Prof Pat Miller has been on a long strange trip from college dropout to sought after senior computer scientist/engineer across many disciplines. Along the way, he's tried his hand at nuclear weapon design, compiler/debugger design, computational finance, computational biology, computational robotics, massive backends, and…

Industry practitioners and CS educators seem to operate in different worlds these days. My fellow industry leaders often have surprising ideas about what all can be covered in a 4-year degree program. We are seemingly unaware of the huge challenge in making novices into algorithmic thinkers and programmers, to say nothing of…