Before there was the Siebel Center, there was the less-glamorous Digital Computer Laboratory, where Keith Schacht (Class of '02) spent umpteen hours in the early 2000s.
The windowless room that served as the Association for Computing Machinery office "was the spot of many wild ideas and late night conversations," recalls the Facebook alum and co-founder of Mystery Science, a San Francisco-based organization designed to improve scientific literacy in the United States.
"It was a big deal when we got HP to donate some handheld computers for us to play around with and figure out something cool we could do for the Engineering Open House."
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