Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpwala!hpanly!bliven
From: bliven@hpanly.HP.COM (Andy Bliven)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Wang Institute Closed
Message-ID: <1130002@hpanly.HP.COM>
Date: 3 May 88 19:44:13 GMT
References: <5214@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Andover Division
Lines: 26

> I just received in the mail a brochure titled "Summer Institute in
> Computer Science" from the WANG INSTITUTE OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY.  
> ...  I guess reports of Wang Institute's death were greatly exaggerated.

As a member of the last class to receive a diploma from the Wang Institute
of Graduate Studies, I feel obliged to chime in.  Boston University now
owns the Tyngsboro campus and the rights to the name "Wang Institute".  The
BU master's degree program uses parts of the curriculum developed by Wang
Institute and are continuing the Summer Institute on the Tyngsboro campus.
However the organism that was Wang Institute lives on only in that parts of
it are being used as building blocks in other institutions.  Naturally the
organism was unhappy about the dissection, and I doubt that anyone involved
can speak dispassionately about it even now.

Comparing "the Wang Institute of Boston University" to "Wang Institute" is
like comparing a son to his father: they have a lot in common and the
father's reputation colors the introduction of the son, but ultimately the
son must stand on his own merit.

    Andy Bliven <bliven%hpanly@hplabs.hp.com>
    Hewlett-Packard Company
    Andover, MA 01810-1099
    (617) 687-1501 x2270