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I heard an interesting stat today at a meeting here at Georgia Tech (where I now work): there are about 75,000 living alumni of Georgia Tech.
That's fewer than I thought there would be. There were 15,576 students
at Tech in 2001, so 75k is only about five times more than the number
of folks currently enrolled.
A few relevant stats
from the Tech 2001 "mini fact book:"
- Number of graduates in 2001: 3,370 (2,035 Bachelor's, 1,080
Master's, 255 Ph.D.'s
- Number of students in 2001: 15,576 (11,043 undergrad, 2,359
master's, 2,204 Ph.D.)
So in 2001, about 20% of the students enrolled graduated that year.
Now that I think about it, 75k alumni is about 22 years worth of graduates at the current rate. Perhaps that 75k number is the number of alumni on Tech's mailing list of alumni. That would make more sense.
I wonder which school has the most living alumni?
4:39:35 PM 
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I don't know how I missed this one, but Xerox PARC is no longer
attached to Xerox. They're now just PARC - the Palo Alto Research
Center; they're now an independent research house. John Seely Brown
was the Director of PARC, but his name isn't in the list of management
people, so I'm not sure what's happened to him. (His title was "Chief
Scientist of Xerox," so I suppose he could have stayed with the parent
company.)
This is a bit of sad news. Back in '79 or '80 when I was in the
computer science program at UC Irvine, I was fascinated by
Xerox was doing up at PARC. I found out that PARC had a
tech report series, so I wrote off to
PARC to request some of them. I still remember the day when I
got a rather large box with two dozen of the famous blue-and-white
covered reports. (I was amazed that they would send some random
college sophomore so much paper!) I was so interested in what PARC
was doing that I joined Xerox in El Segundo after I graduated
from college. I spent 7 years working on the Xerox
Star, a product that drew heavily on research from PARC.
The other half of the Xerox Star team was up in Palo Alto at
buildings some miles from PARC, but I still found an excuse to go over
and visit PARC once or twice. I do remember they had a wonderful
cafeteria ...
I still have most of those old blue and white reports in my basement.
9:44:59 AM
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