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Monday, October 23, 2006
Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to be Computer Scientists
This is an emerging opinion among computer professionals. Why?
- Biotechnology
is the next big thing. - Foreign students are swarming into computer science. Enough of them are better than US students that they will drive down the price of computer-savvy talent.
- Computer science remains a second-ranked intellectual discipline. At MIT and Berkeley, it is embedded within electrical engineering departments despite these schools being ranked #1 in computer science by USNews. Very few finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search are computer science high school students.
- Enrollments are declining nationally anyway.
Who will suffer if this opinion prevails? Not the people who actually enter computer science - they will be in huge demand because all projections indicate there will be scarcity of computer scientists. Not the university computer science departments - they will morph or shrink into a comfortable space. Not the big computer companies - they will create engineering centers in Asia. That leaves the United States to suffer.
posted by Jim Morris @ 10:36 AM
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