Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin (cmu.edu)
29 points by Guyadou 3 hours ago
conjecTech 9 minutes ago
CMU will henceforth stand for Central Miami University
32kaht 9 minutes ago
New tech leaders is the last thing we need. What is this emphasis on leadership anyway? Are they building a NAPOLA in Florida because Pittsburgh is too woke?
jasonlotito an hour ago
For a new school in Florida. Good luck with the government overreach.
StrangeClone 7 minutes ago
Ellon Musk could have found much creative name. Once Musk offered 1B$ to Wikipedia for renaming it to D*kpedia earlier.
wrs an hour ago
I’m a CMU SCS alum (actually I predate SCS being a full school). Please, someone make me feel better about this. They’re renaming the school after this person.
Maken an hour ago
Who cares? The entire university was named after the first guy who handed them money. It's their oldest tradition.
t0mpr1c3 12 minutes ago
IIRC Carnegie was the original archetype of the rapacious union-busting wage-suppressing monopolistic billionaire robber baron, and Mellon was all that plus a corrupt self-dealing all-but-impeached laissez-faire Treasury-secretary-cum-megabanker whose deflationary and protectionist response to the Wall Street Crash caused unemployment and destitution on a historic scale.
But yeah this Griffin guy could give the place a bad name. (Full disclosure, I did a postdoc at the SCS.)
andrewla 28 minutes ago
They're not "renaming" it -- they're "naming" it, right? The School of Computer Science is not currently named for anyone, and his $1B puts his name on the school. It's not like they're changing CMU to KGU.
method_capital an hour ago
Sure. It's $3B for your school. Who gives a shit what names the buildings have on them. I'll never understand you whiners.
$2B for new Miami campus (could have been in NYC, but well ...) $1B - split w $500M for CS Dept - for Pittsburg campus
"CMU Miami will invert the traditional higher education model by organizing learning and inquiry around societal challenges rather than academic majors. It will be entirely designed and built — from first blueprints to final beam — to drive revolutionary breakthroughs that address society’s defining challenges."
BoggleOhYeah an hour ago
If anything, it could have been in Chicago but Kenny ran to Miami after spending a small fortune trying to install another puppet in the Illinois governor’s office after his previous one, Bruce Rauner, ran the state into the gutter.
alephnerd 42 minutes ago
hooloovoo_zoo an hour ago
In my experience students will just keep using the old name (sometimes even the name before the old name) in perpetuity. With regard to the new campus, satellite campuses never carry the prestige of the mothership, for schools or companies.
monknomo an hour ago
I'm right there with you.
Renaming after this guy?
Miami?!
boshalfoshal 33 minutes ago
I don't know why you still care about this several decades after graduating. Do you not have an identity outside of graduating from the previously-unsponsored "School of Computer Science"? (By the way, the entire school was funded by and named after another extremely wealthy businessman, but seemingly you don't have many qualms with that).
wqtz 24 minutes ago
Do names really matter? Half of all Canadian universities has a building or a faculty named after "Schulich". Most people do not know who that person is.
ro_bit an hour ago
Who is he?
pjmorris 38 minutes ago
CEO of Citadel Capital. He's one of the people featured in 'The Quants How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It', Scott Patterson.
reticulates an hour ago
Boogeyman of the meme stocks
pinkmuffinere an hour ago
I think the CEO of Citadel Capital?
alephnerd an hour ago
Yes and?
You went to a school who's founder was a robber baron (Carnegie) who deployed the army to put down a strike [0] and who's other founder (Mellon) caused the Great Depression [1] and whose family funded Trump 2 [2].
Alternatively, be happy CMU has more capital to continue to build programs.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
[1] - https://time.com/archive/6757394/the-cabinet-death-of-mellon...