[IP] Microsoft, Amid Dwindling Interest, Talks Up Computing as a Career

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:32:27 -0800
From: "James H. Morris" <james.morris@cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [IP] Microsoft, Amid Dwindling Interest,
 Talks Up Computing as a Career
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Gates and Lohr are off the mark in two ways.

1. The place to be talking up computing is the high schools, not 
universities. The biggest problem is that the best high school students are 
not exposed to computer science as an intellectually exciting field. They 
are lured into the hard sciences, ironically because the hard sciences are 
over-populated and drive some of their number into high school teaching.

2. Mr. Notowidigdo going to work on Wall Street is a *great* outcome for 
computer science, if not Microsoft. A first class CS program is a great 
preparation for virtually any career: microbiology, business, law, medicine 
or any other field touched by computing. Just as brilliant humanities 
students major in English before heading off to graduate school, many 
science students could start with computing.


James H. Morris
Dean, School of Computer Science
412 609-5000
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jhm 

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