Waterloo (in Canada)

[Anonymous]

The MIT of Canada.
What do you have to share with dumb Americans about this school?
Admission rates for those oyside Canada?retention?

[Anonymous]

Anything?

[Anonymous]

They developed Fortran compilers that were commonly used in universities, back in the 70’s and 80’s. Very well regarded. Today, the president is Vivek and the chancellor is Jagdeep. You know it’s going to be good for STEM.

[Anonymous]

The inventor of Etherium dropped out of Waterloo.

CS is out of the Math department so is much more theoretical than most schools where it is in engineering.

UT is really the hotbed for AI which has perhaps stolen some of the Waterloo thunder.

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Anonymous wrote:UT is really the hotbed for AI which has perhaps stolen some of the Waterloo thunder.

Ranked 10th.

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/artificial-intelligence-rankings

[Anonymous]

https://www.collegeadvisor.com/resources/study-artificial-intelligence/

Don't see UT here.

[Anonymous]

Idiots. We are referring to Canadian colleges.

UT is University of Toronto. The guy considered the father of AI is a professor. The seminal research on the topic that spawned OpenAI were Toronto grads and Open AI’s chief architect was one of those kids (who subsequently has now founded his own Company).

Many other Toronto grads in senior roles at AI companies.

[Anonymous]

As an engineer in SV, as soon as I see an iron ring, I know the person I’m talking to is going to know what they’re doing and will likely be more interesting than anyone else in the room. Also nicer.

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Anonymous wrote:They developed Fortran compilers that were commonly used in universities, back in the 70’s and 80’s. Very well regarded. Today, the president is Vivek and the chancellor is Jagdeep. You know it’s going to be good for STEM.

So no diversity? ugh

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Anonymous wrote:As an engineer in SV, as soon as I see an iron ring, I know the person I’m talking to is going to know what they’re doing and will likely be more interesting than anyone else in the room. Also nicer.

For those that don't know, per AI :

American engineers also do receive a ring as part of The Order of the Engineer, which is a similar tradition to the Canadian Iron Ring ceremony. In the US, it's a stainless steel ring worn on the little finger of the working hand, symbolizing an engineer's commitment to ethical and professional conduct

[Anonymous]

Waterloo is good in STEM. Their CS is good but more theoretical than most.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an engineer in SV, as soon as I see an iron ring, I know the person I’m talking to is going to know what they’re doing and will likely be more interesting than anyone else in the room. Also nicer.

For those that don't know, per AI :

American engineers also do receive a ring as part of The Order of the Engineer, which is a similar tradition to the Canadian Iron Ring ceremony. In the US, it's a stainless steel ring worn on the little finger of the working hand, symbolizing an engineer's commitment to ethical and professional conduct

This is
mostly untrue. I grew up in Canada and got my engineering degree there, and have worked in engineering all over the US for 25 years. There are only a few US states / colleges that have adopted the iron ring. Most American engineers don’t know what it is. Thanks for nothing AI.

Waterloo has a great reputation. As do UofT, UBC, and McGill