Are there any fast-paced cs education programs?
hga: There's pace and then there's content covered.  Let me tell you, MIT's EECS undergraduate curriculum is fast paced and hard, and I assume they cover more ground than the ArsDigita University did (even subtracting the general requirements that don't overlap with an EECS degree).I think 10 months is just too little time to absorb enough (and some "downtime" in e.g. a humanities course per term can be a blessing).  MIT very strongly believes they need more than 4 years and established a 5 year MEng program that many if not most graduates take advantage of.Perhaps a more narrow goal?  (And I'll note that MIT is teaching everyone in the department some EE with the CS (and visa versa); less so with the new curriculum, although today the vast majority of EECS undergraduates go for the combined EECS major instead of the ones that focus on EE or CS.)