[IP] more on Fixing a busted IT research system
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From: Benjamin Kuipers <kuipers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 21, 2004 10:46:51 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ip <ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
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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.
...
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?
--
Benjamin Kuipers, Professor email: kuipers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Computer Sciences Department tel: 1-512-471-9561
University of Texas at Austin fax: 1-512-471-8885
Austin, Texas 78712 USA
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kuipers
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