[anymouse]

The good news is that enrollment in the CS dept. at Banglor Tech is up. /sarcasm

[Borges]

This is good news for current CS pros like myself. Makes my services that much more valuable.

[Guht]

who can blame students for not wanting to go into CS when every day more and more jobs are going to India and China.

[LibFreeOrDie]

"The upcoming drop in CS degree production will highlight the field's inability to appeal to incoming female undergraduates."

And we should care, why?

(Speaking as a female with an M.S. in CS...)

[traumer]

Looking at the graphs... What happened around 1982-83 (besides of the recession). A very similar trend as now.

[snowsislander]

I wonder if we will see some of the Computer Science departments start shrinking their faculty? If the incoming number of students goes down precipitously, I would imagine that many Computer Science departments would feel some pressure to reduce the number of faculty, even if the grant money was still rolling in at full pace.

[packrat35]

Maybe they don't want to move to India to work.

[horse_doc]

I got my CS degree in 1985. I lived through multiple cycles of the old "we aren't producing enough CS majors" thing. When more students do major in CS, the industry just finds more ways to turn the screws on the expanded labor pool.

When that pool shrinks, a few years later, then they wring their hands again. Repeat ad nauseum.

I'm delighted that I ditched the industry forever in '98. And I would NEVER let my children major in CS.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Don't worry. There is a huge stockpile of former CS engineers working at Home depot in case we need to organize a draft.

[bert]

.....The good news is that enrollment in the CS dept. at Banglor Tech ....

The bad news is that Bangalor Tech is a high school

[FormerACLUmember]

Outsourcing is devastating the field.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

What I have learned after several degrees and a fair amount of life experience in more than one field

- What is taught in schools is only of passing relevance/significance to what is actually done in the real world.

- Your odds of succeeding in life are improved by going to one of the aforementioned schools.

There is a great paradox embedded in these two statements. I think what it says it that if you are innovative, talented and brilliant you don't need school. If you are something less than that, school will at least get you in the door - at which point you will sink or swim based on hard work, good luck, political astuteness, native ability and how you combine all fo those.

[nmh]

Duh!

Atleast SOMEONE gets it!

I wish ADULTS not in school would GET IT!!!

No one, I repeat NO ONE is OWED a LIVING. So start earning a living doing something else.

[sixmil]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!