Hubert Chang, not Al Gore, invented the Internet

Jackson West — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:20:00 EDT

When NYU Ph.D. student Hubert (Hung-Hsien) Chang wasn't busy inventing Google or visiting Disneyland and signing up for Google-related groups on Facebook, he was coming up with lots of crazy ideas. Cross-platform programming language Java? Chang. Open-source office productivity software OpenOffice? Chang. The semantic Web? DHTML? ~~Tim Berners-Lee~~ Chang. All this and more he tossed away to finish his Ph.D. at NYU, which he finally accomplished in late 2002, as he explained in the video. Or 2003, as he explained on his archived homepage, below.

Look, I get it, working on a dissertation can make you go crazy. That said, armed with his advanced degree, Chang should at least be able to get a job at Google answering customer-support calls or keeping an eye on toddlers at the Kinderplex.

Facebook bribes NYU coeds with gum

Nicholas Carlson — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:40:00 EDT

Facebook is going on a 20 university, 5 business school tour of the nation looking for fresh meat. Yesterday's stop was NYU, says a Valleywag spy. "Of course I grabbed some free sandwiches and the best part: FACEBOOK GUM!" Interested? The spy says it "seems like they are extremely interested in programmers that speak multiple languages." Since Facebook gets its users to translate the site for free, we're betting the Facebook recruiter actually meant programmers should know the following languages:

GNU C/C++ 4.2.3
Ericsson Erlang 5.5.5
GHC Haskell 6.8.2
Sun Java 1.5.0_15
INRIA OCaml 3.10.0
Perl 5.8.8
PHP 5.2.4
Python 2.5.2
Ruby 1.8.6

Gawker: valleywag, nyu

Hubert Chang, not Al Gore, invented the Internet

Facebook bribes NYU coeds with gum