Comment on 23-year-old donates US$1M to support Waterloo student entrepreneursComments−shazow15yWhenever I see "$ donated to University of Waterloo" I always think of 2002 when Microsoft donated $2mil to Waterloo under the condition that they switch their existing curriculum from teaching C++ to C#.http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2002/08/1699.ars(Disclaimer: I ended up going to University of Toronto, an arguably rival school for Computer Science.)Update: Excuse the indirect relevance. Thought it was an interesting factoid for school culture context.
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Whenever I see "$ donated to University of Waterloo" I always think of 2002 when Microsoft donated $2mil to Waterloo under the condition that they switch their existing curriculum from teaching C++ to C#.
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2002/08/1699.ars
(Disclaimer: I ended up going to University of Toronto, an arguably rival school for Computer Science.)
Update: Excuse the indirect relevance. Thought it was an interesting factoid for school culture context.