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From: Benjamin Kuipers <kuipers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 21, 2004 10:46:51 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: [IP] Fixing a busted IT research system

If going from 23,300 to 24,550 is a decline, then our problems with innumeracy are much more serious than I thought! Or is our problem with proof-reading and fact-checking in journalism?

Ben Kuipers


At 10:06 AM -0400 9/21/04, David Farber wrote:
Fixing a busted IT research system

 By  Ed Frauenheim
 Staff Writer, CNET News.com
<http://news.com.com/Fixing+a+busted+IT+research+system/2008-1008_3 -5374992.html>

 Story last modified September 21, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT

James Foley is worried.

As chairman of the Computing Research Association--a group made up of academic departments, research centers and professional societies--his job at CRA is to improve computing research and education. But Foley sees troubling trends in the nation's system for nurturing and training new information technology scientists.

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Q: The number of science and engineering Ph.D.s awarded in the United States has been falling, from 23,300 in 1998 down to 24,550 in 2002. How big a deal is that decline?


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