Talk:Thayer School of Engineering

Verifiable Neutral Point of View
I am concerned about the conformance of this article to the Wikipedia policies on Neutral point of view and Verifiability. This article seems to me to be of the nature of an advertisement for the Thayer School, not a bad thing to do, but perhaps not the right place to do it.

Softtest123 14:31, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

The First Timesharing System
I came to this page looking for information about the first timesharing system.

As I remember, the first timesharing system was developed by a joint effort between General Electric and Dartmouth. I presume that would be the Thayer School of Engineering.

This first system was composed of a GE mainframe, I think it was the GE 235, a bit-banging communications processor, the GE Datenet-30, and a mechanically switched mass storage unit. Communication was by dial-up and I used the system with an ASR-33 Teletype.

I would appreciation references or links to information about that first system and Dartmouth's role being added to this article. Some information is available at GE-200_series.

Softtest123 14:49, 4 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Dartmouth, but not specifically Thayer. Kemeny and Kurtz were professors in the math department:
 * "The Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, or DTSS for short, was the first large-scale time-sharing system to be implemented successfully. Its implementation began at Dartmouth College in 1963 by a student team under the direction of John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz with the aim of providing easy access to computing facilities for all members of the college. By 1964 the system was in use where it remained so until the end of 1999. DTSS was originally implemented to run on a GE-200 series computer with a GE Datanet 30 as a terminal processor that also managed the 235."
 * —wwoods 16:21, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Just letting it be known
that I'm going to be working a whole lot on this article in the coming weeks in hopes of advancing it to Featured Article status. Kane5187 21:01, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * You are a one-man editing machine! It's hard to keep up, but I'm slowly helping out on the other articles in the project.-DMCer (talk) 09:42, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

To do
I was rolling really steadily on this article and kind of ran out of steam. "History," "Campus," and "Academics" are now pretty solid. Things remaining to be done before GA/FA/PR nomination:
 * Establishment of "People" section. This will be difficult as there are only three people in Category:Thayer School of Engineering people - two faculty, Syvanus Thayer, and no alumni.
 * Expansion of "Rankings" section, although I can't find any other rankings that mention Thayer, including visiting the Dartmouth and Feldberg libraries for info on the subject.
 * Reliably sourced critical commentary on the school - reviews, what it offers and doesn't offer, where it's strong and where it's not. This, too is difficult because it's not a very prominent institution. Tuck was easy to do because it was ranked #1 nationally several times, and so it got a lot of attention; Thayer doesn't enjoy the same spotlight.

I'm thinking this may not be able to proceed beyond GA due to the dearth of information and sources that we need. I'll try to keep digging up info. Kane5187 19:32, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

GA Pass

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Hope to see this in WP:FAC some day...

WEBURIEDOURSECRETS INTHEGARDEN  12:55, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

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