[jcgrillo]

The disease must have jumped the river from M.I.T.

[ycombinatrix]

i think it is coming from industry

[chris_wot]

It was apparently industry who told Australian Universities that relational algebra was not needed in databases.

[jcgrillo]

My geography of that region is dated, but when I worked in industry there I was north if M.I.T., so it's plausible industry could be patient zero.