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Letter from the vice-president: trends in graduate computer science education (will they all find work?)

Letter from the vice-president: trends in graduate computer science education (will they all find... Letter from the ACM Vice-President Trends in Graduate Computer Science Education (Will They All Find Work?) This generation of computer science g r a d u a t e students enjoys the prospect of a strong demand for its services, but a "Ph.D. glut" some years down the road is a worrisome possibility. Computer science education must adapt to changing educational and employment patterns if it is to remain effective. These are among the conclusions I come to after leading a discussion by senior computer science educators, industrial employers, and ACM leadership, at an informal meeting held before the National Computer Conference earlier this year in Dallas. This letter is a summary of that discussion; I won't call it a consensus because the process of reviewing an earlier draft of this letter made it clear that on some crucial issues educational leaders are at variance on how they see the future. Here, then, is my view of the futare of graduate computer science education, guided by the insights of some two dozen people at a face-toface meeting, by the Conte-Taulbee reports on computer science Ph.D.'s. (Comm. A C M , J u n e 1976, J u n http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Communications of the ACM Association for Computing Machinery

Letter from the vice-president: trends in graduate computer science education (will they all find work?)

Communications of the ACM , Volume 20 (10) – Oct 1, 1977

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 1977 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
0001-0782
DOI
10.1145/359842.359844
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Abstract

Letter from the ACM Vice-President Trends in Graduate Computer Science Education (Will They All Find Work?) This generation of computer science g r a d u a t e students enjoys the prospect of a strong demand for its services, but a "Ph.D. glut" some years down the road is a worrisome possibility. Computer science education must adapt to changing educational and employment patterns if it is to remain effective. These are among the conclusions I come to after leading a discussion by senior computer science educators, industrial employers, and ACM leadership, at an informal meeting held before the National Computer Conference earlier this year in Dallas. This letter is a summary of that discussion; I won't call it a consensus because the process of reviewing an earlier draft of this letter made it clear that on some crucial issues educational leaders are at variance on how they see the future. Here, then, is my view of the futare of graduate computer science education, guided by the insights of some two dozen people at a face-toface meeting, by the Conte-Taulbee reports on computer science Ph.D.'s. (Comm. A C M , J u n e 1976, J u n

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Communications of the ACMAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: Oct 1, 1977

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