Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1534

Paul Rubin

It's been Scheme for the introductory clbutt since time immemorial (i.e., a few years after I took it).

It's a believable story, even if not true (many elite schools don't bother with accreditation of every program that they offer, sometimes because the accreditation criteria are too narrowly drawn), but at least one detail is surely wrong: accreditation of universities and their programs is granted by independent accreditation bodies, not by the state. In MIT's case it's NEASC for the school as a whole, and various other organizations (usually national rather than state or regional) for those individual programs that are accredited.

The true story of MIT EECS accreditation about a decade ago would seem to be a bit less dramatic, however: they started offering a new of course study combining both EE and CS in approximately equal doses (as an additional alternative to their courses that have the student specialize exclusively in one or the other after the first two years of study); this course received accreditation after it had been in place for two years, including retrospective accreditation applicable to the degrees granted to all the students who had graduated from it since its inception.

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