Steven Sinofsky
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Wow.
They just said this is, and for all, every reason you could read, and I have the Time Magazine articles and the New York Times, every article you could read reads like, don't use the graphing calculator, don't listen to rap music, or don't read, no jazz, or the arguments that are going on now.
Three years ago, I tried to get Cornell to use AI in freshman writing.
And they just stopped talking to me.
Wow.
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.
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