Steven Sinofsky
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But here's the irony of that.
My freshman year, when I had this computer, I was, of course, the only person in my 90-person dorm with a computer.
And I had to get permission from the dean to use it to write my papers for freshman English.
This is the fall of 1983.
And so that's exactly where we are now on all of this stuff.
But the thing is, you can also think of it as a level of abstraction.
Because no one's going to college now without a computer.
Can I just put...
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I also think for me, graphing calculators felt different.
To me, graphing calculators felt like cheating.
And because, you know, the test question was make a graph.
And so that's what's going on right now is that the capabilities match the test question.
Now, getting us full circle to what we were talking about, about computers and mathematicians, my freshman year, also a new product, a new thing came out, and it was Maxima, which was the MIT symbolic math package.
And so this was a way you could literally type in, like, an integral into a computer.
I remember the first time I saw Mathematica, I'm like, this stuff is black.
So Maxima is, you know, machine-aided, what was it?
Machine-aided computation, symbolic math, I think was the, and that was the lab at MIT started in the late 60s, early 70s.
And that had started to sweep through.
So my freshman engineering class, we had a version of it that ran on the IBM PC.
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