{"id":197,"date":"2017-01-11T15:24:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/?p=197"},"modified":"2017-01-11T15:24:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T20:24:26","slug":"rewind-ahead-of-the-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/2017\/01\/11\/rewind-ahead-of-the-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Ahead of the Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/\" target=\"_blank\">30 years<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Computer Science<\/a> is the youngest department in the Whiting School. The \u201cfather\u201d of the discipline at the university may be William H. Huggins, who was a professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/\" target=\"_blank\">electrical engineering<\/a> from 1954 to 1984. It was he who encouraged Johns Hopkins administrators to acquire the university\u2019s first computer in the early 1960s, and he became a strong proponent of using computers as teaching tools.<\/p>\n<p>According to a colleague, Huggins \u201cwas very much ahead of the curve and knew that personal computing would be a big thing\u2014he foresaw that development.\u201d Through Huggins\u2019 efforts as chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering, instruction in computer science began as an interdisciplinary program. This collaborative program with the departments of Statistics and Operations Research lasted until 1983, when computer science became part of electrical engineering. In just a few short years, computer science had significant growth and broke away to become the Whiting School\u2019s ninth department, in 1986.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine\/2017\/01\/rewind-ahead-curve\/#.WHaTu1MrJaR\">Excerpted from The Hub.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 30 years, the Department of Computer Science is the youngest department in the Whiting School. The \u201cfather\u201d of the discipline at the university may be William H. Huggins, who was a professor of electrical engineering from 1954 to 1984. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/2017\/01\/11\/rewind-ahead-of-the-curve\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/30years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}