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OPEN LETTER TO A YOUNG MASTER ' S DEGRE E COMPUTER SCIENTIS T fro m David L . Travi s Associate Professor of Mathematic s Glassboro State College, N J I have just checked a recent issue o I Chronicle of Higher Education . The seems that virtually everybody wants t hire somebody to teach computer science under one name or another . Musing on thi has led me to write this : f t o , s enough for many - or most of us to achiev e tenure, often without doctoral degree . Then enrollments leveled off an d began to fall, and the Ph .D . machines kep t working . Now if you advertise a tenure-track position in, say, analysis , you get a hundred or more new (and not s o new) Ph .D ' s applying for it . What does this have to do with yo u and your magic machines? Well, it coul d happen to your field in that same twent y or twenty-five years . Experience tells m e that is not nearly as long as it seems t o you now . But, let's suppose you have
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Jun 1, 1985
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