yes, that's right - real rocket scientists.)

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  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2004
    There's a few of us physics gone CS geeks over on the CLR...
  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2004
    Many of the people in the original GDI group in Windows NT were physicists. Actually, Nathan Myrvhold (former CTO of MS) is a physicist (he studied at Cambridge with Steven Hawkings as his PhD advisor), as was Chuck Whittemer (as were most of the other Dynamical Systems guys).
  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2004
    That's the funniest thing I've read all week.
    Classic!
  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2004
    As a matter of fact, this OWA developer was a physics major.
  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2004
    We work on rockets, but we're CS guys... oh ok, one PhD in physics in the bunch ;)
  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2004
    Ha! Actual LOL! That graph was frighteningly close to my results for my senior project, Dielectric Properties of Extremely Low Temperature Cordierite. Results were so inexplicable I tried to write everything off as quantum effects. I also killed some time by retrieving some data my advising professor thought he'd lost on the abysmally administered Unix network onto his Mac and crunched the numbers for him, so I got an A for the semester.

    Ah, computers, is there anything they can't do?
  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2004
    I chose Physics over CS and then came back to CS. So I have both. I loved the link, it even is from a student at my Alma Mater.
  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2004
    Plenty of physicists around, although I will claim that a nuclear physicist is far far far removed from being a useful rocket scientist.