Thursday, August 25, 2005
UVA Computer Science: How to be a New UVa CS grad student
This article is a very good read for the prospective CS PhD student. A little old, but completely relevant.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Brain Drain in The Tech World?
Brain Drain in The Tech World?
Yup, another article on the dwindling enrollment of IT/CS majors and graduates, though this title was more eye-catching for me -- Brain Drain. Ok, so we're realizing that the US is continuing to lag behind other countries in computer science. We're now realizing that enrollments in related programs in colleges across the country have been continuing to suffer. This certainly does not bode well in turning the country around to become a leader in the computer sciences again. How can we regain our technical prowess and be a leader in this field when the enrollment of incoming students interested in this field continues to deterioriate?
What needs to be done to attract students back into this field? What is scaring them off? This article seems to point at the fear of outsourcing as one possibility. I agree in part, but there more going on than that.
Yup, another article on the dwindling enrollment of IT/CS majors and graduates, though this title was more eye-catching for me -- Brain Drain. Ok, so we're realizing that the US is continuing to lag behind other countries in computer science. We're now realizing that enrollments in related programs in colleges across the country have been continuing to suffer. This certainly does not bode well in turning the country around to become a leader in the computer sciences again. How can we regain our technical prowess and be a leader in this field when the enrollment of incoming students interested in this field continues to deterioriate?
What needs to be done to attract students back into this field? What is scaring them off? This article seems to point at the fear of outsourcing as one possibility. I agree in part, but there more going on than that.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Gates worried over decline in U.S. computer scientists - Computerworld
See? Even Bill Gates himself can see the impending effects of dwindling enrollment of incoming students interested in CS. See the article for more information. I have no idea what someone of my stature can do to get people to wake up! I have no political clout, authori-tay or commanding respect in the field to be able to turn heads. (Brian who? Huh?) Bill on the other hand...
Friday, May 13, 2005
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Can Johnny still program? - CNET.com
This is a good follow-up article that discusses some of the possible issues going on behind why America is continuing it's decline in the ACM programming competition. See the article.
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