EDUCATION FORUM Reflections on Turning Fifty Last year the Association for Computing Machinery turned fifty. This year I did. The day did not go unnoticed, as I might have preferred. My senior compiler class was disrupted by a dancing "bag lady" who seemed to know everything about me and was able quite artfully to convey this information to the students in her roasting, ...er reflections, of me to the tune of Home on the Range 1. Of course, when I returned to my office, it was decorated in the festive color of black, and I was soon showered with useful gifts such as denture cream, cans of high-energy drinks, and other items befitting my age. In describing the feeling of reaching the half-century mark to my students, I mentioned a strange and growing sensation I had been having the last couple of years. It happened in every class whenever I began to weave a historical perspective into the topic at hand. The sensation was not one of history but rather of experience. I realized that I wasn't describing things I had read about, but things I had lived and people I had met! I had, after all, finished
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EDUCATION FORUM: Reflections on Turning Fifty
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Association for Computing Machinery – Mar 1, 1998
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