# Supercomputing Frontiers - and Alan Edelman's dog

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**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/supercomputing-frontiers-and-alan-edelmans-dog/40736 "2020-06-04T14:38:31Z")
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### Author: ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/supercomputing-frontiers-and-alan-edelmans-dog/40736/2 "2020-06-04T14:43:17Z")

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That’s Philip! He’s an honorary MIT lecturer:

> **[Computational thinking class enables students to engage in Covid-19 response](https://news.mit.edu/2020/computational-thinking-class-enables-students-engage-covid-19-response-0407)**
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> When MIT's open Introduction to Computational Thinking class was repurposed to study the Covid-19 pandemic this spring, instructors saw registration rise from 20 to nearly 300 students.

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