User:Rls49

About Me

My name is Rob Smith, and I am from Columbia, South Carolina. I am a prospective ME, and I intend to minor in theater studies. I am in Speak of the Devil, on the club Golf and Ski teams, and I was a baby builder this august in pBUILD.

Interests

I enjoy fishing, skiing, golfing, singing, writing music, building machines, designing impossible machines, sleeping, and using serial commas.

Grand Challenges for Engineering

When looking at the [[Grand Challenges for Engineering] I noticed toward the bottom of the list was "Advance Personalized Learning." I was immediately reminded of a video that was shown at the simultaneous unveiling of OS X Mountain Lion and iOS 6 this summer at the WWDC. The video was essentially Apple propaganda (which I readily gobbled up) about how the iPad and iPod were helping to personalize learning especially in developing countries and among the autistic. I decided, for all of you Jobs haters that repost "the importance of Dennis (Ritchie)" on imgur all day long, that I would post the following link that shows how Steve Jobs made a difference in someone's life, even if he would never have gotten there without "C" and "UNIX." Autism Community sees Promise in iPad Apps,Lyanne Melendez, ABC Network, 30 September 2011, accessed 9 September 2012 (Grand Challenge)