<p>Kaukauna,</p>
<p>One person doesn’t mean much one way or another. He went to U of Chicago in the 1930s anyway; it’s almost 2014 now. UChicago’s computer science department has been around for a long time and has had all the time in the world to “get into the neighborhood” but it hasn’t. If that’s the case, why would it be realistic to expect some major leap in the next, say, five years? I think all that “intellectual atmosphere” in your mind has been overblown. Those people fit nicely at CMU in the past and they would still fit nicely there today or other top schools, not just UChicago. It’s easy to get caught up by a school’s marketing and propaganda. The fact is many other schools are doing amazing things at the same time, some at an even more accelerated pace. There may very well be a number of schools that are further along to “get into the neighborhood”. You are just not aware of the development in those schools.</p>
<p>By self-aggrandizing, I was saying you seemed to imply other schools aren’t good at producing “Renaissance man” ("…makes UChicago different…"). I come to this board once in a while mostly because my school’s name pops up in the search function. It’s funny how frequently I would come across superiority complex like this on this board.</p>