TITLE
Bill Pitts, ’68
AUTHOR
Bill Pitts
PUBLICATION
Stanford Magazine
YEAR
2012
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
I entered Stanford in the fall of ’64. In high school I had been very interested in physics and chemistry, and I guess must have signed up for EE even though I really wasn’t all that sure what that was. Before the first classes I met with my adviser, a James Angel in the EE department, and when he saw my interests, he said typically everyone’s required to take history of Western civilization their first year, but I think we could put it off and you could take introduction to computer science, which is a new course that’s just being offered. It was taught by George Forsythe.
GAMES MENTIONED
Galaxy Game
Spacewar!
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Bill Pitts
PRINT AVAILABILITY
May/June 2012