Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines

Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance m... by BalinKing on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @10:01PM (#21881794)

Not terribly related, but I personally think it’s really cool that you went to Caltech! It bums me out that Caltech doesn’t have as many associated giants of the tech world as e.g. MIT or Berkeley, which might just owe to Caltech’s smaller size, so I always love it when I learn about an awesome alum like yourself :-)

If you don’t mind me asking, what Hou(v)se were you in?

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Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance m... by WalterBright on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:34PM (#21882040)

Page.

Caltech is quite a bit smaller, only 130 undergrads in my graduation class, or something like that (don't recall exactly).

Bill Gross is likely the most famous alumnus of my class. Quite a few in my class (79) became quite wealthy in the tech business, though not the really big money.

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Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance m... by WalterBright on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:42PM (#21882066)

Hal Finney was the most famous of the class ahead of me. His dorm room was next to mine. My only brush with fame! Hal was one of the good eggs.

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Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance m... by BalinKing on Thursday December 26, 2019 @01:02AM (#21882262)

A Rudd myself, but I have some good friends in Page.

That is really interesting that your class size was only 130, AFAICT nowadays they're ~240. At least, the classes of 2022 and 2023 were in that ballpark. (I wonder if Caltech has become less selective, or has just received more applicants?)

Idealab has an active presence on campus even today, so Bill Gross seems to have left his mark :-)

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